May 2011

the office clerk I supervise is out-of-control

A reader writes: I have a co-worker who is using my job title to make herself look more important. I am an Executive Assistant to the VP at my organization. We have a part-time worker in our department, I’ll call her Suzy. Suzy was hired initially as a temporary part-time office clerk while someone in […]

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my job-share divides our workload unevenly

A reader writes: I work in a role shared by two people – I work Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and my colleague does Thursday and Friday. The total workload at the beginning of the week in the first three days is about three times as heavy as the last two days of the week. This […]

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10 ways to ace your phone interview

More and more employers are using phone interviews as screens to narrow down their applicant pool before deciding who to interview in person. These conversations range from short and perfunctory to lengthy and in-depth, and job candidates don’t always know in advance which type it’s going to be. Here are 10 ways to ace your […]

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short answer Sunday: 7 short answers to 7 short questions

Seven short questions, seven short answers…  And note that we need advice from someone good at networking in the third question. Including travel and volunteer work on your resume My friend and I have this debate over my resume. I traveled to Thailand a year ago to do two weeks of volunteering and two weeks […]

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when does a writing sample become too old to use?

The flood of posts promised earlier is still more likely than not to be on its way … but it’s a 3-day weekend so it’s hard to decide if they’re coming today or tomorrow. And now that I’ve heard the terrible news that Christopher Meloni — who plays the extremely compelling Elliot Stabler — is […]

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warning…

I have a bunch of random questions I want to answer and I don’t feel like putting them all into one short-answer post, so brace yourself for a possible coming flood of mini posts. Like, a lot. Or maybe not. It’s possible that I might just eat potato salad and watch a lot of Law […]

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when you’re asked to interview your prospective new manager

A reader writes: Our department was asked by our director (male) to have an informal-type “interview” with 2 of the finalists in line to fill our manager position (the current manager is retiring).  We are a small department of 8 people (all female) and we are tasked with “being unemotional” and to have “facts” as […]

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