What To Do When You’re Overworked at Job?
Earlier this year, The HR Digest posted an insightful article on burned out and overworked nonprofit workers. With the article came accolades of appreciation, gratificati...
How To Deal With An Overly Talkative Coworker?
I work with a loud and obnoxiously talkative coworker. Everyone finds her amiable, and I think I might be the only one who finds her talkative and a distraction. Mind you...
Should I Promote The Loyal, Experienced Employee OR Fresh Talent?
If you have been a part of the casual conversations that take place between the managers of your company, you would have noticed that there is a common issue which almost...
Illegal Interview Questions You Don’t Want to Ask During a Job Interview
According to a 2015 study from CareerBuilder, 20 percent of hiring managers and recruiters have asked illegal interview questions in a job interview, only to find out lat...
Do You Have A Major Hiring Problem? Here Are Top Hiring Tips From The Pros!
Over the past month, I’ve traveled from my base in the United States to Canada, Kobe and now the United Kingdom to guide companies on how to remedy any gaps in their hi...
3 Highly Effective Ways To Deal With A Chronic Complainer At Work
My coworker in the next cube over is a classic case of a chronic complainer at the workplace. I used to be friends but over the years I have distanced myself from him bec...
Research Suggests Corporate Sabbaticals May Be Good For Business
Sabbaticals are a gratifying way employers can address employee burnout and manage stress and staff turnover. The average American workers work 44 hours a week and over 4...
Massachusetts Wants Employers To Accommodate Use of Medical Marijuana In The Workplace
There are now 29 states with laws that legalize use of medical marijuana. Eight of those states – Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, Washington State, Maine, California, Nevada,...
Tricks Employers Use To Pay Less Salary
Bosses continue to actively and deceptively trick employees, paycheck after paycheck, to pay less salary. Companies such as Walmart and McDonald’s have been caught syst...
3 Signs You’re Educated But Not Very Smart
“Stupid is as stupid does.” This line appears in Forest Gump, and is a variant of “Handsome is as handsome does” in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. The pr...
Can You Get Fired For No Reason At All?
Yes. You can get fired for no reason at all. Your employer does not need a reason to fire you. In most of the United States, employees are generally under ‘at-will’ e...
40 Questions to Ask Before You Accept A Job Offer
Congratulations! You’ve made it through the most difficult part of the job hunt. All the job applications, interview rounds, and thank-you notes have paid off! Now, it ...
6 Different Types of Compensation Plans & Benefits
Long ago, we wrote about the importance of a compensation plan in an organization. I thought we’d follow up on that post by exploring the six different types of compens...
European Employers Must Notify Job Applicants Over Social Media Screening
“It’s no secret that employers do a background and social media screening on job applicants,” the HR Director of a UK clothing and footwear retailer told me at a co...
Can You Fire Someone For Sleeping On The Job?
A few years ago, our front desk representative let a 20-something interviewee into the meeting room and advised her that the hiring manager would be there in just a minut...
Job Hopping Makes Sense Only When You’re Not Getting Paid Enough
Recession, inflation and a change in lifestyle are some of the many factors why people change jobs more often. Every single person reading this article did the same thing...
