Rumor has it that the demand for Silicon Valley engineers is so great that sometimes, when a company gets bought out, the new owners want to keep only the engineers–everybody else gets “laid off.” However, they also don’t want anyone to know they’ve bought the company, because they
Most small business owners don’t interview often, so sometimes a bit of technology can help you make better hiring decisions. To read the article, click here: Troubles Managing Hiring? Software That Can Help
Dear Evil HR Lady, After I graduate I’ll be getting ready to apply for jobs and preparing for interviews. If they ask about work history, do I explain that I’ve been a stay at home mom and army wife the last 6 years or will they look down
Dear Evil HR Lady, I work in a production area where the goals are intentionally set too high. (One supervisor once said, “They’re going to go up on the goal because too many people are meeting it.”) Employees who are deemed troublesome (or perhaps too expensive) are placed
The first is from Employment Attorney, Donna Ballman: 13 Things Every Teen Needs To Know About Workplace Rights And the second is from Employment Attorney, Robin E. Shea: Employees: Better think twice before suing your employer (four reasons why) Read them. They are both brilliant and important.
Job-hunters will try anything, including Twitter. But despite the odd success story of someone using the micro-blogging site to find work, for many people it still seems like a strange and unintuitive approach. After all, how to write something no longer than 140 characters that makes someone want
Dear Evil HR Lady, I run a small business with around 45 employees. I’m in the restaurant/retail/convenience store industry. We are looking to keep expanding the food end of our business with more restaurants. From what I have been reading my company is supposedly right in the sweet
Dear Evil HR Lady, Our company just hit us with the news that we are being outsourced as of the end of this month. With that we received an offer letter from our new potential employer, and boy, oh, boy is it not attractive. I was told that
Dear Evil HR Lady, I’m writing because I don’t know how to handle my entitled, know-it-all, gets-away-with-murder coworker. I work in a small office of four people, and I’ve been the HR assistant (doing generalist work) for five years now. The payroll coordinator thinks that, because she has
Job hunting is a difficult task, but if you’re not naturally inclined towards organization, it can make it all the more complicated. Fortunately, organizational experts exist and can help. I spoke with Deanne Kelleher, founder and president of kAos Group, a firm which specializes in organizing everything. Kelleher says
