Go ahead, ask. Just take this advice from negotiation experts first. Good. You probably should. Chances are, your boss isn’t going to walk up to you, throw her hand on your shoulder and say: “Hey, we have some extra cash. What do you say to a 5 percent – actually, let’s make it 7 percent – raise?” You’ve got…
DetailsThe saying, “people don’t leave jobs, they leave managers” is all too often true in the workforce. Having a bad boss or manager may seem like the end of the world- or job- to a hard working employee. They have the potential to hurt your career, whether they fail to provide feedback, give you unfair…
DetailsYou’ve no doubt interviewed a few odd ducks in your day. But of the job-seekers you’ve met and things you’ve seen, does any one of them top anything on this list? The survey masters at CareerBuilder have done it again. They’ve come up with another must-see list of crazy oddities HR and hiring managers have experienced.…
Details‘Pro-LGBT individuals tend to be more creative than anti-LGBT individuals.’ The news from a recent study shows that businesses come up with more ideas when they anti-discrimination policies in place. ‘In our research we examine the effect of US state-level ENDAs (state-level employment nondiscrimination acts) on innovation,’ researchers Huasheng Gao and Wei Zhang write in…
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