It can be tempting to make yourself look better than you are on your resume or on a job application. In fact, there are websites (and no, I’m not going to tell you which ones) that will even provide fake professional references. So what is the risk of
Dear Evil HR Lady, The company I work for is going through an outsourcing, and a few people were let go. There is a possibility that more will be let go. I would like to start my own business, and I am very due for a career change
Maybe the best thing you can do for the earth is to send everyone home–to work. To continue reading click here: It’s Earth Day. Yawn.
Dear Evil HR Lady, In May I resigned from a job that I had held for nine years to take a new position at a small, private company. I wanted to finally work in the area where I have a Master’s Degree, and this new job was going
Amy M. lives in Utah, which is pretty far from Boston. Still, the events of Monday’s bombing shook her deeply. It “was just a really hard day emotionally for me,” she explains. If you were Amy M.’s boss, would you have expected that a tragedy across the continent
Dear Evil HR Lady, I am a marketing manager for three small companies, all owned by the same man. It was originally one company which went bankrupt, so he split it into three separate businesses. The problem is I feel they try to prove that I am dumb and
If you invest $40,000, $50,000 or even twice that, plus 4 to 5 years of your time, into a college degree, people say, “good job!” In fact, everyone from the president on down encourages people to do that. The theory is that this will prepare you for a
Dear Evil HR Lady, Being a office worker all of my life, sitting in a desk setting has not been real good for the figure, but has never prevented me from working longer hours and giving 200 percent compared to some of my thin, lazy co workers.
When you started your business, you did it because you had a great idea. Or at least, you had a better idea than other people, and you thought you could make a reasonable living at it. You didn’t do it so you could monitor the love lives of
Dear Evil HR Lady, I work at a private university, and I enjoy my job 100 percent. The reason I’m writing, though, is that our office has undergone some hard times recently. In the past two years we have had 13 employees leave (mostly due to their pay
