Marissa Mayer of Yahoo has been taking some heat recently after implementing a stack ranking system to measure employee performance. In this system, managers must rank employee performance along a bell curve and a certain percentage of employees must be ranked as the lowest performers which could le...
VetJobs: A Job Board Just for Veterans and Their Families
There are many specialty job boards available based on professional and industry niche. But did you know that there is a job board dedicated solely to former members of the military, and their spouses and children? I spoke to Ted Daywalt, founder of VetJobs, to learn more about this unique job boar...
Find Your Networking Bridge on September 11 and Every Other Day of the Year
I just returned from an amazing two-day beach retreat with a group of colleagues I deeply admire and respect. We talked business, but we also bonded as friends, sharing stories about our lives, our hopes, and our dreams. The relationships and friendships I have developed with colleagues over the ye...
Who Knew Diana Nyad Gave Such Good Career Advice?
By now you've heard about Diana Nyad's historic swim from Cuba to Florida and no doubt been impressed by the physical and emotional stamina she displayed swimming 103 miles, dodging sharks and jellyfish, and battling sea sickness. Swimming was the first individual sport I truly loved, so the story i...
Promote Yourself: A Must Read for Millennials and Their Parents Too
I just finished reading Gen Y career and personal branding expert Dan Schawbel's new book, Promote Yourself, and I think his message of career management and career empowerment directed towards the Gen Y workforce (people born between 1982 and 1993) is spot on. Dan teaches several lessons best lear...
Ten Job Seeker #Fails and How to Fix Them
Here are ten sure fire ways to sabotage your job search and some quick fixes to keep you on track. You can also check out our free resume and job search e-books here. Inflate qualifications or lie on a resume. While a resume is not a legal document, it should be an accurate representation of yo...
How Helicopter Parents Can Help Kids’ Job Prospects
I just finished reading the CNN article, How Helicopter Parents Can Ruin Kids' Job Prospects. While it's always an entertaining read to learn about a few parents whose desire to help their kids succeed is a bit misguided, I think the article misses an important opportunity to show how parents can ...
Is the Unemployment Rate Really 100%?
The May unemployment numbers were just released by the Labor Department, citing the addition of 175,000 jobs and an unemployment rate of 7.6%. But when you are the one who is unemployed, the unemployment rate is 100% and these numbers mean little to your individual progress. Rather than getting caug...
5 Ways To Attract Headhunters
This is a guest post from Georgina Stamp of Marble Hill Partners, an executive search firm. There comes a time in our careers when many of us may wish to branch out in different professional directions. Regardless of our motivations, attracting the attention of an executive headhunter is an excelle...
Average Starting Salary for New College Grads Increases 5.3 Percent
Is your son or daughter currently in college or close to graduating? Good news. Salaries for recent grads are on the rise. The average starting salary for new college graduates earning bachelor’s degrees has increased 5.3 percent over last year, according to NACE’s April 2013 Salary Survey....