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We Asked Kids Real Job Interview Questions — Here are Their (Hilarious) Answers
By Lydia Abbot Raise your hand if you love asking or being asked the following interview questions: How many golf balls can you fit on a jet? Where do you see yourself in 5 years? What would you like your salary to be? If you’re not raising your hand, we…...
Gary Vee Says These Are the Two Most Important Traits for Leaders
As a kid, Gary Vaynerchuk had wild success with a lemonade stand and a side hustle trading baseball cards, he told today's Talent Connect audience. Then his father, a Soviet immigrant with a liquor store in New Jersey, put him to work. But not before giving Gary his first piece of business advice. “Before…...
Why Candidate Experience Should Start with the Job Description — and Continue Well After the Hire Date
By Lou Adler I’ve been roundly criticized for saying that improving the candidate experience is a waste of time, money, and resources. But while close, that’s not exactly what I said. To set the record straight, I believe that providing an extraordinary candidate experience for serious and well-qualified candidates is…...
LinkedIn’s Head of Diversity Shares Her Playbook for Creating a More Inclusive Workforce
Bruce Anderson Rosanna Durruthy says that diversity is often seen as a series of checklists: Do this, do that, and then do more of this. But as the head of global diversity, inclusion, and belonging at LinkedIn, Rosanna prefers to see diversity and inclusion as a team sport — that…...
Wait, Where Did Our New Hire Go?
Sue Shellenbarger (WSJ) An abrupt change of heart after saying yes to a job can have career repercussions years later—here’s how to navigate this delicate decision It should be any job seeker’s dream: You’re looking for a job and three offers land in your lap. Or maybe you’re not even…...
60 Business Buzzwords to Delete From Your Vocabulary
Felicia Sullivan and Jack Fehr Business buzzwords have become commonplace, weaving their way into our everyday vernacular and spurring the creation of websites and software programs designed to translate corporate lingo into plain English. In some offices, clever employees place “jargon jars” in conference rooms, where colleagues have to deposit…...