You’re not alone. Most people are, in fact, and that seems quite sensible to me. After all, there’s a lot riding on that single conversation, and these days, the conversation is happening in a different way. Here are a few basic tips: 1. Prepare your tech in advance. If at all possible, a wired connection…
In the 21st century, in the richest nation on earth, some people are still struggling to make ends meet. African American men make an average of $0.87 for every dollar a White man earns, and Latinos come in at $0.91. It gets worse when we factor in gender: Black women make $0.62 cents to the…
What if you’re still not clear about what you are meant to do? You may be someone who doesn’t need to love your job. In fact, your job might just be something that gives you the room to do the stuff you love—a means to an end, rather than the end in and of itself.…
But how can you determine what you really enjoy? It seems like this should be simple, but often it’s just not. We get so bogged down with other people’s advice, opinions about prestige, messages about what’s realistic, worries about money, etc., that sometimes we just can’t tell. And sometimes we haven’t really had the space…
To answer the first question, there’s actually a surprising amount of disagreement among the folks who study this stuff. Some Forbes writers argue that, with unemployment numbers so catastrophically high, even a speedy recovery would push us into a recession. Meanwhile, the Harvard Business Review notes key paths to a severe downturn that it…
Is there any topic more boring and overdone than resumes? Google “resume basics” and you’ll get so many results that you won’t even know where to start, and how on earth are you supposed to know who the writers are and whether you can trust their advice? Well I am here to help you out! …
Hi all. Today I want to talk a little about autonomy at work. You will find something about this on pretty much every work values quiz, and for good reason. While there isn’t necessarily a standardized definition of measure of autonomy at work, I’m defining it as a measure of control over your own decisions…
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