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Would a Flexible Job Improve Your Sex Life?
Rachel Walker/Unsplash Forty-four percent of respondents to a recent FlexJobs survey thought that having a flexible job would improve their sex life. A further 30 percent said that they were optimistic...
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Resume Tips: 5 Fast Fixes to Help You Get Hired
Ian Schneider/Unsplash It pays to keep your resume refreshed and ready to go, even if you’re currently happy with your job. If you’re not happy, it’s obviously even more important. The good news is...
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‘I Got Laid Off and Now the Company Wants Me Back (at a Discount)’
Layoffs are a lot like breakups, especially in the aftermath. You might find yourself nursing your pride, on top of your heartbreak. You might even fantasize about your ex crawling back to you. It does...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: 10 Signs You Have the Wrong Job
shironosov/Getty Images There’s no such thing as a perfect job, and everyone has bad days at work. Knowing that, how do you decide when to tough it out … and when to quit? Today’s lead story looks at...
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Why You Only Got a 3 Percent Raise Last Year
TaxCredits.net/Flickr More employers are concerned about employee retention this year, but you wouldn’t it know it from raises: PayScale’s annual Compensation Best Practices Report shows that while 84...
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10 Abraham Lincoln Quotes to Inspire You at Work
Pexels Political consensus is hard to come by these days — which is a big reason why it’s a bad idea to talk about politics at work. But there’s one point on which historians, at least, seem to agree:...
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Why Did Amazon Just Lay Off Hundreds of Workers?
Courtesy of Amazon Amazon is growing. Last year, the tech giant announced that it would hire 100,000 workers during 2017 and the first half of 2018. The company’s second headquarters alone will be home...
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Office Romance: 7 Rules for Dating Your Coworker
Sharon McCutcheon/Unsplash Office romance is at a 10-year low, according to CareerBuilder’s Annual Valentine’s Day Survey. Conducted by Harris Poll, the survey shows that 36 percent of respondents have...
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Will You Get a Bonus This Year? Here’s What Our Research Says
Increasingly, employers are relying on variable pay, including bonuses, to hire and retain the best workers. Data collected for PayScale’s 2018 Compensation Best Practices Report show that 71 percent...
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Long Maternity Leaves Can Be Career Killers. Here’s How to Fix That.
London Scout/Unsplash The gender pay gap is worse for mothers than it is for childless women. In the United States, where companies are not required to offer paid maternity leave, the motherhood...
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3 Reasons You Should Ask for Your Total Compensation Statement
Rawpixel.com Do you get a total compensation statement from your employer? If not, you might want to ask. Depending on your company’s level of pay transparency, these total compensation statements can...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: 5 Career Lessons From Dogs
Kat Smith/Pexels One of the many joys of working from home is spending time with your fur-people. They’re pretty much the best coworkers you could ask for — your human colleagues certainly aren’t going...
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10 Inspirational Quotes From U.S. Presidents
Jacob Creswick/Unsplash No matter what we tell our kids, the odds of becoming president of the United States are slim – 1 in 10 million, according to one estimate. But you don’t need to have your...
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Choosing References? Avoid These 5 Mistakes
Rawpixel.com Most employers will ask for references during the job search process. Have your list ready to go on day one, and you won’t have to fumble around making last-minute requests. What makes a...
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‘The Quickest I’ve Ever Noped Out of a Job’: 10 Quitting Stories
Kev Seto/Unsplash Even if your job interview skills are beyond compare, you never really know what it will be like to work at a company until you’re on the job. Maybe the hiring manager is the only...
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Bahamas Resort Seeks Chief Flamingo Officer
Pixabay/Pexels Do you love flamingos, have a degree in zoology or a related field, experience working with exotic birds — and a desire to live in the Bahamas? If so, Baha Mar has a job for you. The...
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Want to Work From Home? Live in One of These 10 States
Caitlyn Hastings/Unsplash Almost 95 percent of work-from-home jobs have location requirements, according to FlexJobs, a job search site specializing in remote, part-time and contract jobs. If that...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: Forget Work-Life Balance. Focus on This.
John Salvino/Unsplash Work-life balance seems like an admirable concept to organize your life around … except that it’s often impossible. Worse yet, it can become a cudgel to beat yourself with. If...
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Is This the Best Job at the Olympics?
JD Hancock/Unsplash Getting to the Olympics is expensive, whether you’re a professional athlete ($35,000-plus per year to train for figure skating, among the priciest sports) or a spectator (upwards of...
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Don’t Lie on Your Resume. Try These 3 Tricks Instead.
Lukas/Pexels Why shouldn’t you lie on your resume? For one thing, you’re likely to get caught. In one CareerBuilder survey, 72 percent of employers said that they performed background checks on job...
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