Miami Dolphin players are reported concerned about the potential return of Jonathan Martin. And who wouldn’t be? He reportedly treated teammate Richie Incognito horribly, including leaving a foul, racist and abusive message on his voice mail. Oh wait, that’s backwards. Incognito left that on Martin’s voice mail, not the other
What would happen if job candidates treated you the way you treat them? You might be receiving letters such as this one? Dear Hiring Manager, Thank you so much for your interest in me for the position of Senior Technical Analyst for your company. Before we commence with
Nick Corcodilos, a headhunter and author of numerous books on job hunting, including his latest Fearless Job Hunting, wrote a bit of a rant in his newsletter, titled Employment In America: WTF is going on? Corcodilos writes: The emperor still has no clothes, and that’s why over 25 million Americans
Job-seekers are familiar with sites such as Monster.com, Careerbuilder or LinkedIn as places to look for work online. But have you tried Twitter? Gozaik, a startup that uses the social network to link employers, recruiters and job hunters, is touting Twitter as a way to energize your job
Talk show host Sean Hannity called the Affordable Care Act hotline a couple weeks ago and put employee Earline Davis on the air. Soon afterwards, Davis was fired. She said she was unaware of the rule against speaking with the media. Feeling badly about the outcome, Hannity then gifted
Want to be successful? A thought leader? Well-liked by your peers and trusted by your leadership? Try apologizing. A new study by Alison Brooks (Harvard), Hengchen Dai (University of Pennsylvania), and Maurice E. Schweitzer (University of Pennsylvania), showed that people were much more likely to lend a stranger their
Many people dread Mondays, but if you’re a job seeker you should be looking forward to them. Why? According to a study by Bright.com, people who apply for a job on a Monday have a 30 percent chance of advancing to the next round, compared with 14 percent of
Very few people wake up in the morning and say, “I sure can’t wait to break the law by discriminating against people on the basis of their religion!” But do you want a woman in a full burka , with everything but her eyes covered, sitting at your
A new study by Staples tells us that 90 percent of the American workforce admits to coming into work when they are not only feeling under the weather, but know they are contagious. Contagious people in the office mean, of course, that more germs are being spread around,
Conde Nast, who publishes Vogue, The New Yorker, Golf Digest, Glamour and numerous other famous named magazines announced that they are ending their internship program in 2014. This follows a lawsuit in which two interns claim that they were paid below minimum wage during their internships, in violation of
