7 Resume Mistakes You’re Probably Making (and How to Fix Them)
When it comes to resume mistakes, everyone knows the big ones: don’t make typos, don’t use an unprofessional email address and don’t include irrelevant information like your hobbies, age or marital...
View ArticleADP: Private Payrolls Added 213,000 Jobs in January
Rawpixel/Pexels According to the ADP National Employment Report, employers added 213,000 private-sector jobs from December to January, beating expectations. Prior the release of the monthly report from...
View ArticleHow to Leave Your Job Without Burning Your Bridges
The latest report from the Labor Department shows that slightly fewer people quit their job toward the end of 2018 than a few months earlier. But unemployment is 3.9 percent — a sign of a good market...
View ArticleJobs Report: Payrolls Added 304,000 Jobs in January
brownpau/Flickr Employers added 304,000 jobs last month, according to the monthly Employment Situation Summary from the Labor Department. Unemployment ticked up to 4 percent, in part due to government...
View ArticleHow to Get a Work-From-Home Job
SolStock/Getty Images According to recent Census data, about 8 million Americans currently work from home. Want to join them? The good news is that more employers are getting on board with remote work,...
View ArticleIf Your Employer Has One of These 12 Company Policies, Find a New Job
Why do employers need company policies in the first place? Because people have very different ideas about professional behavior and workplace etiquette. To make things run smoothly — and fairly — there...
View ArticleHow to Fall in Love With Your Job Again
Pixabay/Pexels Very few people stay with the same employer for their entire career. In fact, the median employee tenure is 4.2 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Still, you can’t...
View Article5 Productivity Hacks to Beat the Winter Blues
Simon Migaj/Pexels Do you feel down during the winter months — less energetic, moodier, plagued by poor concentration and sluggishness? You might be dealing with seasonal affective disorder or the...
View Article5 Obstacles to Work-Life Balance and How to Beat Them
What is work-life balance? The short answer is that it depends on who’s defining the terms. For an entrepreneur, work-life balance might mean enough time to work on all their ideas and still grab food...
View ArticleADP: Private Payrolls Added 183,000 Jobs in February
Rawpixel/Unsplash Hiring in the private sector slowed to a three-month low in February, according to this morning’s jobs report from the ADP Research Institute. The monthly ADP National Employment...
View ArticleWhy Your Employer Should Want Gender Parity in Leadership
The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is #BalanceforBetter, “a call-to-action for driving gender balance across the world.” The goal of the campaign, which will run all year round, is to...
View ArticleJobs Report Disappoints: Payrolls Added Only 20,000 Jobs in February
brownpau/Flickr Employers added 20,000 jobs to public and private non-farm payrolls last month, according to this morning’s report from the Labor Department. The tally was the lowest since 2017, and...
View ArticleDaylight Saving Time Could Be Hazardous to Your Productivity
Pexels It’s not your imagination: you probably are getting less done today. Blame Daylight Saving Time, the practice of setting clocks forward one hour in the spring. Long associated with an annual...
View ArticleTrump Administration Proposes New Overtime Rules
Death to the Stock Photo Last week, the Trump administration proposed new rules raising the salary ceiling for workers entitled to overtime pay. Currently, workers are entitled to earn overtime if they...
View ArticleHow to Make Yourself Lucky
Everyone knows someone who just seems to attract good fortune. They get the shiny new job that’s just the tiniest bit of a stretch for their skillset, or the promotion that no one else on the team even...
View ArticleU.S. Women’s National Soccer Team Sues for Equal Pay
mel-nik/Getty Images Earlier this month, players on the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation, saying that they earn less than players on the men’s team...
View Article7 Ways to Spot a Bad Company Culture During the Job Interview
alvarez/Getty Images One person’s dream job is another’s nightmare. Often, it comes down to culture fit. Company culture could be described as the identity of the organization – its personality. As a...
View Article3 Office April Fools’ Day Pranks That Got People Fired
You spend a lot of time with your coworkers. If you’re lucky, some of them may even become friends. But even if work comes to feel like a second home, it’s not a good idea to get too comfy. Some things...
View ArticleJobs Report: Payrolls Added 196,000 Jobs in March
brownpau/Flickr Hiring rebounded last month as employers added 196,000 jobs to non-farm payrolls, according to the Employment Situation Summary from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The report beat...
View ArticleThe PayScale Index Shows Soft Wages Despite a Strong Economy
The PayScale Index, which measures the change in wages for employed U.S. workers, recently updated for Q1 2019. Nominal wages increased only 0.4 percent during the first quarter and 0.6 percent year...
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