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How Do You Go Back to Work After a Major Health Problem?
A week was enough time to recover physically, my surgeon assured me. What about emotionally? That isn't his department, it;s something I, or you, have to address after such a traumatic event. Continue...
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How Hard is It to Get Back in the Work Force?
How difficult is it to return to the workforce after a few years off? Very difficult but not impossible, as I detail about my own experience in Always Be Job Hunting. The Harvard Business Review’s...
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How Can You Help Hurricane Sandy Victims?
My high school in New York City reports that some 80 students in its school community are without homes now. Just writing that makes my heart ache for them. I have donated to the relief fund and urge...
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Missing HoHos Yet? How about the 18,000 Jobs that Went With Them?
The brand likely will be bought by another company now, I'm hoping they change and cheapen the formula to make them less desirable to me. Continue reading →
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Who’s the Boss? The Supreme Court is About to Tell You
It might sound like a technicality, but the court's decision will impact your worker rights, so it's worth keeping on eye on it to see the result. Check here for updates as they become available....
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ABJH Excerpt: Learning on the Job
Looking back all these years later, I’m struck by the hubris with which I took my first management job. I really did think I knew it all and started out with that attitude, alienating people who’d been...
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ABJH Excerpt: Making It to the Big Time
I’ve never had as good a salary or as many benefits as I did when I was in the Guild. No one person has the bargaining power that all employees speaking as one have. Continue reading →
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How important is having a office to you?
It always amuses me when people start claiming some idea they have is cutting edge or a new trend. Invariably, it's just a variation on an old idea. Such is the case these days with companies...
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What’s the Best Job Hunting Tip? Believe in Yourself
You can't go into interviews seeming hopeless or worthless, no one wants to hire someone who doesn't believe in themselves. Continue reading →
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Unpaid Intern: maybe not as free as companies once hoped
Workers’ rights, such things as health insurance, retirement accounts, paid time off, are fading into the past in today’s difficult job market. So I was happy to see at least one corporate attempt to...
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Job Hunting is Like Being a Face in the Crowd
An opportunity came up recently to be an extra in a major movie shooting in Chicago this summer, so I jumped at the chance to see the top levels of my new career in action. Continue reading →
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Dream Job — not exactly, for most of us, new poll finds
Most Americans aren’t happy in their jobs. Indeed, only 14% say they have the perfect job in a new survey commissioned by the online University of Phoenix, as reported by Reuters recently. The piece...
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Telecommuting or a nap at work, which would you pick?
I worked from home, telecommuting, for six and a half years and found it the most productive job I've had in a long, long time. Continue reading →
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10 Don’ts That Will Help You Avoid Workplace Dysfunction
Great piece from a colleague’s blog. John 10 Don’ts That Will Help You Avoid Workplace Dysfunction. Filed under: management issues, working conditions Tagged: coping with a new job, working environment
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Best Cities to work in – California leads the way
Other top cities are Seattle, Salt Lake City and, surprisingly enough given what people tend to think of politics, Washington, D.C., Glassdoor reports. Continue reading →
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10 things to avoid doing, or being, at work
Listening is as important as speaking well in an interview or any work setting. Continue reading →
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Remember when companies offered health insurance?
Employers will run away from paying your health insurance costs like lemmings jumping off a cliff, believe me. The same pattern we saw with retirement plans, i.e. company-funded, guaranteed payout...
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Age discrimination getting to you? Try these job hunting tips
Being a 50-plus worker today is tough. Being a 50-plus job hunter is even tougher. How do you get your foot in the door, much less get seriously considered for a position, in this environment? Continue...
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Tax Write-Offs for Entrepreneurs: A guest post
While being self-employed has its share of perks, it does come with a higher degree of financial responsibility than traditional employment. This reality is most apparent during tax season when it...
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5 Telltale Signs Your Employer Isn’t Treating You Fairly
Although most people enjoy where they work, some folks don’t get a fair deal in the workplace. Their employers can impose harsh working conditions, especially ones that limit their earnings. In some...
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