June 2013

set a start date before resigning

In this post, we update the “you don’t have an offer until you have an offer” rule. A reader writes: I am having a problem getting my new employer to agree on a start date. Once I received the formal job offer in writing, I gave notice to my current job. I contacted the new […]

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can I expose this terrible interviewer?

A reader writes: I had a horrendous interview experience with a large company’s senior executive (newly hired by them), and I want his behavior to be exposed. I have no qualms about burning bridges because I do not live where that company is located and I do not really work in that industry. His behavior […]

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do you know what signals you’re sending at work?

When it comes to how you’re judged at work, you might think that the quality of your work is all that matters. But human perceptions is a lot more complicated than that, and you might be sending signals that you don’t realize or intend. Here are five of the top ways that you inadvertently send […]

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10 danger signs when you’re hiring new employees

If you’ve ever hired the wrong person – or inherited someone else’s bad hire – you know the costs of hiring mistakes: huge amounts of time and energy spent addressing the problem, as well as the opportunity cost of not having the right person in the role. But while you can’t avoid all hiring mistakes, […]

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