It’s a great American tradition: people dress up in their best clothing, parade in front of a judge and answer questions, hoping to sound intelligent yet totally inoffensive. A beauty pageant? No, I’m talking about a job interview. But it shouldn’t be that way. A pageant judge never sees
Dear Evil HR Lady, My mom is very sick. She is 88 and due to her condition is unable to care for herself. My siblings and I are going to each care for her in 90-day shifts. I approached my employer about [changing my schedule] under the Family
Dear Evil HR Lady, I relocated to attend school. I looked for a job for six months and finally landed one. After five months, I was released from the job (during my probationary period). Now I’m unemployed and looking for work. I have a few interviews lined up
Health care has been a critical reason people seek employment, but now it is being seen as mission critical by employers, according to Josh Stevens, CEO of Keas, an employee health and wellness company. They released an HR executive survey about the coming open enrollment season, where employees have
Dear Evil HR Lady, I started a new job about two months ago after a very long period of work instability and unemployment. I spent many hours preparing and studying for how to be successful in a new job and walked into this new situation with a very
Dear Evil HR Lady, Any thoughts about how to convince a Millennial to stay in a perfectly good job? My sister is 25, and she has a really “awesome” pattern of employment — get a job, stick around long enough to get insurance and quit. I think that
AOL just fired several hundred employees. According to Business Insider, here’s how it went down: 1. Patch employees were assigned to one of two rooms 2. Employees in room A were all terminated 3. Employees in room B were told they were being retained A few days earlier, CEO
Every time I hear or see an overly controlling policy change I can guarantee there is a problem employee that the boss won’t confront/discipline/fire directly. Instead, a blanket policy goes out to try to and change the behavior of the errant employee. Does this ever work? Seriously, if
You’ll hear people talk about the high cost of turnover, but when you try to press for the actual costs they don’t really know. It seems like a mysterious thing that people talk about. And it’s true–the costs are largely hidden. It doesn’t hit your profit and loss
It’s a great American tradition: people dress up in their best clothing, parade in front of a judge and answer questions, hoping to sound intelligent yet totally inoffensive. A beauty pageant? No, I’m talking about a job interview. But it shouldn’t be that way. A pageant judge never sees
