Best Companies to Work for in Engineering

Universum Communications Inc. recently asked 60,000 undergraduate students on the brink of graduation to provide employer rankings in terms of companies they would like to work for in Engineering. The top ten are:

1.   NASA
2.   Boeing
3.   Lockheed Martin Corporation
4.   Google
5.   General Electric
6.   Apple
7.   U.S. Department of Energy
8.   Exxon Mobil Corporation
9.   Walt Disney Company
10. BMW

In future blogs we will let you know the top 10 in Information Technology, and Natural Science. Stay tuned!

Is a Law School Worth the Money?

I had expressed in my May 2012 CareerQuest newsletter (which can be seen in the Newsletter Archive on my website, www.careerquestcentral.com ), that you need to tread cautiously before you choose law as your profession. I had made eight different key points for evaluation.

Here is a differing viewpoint and I respectfully present it here. In The New York Times of Thursday, November 29, 2012, Lawrence E. Mitchell, Dean of Case Western Reserve University's Law School, defends law education and its usefulness in society. His central thought is: Stop the relentless attacks. There are jobs, and they pay well.

You be the judge in your very own case.    

Best Companies to Work for in Business

Universum Communications Inc. recently asked 60,000 undergraduate students on the brink of graduation to provide employer rankings in terms of companies they would like to work for in Business. The top ten are:

1.   Google
2.   Apple
3.   Walt Disney Company
4.   Ernst & Young
5.   Deloitte
6.   J. P. Morgan
7.   Nike
8.   PwC
9.   Goldman Sachs
10. KPMG LLP

In future blogs we will let you know the top 10 in Engineering, Information Technology, and Natural Science. Stay tuned!