Dimon outlines plan to raise pay for 18,000 JPMorgan workers | Feds release strategies to recruit cybersecurity workforce | How to identify and pursue passion in a career
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JPMorgan Chase is raising pay for 18,000 employees, investing in training and supporting career-oriented education to boost opportunity in consumer banking and to tackle income inequality, writes President and CEO Jamie Dimon. A concerted effort by business, government and nonprofits will give Americans opportunity, he writes. The New York Times (free-article access for SmartBrief readers) (7/12),Reuters (7/12),Financial Times (tiered subscription model) (7/12)
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A four-part cybersecurity strategy to help US government agencies attract a highly skilled cybersecurity workforce has been released by the White House. The proposal aims to streamline the hiring process, build career paths for current government workers and help make current cybersecurity-related professionals experts in their field. FedScoop (7/12),Computerworld (7/13)
Leadership & Development
How to identify and pursue passion in a career Finding passion for a career is "a discovery process," which means professionals should identify what they want their work to be about, University of Michigan assistant dean Paula Di Rita Wishart explains in this blog post. "Those who are most successful at navigating a personally meaningful career path learn to cultivate a practice of discerning the work they are drawn to," she writes. InsideHigherEd.com (7/11)
Benefits & Compensation
Survey: Young women are reluctant to negotiate Only 26% of women between the ages of 18 and 24 negotiate their job offers, compared with 42% of their male peers, according to data from Earnest. The situation reverses for workers between the ages of 25 and 34, with more women than men in this age group saying that they negotiate. The Washington Post (tiered subscription model) (7/7)
The little things you do and say matter Alan Utley shares via an open letter how the little ways that bosses communicate -- or don't -- make all the difference. Saying hello on the first day and giving feedback that inspires rather than condemned are simple things, Utley writes, but mean a great deal to him. LeadChangeGroup.com (7/13)
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
