By anthony balderrama on Mar 26, 2010 in Featured, Office Etiquette, Work/Life | 16 Comments
This week’s winning question about co-workers comes from TJ. She or he submitted the following question to our Talk to the Work Buzz! Contest. What is the best way to decline a co-worker’s social networking request? The awkward thanks-but-no-thanks answer to any request in the professional world is always peculiar. Do you really want to order [...]
By anthony balderrama on Mar 16, 2010 in Employment Trends, Featured, Work/Life | 44 Comments
Two weeks ago, I posted about a Gallup survey that asked workers whether or not their jobs are ideal. One trend that emerged from the survey highlighted young workers and their dissatisfaction with their jobs. Dissatisfaction might be misleading, but the young workers are less likely than their older colleagues to consider their jobs ideal. [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Mar 10, 2010 in Featured, Job Surveys, Video, Web/Tech, Work/Life | 8 Comments
They do it while walking — oh so slowly — down the sidewalk. They do it at the gym. They do it at the movies. They even do it in the bathroom. They are using their smart phones. While some people are checking out Facebook, getting directions, reading the news or just plain addicted, many [...]
By anthony balderrama on Mar 2, 2010 in Featured, Job Surveys, Work/Life | 8 Comments
Try to have a conversation about your job without complaining about your boss or griping about the little things just eat at your nerves. Like peanut butter and jelly or Ricky and Lucy, work and complaints belong together. Due to the nature of my job, I see a lot of data about workers and job [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Feb 10, 2010 in Employment Trends, Featured, Pop culture, Work/Life | 14 Comments
When you think of TV’s most famous romantic duos — Jim and Pam, McDreamy and Meredith, Turk and Carla, Sam and Diane, Mr. Burns and Smithers – they all have one thing in common: They met on the job. But when it comes to finding love, it’s not just reserved for primetime. Regardless of the [...]
By CareerBuilder blogger on Feb 2, 2010 in Featured, Work/Life | 16 Comments
Working overtime is never fun, no matter what state the economy is in. But, when the economy did take a turn for the worst, many employees found themselves with increased workloads, a worse work/life balance and working longer hours — all for the same compensation. In a 2009 CareerBuilder survey, 34 percent of employers said [...]
By CareerBuilder blogger on Jan 26, 2010 in Featured, Office Etiquette, Work/Life | 3 Comments
How many times a day do you say to yourself, “I like what I do, but not where I work?” Or the opposite, “I like where I work, but not what I do?” The current economy has kept many employees stationed for the past couple of years, not because they love what they do — [...]
By anthony balderrama on Dec 30, 2009 in Compensation, Employment Trends, Featured, Job Surveys, Salary, Work/Life | 26 Comments
Yesterday I mentioned that CareerBuilder released its 2010 Job Forecast and that we’d have more info today. And we do!
By anthony balderrama on Aug 27, 2009 in Employment, Employment Trends, Interviews, Job Search, Unemployment, Work/Life | 1 Comment
We give you entertaining, informative and interesting articles to read on this, the second-to-last day of the work week. Read ‘em and weep. Or don’t weep, just learn and spread the knowledge. Weeping doesn’t do you any good. People forget that one of the worst parts of a job loss is the loss of social [...]
By anthony balderrama on Aug 11, 2009 in Careers, Dress Code, Job Search, Jobs, News, Unemployment, Work, Work/Life | 0 Comments
Did you have a chance to read today’s workplace headlines and articles of note, or were you too busy in a workplace of your own? Or maybe you’ve been trying applying for jobs and don’t have time to get distracted by the so-called Interwebs. Well, we’ve made done the work for you: A little tough [...]
