Category: Career Best Practices

You’ve looked for a job for the last few months with little success. Maybe a few nibbles, but it’s gotten harder and harder to keep

Before Bloomsbury Publishing took a chance on a story about an orphaned boy wizard, J.K. Rowling was mid-divorce, in her own words, “as poor as

You carefully craft your resume, go through the process of filling in the application, and then…you wait. And wait. And wait. Did the application go

You’ve secured the interview and chosen your outfit. Now you need to take a crucial next step: research the company. As the saying goes, “Forewarned

Mike had worked at Company ABC for about five years. He’d always performed the best in his department, meeting his quotas and then moving beyond

We all feel some measure of stress in our lives: We work too hard, make ourselves busy, worry about bills, never take vacations, etc. Stress

Your employer requests you do something that wasn’t on your list of duties, and you respond with, “That’s not my job.” If you really want

So, you’re looking for a job, but you’re not entirely sure which direction you want to go in. You’ve sent out endless resumes, even had

You’ve just walked out of an interview and are replaying it in your mind, going over your answers and whether you could have/should have said

As you’re filling out your latest job application, you come to the question that you wished they’d skipped: “What is your desired salary?” or some