Besides PSEG’s extensive mentoring programs, in-depth orientation for new hires, career development workshops, and leadership academies, there’s Talent Week—an annual summit where leaders choose outstanding employees and rotate them into different departments to broaden their knowledge base and thereby prepare them for senior positions....
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Enterprise emphasizes training; nationally, the company hired 8,000 college graduates so far this year. For Garden State hires, a four-day training session in Wayne ensures that employees are prepared to serve customers....
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The world has long known about the Campbell Kids, those Chunky Soup-guzzling icons of this household-name company. Each day, though, several dozen real-life Campbell kids can be seen cavorting at the company’s main campus....
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For associates at Becton, Dickinson, the focus is not on what they can get from the company, but what they can give to others by working for the company....
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Verizon believes in fostering its assets—from the technologies it produces to the people who develop and apply those technologies....
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From generous benefits to an emphasis on the “phun” factor, these Garden State companies put a high priority on a happy, healthy workforce....
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Mergers among large drug companies have sorely pinched New Jersey. Can biotech’s newbies ease the pain?...
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Three years ago, he kicked off a spree of Jersey bank heists that netted $80,000 and left police baffled. Now the so-called Hat Bandit spends his days in a federal prison, still pondering the American Dream....
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Bayonne’s Kenny Britt set records catching footballs at Rutgers. Now he’ll test his talents (and smile) in the NFL....
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You've surely heard of blue-collar and white-collar jobs, but green-collar jobs? They're on the rise....
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Corruption pervades the state. Is the problem too much government? Steve Adubato debates today's political realities....
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A fifth grade student at P.J. Hill Elementary School in Trenton prepares for the bright lights of Broadway...where he'll star as Young Simba in The Lion King....
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At 92, Salo Enis long-lost music is rediscovered. ...
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When Maplewood director/producer Marc Levin got word that his friend Forest Whitaker was interested in coproducing the documentary Brick City, which begins airing September 21 on the Sundance Channel, he had one question: Why would the Oscar-winning Whitaker, a native of South Central Los Angeles, want to do a film about Newark?...
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Half a century ago, Newark’s Weequahic High School was an academically distinguished, mostly Jewish enclave that graduated the novelist Philip Roth and a steady stream of future PhDs. Starting in the 1960s, however, the city’s race riots, white flight, and the rise of drug-dealing gangs transformed the school into just another urban battleground with low morale and a high dropout rate....
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Rosie has the latest information on where NJ chefs are manning the stoves....
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Because this store (in Morristown) is on a corner, and the main street it overlooks is steep, you get an interesting outlook. Photo by NJM senior editor Eric Levin....
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Rosie has the latest news on NJ restaurant openings and closings....
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