If you’re anything like most people, your day is filled with various tasks that need to get done. Or, more accurately, your brain is filled with tasks that you think need to get done. But there’s only so much time in the day, and you only have so much energy. That’s where the four Ds
If you’ve ever had the misfortune of taking a driving course (so many hours of drudgery), you may have heard the phrase, “Don’t be polite! Be predictable!” The idea is that when you’re driving, your goal is not to be nice to other drivers, pedestrians, or bikers. The goal is to behave in a way
If you’re like most people, you’ve been putting off updating your resume. You know you need to do it, but it just feels like a time-sucking, soul-crushing bother that you’d rather put off until you absolutely, positively have no other choice. I probably don’t need to tell you that’s a bad idea. But don’t worry:
So many people go through life unsatisfied and unfulfilled, waking up each morning to trudge to a job they hate doing work they don’t find meaningful. This happens for many reasons: because we have bills to pay. Because we don’t know what else to do. Because we have grown complacent. Because the idea of starting
It’s that time of year again: time to update your resume. If you read our post on keeping your resume updated, you know you should be updating your resume at least twice a year. But what if you haven’t been? And what if you realize you need to do it now, but you’re pressed for
Humor in the office is perhaps one of the most undervalued soft skills. The ability to make people laugh, to be vulnerable, and to lighten the mood when things have gotten a little too dark is necessary to keeping morale high in the workplace. That doesn’t mean, of course, that we need to crack jokes
Although age discrimination is illegal in the United States, it’s an open secret that it happens in the workplace. And perhaps more notably, it happens a lot during the hiring process. From companies not wanting to shell out for retirement to younger hiring managers tending to hire people who look and think like them, the
You’ve probably heard this line before: No one hires during the holidays. It’s nonsense. While it’s true that hiring may slow down for some industries, hiring tends to happen along a fiscal year, not a calendar year. If a company’s fiscal year and calendar year are aligned, and they’ve run out of money for new
Years ago, I had the pleasure of working with a young woman who was smart, funny, hard-working, and capable. For some reason, however, her projects were consistently ineffective—some were downright failures. When I started poking into the reasons for this, I noticed something strange: she had surrounded herself with low-confidence, ineffectual, mediocre people. She habitually
As we approach the holidays and start to look toward 2019, many of us will be thinking about making resolutions. Aside from the ubiquitous (and usually short-lived) resolutions to lose weight and exercise, many career-minded people will also be resolving to be more productive. And for many, boosting productivity looks like this: Buy a planner