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Want Happier Employees? Send Them Home 21 Aug 2013 | 06:07 pm
Telecommuting is either the best thing since sliced bread or the cause of all problems. After all, it was telecommuting that Melissa Mayer banned at Yahoo in order to combat waste and phantom employee...
An Employee Says She’s Being Sexually Harassed. Now what? 21 Aug 2013 | 06:05 pm
Dear Evil HR Lady, We recently had a female employee accuse her direct supervisor, a male, of sexual harassment. Now, we are very small, and don’t have an HR department. Could you point us in the rig...
How not to quit your job 21 Aug 2013 | 06:02 pm
Dear Evil HR Lady, I am looking to leave my job and have saved up enough money to take some time off afterwards. However, I would still like to negotiate an exit where I would commit to working...
I keep losing out to internal candidates 21 Aug 2013 | 06:01 pm
Dear Evil HR Lady, I have been doing a lot of interviews lately and for whatever reason seem to not be getting very far because almost all the positions were filled internally. When I ask for feedbac...
Can I fight my termination? 21 Aug 2013 | 05:59 pm
Dear Evil HR Lady, I was just terminated from my recent place of employment. I was under their “6 month probationary period”. Their reason for firing me was absenteeism. They were concerned that I ha...
Make Job Candidates Want to Work for You: 5 Tips 13 Aug 2013 | 07:47 pm
Sometimes you’re in a situation where the right people are lining up around the block for the chance to work for your company. But, most of the time, it’s the wrong people lining up, and you’re faced ...
My boss wants to know my ethnicity 13 Aug 2013 | 07:12 pm
Dear Evil HR Lady, I’m a senior manager at a large global company. I recently had my appraisal and shortly after getting feedback that “I needed to be a more vocal leader” my interim manager (now for...
Are you a helicopter manager? 9 Aug 2013 | 04:07 pm
I’m afraid we’ve officially gone off the deep end. First we had helicopter parents, who hovered over every moment of their special snowflakes’ lives, quickly righting any wrongs and making sure there ...
Crazy interview stunts that worked (and some that didn’t) 9 Aug 2013 | 04:01 pm
Have you ever thought about doing something crazy and off the wall to land a job? CareerBuilder surveyed over 2000 hiring managers and HR people and asked them to share the most memorable interview me...
How to end an interview 6 Aug 2013 | 01:45 pm
“What questions do you have for me?” This very question will be heard at almost every job interview you ever go on. And when you answer, “Nope, I think I’m good!” it’s not really a great indication th...
