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Edison Wetlands, Merck and many more employers will be attending.Prize in Ethics Essay Contest 2012
The Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics is an annual competition that challenges college students in the U.S. to submit essays on the urgent ethical issues that confront them in today’s complex world. Since 1989, The Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics has been encouraging students to write thought-provoking personal essays that raise questions, single out issues and are rational arguments for ethical action.
First Prize: $5,000
Second Prize: $2,500
Third Prize: $1,000
Two Honorable Mentions: $500 each
Open to all full-time Juniors and Seniors registered at an accredited four-year college or university!
DEADLINE: All applications must be submitted online at apply.ethicsprize.org before December 5th 2011, 5pm PST.
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Key State-by-state findings according to the article:• California. Public employee compensation rose 28% above the inflation rate from 2000 to 2009 to an average of $71,385 in 2009.
• Nevada. Government employees earned an average of $17,815 more — or 35% — than private workers, the nation’s biggest pay gap.
• Texas. The state ranked last in benefits for public employees. The state hasn’t granted cost-of-living increases to most retirees since 2001.
Like Texas, Georgia and Virginia pay significantly less to public workers and more to private sector workers . To see a detailed chart depicting the compensation gap per state and for more information about the article refer to the online version.
The employer branding firm, Universum, recently asked young professionals for their thoughts on America's employers including which they'd most like to work for. Some of the workplaces -- the Central Intelligence Agency, for one -- certainly aren't for everyone.
Universum says that the results could be a reaction to a poor economy. Several companies on the list, including Teach For America (#10), may reflect young Americans' desire for a reliable and accommodating professional life.
The 10,306 people surveyed, who had an average age 27, said that a balance between personal life and work as well as job security are the two highest priorities when it came to choosing an employer. In addition, respondents said that a good reputation opposed to financial strength or ethics was the most important factor concerning a company's image.
Which companies topped the list? Check out the top 10 below and visit Universum for more information:
10. Teach For America
9. NASA
8. CIA
7. Microsoft
6. FBI
5. Amazon
4. U.S. Department of State
3. The Walt Disney Company
2. Apple
1. Google
Call it a silver lining of the recession: with so many people struggling to find jobs, nonprofits have had a surfeit of talent to pick from over the last couple of years. Case in point: John Hanawalt, a graphic designer profiled in a New York Times video segment today.
Having graduated valedictorian of his college class, Hanawalt—like many graduates over the past couple of years—struggled to find a position with his first choice of employer: "an agency setting with an advertising agency or PR firm." Instead, he ended up working for Boston-based nonprofit Fenway Health, where he is in charge of the organization's entire graphic design operation.
In the video, both Hanawalt and Chris Viveiros—Fenway's Associate Director of Communications—offer insights into the benefits of doing nonprofit work rather than following a corporate track straight out of college:
"John […] is in charge of all of our graphic design projects," says Viveiros. "You may not find that if you're in the corporate world. You may be stuck doing really basic and boring jobs for the first five years or so of your career."
Hanawalt concurs, telling the Times that one of the major benefits of his position is that "I get to wear a lot of hats."
The one drawback: money. "I think the biggest difference between a nonprofit and private sector work is the lifetime earning potential," says Hanawalt. But he also recognizes that there's no reason he can't do both: build a portfolio of experience that may have been out of reach in a corporate job, and then take the money later.
That possibility is raised in the video too, albeit by the Times journalist—and it offers an interesting potential downside of the recovery, if only for the nonprofit sector: "the question remains as to whether these recent grads will stay in their new careers or be lured back to corporate positions as the economy recovers."
If there is something that will hold grads, it may be that the nonprofit industry offers something only rarely found in the corporate world: a sense of purpose. Or as Hanawalt puts it: "When you work for a nonprofit, you go in every day knowing the mission of the organization and you know exactly how what you're doing contributes to that mission."
How many in other professions can say that?
The New York Times: Doing Good in a Bad Economy (Full Video)
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Career Paths: Nonprofit Consultant
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What makes a professional career in public service so unique is the emphasis on tackling "wicked problems" -- the challenging issues that define the public agenda and call for talented individuals to devote their efforts to finding solutions. Here are just a few of the "wicked problems" on the agenda today:
These high profile problems are only a piece of the entire picture of public service careers. Many worthwhile careers in the new public sector are devoted to providing absolutely vital daily services to the public in cities, counties, states and nations around the world. Professionals in these careers often must tackle very challenging problems such as expanding services to meet the needs of changing populations without necessarily raising taxes, implementing information technologies that better connect citizens to their governments, and improving responses to natural disasters. Employment demand for professionals to provide leadership, financial management, policy analysis and other such skills has never been stronger.
