employment
In a perfect world, all you’d have to do for career bliss is go back to school, get trained for a new career, and have a job waiting for you when you graduated. And not just any job, mind you, but the one that’s perfect for you, with just the right salary. Unfortunately, life doesn’t work that way, especially in this economy, says Seattle-based career coach David Goodenough. “The silliest concept in the world is that you are going to go to school and then you are going to go to the career center and get a job. You can’t just go...
While most of the economy has spent the past four years tanking or sputtering, the health care sector has been cruising—steadily adding jobs as the aging U.S. population grows. Health care jobs are on track to keep growing in 2012, IHS Global Insight senior economist Michael Montgomery tells U.S. News & World Report: “According to Montgomery, healthcare employment will continue to grow in 2012, possibly even more rapidly than it did in 2011, as the population continues to age and require more medical attention. According to Labor Department figures, from November 2010 to November 2011, healthcare and social assistance added...



