Posts by Carol Ross
Arbitrage
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that some U. S. companies have decided to bring offshored jobs back home. This is especially true for start-ups and mid-size companies. Why? Wage inflation for India’s software industry is estimated to be anywhere between 10-50%. In the U. S., it’s less than 5%. As the pay differential…
Read MoreI’m Bored
It has taken exactly one month since the end of school for the words to come out of my 12-year old son’s mouth. "I’m bored." Actually he has said those words before but only when there’s been a lull in the action during a day filled with Nintendo DS, creating armor out out duct tape,…
Read MoreFinding the Right Fit, Part 2
This is a continuation of a post on finding the right fit when interviewing for a job. In that post, I talked about the role of values–how well your own values line up with a company’s values. Part 2 is to look at your talents–what you are naturally good at, what’s innate and not learned,…
Read MoreEngineers With a Whole New Mind, Part 2
Great column by Richard Felder called, "A WHOLE NEW MIND FOR A FLAT WORLD," written for the Chemical Engineering Education magazine. As you might guess, the column takes the concepts from the books, A WHOLE NEW MIND by Daniel Pink and The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman, and applies it to the need to…
Read MoreFinding the Right Fit
A reader commented after seeing my post on Hiring Good People: This was an interesting article. And I’ve seen lots of articles about what employers should look for, but what about employees? What should job searchers be looking for in employers? What should they be asking (without getting weeded out) to ensure that they’re going…
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