tools and skills

You go to work every day, and find yourself totally checked out. You just can’t bring yourself to care—let alone work. Your attitude has slipped. You ...

Whether you have a New Year’s resolution to boost your network or you are gearing up for a job search, sprucing up your LinkedIn profile is a great wa...

It comes with a high price tag and time commitment, but lots of jobs seem to want a degree beyond a bachelor’s or associate’s. So, is grad school wort...

Your students are on devices all day long, constantly texting, scrolling through social media, and checking email between classes (and sometimes durin...

Are you finally ready to get your financial health in better shape? If so, then you’re thinking wisely, because it’s never too soon to start taking yo...

LinkedIn has positioned itself as end end-all social media portal for your career. It has professional development resources, helpful articles, and—mo...

When you think about what’s changed the job search more than anything else over the past 10 years or so, it’s probably the exponentially growing influ...

Outwardly, your company probably has a standard line when it comes to describing employee salaries—something along the lines of “salary commensurate w...

Which is worse: a case of the Mondays, or a case of the Summer Fridays? There’s always the coffee cure for that groggy feeling as you drag your feet t...

After a decade of economic uncertainty and high unemployment, job seekers are finding themselves in a favorable job market. As such, recruiting top ta...

First and foremost, most of us go to work to make money. Ideally, on top of that, you like what you do. On top of that, there may even be social benef...

Dealing with sometimes demanding, sometimes ornery, sometimes outright hostile customers may be the biggest challenge any retail employee must face. R...

At this point, you could probably recite employment discrimination law in your sleep. You know what you have to avoid, by law—religion, race, family s...

For many of us, there’s nothing quite as exhilarating in our professional careers as the day we get a raise. In addition to having some extra money co...

Sometimes firings or layoffs come out of the blue—you go into work one morning, thinking everything is fine, and then…blammo. Other times, you kinda k...

No matter what field you’re in, it’s likely that any given job description calls for good communication skills. At the top of this list is making sure...

If you’re part of the Baby Boomer generation, you’ve probably been around the block, career-wise. You may be retiring from your long-term career, or f...

There’s a stark truth that many of us must face in today’s work world—when it comes to our personal career development, it isn’t uncommon these days t...