Alaant Advisor: Corporate Responsibility, Future Jobs, Reasons to Ignore Résumés, and more!

 At Alaant, corporate responsibility is built into our mission statement as well as our core values. It is important to us that we practice what we preach, and we pride ourselves on making this a priority in our company. In today’s world, corporate responsibility is no longer a “nice to have”; it has become essential to attracting and retaining top talent. Many employees now base their decisions to join a workplace…

Long, inflexible hours are the norm. But in a tight job market, more companies are offering flexibility on the when and where of work. The best employees show unending loyalty to work, staying long hours and being on call for bosses or clients. At least, that’s the credo of 21st-century American capitalism. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Even though long, unpredictable hours have become a feature of many jobs…

Words of wisdom that 2019’s graduating class needs to hear. It’s that time of year again — the weather’s warming up, the pollen count is high, and the most recent crop of college graduates are about to be released into the wild. It’s an exciting but potentially intimidating time for these newly minted members of the workforce, as they try and strike a balance between finding a career with meaning that also pays the bills…

The highest degree required in any of these jobs is a master's, and several pay six-figure salaries. You don’t have to go to med school, earn a doctorate, complete a residency halfway across the country, and rack up thousands in student debt to land a top-paying job within the health care field. While physicians and surgeons continue to earn some of the highest salaries in the nation, and top the payroll for medical institutions, plenty of other positions require less education while paying salaries as high as $167,000 a year…

There is a minimum 46% probability that you will decide who’s going to get an interview (or not), based on lies and exaggerations. Most candidates are preselected for an open role using a traditional but not-so-effective method: by screening resumes, checking for the schools they attended, searching for the right keywords, and looking for suitable experience. After interviewing those who successfully passed this stage, somebody gets hired. The problem is at least 50% of the time, the person stays no more than 18 months on the job…

'Mommy, Daddy, I want to be a quantum cryptologist,' your child may tell you one day soon. Here's how to prepare. Thanks largely to two trends -- modernization and automation -- the job market has arguably changed more in the last decade than in the previous half-century. Some professions have changed drastically while others have disappeared completely. But for every job that fades into obsolescence, new ways of making a living surface…