Corporate ladder, meet elevator
Corporate ladder, meet elevator
How to climb the corporate ladder without selling your soul
You don’t build this type of connection with a phone interview
Avoid phone interviews
Yes, you heard me right. Avoid phone interviews. If you are stressed out about a phone interview you shouldn’t be. My advice is to try to skip the phone interview and I explain how later in this post. If you are already scheduled for the phone interview,
Who can help gender equality?
Gender Equality and Pay
As an HR guy, I hear a lot about gender equality/inequality and pay. Fair warning: This post isn’t going to be politically correct. If you are not able to handle season 4 of the TV series Sons of Anarchy or Breaking Bad, better move along cuz’
nuff said
When bosses are friendly with employees
Can the manager employee relationship be friendly? I am asked some form of this question on a regular basis and I believe the answer SHOULD be yes. Sometimes the question comes from an individual contributor who is now reporting to someone who used to be a peer and is wondering if the relationship will change.
Executive Coaches for the individual contributor
I was just introduced to a new online resource, exceed.economist.com and it is full of well written, relevant articles on the topic of career growth. This blog looks to be part of The Economist magazine’s Executive Education Navigator site which is full of resources including a lot of great blog posts.
Surrounded by supportive subscribers
Thanks for 2015
As 2015 comes to a close, I wanted to take a moment to thank all of the subscribers and supporters of the blog. When I started this blog 5 years ago, it was an excuse to lock down a URL for a nickname given to me by my co-workers.
She knows that to climb the career ladder it takes more than just great work.
Career ladder, how to make friends, influence people and gain opportunity
Who are we kidding, everyone wants to climb the corporate ladder. You can do great work, but plenty of people do great work. We also need to be able to influence folks.