I’m pleased to share with you the formation of a new online advocacy organization called Qvisory that is dedicated to helping young adults with their money, work, and health concerns.  Qvisory was the brainchild of Andy Stern at the Service Employees’ Union, and has been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.  In conjunction ...

My friend and 30/20 Vision radio show co-host Lindsey Pollak and I had the opportunity to contribute to Marci Alboher’s New York Times career coach roundtable on management consulting and investment banking as careers for soon-to-be college grads.  Here was the question, as well as highlights from our responses: “I will be graduating ...

The Millennial generation, born 1977-93, is the largest in American history, and is already causing profound changes in the way organizations are managed. In the US, Millennials are known for being ambitious, empowered, efficient, and yes, maybe a little over-entitled.  People often ask me what the Millennial situation is like in other ...

Just a heads up that a new episode of the 30/20 Vision Radio Show will air live tomorrow at BlogTalkRadio at 3PM ET.  As I reminder, I host this monthly radio show with my fellow authors Christine Hassler (20-Something, 20-Everything) and Lindsey Pollak (Getting from College to Career), and our goal is to provide ''big sister'' advice to men ...

Just a reminder that the first 30/20 Vision talk show will be live on BlogTalkRadio this coming Tuesday, October 16th, at 1PM ET. This monthly series is for the 20-something woman who wishes she had a couple of big sisters to clue her in on the ins and outs of life after college. I will join my friends and fellow young authors Christine Hassler ...

Thanks to my fellow career blogger, Anita Bruzzese, for calling my attention to the important issue of the unemployment and underemployment of recently-discharged Iraq war veterans.   When a person joins the military, says the website HireAHero.com, there is a promise made.  This promise is either explicit or implied that, if you serve ...

I am really excited to share the debut of the new 30/20 Podcast series - especially for the 20-something woman who wishes she had a couple of big sisters to clue her in on the ins and outs of life after college. The series will feature me and my fellow authors and pals Christine Hassler (20-Something, 20-Everything), and Lindsey Pollak (From ...

This week, I’m on a speaking tour at several corporations in the U.S. and abroad, training twenty-somethings and their managers on what recent college grads need to do in order to succeed in today’s business climate.  As a result of meeting hundreds of twenty-somethings over the course of the last few years and reading all of the research I ...

The CollegeRecruiter blog reports on an article published by the New York Times, informing us that getting into college is now more difficult than ever before.  Harvard turned down 1,100 student applicants with perfect 800 scores on the SAT math exam; Yale rejected several applicants with perfect 2,400 scores on the three-part SAT, and ...

[ImageAttachment] Thanks to CollegeRecruiter.com for pointing out an interesting aspect of MonsterTrak’s 2006 study of college graduates.  Now while it comes as no surprise that modern college grads are moving back home in droves, it may be as shocking to you as it was to me to learn that nearly HALF planned to return to their parents’ ...