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Don’t Ask These 5 Terrible Interview Questions
BraunS/Getty Images Tomorrow is Ask a Stupid Question Day, and while your elementary school teachers may have told you that there’s no such thing as a stupid question, they probably weren’t thinking...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: The One Thing You Should Do to Get Hired (and...
Rawpixel.com/Pexels Do you Google yourself? If you answered “no,” you’re in good company: according to TopResume, half of professionals surveyed said that they’d never Googled themselves, and 33...
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Too Much Sitting Is Bad for Workers. Should Employers Pay?
Juhan Sonin/Flickr Sitting for excessive amounts of time has been linked to health problems ranging from neck strain to heart disease. It may even increase the risk of death from diseases like cancer....
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5 Strategies to Beat Procrastination
Veri Ivanova/Unsplash Procrastination gets a bad rap, but there are upsides to putting things off. In his TED Talk, organizational psychologist Adam Grant makes a convincing case that it can fuel...
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Need a Job? Wear a Red Sweater to Your Local Target on Black Friday
Before we tell you this tale of mistaken identity, it’s essential to note that we have no idea whether this story is true or not. It could be a case of being in the right (red) sweater at the wrong...
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5 Employers Who Gave Back on #GivingTuesday
Bart LaRue/Unsplash Now in its sixth year, #GivingTuesday is a social-media based program that encourages individuals and companies to give back during the holiday season. Since its creation by the...
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5 Jobs That Let You Set Your Own Hours
undrey/Getty Images In a recent FlexJobs survey, respondents chose a flexible schedule as the second-most desirable work arrangement, after full-time telecommuting. That makes a lot of sense: most...
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10 Ways to Mess With Your Coworkers
You can pick your friends, and sometimes your enemies, but you can’t pick your coworkers. Ideally, of course, you’d all get along — at least well enough to get the job done. Sometimes, however, your...
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5 Tips for a Job Interview That Will Get You Hired
kupicoo/Getty Images There’s a lot of advice out there on acing job interviews — perhaps too much to digest when you’re in a hurry. And let’s face it, you’re in a hurry. No matter how committed you are...
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Think Your Coworkers Are Stressed? A New Study Suggests It Might Be Projection
Alan Cleaver/Flickr Do you think of stress as positive or negative? Your answer may determine how you evaluate coworkers and reports who are dealing with stressful work situations, according to new...
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Electrician Fired After Using Snack Bag to Skip Work 140 Times
Markus Spiske/Pexels Is work getting in the way of your golf game? If so, you might want to start collecting potato chip bags. An Australian electrician named Tom Colella allegedly used the foil bag...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: 12 Productive Ways to Slack Off at the Holidays
Tookapic/Pexels The end of the year is a busy time at many companies. That’s unfortunate, because it’s also a time when most of us are: a) overwhelmed with holiday planning and b) deeply disinterested...
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Will You Get a Raise Next Year?
negativespace.co/Pexels The average raise for employees in 2018 will be 3 percent, according to recent data from Willis Towers Watson — about the same as last year. That’s tough news for workers, whose...
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Healthcare Will Lead the Jobs Boom Over the Next Decade
sturti/Getty Images Over the next 10 years, the economy will add 11.5 million jobs, according to projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Healthcare and social assistance are expected to...
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How to Prepare for an Interview
WOCinTechChat.com/Flickr Want to make a good impression on the hiring manager at your next job interview? Preparation is the key. Do your homework, and you’ll be more persuasive, less nervous and more...
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ADP: Private Payrolls Added 190,000 Jobs in November
negativespace.com/Pexels Private companies added 190,000 jobs last month, according to this morning’s release of the monthly ADP National Employment Report. That’s in line with economists’ predictions,...
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Jobs Report: Payrolls Added 228,000 Jobs, Beating Economists’ Expectations
brownpau/Flickr Prior to this morning’s release of the monthly Employment Situation Summary, economists polled by Reuters were predicting gains of 200,000 jobs in November. Instead, the Labor...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: How to Keep Your Job Search Secret
lolostock/Getty Images It’s easier to find a job when you have a job, the saying goes. But, that doesn’t mean that it’s easier to job search when you have a job — especially if you have to keep that...
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If Your Boss Says This, Ask for a Raise
Pixabay/Pexels “If your boss ever says, ‘I wish I had 5 more people just like you’ it’s time to ask for a raise,” brendon7800 recently wrote in the LifeProTips subreddit. But is this really true?...
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Trump’s DOL Wants to Make Tip-Pooling Legal Again
Miguel Á. Padriñán/Unsplash Last week, the Department of Labor proposed a rule change to tip regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The revised rule would allow restaurant owners to...
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