Erin Brockovich, a single mother, takes a job as a legal assistant and discovers a scandalous case of corporate irresponsibility. While the film's main messages are about corporate ethics and government regulation, Brockovich's blunt determination provides many useful lessons in negotiation and communication.
Violet and Doralee are ambitious, hardworking women whose dreams of success are thwarted by sexism. Violet gets passed over for promotions in favor of an incompetent male executive, Frank Hart. He even steals her ideas and tells her that the company will never promote a woman...
The recession in the UK has been especially harsh for younger job seekers who now constitute almost 40% of those out of work. According to this report by Joe Parkinson of the Wall Street Journal, even recent graduates of elite universities are unable to find jobs...
Summer interns more at home in the dorm than the business world often make career-damaging mistakes, as illustrated in this clip from the TV comedy 30 Rock. A young intern, dressed appropriately for the beach, distracts all the male members of a business meeting...
A prestigious British bank sends an ambitious young clerk, Nick, to Jakarta to clean up a mess no one wants to deal with. He seizes the opportunity to impress the company, and is invited to set up their future options trading operation in Singapore...
The Big One follows populist filmmaker Michael Moore on a book tour across the country. Moore's interviews with corporate executives and laid-off workers convey the effects of widespread downsizing and outsourcing on the American job market...
Clay Christensen, Professor at Harvard Business School, discusses the ramifications of the stimulus package - liquidity and tax cuts - and why it won’t necessarily create much-needed jobs to pull the country out of the recession.
Boiler Room is a new millennium homage to Wall Street with the ruthless energy of Glengarry Glen Ross. Seth Davis is a college dropout who takes a job at a shady firm in the hopes of impressing his strict father...
This short animated video, first in the Do You Know? Series, presents a stream of facts about world population, technological development, and the ever accelerating flow of information that has staggering implications for educators, students, and those entering the job market.
