Your résumé tells employers what you’ve done. Your online presence tells them who you are. With AI making digital screening faster than ever, employers increasingly use your public online footprint to evaluate judgment, professionalism, and reputational risk before making a hiring decision. Continue reading Online Reputation and Hiring: What Employers Find Before They Interview You
One short-lived job doesn’t define a career. Hiring managers know that even good employees end up in the wrong job. Many have experienced that themselves. They want to know whether your overall career demonstrates reliability, professionalism and strong performance. Thirty-nine years of solid work tell a far more compelling story than one recent short-term job. Continue reading Can One Former Supervisor Sink Your Job Search?
A veteran nurse receives a promotion offer that many colleagues would celebrate—but the opportunity comes with a dilemma. Should she accept a management role that pulls her away from patient care, or stay in the work she loves? Sometimes the smartest career move isn’t climbing the next rung of the ladder. Continue reading What If I Don’t Want the Promotion?
For years, she’d watched the partners disappear into closed-door meetings. They carried expensive laptops, flew business class, and spoke in confident shorthand. Then one day, she got the invitation. Her name appeared on the office door.
Applause. Congratulations flooding her inbox. Welcome to the club.
Nobody warned her the club might slowly hollow her out. Continue reading Career Heartbreak
We once rehearsed difficult conversations in the shower, during the drive home, or with a spouse trapped at the dinner table. Increasing numbers of employees use AI’s chat capacity to prepare for salary negotiations, performance reviews, conflict conversations, resignations, and uncomfortable discussions with colleagues. Continue reading Mastering Difficult Conversations with Dry Chatting
One of my coworkers shares deeply personal details about her life in meetings. Divorce updates, medical procedures, and how she’s navigating all of it. She’s always so excited to tell us and expects the rest of us to be interested and happy for her.
At first, I tried to be supportive. So did everyone else. Now we exchange uncomfortable looks when she starts talking, like we’re all bracing for impact and want to find the quickest exit.
Continue reading The Office Over-sharer: When “I’d like to share” hijacks your workday
You’re the human shock absorber between her disengagement and the consequences. At the moment, she isn’t paying for your withdrawal. Your manager isn’t. You are.
Quiet quitting thrives when others quietly compensate. Think of it this way: if someone leaves her trash in the hallway and you keep taking it out, your manager doesn’t realize there’s a trash problem. Continue reading When You Sit Next to the Quiet Quitter: How not to be become the office life support system
You work for a manager who keeps his employees divided, rattled, and demoralized so no one pushes back. Unfortunately, because Brad delivers bottom-line results, your senior leaders have situational blindness. They see the numbers, not the wreckage.
Here’s how to protect yourself, regain your footing and stay effective.
Continue reading Tactics for Dealing with Toxic Leadership
No one should be asked to work in an environment that requires swallowing hate in order to belong. Nazi imagery and praise signal exclusion, intimidation and threat, especially to Jewish employees, people of color, LGBTQ+ coworkers, immigrants and anyone with a basic grasp of history. It poisons the workplace and creates a hostile work environment. Continue reading When Extremism Walks into the Workplace: 3 steps
Your boss: charismatic, confident and allergic to being challenged. He mistakes dominance for leadership and disagreement for disrespect. The hardest part of what’s happening comes from the way it changes you. You’ve started rehearsing sentences before meetings. You’re editing yourself in real time to avoid setting him off. Over time, this chip away at your confidence.
Continue reading Dealing with an Arrogant Boss: Strategies for Success