Fastest-growing U.S. job failed to lift pay for Black women
A job in home-based health care, America’s quickest-growing industry, felt like a step up the ladder for Shawanna Ferguson when…
Month: September 2020
Battling Career Fear: How to Conquer Despair, Doubt, and Defeat
Let’s just go ahead and say it: there’s nothing quite like a global pandemic to strike fear in the hearts…
Do You Need to Use Social Media to Find a Job?
Not everyone’s on Facebook—or Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and other social networking sites that seem to be where all the action…
Steps to a Successful Long-Term Remote Work Routine
When you imagined working from home, you likely thought of the many perks that come with it. You wouldn’t have…
4 ways to decompress now that your commute is gone
How to recharge while working from home.
Are Coding Bootcamps Worth It In 2020?
Four Tips for Negotiating a Flexible Work Schedule
The U.S. is potentially on the verge of a mental health crisis with nearly half of Americans reporting the coronavirus…
My co-workers won’t wear face masks and it’s stressing me out
Career Advice | New employee doesn’t want to be the mask police.
3 Managers Share Advice on Returning to the Office
The pandemic has altered how many of us communicate, engage with our teams, support clients, and think about our work….
Career Woman? Here’s How You Can Support Your Busy Life
Trying to keep all of the demands on you as a career woman can be quite a challenge. While eating…
COVID-19 wipes out an estimated 500 million jobs worldwide
The damage to labor markets from the coronavirus is proving worse than anticipated, according to the International Labour Organization.
Chronically Capable | Tips for Job Hunting While Living with Chronic Illness or Disability
Chronic illness and disability are more ubiquitous than you may realize: more than 40% of the U.S. population lives with…
Help! My boss is a conspiracy theorist
Career Advice | A surprising number of people have fallen into QAnon and other assorted sinkholes where intelligence and common…
Insights about China I Gained as an American Journalist
Why should any of us look behind the next hill, or across the border, or across the ocean, into the…
How to Harness the Power of Positive Thinking During Your Job Search
I begin most resume writing projects with a get-to-know-you phone call with a prospective client. It is during this call…
6 Ways to Get to Know New Staff When You Can't Meet in Person
Most of us are used to onboarding new staff or interns in person, whether it’s through a potluck, donuts, a…
18 Best Online Coding Schools and Bootcamps (Review)
10 Books to Read if You Feel Like Escaping 2020
With September finally here, it’s time to break out some stories that can make you feel as if you’re in…
“I Live On My Own In a 26′ Camper.”
I wake up. Not because of an alarm. Not because I successfully completed the five to six 90-minute sleep cycles…
Sixteen Tips To Make Your Life Better – TODAY
It’s been a pretty rough year, don’t you think? I surely do. There’s been unimaginable pressure on us as individuals,…
Working in sweats was fun at first, but what comes next?
Here comes “workleisure” — and fall. Goodbye, Zoom shirt; hello, Zoom sweater.
Yes, There is Life After Divorce
Life after divorce is, at times, viewed as terrifying due mostly to the unknown of what is to come. Where…
Knowing What You Want So You Can Find a Job You Love
Searching for a new job can feel like a daunting task, especially if you weren’t expecting to or have been…
Understanding Recruitment: Empowering Job Seekers for Better Interviewing
Interviewing for a new job can be an emotional and time-consuming process for many, especially in a remote world where…
Every day’s the same: How quarantine killed the weekend
The line between the weekend and the weekday has blurred.
Covid-19 Look Like 19 Pounds? Here’s How to Lose Covid Weight Gain!
It’s not just you, lots of us have struggled with putting on the “Quarantine 19”—those unwanted pounds adding on while…
What to wear to your Zoom job interview
This is definitely an occasion to break out your real clothes.
Building Your New Environmentally Conscious Business
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw an incredible change in nature. Because humans weren’t driving, the air became cleaner. Because…
How to Ask a Professor for a Letter of Recommendation
Young, scrappy and hungry … for a promotion
Career Advice | Transitioning into a first “real” job is like stepping off a moving walkway: Suddenly it takes twice…
18 Good Careers That Don’t Require College Degrees
Radical Candor at Work
Since Kim Scott’s book “Radical Candor” was published in 2017, it has become an international bestseller available in 20 languages….
Story of a Hacker: Pursuing What I Love Made Me Grow a Second Layer of Skin
I started my career in programming 13 years ago. For the past three years, I have been a full-time hacker….
My colleagues keep getting my name wrong. What should I do?
Career Advice | Go ahead, interrupt them.
Say This Instead | Words and Phrases to Stop Using
Whether at home or at work, an accessible way to start the conversation about race and racism is by considering…
A look at who is still able to work from home during the pandemic
About 13 million more Americans were back at workplaces in August than in May.
Four Tips to Grow Your Leadership Skills
What Makes a Great Leader? A great leader is someone who instills feelings of inspiration and motivation over fear and anxiety….
Laptop hunch: Working from home has been a real pain in the neck
Chiropractors report a surge in problems as millions of workers have spent months clacking away on sofas and beds and…
(Mental) Health Comes First | World Suicide Prevention Day 2020
Suicide is a leading cause of preventable death, even without a pandemic to cope with. And six months into COVID-19,…
Product Review: Airfree T800 Air Purifier
Our “normal” used to be living and working in various little boxes we called home and the office. Covid complicated…
Hiring spree: FedEx plans to add 70K workers in anticipation of record holiday shipping
The courier has already added thousands of workers to keep up with a jump in deliveries as consumers order more…
Could Your Co-worker Could Eventually Be Your New Best Friend?
As adults, our number one way for making friends is through our jobs. And yet, it’s those friendships that scare…
Store manager wants out but keeps hitting a retail hiring ‘stigma’
Career Advice | Ivanka Trump wasn’t completely wrong when she said “find something new.” She just left out the all-important…
3 Answers for “How Do You Handle Stress?”
Career Advice from a Serial Job Hopper
I’ve lived, worked, and studied across three different U.S. cities, six countries, and nine organizations, in a dizzying fourteen positions….
Still working from home due to COVID-19? Here’s how to avoid burning out
For those whose homes have become their offices, here are some tips to better separate your work and home life.
Big firms offer stressed parents new perks such as subsidized tutoring
Tech firms and other major corporations that have long offered family-friendly perks for their employees’ youngest children are adding new…
Here’s How to Build a Stable Organizational Culture
Everyone wants to build a strong organizational culture. Organizations with a strong, stable culture not only support their people, but…
Office gossip lives! (And I need to hear all about it)
Vital office chatter hasn’t stopped with the abandonment of our shared workspaces; it has simply moved to our screens.
Twelve of the Most Anticipated Books of Fall
Most will probably agree that summer 2020 has been the longest, most difficult summer ever. But now we can look…