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Talk to The Work Buzz Contest! winning question: Salary offers
Published: 03/19/2010
On Monday we asked you to submit your questions about accepting a job offer, and from the excellent questions we received, we chose Claire’s. She asks, “How do you ask if that’s the most that they will offer without offending them or sounding greedy?”
Salary talks are always one of the trickiest components of a job [...]
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Obama signs jobs bill. What do you think?
Published: 03/18/2010
If you watch or read any news — and I hope you do — then you know legislation about health care is the talk of the town these days. The health bill has become the Kate and Jon Gosselin of 2010, except it’s actually important and affects our lives. Lost in the coverage, however, is [...]
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Is there a reason you’re late … or is it just an excuse?
Published: 03/17/2010
Who invented the standard nine-to-five workday? He or she must have been a morning person because if I were setting the workday hours, I’d push it to start at 10 a.m. at the earliest. Why?
While I’d love to be the type of person who just jumps out of bed alert and perky every day, it [...]
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The changing face of the work-life balance
Published: 03/16/2010
Two weeks ago I posted about a Gallup survey that asked workers whether or not their jobs are ideal. One trend that emerged from the survey highlighted young workers and their dissatisfaction with their jobs. Dissatisfaction might be misleading, but the young workers are less likely than their older colleagues to consider their jobs ideal. [...]
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Ask us your question and win a prize!
Published: 03/15/2010
Last week we kicked off our contest, Talk to The Work Buzz! You submitted your great questions about interviews and we picked one to answer. Our winner is getting a copy of the book Career Building.
We like you. You like prizes. So we’re back with a new topic for the contest. This week we want [...]
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Gettin’ lucky on your job search
Published: 03/12/2010
Oh, St. Patrick’s Day.
Each year you provide us with a day to pretend a lot of things. You let us pretend we’re Irish when we’re not. You let us pretend our livers are impenetrable to alcohol, but they’re not. You let us pretend we look good in tacky green clothing when most of us don’t. [...]
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Talk to The Work Buzz Contest winning question: Interview notes
Published: 03/12/2010
It’s Friday, and that means we have a winner in the Talk to the Work Buzz! Contest.
This week’s topic was interviewing, and we had several readers submit excellent questions. (Thanks!) Alas, we could only pick one, and it came from Janet Jansen. Here’s what she asked:
“Is it appropriate to read from notes in an interview? [...]
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Before you fill out that March Madness bracket…
Published: 03/11/2010
Few things unite co-workers like a good, old-fashioned office pool. Can you pick the date Ellen will have her baby? What about the baby’s sex and name? How many days in a row will Bob wear the same pants? How long can Fred go without checking his smart phone in a meeting?
It seems workers will bet on everything and anything – even when [...]
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Workers tethered by the e-leash in some strange places
Published: 03/10/2010
They do it while walking — oh so slowly — down the sidewalk. They do it at the gym. They do it at the movies. They even do it in the bathroom.
They are using their smart phones. While some people are checking out Facebook, getting directions, reading the news or just plain addicted, many are still on the [...]
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Where are the jobs? Education and health services, that’s where.
Published: 03/09/2010
“Where exactly are these jobs you keep talking about?”
That is one of the questions we frequently receive here at The Work Buzz. And we do our best to point you in the right direction. Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics made locating these open positions a simpler task by releasing the current January Job Openings and Labor [...]
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