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Candy-Maker Mars Pledges $1 Billion to Fight Climate Change
Pixabay Earlier this summer, Mars joined 27 other U.S. companies in urging President Donald Trump to keep the United States in the Paris Agreement on climate change. “By expanding markets for...
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These 5 Salary Negotiation Mistakes Will Cost You Serious Money
julief514/Getty Images If you always take the first salary offered — and never ask for a raise once you’re happily toiling away for an employer — you’re likely to wind up underpaid. Add in the fact...
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Hate Your New Job? Here’s How to Return to Your Old Job
Pablo Garcia Saldana/Unsplash The scariest thing about taking a new job is that you can’t really know what you’re getting into … until you’re already in it. Sure, you can learn to recognize red flags...
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U.S. News & World Report Adds PayScale Salary Data to ‘Best Colleges’ Rankings
Baim Hanif/Getty Images Every year since 1983, U.S. News & World Report publishes its Best Colleges report, ranking over 1,800 of the country’s top schools on metrics related to academic...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: Avoid These 7 Toxic Thoughts and Save Your Career
Pixabay/Pexels Are you your own worst enemy at work? The way you think about yourself and your career has a huge effect on your professional success. Positive thoughts will set you up for achievement,...
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Amazon Prime Air Pilots Protest Working Conditions
Pexels Last week, a billboard truck rolled by Amazon’s corporate HQ in Seattle. Its rotating messages read: “No Amazon Prime Air Without Pilots,” “Don’t Ground Prime Air” and “Prime(d) for Disaster.”...
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The One Secret to Small Talk With Big Networking Results
daria_shevtsova/Unsplash The word “networking” puts a lot of people off, but it’s just a dry term for something humans have been doing since the dawn of time: making connections with each other....
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Fired for Using Birth Control? Calif. Bill Would Protect Workers’ Rights
Last week, the California State Assembly voted 45-13 in favor of Bill 569, sending it on to Gov. Jerry Brown for his signature. If signed into law, the bill will make it illegal for employers to fire...
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Are These the 7 Worst Bosses of All Time?
JD Hancock/Flickr In surveys, bad managers are frequently one of the top reasons people quit their jobs. In fact, there’s an old saying, “People don’t quit their jobs. They quit their managers.” If...
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Talk Like a Pirate Day: 5 Modern Pirate Jobs
fuzzcat/Flickr Arr, mateys! It be Talk Like a Pirate Day, the best nonsense holiday in the history of nonsense holidays. (Sorry, Everything You Do Is Right Day. You had a good run.) If you’re spending...
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3 Female Former Employees Sue Google, Alleging Gender Pay Discrimination
wildpixel/Getty Images Last week, three former Google employees filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming gender pay discrimination. Kelly Ellis, Holly Pease and Kelli Wisuri say that they quit...
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10 Ways to Troll the Hiring Manager
BraunS/Getty Images First things first: obviously, you shouldn’t actually troll the hiring manager at your next job interview. Probably, you don’t even need me to tell you that: why waste your precious...
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5 Tricks to Cope With Job Interview Stress
shironosov/Getty Images Job interviews probably aren’t the best way for hiring managers to find qualified candidates who’ll be a great fit for their team. But until the hiring revolution takes place...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: 5 Steps to Beat Work Addiction
Ian Espinosa/Unsplash Our culture places a premium on being busy — sometimes at the cost of real productivity. But even if you are one of those rare souls who can get by on next-to-no sleep and zero...
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Weekend Exercise Still Has Benefits
RyanJLayne/Getty Images Are you sick and tired of hearing about how lack of exercise is making you sick and tired? For most working people, the usual recommendation about physical activity — namely,...
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So You Made a Typo on Your Resume. Now What?
JD Hancock/Flickr It’s one of the first items on any list of resume tips: Whatever you do, don’t make any typos or spelling mistakes. If you do, the experts usually suggest, your prospective employer...
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Target Will Raise Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour by 2020
Mike Mozart/Flickr Yesterday, Target Corp. released a statement announcing that it will raise its minimum wage to $11 per hour next month, and $15 per hour by 2020. The announcement itself was an...
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If You Get Emotional After Failure, This Study Will Come as a Big Relief
Tom Pumford/Unsplash A recent study shows that emotional responses to failure may be more productive than you’d think. In fact, the researchers found that emotional responses were more effective than...
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Didn’t Get That Raise? Do These 5 Things Next
Pixabay/Pexels Seventy-five percent of people who ask for a raise receive some kind of pay increase, according to PayScale’s survey. While that’s good news most of the time, chances are that at some...
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Be a Jerk, Lose Your Job
Rosaura Ochoa/Flickr About a month ago, BuzzFeed brought to our attention what was possibly the craziest Ask a Manager question of all time. Entitled I ghosted my ex, and she’s about to be my new boss,...
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