Everyone dreams of a workplace where they spend their days having fun and where they made to feel like members of a tight knit family. Reality is often more complicated, and full of potential landmines, for those not able to read between the lines. Part III of our series on
Toxic managers are not only bad for your health but they also hurt the bottom line. According to a 2016 Michigan State University study, workplace hostility costs companies an estimated $14,000 per employee due to lost productivity. If that’s not bad enough, many employees pay a price in terms of
In the previous blog, we discussed how you can use job descriptions to your advantage. The job description often provides a glimpse of the corporate culture you will encounter if you know how to read between the lines. This week’s blog provides two more examples to strengthen your ability to
In our new series, we will demystify various phrases in the job descriptions and teach you how to clarify them during interviews.
As you may know from reading our blogs, mentors can have a huge impact on your career development. There are those who claim that women make better mentors and men make better sponsors. Like most generalizations, I don’t know if that is 100% true. I do know that the majority
Despite the prevalence of age-related stereotypes in our society, we are lucky that there are currently four generations of women – Baby boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and Generation Z – all working side by side. It’s important to remember that the workplace has changed immensely over the past few decades.