It doesn’t really matter what type of role you’re looking for. Successful job applicants generally have these personality traits. 4 minute ReadIf you want to land that job, no matter your industry or career stage, you’ll need to convey certain standout qualities.
We've all had to deal with passive aggressiveness at some point. A boss raises a dismissive eyebrow when you speak, or a friend boxes you out of the conversation at a group brunch. But the lines are often blurred.
As life and work resume following the Great Resignation, many employees are expressly working to do the bare minimum, a.k.a. "quiet quitting." But while some want to go on record for working in cruise control, companies such as Google are working to hire those who work in overdrive.
The ploys are getting increasingly desperate.
A 19-year-old defeated Magnus Carlsen, often described as the best chess player who ever lived. Chaos followed.
Of the more than 200,000 respondents on the platform, a whopping 48% said they had witnessed a colleague being quiet fired. To be clear, quiet firing is different from the popular “quiet quitting” trend you may have heard about on social media.
Greg Wilson spent much of autumn 2021 peering out from behind his laptop as his wife and their three small children headed off to the zoo or a playground near their St. Louis home, returning hours later, bubbly and smiling. “I kept getting jealous,” says the 43-year-old.
Think about what your questions say about you as an applicant. 3 minute ReadAt the end of most interviews, hiring managers ask candidates, “Do you have any questions for me?” This is the time to find out what it’s like to work for the company.
Although remote work has become a standard option for most professionals since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, a different flexible work model is also gaining traction: work-from-anywhere jobs.
For a while, way back in 2021, it looked as if nothing could go wrong for professional workers. An unprecedented hiring frenzy gave millions of Americans a chance to ditch their jobs for better ones.
Ask just about any motivational speaker or career expert. Or ask Steve Jobs: As the Apple co-founder once said, "You've got to find what you love. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking." Most people believe passion comes first.
Recently we asked more than 100 senior executive women from around the world to tell us at what stage in their careers they faced the most gender bias or discrimination. Half told us mid-career — that is, roughly their mid-30s to late 40s.
You only get less than 7.5 seconds to grab a hiring manager's attention when they read your resume for the first time.
As a manager, helping your direct reports achieve their career goals is part of your job. But what do you do if they aren’t sure what those goals are? First, tell the person that it’s OK — and sometimes even preferable — not to have a concrete career path in mind.
Kimberly Brown helps women and people of color to be seen in the workplace, make more money, and become leaders. Have a question for her? Email yournextmove@nymag.com. It’s often said that women only apply for positions where they are close to 100 percent qualified.
Instead, Chelsea says that potential applicants should reach out to hiring managers directly, and in the video, she explains how to do so. To summarize, she says that an applicant should update their LinkedIn profile with everything on their resume.
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Highlighting what you can do (instead of just what you have done) can go a long way, says this résumé expert.
This meeting should have been an email. That email should have been a Slack message. That Slack message should have been an in-person discussion or video call. How we communicate and the method we choose can make all the difference to the outcome.
As a hiring manager, you want to bring on the “best” person for a job (whatever that means for the given role), but how do you know who’s right? It’s a simple question with no easy answer and high downside risk.
A job interview is arguably the most important part of the hiring process, as it can make or break your ability to snag the role. But there are a few deal breakers hiring managers want candidates to know.
Paying people based on where they live never made a ton of sense, but it's the way salaries have always worked. You could do the same job with the same qualifications — but if you lived in Dallas or Minneapolis or St.
Advice for workers on how to save, transfer and delete their data on company issued laptops and mobile devices before leaving a job.
When professionals reinvent themselves, they often feel they have to start from scratch and that their previous connections and experience don’t count in their new realm. Your skills and your network are probably more transferable than you think.
Eight months into 2022, the Great Resignation, also known as the Big Quit, remains a trend for professionals seeking new work opportunities or leaving the workforce altogether. Despite recession concerns, a whopping 4.