Dear HR-Lady: A professor of history at a small college with a Ph.D. from Columbia University, I’d like to take my skill-set and explore a broader world of employment options, but don’t quite know where to begin. With good cheer, Let’s start at the very beginning. A very
The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that selling crack is a job. The end result? If you can sell crack, then you can work and are not eligible for disability. I cannot even begin to express how amusing this is to me.
I don’t do bumper stickers, but if I did, I would put this on my car. (From cafe press, of course.)
I’m behind on the whole question thing. Sorry. In fact, I’m so far behind I will never catch up and even if I did by the time I got to your question, the question would be resolved anyway, so it would all just be theoretical and so I
I’m a new training manager at a small ( I have personally benefitted from previous employers programs and am using my last company’s program as a model, but it was a much larger company and I’m not sure that it makes sense at my new company. Any info
Is now up over at Ask a Manager. Hop over and learn about Diverse transient Girl Scouts writing new year’s resolutions so that they can be queens. Or something similar. (Note: The paragraph above is 100% false and is only filled with random key words from the carnival.
Hello, I recently (a week and a half ago) started a job in a small dental office doing administrative work, although my experience is in the clinical side of dentistry. I got the job through a contact from my previous position, who said the nicest things about me.
I read this post about “Competitive Salaries” for OB-GYNs. 2. “Competitive salary” is an evasive phrase used by employers that have not yet decided what they want to pay. They prefer to see what the candidates expect and then negotiate down from there. 3. “Competitive salary” is used
I don’t know how to handle a situation with my manager. HR is the last stop for advice in my organization so before I go down that slippery slope, can you help out with with some HR advice? It’s end of year evaluation time. I schedule a time
Dear Evil HR Lady, I have been working at this company for the past year and a half. We had a layoff in October 2007. This layoff affected our campus but I was not let go. However, they let employees know on November 29 and 30 that layoffs
