The Best Companies for College Grads and Entry Level Jobs

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry So what exactly is an entry level job? According to Wikipedia (and this is an excerpt) – “An entry-level job is a job that is normally designed or designated for recent graduates [...] [...]

Targeted Job Search – Who’s Hiring in Technology Vol 5

“Almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. [...] [...]

Look Both Ways Before You Quit

“It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.“  – Warren Buffett There is a reason hotels charge more for the beach view than the inside building view. It’s all relative, the other guy’s view always seems to be better (you know, the grass is [...] [...]

10 Happiest Big Companies of 2011

“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean Working in a big company has its highs and lows. You might not know everyone in the office personally on a day-to-day basis. But your opportunity to network and make connections in the long run increases drastically. Larger companies also tend to [...] [...]

Job Search Reviews – I Read it on the Web

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle You know what they say “you don’t know what you don’t know”. With the vast wealth of information on the Internet, it is virtually impossible to cover any one topic from beginning to end with all of the links [...] [...]

5 Tips to Digitalize your Job Search

“Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.” – Jack Welch I just read that the last company to manufacture typewriters just announced they are ending production. “Typewriters? What’s that you may ask (ancient history). In one way, it is a little sad for those of us [...] [...]

Who is Hiring the Most People at the Best Companies to Work For

“When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky.” – Armand Hammer I’ve posted lots of links to the companies on Fortune‘s Best Companies to Work for list, typically running from top to bottom. But then I got to thinking, what about those companies on the list that are hiring the [...] [...]

The Best Companies for College Grads

Third Law of Applied Terror – “80% of the final exam will be based on the one lecture you missed and the one book you didn’t read.” We started interviewing our college interns a few months ago at my company and this Summer’s “class” will join in a few short weeks. Having graduated in what feels [...] [...]

Starting at the Bottom, Working for the Best

“Winning isn’t everything. Wanting to is.” – Elbert Green Hubbard Do you remember your very first job? Not the one where you worked in the supermarket, but the first job that you felt it was the beginning of your career. I remember my “first job”. This was the first job where I had to wear a [...] [...]

Who is Hiring from the Fortune 1000 Vol 4

“The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.” – Mark Twain I’m switching it around a bit and starting from the top of the list for this post. Large companies and lots of jobs, the companies range from Oil and Gas (which dominate the top [...] [...]