From the category archives:
Take a look at the entertainment section of any news site on the Internet and you’ll see several celebrities being bashed for their dedication to the party scene. The coverage is positively brutal – and not because of its news value. The truth is that people doing stupid things is a whole lot of fun [...]
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There’s a reason that managers and supervisors get paid more than their employees: managing people is just plain hard.
It’s even harder to manage folks if you’ve climbed past them on the corporate ladder. Everyone can agree to affably hate the guy who comes in from three states away to oversee the team, but when it’s [...]
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Because it can be so difficult to get a job, it is even more difficult to make the decision to leave one. Even a tremendous offer from a new company may pale in the wake of long years of camaraderie, stable employment, and pure comfort.
When it’s time to leave, though, it’s time to leave. [...]
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Let’s face it – money is the reason most of us go to work. It would be great to be one of those terrific entrepreneurs who figures out the way to create income worth millions from under a palm tree, but the fact of life is that most of us are going to have to [...]
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You’ve written a compelling resume and posted it on several job boards. Yet when you pull up the resumes in your job category, you see hundreds of people with your same level of experience and skill set.
How can you make your resume stand out from the pack?
Recruiters and hiring professionals use keyword searches to find [...]
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Almost every big company today requires employees to take personality tests that will allow managers and human resources officers to perfectly peg all new hires – or avoid making what could be major staffing mistakes.
The problem with this is that some managers have developed formulas – or adopted formulas from books — that require a [...]
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Almost everyone I know who currently hates his or her job had a premonition that things wouldn’t go smoothly when they first signed on to the company.
Why did they take the job, then? In most cases, the answer was money, plain and simple. And if you’ve been out of work for a prolonged time [...]
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I was reading a blog the other day written by a woman who was livid, positively livid, that a prospective employer had made a comment that she says alluded to her less than stellar wardrobe.
I don’t know what the comment was. The post was a rambling invective against the interviewer – another woman – that [...]
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Carmen Kontur-Gronquist, the former mayor of Arlington, Ore., knows from personal experience how dangerous it can be to not monitor one’s online presence. Kontur-Gronquist was removed from office in February after a firestorm erupted – much of it via the Internet – when some snooping citizens found photos of her posing in her lingerie on [...]
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“I am interested in a position with your company. My resume is attached should something become available, at which time I ask you to contact me for an interview.”
I have to say that this may be one of the most ridiculous e-mails I have ever received – which is pretty sad when you consider that [...]
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