Scrolling through Facebook, I saw someone complaining about a sketchy landlord. Resolving the issue would require a trip to court. The poster had no idea how to begin, and someone made a brilliant suggestion: Contact your Employee Assistance Program (EAP). I was cheering–this is a resource that many
Due to too much negativity in this world, I am changing this blog to Angel HR Lady. From now on, only positive stories about HR! No complaints about employees, coworkers, bosses, managers, unions, children, paychecks, payroll, cooking fish in the microwave, drug testing, fingerprinting, recruiting, ghosting, FMLA, FLSA,
Job hunting is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad thing. Even in Australia. Lately, I’ve been hearing people be angry with companies for not hiring them after being dragged through multiple rounds of interviews. I’m a big fan of shortening the interview process, but you should know
I’ll tell you the truth: I’m tired of cultural fit. It seems to have evolved into this “let’s get around discrimination laws” thing. Yeah, I know some of it is valid. If everyone else in the company adores working in the office, hiring someone who hates the office
Saw this today in Reddit’s antiwork subreddit. if I was 5 minutes late to an interview it would ruin my chance of getting the job. but if an interviewer is 5 minutes late I’m suppose to be okay? Today it happened again where an interviewer was 5 minutes
Switzerland is famously–and infamously–neutral. During WWII they happily made money of the Axis and Allied countries. Plenty of people didn’t like Switzerland taking Nazi gold, but they held fast to their neutrality. This doesn’t mean they trusted their German neighbors during WWII. They were very concerned about the
My goal in running Evil HR Lady for the past (gulp) 16 years has been to make the workplace better! And if your workplace isn’t getting better, I want to make your life better by finding you a new job! So, in partnership with Rec Tech Media and
I was offered a Vice-President of Marketing role, and they want me to start in two weeks. My current supervisor doesn’t want me to go and wants to push the transition period as far out as possible. The new job pays what I’m worth. How can I accommodate
Offspring #2 was born in May, which was the perfect time to have a baby. I took my maternity leave over the summer. Walks every day, parks, the whole nine yards. It was glorious. To get to that point, I had to go through a pregnancy with a
I’ve learned by helping people with their resumes that everyone is convinced that other people write their resumes in 15 minutes and they are perfect. They feel like something is wrong with them because they struggle with resume writing. Here’s a secret: Writing your own resume is hard.
