Yes, you do need to mention you’ve booked that two-week, just not right away.
You’re in a job interview, getting more and more excited about a particular opportunity, and the employer’s really into you, too. But there’s a knot in your stomach. You planned a vacation and it’s quickly approaching. How should you break the news? Is it bad form to bring up your vacation before you’re even offered the job?
Stepping away from your daily onslaught of digital communication can be one of the best (and easiest) ways to advance your career.
You already know the numbers. The average professional receives around 304 emails each week, requiring some 28 hours to manage, according to Joseph McCormack, author of the book Brief. We also check our smartphones, he writes, roughly 150 times a day, often expressly to deal with work communication. And this is all not to mention the group messaging apps like Slack that seemingly more of us are immersed in every day.
Women across all age groups, but especially millennials, prioritize comfort. Move over, lingerie—and make way for “leisurée.”
The athleisure apparel trend, hardwired into millennials‘ shopping habits, even extends to underwear these day—and it’s having a major effect on the lingerie industry.
June’s top stories may help you sharpen your focus, show you how to brainstorm better, and get you noticed by job recruiters.
This month, we learned how Googlers brainstorm, what researchers are doing to improve our memory and focus, and a few things job recruiters no longer care that much about.
Copious amounts of research proves that women can and do support each other to ascend the leadership ladder.
The path to executive leadership can be paved with stumbling blocks for women.
Hats off to HP, Apple, and Intel—though even they have plenty room for improvement.
It’s not easy for tech companies to avoid labor abuse in their supply chains. Modern products are made up of hundreds of components and raw materials, each with their own chains of subcontractors and middlemen. Just drawing an organizational chart for a cellphone is hard enough. Ensuring nobody was coerced or abused in the manufacturing process is harder still.
Hiring high-level freelance talent can deliver big returns, but you need to keep your company safe.
When you need to shore up talent on your team but don’t want the expense of a full-time employee, an independent contractor can be an effective solution. A recent survey by staffing firm Addison Group found that 94% of hiring managers are more comfortable bringing on freelance employees than five years ago, and 88% are more comfortable doing so for senior positions, too. Fifty-eight percent of employees said they wouldn’t mind if their boss was a temp.
Many of us have come to dread the dial tone in an age of email and Slack. Here’s how to be a phone person when you need to be.
For many of us, the thought of getting on the phone with someone when we can be emailing, chatting, or texting produces anxiety. If I can outline everything I need to tell someone in a clear and thorough email message, why would I take time out of my day for a phone call to discuss what can be summed up in a subject line, a couple of paragraphs, and a question or two?
Snooze sleep is lousy sleep. Try these strategies to take back your mornings, and your life.
If you hear your alarm in the morning and then decide to go back to sleep for a few more minutes, you’re not alone. According to one 2014 survey, 57% of Americans regularly hit snooze. There are worse habits, to be sure, but the problem with snoozing is that the alleged upside (more sleep) isn’t even that good. Sleeping in little chunks is far less restful than sleeping straight through to the time you intend to get out of bed.
Anxiety, presence, breathing: They’re all real concerns for speakers, but addressing them starts with knowing which “solutions” to avoid.
“Nervous about getting up in front of a crowd? Just imagine your audience in their underwear!”
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