Keeping the Recession from Leading to Personal Depression Maybe you’ve been laid off recently. Maybe, like me, you’ve been looking for a long time now. But whether you’re dealing with the fresh kick in the gut of a recently-lost job or the long and winding grind of an extended job ...

You’ve sent out scores of resumes and maxed out your cell phone minutes doing follow-up calls. You were beginning to doubt it would ever happen, but you’ve finally done it: you’ve landed a job interview. Interviews make virtually everyone nervous. Whether you’re looking for y...

In January of this year, George and I received a post submission about sites that allow anonymous employee evaluations of their employers. Rather than publish that post (which was essentially a sales piece for the sites) we decided to take a look at the sites themselves to give you an honest review....

Optimism, Pessimism… Today’s Friday Humor joke goes like this: Social scientists decided that they wanted to quantify the human traits of “optimism” and “pessimism.” After much searching through several potential populations, they finally found their test subjects...