May 6, 2003

Give Your Daughter Your Work Day, more
Posted by deisenhart@bostonworks.com">Douglas Eisenhart at 10:09 AM -

From BostonWorks this week in the Boston Sunday Globe:

It used to be "Son, someday this will all be yours," but things are shifting toward the distaff side in the family business.

With a glut of candidates and a squeeze on expenses, firms are taking a harder look at their temporary and contract hires.

What to do when the going gets tough? The sports metaphor comes in handy in this view of how to play today's job market.

With so many senior, qualified execs out of work, it seems that the bias toward the jobless is beginning to fade.

Younger job seekers - high school and young adults - should know about the federally funded residential program Job Corps, which readies them for the realities of the working world.

Read all this week's stories.

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