The UK offices of Ernst & Young have announced that they will stop requiring degrees, but instead will offer online testing and search out talented individuals regardless of background. Why? They say there is no correlation between success at the university and success in careers. The Huffington Post
It would be totally awesome if you always worked with people you liked. People who you not only respect in the workplace but were happy to socialize with outside of work, too. Wouldn’t that be a dream come true? Well, maybe, and maybe not. Some people like to
When you’re looking for a new job, you spend a lot of time working with headhunters and recruiters. Sometimes these words are used interchangeably, but there is a difference. A recruiter works for the company for which she’s hiring while a headhunter works independently. A business hires a
Have you ever wondered why other people seem to climb the ladder to the corner office, but you’re stuck sitting on the bottom rung? Why a coworker you can’t stand keeps getting promoted and you keep getting passed over? Well, there are probably some things you’re doing that stop
I work for a small, established company, and we don’t have policies in place for employee reviews. Actually, we don’t really do reviews at all. I find this odd. Is there a reason a company wouldn’t ask for or provide formal feedback? If I wanted to put a
Football season has begun, and along with it football pools, fantasy football leagues and heated discussions about last night’s game. It can seem like a huge drain on performance and might all that betting be illegal? Maybe you should put a stop to the whole thing right away.
1. There are an awful lot of plungers in the back of the HR office. 2. She doesn’t conduct investigations by talking, but by extracting brainwaves. 3. Her bumper sticker reads “I killed a bunch of Time-Lords and all I got was a lousy bumper sticker”. 4. She
Do you hate annual review time? I ask because tomorrow is September, which means that there are only 30 days left until 4th quarter, which is when most companies do the dreaded performance review process. From a personal standpoint, I hate performance reviews. I hate writing them. I
Every business needs an employee handbook, right? This contains all those fun legal things like the fact that you’re an at-will employee, that you need to comply with a code of conduct, and what the dress code is (among other things). So, it’s a really, really important document.
I have a friend who’s a government worker. She’s overweight, knows it and is working on it. It has absolutely nothing to do with her competence at her job, and nothing to do with her worth as a person. She walked in on a conversation she was never
