Rate Yourself! How Productive Are You?
Management teams are feeling the pressure to do more with less, which translates into finding and keeping the most productive employees.
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Have You Been Discriminated Against?
Discrimination comes in many forms including, gender, race, sexual orientation, age, disability, weight, and even for beauty. Has it happened to you?
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Which Way is Harder to Make More Money?
The traditional ways of making more money (i.e. asking for a raise at review time), or looking for a new job, aren’t the best ways to do it.
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How Many Careers Have You Had?
Graduates today are expected to have as many as 9 careers in their lifetimes with an average of 3 jobs in each one. What’s your number?
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POLL: Should 2M Americans Lose Unemployment Benefits?
Just before the election, the Huffington Post shared this story that indicated as many as 2 million Americans will lose their unemployment benefits if Congress doesn’t pass legislation to extend them. Now that the elections are over, I’m curious…
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TELL US: Would You Have Plastic Surgery to Get the Job?
By CAREEREALISM Founder, J.T. O’Donnell I read an interesting piece by fellow career blogger,P enelope Trunk this week over at BNET. It’s called, “Why Your Career Needs Plastic Surgery – Literally.” In it, Trunk provides the evidence that supports the decision to have some work done to create a younger, better looking version of yourself as a way to get [...]
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How Long Will a Job Search Take in 2010?
I know most of our readers have the ‘A New Job in the New Year’ resolution going on for 2010. However, the question of if/when we’ll land a new job is a true unknown. FACT: Job search duration varies a lot. Why? Well, for starters, a job seeker’s knowledge with respect to the most effective way to look for a [...]
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TELL US: Is Giving Boss Holiday Gift a Good Idea?!?
By CAREEREALISM Founder, J.T. O’Donnell Last week, a reader of our Twitter Advice Project asked if it was appropriate to send a holiday card to a potential employer. You can see the TAP question and discussion amongst the experts here. However, it got me wondering what employees think
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OPINION: Employer Stood Up Job Seeker…TWICE!
Last week, one of the questions that came in for our career experts to answer as part of our Twitter Advice Project involved a job seeker who was stood up by an employer, not once, but TWICE.
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