Networking
Cultivating Your Mentors
When I first heard my friend Rachel speak at a women’s networking brunch, she seemed unattainably cool and accomplished...
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Networking at Night
By the time we arrived at the swanky new downtown bar, it was already buzzing with young, attractive...
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Like online dating profiles, job descriptions are often written in a cryptic, euphemistic language that takes an experienced eye to decode. Just as “free-spirited” in a dating profile hints at a lack of full-time employment, words like “self-starter” or “multitasker” may give subtle clues about the...
Downsizing is an inescapable fact of corporate culture. Stay at a company for more than a year, and you’re almost certain to go through a change in management, company structure, or even the entire business model. At a start-up where my friend Marjorie worked, the CEO realized a month after the...
You can tell a lot about a potential employer by the way they behave on your job interview—including whether you should work for them or go running for the hills. Here are some subtle clues that should make you think twice before saying yes to their offer. Her appearance is disheveled. Does she...
My friend Emily is suffering through a rough time at work. Her company did a round of layoffs and she survived. Yes! But then came the downside—Emily is now doing her job plus the job of a co-worker who was fired. No responsibilities were taken away from her and there’s no extra pay. Yuck.
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Since people are often on their best behavior during a job interview—and have probably spent hours perfecting their résumé—it can be hard to tell whether they’re only “good on paper.” That’s what happened to Kristen, a supervisor for an accounting firm in New York City, who went through three...
Tuesday morning, 10 a.m.: Your boss calls you into her office to give you some bad news. The market has taken a hit and it’s time for the company to scale back. Your job is safe, but your co-worker Julie’s is not. And since you’re technically her supervisor, you have the dirty job of giving her the...
