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How to Transition Back to Work After Maternity Leave (Without Losing Your Mind)
Dakota Corbin/Unsplash First things first: you’re pretty lucky if you live in the U.S. and you even have a maternity leave to come back from. Only 14 percent of private-sector employees have paid leave...
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How to Deal With Difficult People at Work
Matthias Zomer/Pexels Most workplaces are collaborative environments. That’s great for creativity and often produces amazing results. But unfortunately, it also means that you have to deal with people,...
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ADP: Private Payrolls Added 219,000 Jobs in July
negativespace.co/Pexels Job gains were the highest since February last month, beating economists’ estimates and reflecting a job market fueled by tax cuts. Prior to the release of the monthly ADP...
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Natural Light Wants to Put Your Resume on a NASCAR Race Car
Nigel Kinrade NKP, Courtesy of Natural Light Are you a recent grad who’s having trouble making your resume stand out from the competition? Maybe you just need a little luck — sweepstakes-winning kind...
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Here’s Why You Might Quit Your Job Soon
Michael Rosner Hyman/Unsplash More American workers quit their jobs this May than in any previous month since 2001, according to the Labor Department. The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey is a...
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Jobs Report: Payrolls Added 157,000 Jobs in July
brownpau/Flickr Prior to the release of the monthly Employment Situation Summary, economists polled by Reuters predicted the addition of 190,000 jobs to non-farm payrolls. The actual tally for July was...
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Over 2M UK Workers Cheated Out of Vacation Time, Trade Unions Warn
Mink Mingle/Unsplash UK workers who work full-time are entitled to 28 days of paid leave per year according to law. That time includes bank holidays and is pro-rated according to how many hours workers...
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More Employers Make Summer Jobs Into Permanent Ones
Rawpixel/Unsplash As many as 15 percent of seasonal workers will become full-time staffers by the end of the summer, estimates Amy Glaser, senior vice president of Adecco Staffing. Glaser tells USA...
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5 Work-From-Home Jobs for People Without a Bachelor’s Degree
Nick Turner/Unsplash Here’s another bonus of low unemployment: companies are now willing to consider workers who have non-traditional backgrounds. (Read: lack the formal education usually listed as a...
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What Makes a Good Cover Letter? Hiring Managers and HR Pros Explain
Samuel Zeller/Unsplash What’s your least favorite part of the job application process? If you said, “writing cover letters,” you may or may not be relieved to hear that few hiring managers seem to care...
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‘How I Spend My Six-Figure Salary’
Olu Eletu/Unsplash Remember that scene in Austin Powers where Dr. Evil, unfrozen after decades, demands “ONE MILLION DOLLARS,” and the United Nations laughs? Aiming for a six-figure salary can feel a...
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Never Have a Bad Day at Work Again With These 5 Tips
Tim Gouw/Pexels What makes a bad day at work so very bad? In part, it’s a problem of perspective. Now, don’t get us wrong: we’re not saying that a positive attitude will make your bad boss into a...
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Tipped Workers More Likely to Experience Mental Health Issues
Miguel Á. Padriñán/Pexels The federal minimum wage for tipped workers is $2.13 per hour. While some states set higher minimums, many allow employers to pay lower wages to tipped employees. Tips are...
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How to Negotiate Your Starting Salary When It’s a Long Shot
Pixabay Do you negotiate your starting salary, each and every time you take a new job — even when it seems unlikely you’ll get what you’re asking for? If you answered no, you’re in good company: 57...
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NYU Makes Med School Tuition-Free, Saving Students Up to $55,018 Per Year
Pixabay/Pexels Last week, NYU School of Medicine announced free tuition for all current and future medical school students. In a press release, the school described the announcement as a surprise...
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Air Pollution Might Be Making You Bad at Your Job
Kevin Grieve/Unsplash Wildfires in California, British Columbia and Ontario blanketed most of North America in smoke this summer, affecting air quality for the entire continent. That’s especially...
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5 Salary Negotiation Mistakes That Will Keep You Underpaid
Jamie Street/Unsplash Only 43 percent of respondents to PayScale’s survey said that they’d ever negotiated salary in their current field. Why? Mostly out of fear. Among those who had never negotiated...
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How to End a Cover Letter
Rawpixel/Unsplash Cover letters are hard. Most people don’t write formal letters anymore, period. Add in the pressure of impressing a total stranger enough to land a job interview, and you’ve got a...
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The End of Background Checks? Open Hiring Gives Ex-Offenders a Chance
Pixabay/Pexels For over 30 years, Greyston Bakery in Yonkers, NY has been doing something radical during its hiring process: hiring employees without asking for their resume and without conducting the...
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7 Job Search Mistakes That Keep You From Getting Hired
Nathan Dumlao/Unsplash Unemployment is at an 18-year low, but that doesn’t mean that everyone has the job of their dreams. (Or the paycheck they deserve.) If you’re hoping to trade up for a better...
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