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Short article list ways MBAs looking for work in the Internet Economy can crack the startup scene

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Rank-and-file employees used to believe in the startup way of life. But hypergrowth and layoffs have made work feel like just another job.

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The Standard's first-ever review of compensation, culture and job satisfaction in the Internet workplace. Includes nine articles.

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Test your knowledge of current job market trends with this online quiz from careermag.com.

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The wage gap between men and women still persists, even among Internet Economy employees.

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James Waldroop and Timothy Butler, directors of the career center at Harvard Business School and authors of the book Maximum Success: Changing the 12 Behavior Patterns That Keep You From Getting Ahead, have identified the character traits that get in the way of success. Five listed in this article include:
1. The Impostor Syndrome (fears he/she doesn't belong in their current position)
2. The Meritocrat (won't accept that life isn't always fair)
3. The Hero (someone who constantly tries to do too much and push too hard)
4. The Peacekeeper (someone who sees herself as a diplomat, the glue that holds everything together)
5. The Procrastinator

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Online recruiting is changing the way employers think about finding good employees and the way employees think about their jobs and their employers. Indeed, the Internet may completely change the way companies manage human resources, says Peter Cappelli, a professor of management at Wharton. But while the Internet makes it easy to find resumes of passive applicants - people who are happy with their current jobs but who might be induced to move to a better one - it also raises serious ethical questions about privacy.

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You can customize your job hunt on small sites.

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Starting a new job is always a delicate dance. Here, managing directors, senior VPs, and savvy associates tell you how to make a great impression ... without stomping on anyone's toes. Topics include:
- Four ways to win over colleagues
- The golden mentor rule
- Nine things you've got to know about face time
- Four keys to nailing your assignment
- Two tips for traveling with the boss
- Seven communication laws you better not break
- How to read the tea leaves
- Three rules for the client meeting

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Article looks at Potentia International's unique "profiling" system, designed to help people answer major career questions: What type of work will allow me to make the greatest contribution? Which career path fits best with my values and aspirations? How can I grow as a person by developing my latent abilities? What kind of work will give me the most pleasure, unleash the most energy, and feel like fun? The sidebar offers a take-home test which is not too practical to do, but is interesting for the explanations provided.

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Feeling bad for feeling good. Such is the strange internal conflict that is Schadenfreude, a German word, literally translated as "harm joy," that describes taking pleasure, however fleeting, in someone else's misfortune. More complex and layered than envy or shame, schadenfreude is as universal a human emotion as exists ... and yet it is a word with no simple equivalent in English. Largely ignored for years, schadenfreude has lately become something of a hot topic, and more and more scholars and researchers have begun to pull back its dark petals to investigate its motivational role in business, in partnerships, and, for that matter, in all human interaction.

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This short piece, part of the regular secret CIO column in InformationWeek, offers some practical advice on resume-writing from a hiring executive's perspective

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The good news: You've found a good job in a company that's built to last. The bad news: Lots of others are jockeying for the same position. Here are strategies to help you stand apart while everyone else is standing around.

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"It is standard wisdom to itemize and celebrate top leadership traits. That is often followed by a list of survival tips for managing the first year. Of course, both lists are offered after the fact. But neither compilation addresses before the fact. So hot and heady is the pursuit that we ignore or minimize the prospect of failure. The interview needs to be perceived as an early warning system...In essence, the five questions below seek to unearth the various ways a CEO can fail. The comments immediately following suggest how and why it can happen, and how to forestall its happening."

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Gaining senior management buy-in is really about finding the right balance between the soft skills (knowing how to listen to them, how to anticipate their reactions) and hard skills (rock solid analysis, irrefutable facts, etc.).

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Do small companies really create the most jobs?

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What makes the difference between a good finance environment and a great one? We asked the Association for Financial Professionals and Hackett Benchmarking & Research to help us find out. CFO's survey of more than 100 corporations reveals best practices for financial workplaces.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about finding a career counselor (but didn't think to ask).

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The office is a jungle. That's why intrepid employees need a field guide to help them spot and identify the most powerful creature in the workplace: the boss. Here are ten common examples of the species, along with care and feeding tips should you encounter a manager in the wild.

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You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to ace the cases in a consulting-firm interview. In fact, a little preparation can make solving them seem, well, elementary.

Note: Older EBF articles are not currently online. I'm not sure if this is temporary or permanent. If you click you will be taken to the Archive.org site to find an archived copy.

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Paul Gooderham and Odd Nordhaug gained fresh insights into the preferences of European business school students relating to their choice of job, employer and industry.

Editor's Note: you can read the article on the web page, but for a bigger font and to get the graphics referenced, read the .pdf version instead (link on the right side of page).

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What does an interview look like from the recruiter's chair? Which answers impress? Which comments annoy? What shoots you dead? Top recruiters, career consultants, and psychologists offer shrewd tips and subtle tricks for moving from "How do you do?" to "When can you start?"

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The secrets to saying thanks the right way—and the mistakes that'll send your missive to the shredder.

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"What is an MBA, anyway? A degree, of course. A door opener, to be sure. A ticket to the top, perhaps. But for some 75 percent of B-school students, it's also a new start—the first step in a journey from one field to another. And more often than not, that new field is consulting, banking, or marketing...Our guide to spinning the career switch—compiled with the help of recruiters, placement advisers, and successful switchers—not only tells you what qualities interviewers in various industries are seeking but also gives you tactics to sell them precisely what they're shopping for, regardless of your background."

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Three MBAs. Three interviews. The razor-sharp recruiter who scored them. And what you can learn from their mistakes.

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With more than 20 million people registered on the monster.com job search site, it's clear that we are a workforce on the move. In a recent executive education session, Peter Cappelli, director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources, explained how a dramatically different labor market is changing not just the way people are hired and fired, but how they view their jobs, their employers and their careers.

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How do managers hone the skills they need to survive and thrive in different geographical and cultural environments? In this excerpt from a new book, experts Morgan W. McCall, Jr. and George P. Hollenbeck offer some answers. PLUS: Q&A.

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The average recruiter sees 5,000 resumes a year. Any legitimate reason she finds to make one disappear makes her life that much easier and yours that much harder. Here, top-level recruiters reveal how candidates blow their chance to get a foot in the door.

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You've handed out stacks of business cards, called all your contacts, and mailed reams of cover letters. Guess what, pal: So has everybody else. That's why we've asked the pros for networking tips and tricks that'll help you leave the name-tag-wearing, resumé-waving hordes in the dust.

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We tag along as an expert networker demonstrates the art of the schmooze.