With so many of us facing the prospect of hunting down a new job, I thought it would make sense this week to focus on how to get the most out of your job search. First topic to tackle: the sticky question of when, if ever, to tell a prospective employer what you want to earn. Laurie Ruettimann at Pu...

The federal government must have funds from the stimulus bill (known as the Recovery Act, or by its acronym ARRA) allotted by March 19, 2009. That's 30 days after it was signed into law, and less than two weeks from......

One of the ways of starkly illustrating an aspect of the gender divide is DeBecker’s quote: “At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.” I think there’s a class and mothering parallel here: Middle-class women are afra...

Dear Stanley, I work in a big financial institution. My company was taken over recently by another big bank, and now we have all new bosses. A lot of people were fired, most of my friends. Our department is smaller and everything is different. Everybody from my old company is now sort of a second-cl...

"An inadvertent administrative error" meant that some of the 1,400 Microsoft laid off recently received overpayments in their severance packages. The company's asked for the money back, making this a hat trick of HR Kops komedy. "We ask that you repay the overpayment and sincerely apologize for any ...

Revisiting Bob Sutton's The No Asshole Rule, there are clearly big exceptions. By many accounts, highly successful CEOs like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, and Larry Ellison were all abusive and disruptive managers. So how important is it for managers to not be dysfunctional, abusive jerks?...

There's a real art to interviewing and hiring the right person for the job. These days, with so many people out of work, you've got a lot to talent to choose from. So do it right and you won't get screwed. Here's how....

Video games are not recession proof. With the cratering global economy, the game industry is certainly feeling the effects — most notably, those making the games. "The environment creates stress and strain on all fronts," an insider told Kotaku. "Management finds themselves unable to maintain ...

With the number of mass layoffs announced by U.S. companies over the past two weeks approaching 100,000, you might wonder why we don't have a Labor Secretary hard at work in the Frances Perkins Building yet. The Senate Health, Education,......

a posting from the Patti Network find out what else I'm writing. Cooler Heads Need to Prevail in Trade Issues OK, so US lawmakers have slipped in some “buy American” provisions into the stimulus bill that President Obama is trying to get passed into law. I expect that the people who had ...