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It’s well known that business tends to slow down during the summer months. Wall Street traditionally experiences slow trading days in the summer (though maybe not this year) for the simple reason that traders and brokers are all out in the Hamptons enjoying long weekends.
Perhaps you’re in an office where the bosses are starting to […]

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Just a quick note before I get the comments: there’s no Obama or Hillary bias intended here. I’ve not been a supporter of either candidate.
1) Experience is not always a trump card. There are times when all the experience in the world is not what people are looking for. Because…
2) Sometimes people are looking for […]

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Great post on the perils of working from home over at Snakes and Ladders: 7 Reasons For NOT Working From Home.
I know, I know. People hate it when I tell them that working from home is not what it’s cracked up to be. It’s like movie stars saying it sucks to be rich and famous.
For […]

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1) The Administrative Assistant-
On the one hand, the administrative assistants and secretaries keep the world turning. They route the communications, schedule the workday, make the meetings happen, facilitate the introductions and most importantly, manage your manager. You always want to be deferential to their power to keep you in the loop.
But it is their relationship […]

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digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/educational/The_First_Thing_To_Do_When_You_Get_Laid_Off_Claim_Your_Inte’;We all know that when you’re fired or laid off from a job, you can’t take it all with you.
You’ve got your pictures and the tschotskies you have on your desk, and that’s about it. Your memos, your business practices, even the very files on your computer might belong to the company […]

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I offer up this post, not as an endorsement of kissing butt, but as an informational essay.
Let’s face it… we all have negative feelings about ass kissers. And yet, we all know that, as a strategy for getting ahead in life, kissing butt can’t be beat. People wouldn’t do it if it didn’t work.
I’m in […]

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Via SavvySugar, we learn that New Jersey might become the third state in the union to make paid lead a right for those workers who have a new baby or need to take care of a sick relative.
Workers taking leave would be eligible for two-thirds their salary maxing out at $524 per week for six […]

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This is another post prompted by an Ask Brian question I got via email that was too narrow to post here, but got me thinking along these lines.
A lot of people toil away in their jobs, doing good work, working hard… only to see lesser, stupider people jump ahead of them on the career ladder.
If […]

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WiseBread has an interesting post up outlining 5 ways you can save money by taking advantage of office resources.
Now, we all know it’s not a good idea to steal pens from work or make copies for your kid’s science project on office machines. At least too much.
Right? We’ve all done it to some extent. Taken […]

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digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/educational/40_Things_I_Wish_I_Knew_When_I_Started_My_Career’;A conversation with some friends this weekend led to this list forming in my head. Feel free to add your own in the comments. If I like them, I’ll add them to the list.

The career you think you’re going to have? This is not the career you’re going to end up with. The […]

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