Hurricane Preparedness for Your Career

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The East Coast is still recovering from last week's Hurricane Sandy. As a native New Yorker who has lived in Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn, I'm still trying to comprehend the concept of New York and major hurricane in the same sentence. And I'm not alone. No one expected anything like this to ever...

How a Mishandled Layoff Can Damage a Company’s Brand

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There's been a lot of Internet chatter about Ann Curry's dismissal from the Today Show and NBC's decision to replace her with Savannah Guthrie. Many viewers have voiced their disappointment in NBC and are taking shots at the new co-host as well as the existing Today Show team. Viewers have expressed...

Losing a Job is Never Easy: Just Ask Ann Curry

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It pained me to watch Ann Curry's goodbye on The Today Show today. Job loss isn't easy for anyone; having to make the formal announcement on national television was obviously very difficult for her. She showed all the classic  emotions of job loss...shock, grief, fear, denial, and perhaps a tinge o...