The first is from Employment Attorney, Donna Ballman: 13 Things Every Teen Needs To Know About Workplace Rights And the second is from Employment Attorney, Robin E. Shea: Employees: Better think twice before suing your employer (four reasons why) Read them. They are both brilliant and important.
Job-hunters will try anything, including Twitter. But despite the odd success story of someone using the micro-blogging site to find work, for many people it still seems like a strange and unintuitive approach. After all, how to write something no longer than 140 characters that makes someone want
Dear Evil HR Lady, I run a small business with around 45 employees. I’m in the restaurant/retail/convenience store industry. We are looking to keep expanding the food end of our business with more restaurants. From what I have been reading my company is supposedly right in the sweet
Dear Evil HR Lady, Our company just hit us with the news that we are being outsourced as of the end of this month. With that we received an offer letter from our new potential employer, and boy, oh, boy is it not attractive. I was told that
Dear Evil HR Lady, I’m writing because I don’t know how to handle my entitled, know-it-all, gets-away-with-murder coworker. I work in a small office of four people, and I’ve been the HR assistant (doing generalist work) for five years now. The payroll coordinator thinks that, because she has
Job hunting is a difficult task, but if you’re not naturally inclined towards organization, it can make it all the more complicated. Fortunately, organizational experts exist and can help. I spoke with Deanne Kelleher, founder and president of kAos Group, a firm which specializes in organizing everything. Kelleher says
It’s Monday morning–early. Soon, my Facebook feed will start to fill up with “I hate Monday!” and “Looks like Monday snuck up on us again!” posts. To which I respond, “Fools! I love Mondays!” Maybe my reaction is not typical, but here’s why I love Mondays. To keep
Note: This article that I’ll link below goes to a brand new website: Wise Careers. It’s sponsored by Western Governors University, which I think is about the coolest idea ever. (And they didn’t even ask me to say that, I just really think it is a cool concept.)
When you think of multinational corporations, certain names probably pop into your head. But, there is a completely different kind of global company: the micro-multinational. Daniel Barnett founded and runs one of these companies, WorkEtc, an all-in-one business management platform. WorkEtc’s company headquarters sit in Australia, with development teams
How many steps do you take in a day? If you’re like most Americans, the answer to that question is between around 3,000. If you want to be fit and healthy, that number needs to go up. Way up. Same goes for your employees–your most important asset. But
