2010

most popular posts of 2010

Here’s a list of the posts that got the most comments this year. 2010 marks the first time Ask a Manager broke 1 million page views in a year, so that’s exciting — 1.2 million page views! (This, by the way, wraps up our special year-end programming. Tomorrow we return to the normal Q&A’s.) how […]

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interviewer didn’t give me any time to ask my own questions

A reader writes: I am stumped about a telephone interview I had today.  I did my homework and researched the company as it is in a major city 5-7 hrs away.  The position is a professional position and I have the professional license for the position.  In talking to the manager of the the division, […]

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the new Ask a Manager is here!

Well, my long-awaited upgrade to WordPress is complete! I’ll be making various tweaks in the coming days, but we’re live again and everything should be working. (Please let me know if you find anything that isn’t!) My transition to WordPress was incredibly easy … because I didn’t do anything. I just sat around on my […]

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it’s on

I’m moving to WordPress on Monday, and it’s going to be awesome. But this means that if you subscribe to my posts in an RSS reader and haven’t yet updated the feed, you’re going to stop getting my posts. Like, today. The updated feeds are: posts: https://www.askamanager.org/feeds/posts/default comments: https://www.askamanager.org/feeds/comments/default Other than that, the move shouldn’t […]

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where are they now: update #18 – uncomfortable stalking employers

Remember the reader who was frustrated that people kept advising her to aggressively call, call, call any employer she was interested in? I didn’t really have advice for her other than to explain why her instincts were exactly right and in fact people who advise job-seekers to behave like stalkers are doing them a disservice. […]

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