A bevy of benefit options for executive job seekers

Vacations, sick time, 401(k)s…boooooring!
When you start looking at new career options for your executive ascent, and the benefits packages they offer, don’t limit yourself to thinking about the same old perks you’ve been offered in previous positions.
Every year, in Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For issue, they review the benefits offered by the listed [...]

Where do you fall on the question of job benefits?

I’ve heard of executives and managers who couldn’t be bothered with the question of job benefits. Every company offers some sort of medical, some sort of dental, some sort of vacation and some sort of sick time, and who cares? It’s all about the work, the challenge, the responsibility of the position, the profit potential, [...]

Flex for execs – are you into different executive work schedules?

I’m not sure how it took me this long to discover Sue Shellenbarger, but now that I have, I’m more than a little happy about it.
Ms. Shellenbarger is the Work & Family columnist for CareerJournal.com (which, apparently, is enjoying the benefit of her work for sister website The Wall Street Journal Online). And having read [...]

What are the best companies to work for?

It’s that time of year again … Fortune Magazine has released its annual 100 Best Companies to Work For list, and Google is the new #1. What’s more, it’s their first appearance on the list at all – hot stuff!
How did Google and the other 99 companies get on this list? Here’s an excerpt from [...]

Are you one of the three-percenters?

With the year winding down this week, I took time to catch up on some research, and came across this article, “Get a Degree on Your Company’s Dime,” by Tara Weiss on Forbes.com.
Here’s the pair of statistics she quoted that just blew my mind: 80% of medium and large companies offer some sort of tuition [...]

The Politics of Benefits

We’ve still got a long ways to go before January – which means there’s lots of time for political speculation in Washington.
It started with a tight focus on incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. And now that the furor of Congressional turnover has died down, thoughts of what the Democrats could do with their [...]