Dreaming Of Quitting Your Job? This Fearless Woman Did It! (VIDEO)
Melissa Lanz was a powerhouse businesswoman who worked so much that she was living on frozen burritos and getting home too late to eat dinner with her...
Melissa Lanz was a powerhouse businesswoman who worked so much that she was living on frozen burritos and getting home too late to eat dinner with her...
Women & Co | Posted 05.22.2012
With laptops, we can file sales reports from home, conference from a hotel room, and (regrettably) update spreadsheets on vacation. What's becoming increasingly common, however, is that many of these tasks can be accomplished from your smart phone.
Gabrielle Bernstein | Posted 05.22.2012
In this vlog I touch on the key components to having a successful career that is socially responsible.
Natalie Thomas | Posted 05.20.2012
Too often, we define ourselves by our jobs in this world: "I work at X," "I'm so and so's mother, ____'s wife." But when those relationships have expired, matured or evaporated, what's left?
Gary Burr | Posted 05.18.2012
Thinking that the next song I write might always be the one that wins the lottery for me makes me either a) roll up my sleeves and throw myself into each day with a renewed sense of purpose, or b) cry softly into my pillow every morning, squeezing my eyes shut against the light streaming into my bedroom.
J.D. Roth | Posted 05.16.2012
Wouldn't it be nice if you could go back and give your younger self some words of wisdom? Since time travel doesn't exist, the best thing you can do is try to help other young people.
Maureen Anderson | Posted 05.08.2012
"Don't you touch that thing!" he screamed. That's good advice, I've since decided, for new hires supposedly in charge of people who know what they're doing. Keep your distance until you're one of the people who know what they're doing.
Jim Gibbons | Posted 05.08.2012
With 12.5 million people out of work and 3.5 million jobs open, we should certainly be doing everything possible to help employers and workers. Fortunately, there are plenty of innovators out there coming up with new ways to help.
Christiane Northrup, MD | Posted 05.12.2012
Even though I had spent much of the five years prior to my daughter Annie's birth delivering babies and marveling at how infinitely varied were the ways in which their mothers responded to them, I was completely unaware of what my own response would be.
Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 05.07.2012
The workplace still skews a little Mad Men, where, for every Don behind the desk, there's a Betty at home to take care of business. (Betty's been replaced, but you get my point.)
Liz Ryan | Posted 05.03.2012
I nearly shouted. "Everyone says the same things -- savvy, strategic, seasoned, results-oriented, hard-charging, self-motivated, blah blah blah. Adjectives aren't going to do it. You're going to have to tell your story."
Liz Ryan | Posted 05.01.2012
Your friend is suddenly scared of everything, and unsure of his or her value. It can happen after a job loss, or just after another tough quarter that leached away more juice than your friend had in his or her fuel tank.
Forbes Woman | Posted 04.23.2012
The woman was interviewing for a lucrative position as director of a sales team. After having three great meetings full of lively conversation about h...
Posted 04.20.2012
Erin Greenawald | The Daily Muse If you're a recent grad in your first full-time job (or just working in an office with a lot of college interns),...
Liz Ryan | Posted 04.19.2012
It's a new day in the talent marketplace. Employers who treat their job applicants like valued collaborators win in their competitive spaces, and employers who insist on talking down to talent and addressing them like livestock will get the more-docile-than-talented new hires they deserve.
Forbes Woman | Posted 04.18.2012
Or so says new research out of the University of Texas at San Antonio, which claims that there is an inverse relationship between the availability of ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Hernandez | Posted 04.19.2012
America Ferrera turns 28 today and we're celebrating her cumpleaños by taking a look at her amazing career. From her breakthrough movie role in the ...
Liz Ryan | Posted 04.17.2012
Life is too short to waste time with amoeba companies who don't understand human beings, only spreadsheets and policies and hoary job-interview scripts. Those guys don't get you, and they don't deserve you.
Posted 04.16.2012
Comedian and talk show host Kathy Griffin talks about a key moment in her career. var src_url="http://pshared.5min.com/Scripts/PlayerSeed.js?playL...
Forbes Woman | Posted 04.16.2012
Even people who are relatively happy at work go through periods when they hate their jobs-for days, weeks or even months at a time. Just read between ...
Quora | Posted 04.11.2012
This question originally appeared on Quora. By Julia Lam, Traveler and Innovator I'm currently in the middle of taking 6-12 months off.  ...
Forbes Woman | Posted 04.11.2012
I've been writing about sex for almost as long as I've been having it, starting with a college internship at the Boston Phoenix in 2003 (I was a late ...
Liz Ryan | Posted 04.09.2012
You know those things -- they're the job ads that say "A growing organization in the northern suburbs seeks a yada yada something or other." The job ad tells you what the employer is looking for, but it doesn't tell you which employer it is.
Liz Ryan | Posted 04.05.2012
Here's my list of five red flags most often seen in job ads -- the five clues that the employer behind the ad may not be as talent-aware as we could hope for.
Forbes Woman | Posted 04.05.2012
Would attaching a photograph to your resume help or hinder you on the job hunt? According to a new study, written up in the latest issue of The Eco...
Posted 05.25.2012