I am a 19 year old college student about to start my first internship tomorrow. In January of this year I began sending resumes out to various golf courses/clubs (I am a professional golf major). I had several interviews and was offered what I thought was the 1st
I am a head-hunter. I like to think I am a good head-hunter (we are all deluded in some way, I suppose) and I try and help my clients and my candidates get the job (I do get a fee when I do that properly). However, I have,
I started work in January 08 as an HR Manager for a very small company of 35 employees. I was told this week that they can no longer afford to keep this position as they are “hurting” for money. I am in a protected class and wondered if
I have a co-worker (who also happens to be a house-mate). We had been working together at the same company for two weeks when this individual was fired this week due to inappropriate use of company property (extremely inappropriate web-site browsing) coupled with over-anxiety for a skill-test. I
Okay, first of all, I have a no bad language (Including crude, rude and socially unacceptable language) rule on my blog. You know that. (Or you should. No bad language, please!) And I think a similar rule should be enforced in the workplace. Why? Because it’s not polite.
Many of the problems we deal with in Human Resources stem from managers being unable to solve problems in their departments. Now, I know full well that those non-management types aren’t perfect little angels either. They cause the problems in the first place. (Or rather, it’s a joint
I just spoke with our Finance Director, who indicates that, due to our company’s subpar performance (of note: we conducted a 10% company-wide RIF in July ’07), our typical 4-5% annual increases will either be (a) zilch; (b) 1.5 – 2.5%; or (c) option “b” plus the possibility
Hello, Evil HR Lady. I’ve got a question that may be a bit personal, but hopefully it’s still general enough to be useful to you. I’m a philosophy major. (Go on, laugh, get it out of your system.) Looking at postgraduate career paths, HR is a remarkably appealing
I’m a medical administrator of a nonprofit organization. I am married and have young children. When I was hired, my job description indicated that my work was split between 50% patient care and 50% administrative and I was told it was a 37.5 hour work week. I didn’t
A friend of mine asked me this and since I am not in HR, I wanted to get a professional opinion. She had an interview a few months ago, and a couple of weeks later found out she didn’t get the job. Last week she saw that the
