Best mentors give challenging advice, criticism
The best mentors offer advice we don't always like to hear. They chide us, goad us, challenge us. Some even have the gall to tell us to straighten our frizzy...
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Friendships on job hard to work
Research tells us that people are happier and more productive when they have good friends at work, but the fact is, most of us don't. Fewer than one in three...
Non-compete clause tying hands of employees
Marketing professional Bill Carlson didn't like the agreement his employer gave him to sign when he became eligible for a bonus program. It meant he couldn't leave to go work...
More older workers trapped in long-term unemployment
One measure of economic pain is the number of people out of work six months or more, long enough to exhaust their unemployment benefits. The Labor Department classifies them as...
Network better as a 2-way street
There are two schools of networkers: people who guard their contacts jealously and those who share them freely. The former operate on the premise that a small circle of contacts...
The dreaded R-word is on everyone’s mind
When economists debate whether the U.S. is in recession, they calculate the thousands of lost jobs and the huge cost of mortgage foreclosures, but Felippa Janik counts cookies and pies....
What type of worker are you?
Work knows no bounds, or at least that's how it sometimes feels. The easier it is to work anywhere, any hour of the day or night, the harder it becomes...
When both parents work at home
Life is good in the Mayville household, about as good as it gets for two full-time working parents with demanding careers. Family life flows in and around an eat-in kitchen...
Online quizzes act as job gatekeepers
How would you feel if somebody told you they could size up your job potential with a 10-minute personality test? You might figure it's a job not worth holding, and...
Sun-Times wrestles with new reality
Readers of the Chicago Sun-Times picked up a smaller paper Tuesday, the latest tangible sign of the economic struggles engaging metropolitan newspapers around the country. The tabloid's physical shrinkage, by...