COM Reading Bank: Employment

Excerpt / Summary:
To do something well you have to like it. That idea is not exactly novel. We've got it down to four words: "Do what you love." But it's not enough just to tell people that. Doing what you love is complicated.

Keywords: Psychology, Motivation
Format: Essay
Source: Author's Website

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Unable to pay rent in L.A., I slept behind my desk. But what began as a quick financial fix soon became a lifestyle

Keywords: Employment
Format: Essay
Source: Salon.com

Keywords: Employment; Identity; Society and Culture
Format: Article
Source: Utne Reader

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This report examines the experience of otherness in the US workplace and focuses on how people with multiple sources of otherness in a workplace are impacted in terms of their opportunities, advancement, and aspirations.

Keywords: Business, Workplace
Format: Report
Source: Catalyst.org

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Who is looking for work, and how long do they search?

Keywords: Employment
Format: Infographic
Source: Government of Canada

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Video and prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005.

Keywords: Psychology, Motivation
Format: Video
Source: Stanford University News

Keywords: Economic Issues; Employment
Format: Article
Source: The Walrus

Excerpt / Summary:
Starting a career as a young adult today is precarious work. Almost one-quarter of the generation of young adults born between 1981 and 2000 are working temporary or contract jobs, nearly double the rate for the entire job market. Almost onethird are not working in their field of education, 21 per cent are working more than one job and close to half are looking for a new job.

Keywords: Career, Workplace
Format: Article
Source: The Globe and Mail

Keywords: Employment; Society and Culture; Identity
Format: Article
Source: The Conversation

Excerpt / Summary:
While interviewing Indra K. Nooyi, the CEO of PepsiCo, at the Aspen Ideas Festival Monday*, David Bradley, who owns The Atlantic, asked two questions that elicited as frank a discussion of work-life balance as I've seen from a U.S. CEO.

Keywords: Career; Work-life balance
Format: Article
Source: The Atlantic

Excerpt / Summary:
Employers now routinely Google prospective hires, and one ill-considered comment on a weblog five years ago can mean the difference between making the final round of interviews and being passed over in favour of someone without an objectionable Google shadow. A recent Harris Interactive poll found that 23 percent of adult internet users in the United States had searched online for information about their clients, customers, workers and potential employees.

Keywords: Careers, Privacy
Format: Article
Source: This

Excerpt / Summary:
Why can't we have dinner together? A productivity method borrowed from Toyota delivers returns on the domestic front.

Keywords: Productivity, Work-life balance
Format: Article
Source: The New York Times

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A host of experts are arguing that liberal arts majors are about to make a major rebound.

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Format: Article
Source: Inc.com

Keywords: Employment; Health and Wellness
Format: Article
Source: ZDNet

Keywords: Employment; Economic Issues
Format: Article
Source: Aeon

Keywords: Employment; Society and Culture; Identity
Format: Article
Source: The Conversation

Keywords: Employment; Identity; Society and Culture
Format: Article
Source: Utne Reader

Excerpt / Summary:
"""From 18-22, I spent four years working at McDonald’s. I worked a mix of part- and full-time over these years, always failing to find a “better” job. I never advanced up the rungs, never was a manager, never achieved anything of significance in my time there.

Basically, I was the absolute stereotype of a deadbeat McDonald’s worker. Lazy, stupid, with no initiative."""

Keywords: Careers
Format: Article
Source: Huffington Post

Keywords: Health and Wellness; Society and Culture; Employment; Economic Issue
Format: Article
Source: The Atlantic

Excerpt / Summary:
Gen Z-ers and millennials have been called lazy and entitled. Could they, instead, be among the first to understand the proper role of work in life?

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Format: Article
Source: The New York Times