I am quite confident in saying I am an HR expert. I am also quite confident in saying that I don’t know everything about HR. These two things are not contradictions. Anyone who claims to know everything about any specialty as broad as HR doesn’t know enough to
I had the chance to appear with Peter List, editor of Union Labor News, to talk about work. I’m not a labor expert as Peter is, but we had a good conversation anyway! Click here to listen or download on your favorite podcast app. Or your least favorite
In the US, you should not include your own picture on your resume or application. We like to pretend no one will discriminate based on race, gender, weight, or bad dye job, if we don’t have pictures on our resumes. Then we all put links to our LinkedIn
I’ve been at this company for three years. I’ve never been a great employee, but I did my work and it was fine. Then I got a new boss who really pushed me. I admit, I reacted poorly and started doing things like coming in late. Still, I
It’s been many years since I have had interns, so I said yes when the opportunity popped up. Meet the summer interns: This is Havana. She’s 14 months old and loves climbing and wet food. She hides whenever one of the supervisors comes by, but you can lure
I have been with my company for 25 years. I LOVED my job until about 18 months ago as the Division I worked for was sold. My job duties started to decrease, and I could no longer fill my day. I told my boss this in my review
When we talk about labor shortages, we should be honest: there aren’t shortages in all areas. It can be challenging to find jobs in a lot of fields. But the one thing that is consistent just about anywhere is that employers are desperate for entry-level employees for service
We had a conference that required us to work weekends. I worked two weekends in a row, plus the week. So, I worked 19 days straight when it usually would be 15. (3 weeks, plus two weekends.) My boss said I could take four comp days, but they
I’m a W-2 employee on salary, and I’m exempt. I have two weeks of PTO. Can my boss do the following? 1) not give me a bare minimum of 2-3 days of paid sick leave 2) not allow me to make up time that I take to go
I stumbled upon this post on LinkedIn. I strongly disagree with the concept that it’s a mistake to ask about salary at the beginning. It doesn’t matter what the business’s mission is, how flexible they are, or if it would allow me to simply sit in a leather
