One reason job-hunting is so stressful is that it requires speaking with new people. Having a purposeful, but pleasant, conversation with a hiring manager, recruiter or HR person is tricky, especially given the added tension of asking — sometimes begging — for a job. Add to that the
Some CEOs have all the luck–but should they also have all the money? Saint Louis-based carpenter Scott Bujnak led his own quiet protest against executive pay recently. He quit his job of 18 years. As a maintenance man for St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Bujnak specialized in saving money his company money by
I had discussions with my boss a few months before my review about getting a raise because they gave me an entry-level wage with the promise of raises. He told me I had to wait until my review to be fair to other employees in the company (supposedly
Have you ever arrived at work and realized you don’t remember driving there? It’s kind of a weird feeling, but your consciousness was somewhere else while your subconscious did all the work of traveling, turning, merging and parking. You can do this because your commute is so ingrained
You may have taken one of those career analysis tests in high school — you remember, the one that indicated you’d be happy in accounting, or perhaps as a forest ranger. When you applied for a job, you may also have taken a personality assessment that asked how
Employers using social media to help find job candidates (or job seekers using it to search for open positions) is all the rage these days. But with this rising use of social media, you need to be aware that, like it or not, employers and potential employers can
What you want in an intern is someone who’s interested in learning your business (and the world of business) and who will, in turn, help your company. And even though you can surely find high-quality interns who are willing to work for free, that’s becoming increasingly rare. With high-profile
I’m a salesperson, working on a small salary and commissions. The company has just 8 people, with the office manager doing payroll for all. When I have good months, I make more than everyone. There have been times the office manager will make mistakes on my commissions and
A lot of companies want to do good in the world, and offer official social-justice platforms and the like. But the Mars Agency does more than just say it believes in helping the community–it actually does. The agency’s senior copywriter, Debbie Feit, spent a month volunteering for two charities, the Association for Children’s
High school and college students, take note: Summer job hiring has already begun and the jobs may be gone before your school lets out. Snagajob did the researchand it turns out that 74 percent of companies that plan to hire summer workers intend to have that hiring done by
