Amid the billions of dollars China has accumulated by underwriting our national debt comes a new initiative – a giant investment fund to be staffed in part by western financial services professionals seeking a global career opportunity. The China Investment Corp.’s $200 billion sovereign-wealth fund is looking for “global talent” to join them in Beijing. Apparently… Continue reading
Archive for March, 2008
Recession: A Tale of Two Classes, Skilled and Unskilled
The US economy coughed up 63,000 jobs in February, its worst performance in five years. Despite President Bush’s recent attempt to downplay recession talk, the markets and media aren’t listening. The New York Times said the recent jobs report “revealed widespread cracks in the nation’s labor market.” What troubles economists is that employment is considered… Continue reading
My Global Career Ascends to Alltop
Just a quick note of gratitude to Guy Kawasaki for including My Global Career on Alltop.com, a cool new portal that showcases and samples the best of the web. I met Guy several decades ago when he was an Apple Computer evangelist and I was a fledgling tech reporter in Silicon Valley. He was always a good sport… Continue reading
Are You Having a Brazen Career?
Penelope Trunk, the popular author & career advice columnist, has caught the Web 2.0 entrepreneurial bug. Fifty young bloggers have joined with her to create a a cool blog-based community and career advice site called Brazen Careerist. The site is “an online career center aimed at Generation Y – young professionals who want to design and define their careers… Continue reading
