Inside Wal-Mart’s new training sessions: Trying to adapt to retail landscape changes
Jesse Rice's job is to sell meat in the grocery department of a Kansas City Wal-Mart store. But ask him what he does and you'll hear him sell himself as...
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Niche professionals find themselves in driver’s seat on job hunt
Here's good news for college-educated workers seeking certain professional or management jobs: For the first time in a long time, you're in the driver's seat. This doesn't apply to every...
Social media can link you to a job
Job hunters: If you're not on LinkedIn, you're not where three-fourths of U.S. job recruiters are posting jobs. LinkedIn far outpaces Twitter and Facebook for job postings, according to a...
Turn weaknesses into strengths
What's your greatest weakness? When job interviewers ask that — and you should expect it — don't say, "I don't have any." Of course you do. Everyone does. Treating it...
Tips from a marketing guru
What people remember about Dan Kendrick is that he always wears red gym shoes. That might not work for you as a marketing gimmick. But for the power behind Red...
The office that reads together, succeeds together
If it seems like everybody isn't on the same page in your workplace, maybe a book club can help. Kansas City, Mo.-based Think Contracting swears by its in-house book club...
The greener office
In honor of the annual Earth Day observance, here are things each of us can do to be friendlier to Mother Earth. Whether we're employed by someone, working for ourselves,...
Do you need those handouts?
The second you hand someone something to read, that person is going to read it and stop listening to what you're saying. If there's one message from Jana Memel that...
Freedom of speech at work
It's an election year. People talk politics in the workplace. And why not? We have freedom of speech. Well, not necessarily. You may be shocked to learn that a constitutionally...
Workers need help with elder care
About 1 in 6 workers has elder care responsibilities of some kind, and given longer life expectancies, that share is likely to grow. Workplaces have spent a lot more effort...