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.

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.

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.

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.

New York City's WorkAdvance program and nonprofit groups are helping low-income workers and unemployed people through job training programs. WorkAdvance, which costs up to $6,700 per person, may give participants enough of a wage increase to get off food stamps and other federal programs.

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.