The Onion has an awesome article that will resonate with everyone who’s ever been told by an elder to just show up at a business and ask for a job: 95% of grandfathers got their jobs by walking up and asking I mean, I don’t know why you’re on your computer all day when you […]
Read the full article →The internet has made it easier than ever to find advice on how to interview and find a job – but sometimes job seekers misunderstand common advice and misapply it in a way that harms them rather than helping. Here are six common ways that you might be taking good advice but executing it poorly. 1. […]
Read the full article →A reader writes: So…are you ready for a weird one? The recent snow saw me working at home in my apartment, which I share with a handful of roommates and a landlady. The landlady does not let me work on my laptop downstairs and confines me to my room. That’s fine, but the roommate in […]
Read the full article →It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Is it presumptuous to ask for an office? I manage 5 people. Currently, there are four other managers (only 2 actually have reports like me) and we all sit among everyone else in cubes. My boss has talked with me before about her desire to […]
Read the full article →It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Employer wants to know how much my other offers are My question is whether my wife, who is graduating with a masters in nursing, should disclose details on the offers she has received to the company she really wants to work for? She interviewed and […]
Read the full article →Lots of people have asked me about the news coverage of the woman who had a job offer as an assistant professor at a small college pulled after she tried to negotiate. It’s been painted as everything from an outrageous action on the part of the college to evidence that women are penalized for negotiating. […]
Read the full article →This was originally published on October 28, 2010. You know when you see a job posting and it lists an application deadline? And then you figure you have until that deadline to apply? Well, you might not. Here’s why: A lot of job sites require the employer to list a deadline or closing date when […]
Read the full article →It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on anything you want to talk about. If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet, but this is a chance to talk to other readers.
Read the full article →It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. My coworker won’t stop interrupting me while I train her I work in an in-house legal department and manage a billing system that is used by the attorneys and their admins. I worked with this system in a previous job and was hired because I […]
Read the full article →A reader writes: I’m a teacher at a middle school with around 1,300 students. We have three administrators who all supervise different departments. My direct supervisor, who I’ll call Nate, is the assistant principal. Nate recently approached me in the hallway – in passing, so not like a formal chat or anything – and said, […]
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