Resume Padding: A Dangerous Game

Fudging your hire date or your end date for a past job. Inflating your job duties. Adding a few tenths of a point to your grade point average.It's no big deal when job seekers make these types of adjustments to their resumes, right? Wrong. ...

How to Deal with a Colleague You Can’t Stand

You probably work with at least one person who simply gets on your nerves. Although you hate to admit it, interacting with him or her is a struggle, and the person's actions set you on edge. You dread collaborating with this colleague--and doing so n

Bounce Back: Don’t Let a Mistake Derail Your Next Interview

You finally land an interview for a job you really want. You spend hours prepping for the meeting. You thoroughly research the company, practice responses to common interview questions, and develop a well-researched list of discussion topics.But desp

Resume Padding: A Dangerous Game

Fudging your hire date or your end date for a past job. Inflating your job duties. Adding a few tenths of a point to your grade point average.It's no big deal when job seekers make these types of adjustments to their resumes, right? Wrong. ...

How to Deal With a Colleague You Can’t Stand

You probably work with at least one person who simply gets on your nerves. Although you hate to admit it, interacting with him or her is a struggle, and the person's actions set you on edge. You dread collaborating with this colleague--and doing so n

Bounce Back: Don’t Let a Mistake Derail Your Next Interview

You finally land an interview for a job you really want. You spend hours prepping for the meeting. You thoroughly research the company, practice responses to common interview questions, and develop a well-researched list of discussion topics.But desp

How Does Hollywood See Your Career?

If you watch movies, you've surely noticed that some professions turn up a lot more often than others. Some fields (detectives, journalists, and prostitutes, for instance) are over-represented, while others are nowhere to be seen. When was the last t

How to Deal with an Annoying Boss

We've all had bosses who made our lives difficult: the chronic micromanager, the chatterbox who over-shares embarrassing details from his personal life, or the Houdini who magically disappears whenever you need her. How should you handle a boss's ann

How Does Hollywood See Your Career?

If you watch movies, you've surely noticed that some professions turn up a lot more often than others. Some fields (detectives, journalists, and prostitutes, for instance) are over-represented, while others are nowhere to be seen. When was the last t

How to Deal with an Annoying Boss

We've all had bosses who made our lives difficult: the chronic micromanager, the chatterbox who over-shares embarrassing details from his personal life, or the Houdini who magically disappears whenever you need her. How should you handle a boss's ann