According to the American Psychological Association, nearly a third of American workers believe they are underpaid and suffer heightened amounts of stress due to what they perceive to be an inadequate salary. As more jobs become available and the hiring economy slowly improves, this provides many U.S. workers with the ability to look elsewhere for…
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11 Ways to Deal with a Difficult Boss
I love my job, I enjoy working with my colleagues, and I love everything about my work but there’s one thing that’s giving me a terrible headache almost everyday – dealing with my difficult boss. I believe I am not the only person who experiences this – most working professionals have encountered the same and you…
Lloyd Blankfein walks into your interview and asks “If you were shrunk to the size of a pencil and put in a blender, how would you get out?”. Clearly the real questions here is “Why the hell did I apply for a job at Goldman Sachs?”. Anywho, it appears intelligence is the first quality employers…
Search through millions of job board postings and classified ads? Check. Update your resume? Check. Fill out the online application? Check. Hit ‘submit’ and send your resume out into cyber space? Check. Hear back from your dream job? Nope. What happened?! We can only go through the above sequence so many times before we totally lose…
There’s no getting around it – Millennials are taking over the world. Okay, maybe not the world, but their presence is definitely being felt in the workforce. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly 80 million young adults born between 1976 and 2001 make up Gen Y, and as of this year will…