Shunned by employers because you’re ‘overqualified’? Sharpen your cover letter.
When you or any other applicant has a job history that scares off a prospective employer, you need to proactively address the issue in your cover letter.
How not to hire a narcissist
Workplace advice: Narcissists see the world through a lens of “me,” yet easily land new jobs and then rapidly rise through organizational ranks because they excel at selling themselves.
Taking down a character assassin in the workplace
Workplace advice: You need to learn to avoid the traps they set, how they operate and what you can do to fight back and win.
Dealing with the firing of a popular employee, close talkers and the impact of work on your home life
Workplace advice: When irritations fester, we lose our ability to raise the issue without an edge in our tone.
Alaska wildfire smoke is making me ill, but my boss won’t install an air purifier
Workplace advice: Your employer is taking a risk if he fires you for calling in sick too often.
I’m looking for a new job, but something in my past keeps getting in the way
Workplace advice: When you have a ghost haunting your employment past and you’re asked a direct question about it, you need to answer honestly.
What you need to know when a workplace bully takes you on
Workplace advice: Realize that bullies test others and if you don’t play the bully’s game, you can win.
When a bad surprise call ends up in a breach of confidentiality and threats in the workplace
Workplace advice: Every employee has the right to a safe workplace under the the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
How much paid bereavement leave should an employee expect?
Workplace advice: Bereavement and other specialized leaves evaporated in past decades as rising medical costs forced many companies to slice employees’ benefit packages.
Be proactive when confronted with workplace revenge
Worried that revenge infects your workplace? You can find out with a bit of sleuthing.
What to do when you love the job, but hate your boss
I don’t want to quit an otherwise great job, how do I handle working for a jerk? Or do I need to resign?
A new hire has turned your office dynamic into a soap opera. Here’s how to change the channel.
Workplace advice: When the line between work and personal life blurs for employees, managers need to say “enough.”