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Starbucks baristas during the company's annual shareholders meeting in Seattle on March 20, 2019. Ted S. Warren/The Associated Press Rob Csernyik is a freelance journalist who is writing a book about minimum-wage work. Several months after receiving my second bachelor’s degree, I found myself working behind an espresso machine once again. When I graduated from high school in 2004, postsecondary education was presented as the ticket to high salaries and trappings of middle-class life such as home ownership. Instead, my generation graduated from university into a global recession, followed by rising home and living costs and the global COVID-19 pandemic. The conventional wisdom was thrown on its head. Today, with the exception of certain professions, higher education guarantees little to workers. This week, Statistics Canada released 2021 census results that show our nation has the G7′s most educated work force, with 57.5 per cent of Canadians aged 25 to 64 possessing college or un...

Photo : Chaay_Tee ( Shutterstock ) If you’re nostalgic for the days when you could order a package of four or eight COVID tests free from the government , we have a holiday surprise for you: The free COVID tests program, which was suspended in August , is back for a limited time— and with fortuitous timing, given rates of seasonal illness are elevated even as COVID remains omnipresent , not to mention the fact that a bunch of at-home tests were just recalled for inaccuracy . ( Y es, I realize this sounds like an underwhelming Christmas special, but that’s just the vibe of our national preventive strategy these days.) Covidtests.gov is accepting orders now—I just placed mine this morning. Each household can get a package with 4 individual tests. Orders will begin shipping the week of Dec. 19. If you can’t access the website or if you need extra help, you can also order tests by calling 1-800-232-0233 (TTY 1-888-720-7489) between 8 a.m. and midnight any day of the week. The phone ...

Photo : Monkey Business Images ( Shutterstock ) It’s a perennial quirk of the holiday season: trying to pick the perfect gifts for the people in your life you’re super grateful for, but don’t actually know personally. What conveys cheer and thankfulness to a mail carrier and is actually useful? What should you gift your doorman? A nd what about your kid’s teacher? Morning drop- off hellos, weekly emails, and the occasional conference aside, y ou’re not exactly friends with your kid’s teacher, but you owe them big . They are, after all, helping to mold your child into a smart, decent person they are destined to be, 35-odd hours a week . They deserve gifts all year round, but maybe you’re thinking a “#1 Teacher” mug will suffice for now. It won’t. ( They have enough mugs.) We asked teachers what they really want for Christmas and they expressed instant interest in helping compile the following list. As one noted , “I have a box full of gifts I’ve gotten from students I will regi...

Pam Farrell started Grow Community Food Literacy Centre, a charity that provides nutritional food to low-income families and information on food literacy. CARLOS MARQUEZ/Handout The organizer: Pam Farrell The pitch: Founding Grow The reason: To help address food literacy. Pam Farrell was in the midst of a postgraduate degree in education a couple of years ago when she began exploring the concept of food literacy. “It kind of intrigued me,” Ms. Farrell, 45, recalled from Calgary. “Because I’ve heard of it before, but I never really knew what it meant.” She started researching ways to improve the understanding of how sociocultural factors affect and influence food literacy. And soon her topic became much more than an academic pursuit. In 2019, Ms. Farrell launched Grow Community Food Literacy Centre in her hometown of Niagara Falls, Ont., where she has been an elementary-school teacher. “I witnessed some of the inequities in the food system,” she said. “What students brought to school ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. After likely spending years in college and excitedly anticipating a professional life, it's easy to be sympathetic to an entrepreneur's hesitancy about returning to the classroom. But being excellence-and stability-driven, like it or not, also means nurturing knowledge and skills as leaders, as well as those of staff members. Put simply, at some point, to keep careers, businesses and overall satisfaction growing, it's occasionally necessary to plunge back into the scholastic pool. Why further education could be the right choice for you Significant payoffs of ongoing learning include value creation, career satisfaction and engagement, as well as closing collegiate skill gaps and reducing churn. Let's look at the value side first: The more you know and can do, the greater your value to all parties — investors, partners and staff. Diverse and up-to-date knowledge increases the ability to...

School districts and universities are banning the ChatGPT AI that writes in a human-like fashion, but some teachers say a better approach may be to incorporate it into the curriculum Technology 12 January 2023 By Jeremy ...

Do you ever find yourself fudging the truth on your resume? You're not alone. ResumeBuilder.com surveyed 1,250 Americans about what they've lied about when looking for a job. Seventy-two percent admitted to lying on their resume. The biggest lie was about education, with 44% of respondents saying they stretched the truth regarding their academic bona fides. Years of experience marked the second biggest falsehood, and skills or abilities rang in third. "People lie during the hiring process when they don't have the all the required skills, education or experience, but feel that they can embellish or lie in order to secure the position," says Stacie Haller , Chief Career Advisor at CareerBuilder.com. "They know that the company will not verify their education or their skills, and they simply hope to make their way through the process without being found out." Haller says that the numbers have increased in recent years "as our culture is ...

Photo : fizkes ( Shutterstock ) When employee morale is low and teamwork is lacking, well-intending bosses and HR folks often think the solution is to have a “team- building” session. They think the root of the issue must be that staff don’t know each other well, don’t understand each other’s “styles, ” and if they did, they would work better together. Work is stopped, money is spent, and everyone is scheduled to attend a team- building session— or what I sometimes call, forced fun. This is when personality tests, or “style” assessments, like the DISC Profile, Myers Briggs Type Indicator and others of the like are often used to help people understand each other better with a goal of improving teamwork. Many of these assessments are grounded in good behavioral science. They require completion of an assessment and then, a report is generated that describes a person’s preferences and tendencies for communication, thinking, and use of energy. Some also identify strengths, weaknes...

Photo : Chaay_Tee ( Shutterstock ) If you’re nostalgic for the days when you could order a package of four or eight COVID tests free from the government , we have a holiday surprise for you: The free COVID tests program, which was suspended in August , is back for a limited time— and with fortuitous timing, given rates of seasonal illness are elevated even as COVID remains omnipresent , not to mention the fact that a bunch of at-home tests were just recalled for inaccuracy . ( Y es, I realize this sounds like an underwhelming Christmas special, but that’s just the vibe of our national preventive strategy these days.) Covidtests.gov is accepting orders now—I just placed mine this morning. Each household can get a package with 4 individual tests. Orders will begin shipping the week of Dec. 19. If you can’t access the website or if you need extra help, you can also order tests by calling 1-800-232-0233 (TTY 1-888-720-7489) between 8 a.m. and midnight any day of the week. The phone ...

Photo : Monkey Business Images ( Shutterstock ) It’s a perennial quirk of the holiday season: trying to pick the perfect gifts for the people in your life you’re super grateful for, but don’t actually know personally. What conveys cheer and thankfulness to a mail carrier and is actually useful? What should you gift your doorman? A nd what about your kid’s teacher? Morning drop- off hellos, weekly emails, and the occasional conference aside, y ou’re not exactly friends with your kid’s teacher, but you owe them big . They are, after all, helping to mold your child into a smart, decent person they are destined to be, 35-odd hours a week . They deserve gifts all year round, but maybe you’re thinking a “#1 Teacher” mug will suffice for now. It won’t. ( They have enough mugs.) We asked teachers what they really want for Christmas and they expressed instant interest in helping compile the following list. As one noted , “I have a box full of gifts I’ve gotten from students I will regi...

Photo : Monkey Business Images ( Shutterstock ) It’s a perennial quirk of the holiday season: trying to pick the perfect gifts for the people in your life you’re super grateful for, but don’t actually know personally. What conveys cheer and thankfulness to a mail carrier and is actually useful? What should you gift your doorman? A nd what about your kid’s teacher? Morning drop- off hellos, weekly emails, and the occasional conference aside, y ou’re not exactly friends with your kid’s teacher, but you owe them big . They are, after all, helping to mold your child into a smart, decent person they are destined to be, 35-odd hours a week . They deserve gifts all year round, but maybe you’re thinking a “#1 Teacher” mug will suffice for now. It won’t. ( They have enough mugs.) We asked teachers what they really want for Christmas and they expressed instant interest in helping compile the following list. As one noted , “I have a box full of gifts I’ve gotten from students I will regi...