Archive for Personal Branding
U-S jobless rates in November were up in 37 states as national unemployment rose to 6.7 percent. The labor department reported that more than a million jobs were lost in the last three months alone. That figure is not just a number, there are people behind those statistics, and psychological ramifications for those individuals. NPR recently interviewed Michigan psychology professor Richard Price in a feature on Day-to-Day entitled, This is Your Brain after Your Fired.
Sunday, the Obama transition team announced the new “White House Task Force on Working Families” through a press release which defined this new entity as a major initiative toward, “raising the living standards of the middle-class, working families in America.” President-elect Obama has tapped Vice President-elect Joe Biden to chair the task force.
But U.S. companies are apparently getting the huge clue to be a bit more transparent about job security, company performance and solvency according to a new Watson Wyatt survey.
Growing up in the world of media taught me a lot about being direct. Whether you’re asking the questions – or the one in the hot seat being interviewed. Recently, Eileen Tanne of Women’s Education Center ( a web portal for professional business women ) and I spoke about the importance of the typical elevator speech. It comes down to laser-sharp talking points.
