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What to Do When You Don’t Win at Work
If you like watching award shows, you know they’re about more than acceptance speeches and upsets, or even red-carpet fashion. While we love to see our favorites win an Emmy or an Oscar, it’s also...
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Thinking About Grad School? These 5 Degrees Will Make You the Most Money
There are many reasons to pursue higher education at any level, and money is only one of them. However, let’s be real: most people do not come from money, and can’t finance their education with...
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5 Seasonal Jobs That Aren’t Retail Elf
When you think of seasonal jobs, very specific types of gigs probably spring to mind. Most likely, you’re picturing retail jobs, with a special focus on the kind that require you to wear elf ears and...
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Dreadlock Bans: Now Legal, Still Racist
It’s now legal to refuse to hire someone based on the fact that they wear dreadlocks, according to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Image Credit: wocintechchat.com/Flickr The court recently...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: Are You an Adult?
Even if you’d rather delete your account than use the hashtag #adulting, you have to admit that being a grownup is sometimes a challenge. Of course, grownup qualities like accountability and...
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Fight for $15 to Protest at Presidential Debate
At least 1,500 fast food workers are expected to walk off the job tonight to protest outside the presidential debate at Hofstra University, in Hempstead, L.I. The protest is part of labor group Fight...
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Let Hillary Clinton Show You How to Deal With Men Who Interrupt
What’s the biggest problem facing women in the workplace today? There are plenty of options, from lack of paid parental leave, to the gender pay gap, to the fact that women are less likely to hold...
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Jobvite Report: 86 Percent of Recruiters Anticipate No Layoffs at Their...
Jobvite’s annual Recruiter Nation Report is out, and the results are promising for workers, including ones who are hoping to stay put in 2017. In fact, 86 percent of recruiters surveyed said that they...
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Could the Gig Economy Collapse?
Depending on whom you ask, the gig economy either liberates workers from the restraints of full-time, exclusive employment, allowing them to make money whenever and wherever — or creates a system of...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: How to Read People Like an FBI Agent
In business, as in life, it’s useful to know when someone is being less-than-truthful with you. Unfortunately, most of us don’t have counterintelligence training aimed at helping us spot spies and...
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The One Bachelor’s Degree That Pays More Than an MBA (for Now)
You don’t necessarily need an MBA or a PhD to get a high-paying job, but the job outlook for this bachelor’s degree also shows why it’s a bad idea to pick a career based on cash alone. PayScale’s...
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#MondayMotivation: 3 Halloween-Inspired Tricks to Boost Productivity
In the litany of small-talk complaints, the fact that the holidays start earlier every year is right up there with the weather and traffic. But, there’s one holiday that most agree can’t start early...
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5 Jobs for Night Owls
When Ben Franklin said, “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,” he hadn’t conducted his experiments with electricity yet. If he had, he might’ve started pondering...
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5 Dumb Email Mistakes Everyone Makes (and How to Stop Making Them)
Email has been with us for well over 40 years, and in common professional use for more than 20 — but you’d never know it, if you went by how often most of us screw up while using it.… The post 5 Dumb...
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ADP: Private Sector Adds Fewest Jobs in 5 Months
Prior to this morning’s release of the monthly ADP National Employment Report, economists polled by Reuters were predicting the addition of 166,000 jobs to private payrolls in September. The actual...
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Jobs Report: 156,000 Jobs Added in September; Unemployment Ticks Up to 5 Percent
Prior to this morning’s release from the Labor Department, economists polled by Reuters were expecting the addition of 175,000 jobs to nonfarm payrolls. Instead, the monthly Employment Situation...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: How to Get Stuff Done on a Friday
How often do you wind up working on the weekend? If you’re an office worker with a regular 9-to-5, the answer should ideally be, “Rarely or not at all.” Image Credit: JD Hancock/Flickr In reality,...
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To Be Heard at Work, Get Your Own Martha Raddatz and Anderson Cooper
Last night’s debate wasn’t quite the interruption-fest that we saw at the first presidential debate, but it still felt familiar to anyone who’s ever been repeatedly talked over in a meeting — in other...
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Vault.com’s 10 Most Prestigious Internships of 2017: Google, Apple, and More
What do you look for in an internship? If you’re being strategic, probably a combination of skills development, networking potential, and prestige. The whole point of internships is to get your foot in...
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3 Ways to Celebrate Ada Lovelace Day (and Change the World)
She’s been called the first computer programmer for describing how codes could be used in conjunction with Charles Babbage’s analytical engine, but for over a century, Ada Lovelace was nearly...
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