The newest strategies for job hunting

Dear Readers: Most of us believe that our knowledge about job hunting is up to date. After all, we’ve landed many jobs this way. A reader recently wrote to me saying that her job hunting skills were obsolete and how she profited from getting them current. She raises a great question that we should all [...]

Top Stories of ‘06

Expensive gas, backdated stock options and CEOs in jail-wasn’t 2006 a great year? Unfortunately, if you want to read about any of these stories you’ll have to look elsewhere. This is a much quirkier look at 2006 through my five favorite stories of the year.#5-Say hello to electronic goodbyes. Radio Shack sent 403 employees pink [...]

What to do if someone is plagerizing your resume

DEAR READERS: Just when you think you’ve read it all, you get an e-mail from a reader who describes how his resume was plagiarized. I knew that people lied on resumes, I had no idea that someone would try to steal one.DEAR WORKING WOUNDED: I recently found myself in a strange situation. I’m an independent [...]

What do you think of ‘peer interviews’?

DEAR READERS: I received the following e-mail from a reader about “peer interviews.” This is when employees who would have to work with the job candidate get involved in the interview process. I’ve always thought of peer interviewing as a positive way to give the rest of the team a chance to “kick the tires” [...]

A decade of Working Wounded

DEAR READERS: It’s been 10 years since Working Wounded debuted (20 if you worked for a dot-com and remember “Internet-time”). To celebrate, I’m going to reflect on the good and the not-so-good at work over the last 10 years.One huge change is how work used to have some degree of predictability. You knew who your [...]

How to deal with gender differences at work

Dear Readers: I received the following e-mail from a woman about the different styles of men and women and I thought it raised interesting points.”As a kid growing up on a farm, I was very aware of what was ‘men’s work’ and what was ‘women’s work.’ Men were responsible for things [...]

What to do if you are working but still unhappy