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Articles Written by: VIRGINIA BACKAITIS
When Zish Margulies moved to New York in 2001, starting a career in the financial services industry didn’t seem like a risky proposition. “The boom was just taking off,” says Margulies, a native of South Bend, Ind. He soon became a successful real ...
From VIRGINIA BACKAITIS,
New York Post,
21 Sep 2009
GINA Rizzo needed a job, so she did what most unemployed folks do. She rolled out of bed, logged on to the Web and began to scour job boards looking for work. "I sent out hundreds of resumes and filled out hundreds of applications," says the former ...
From VIRGINIA BACKAITIS,
New York Post,
29 Jun 2009
Some people sink into depression when they lose their jobs, others take to drinking. Warren Sukernek logged on to Twitter and started to tweet. Sukernek, a Seattle-based marketing executive, sent out a simple message to his community of nearly 3,000 ...
From VIRGINIA BACKAITIS,
New York Post,
18 May 2009
WHEN Scott accepted a position with a big-four accounting firm five years ago, the path to success was laid out for him. Work hard, bill lots of hours, do an exceptional job, and you'll be eligible for promotion every few years until you become a ...
From VIRGINIA BACKAITIS,
New York Post,
20 Apr 2009
It's well past time for wondering if hard times are coming - they're officially here. The question now is: What's coming next? Will things get worse before they get better? Will they ever get better? If so, when? And in the months and years to come, ...
From VIRGINIA BACKAITIS,
New York Post,
16 Mar 2009
When corporate executive Jane Brown (not her real name) was called into her boss' office last December, she knew the news wouldn't be good. Given that the once-robust real estate development firm she works for had already let go about half of its ...
From VIRGINIA BACKAITIS,
New York Post,
2 Mar 2009
One way to measure the rise in the mandatory furlough is to track postings, or "Tweets," on the subject on the popular Web site Twitter, which is abuzz with folks talking about their unpaid vacation days. Here are a few we found: * "On my furlough I'm ...
From VIRGINIA BACKAITIS,
New York Post,
2 Mar 2009
Yes, yes, yes, we know what you're thinking: The last thing you want to read is another dismal report about jobs. We'd even go so far as to guess you already know that work is plentiful for nurses and other folks who wear scrubs. What you might not ...
From VIRGINIA BACKAITIS,
New York Post,
2 Feb 2009
AUTHORS ANXIOUS TO reveal the seven steps to world domination or other secrets of success tend to be as plentiful as snowflakes in December. Which means distinguishing which books on the "career" shelf are worth a look and which are repackaging the ...
From VIRGINIA BACKAITIS AND CHRIS ERIKSON,
New York Post,
22 Dec 2008
When Michele Harris was laid off from her job as an ad agency VP in 2001, she didn't take it that hard at first. "I partied," she says. It was the beginning of summer, and with no job to go to and her severance in hand, she enjoyed the good life on ...
From VIRGINIA BACKAITIS,
New York Post,
8 Dec 2008
