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Debra Wheatman, President of Careers Done Write, provides expert insight to the job search process that puts your career in gear with tips for interviewing, networking, job search strategies and how to create a winning resume and cover letter.
From the Ashes: Women Leaders Who Transformed Tragedy into Justice
This week marks the 115th anniversary of the deadliest industrial accident in the history of New York City. On March 25, 1911, 146 garment workers, most of them young immigrant women and children, died in a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Greenwich Village. At the time of the fire, Frances Perkins was having tea with friends at a townhouse around the corner from the factory. When they heard the fire engines and the commotion, they rushed outside and witnessed a horrific scene firsthand. Perkins watched as workers, trapped by locked exit doors and failing fire escapes, began jumping from the factory’s upper floors. She later described the experience as a “searing” moment that changed the course of her life….
A Cautionary Tale of the Importance of Culture
History is littered with business flops, some catastrophic, highly visible disasters that were often hugely hyped before their eventual doom. This year marks the 25th anniversary of one such calamity when media giants AOL and Time Warner combined their businesses in what has come to be described as the worst merger of all time….