Shutterstock It’s difficult working in and managing a high intensity workplace. The expectation that you will be available around the clock has never been stronger as companies do whatever they can to retain clients. Busy professionals get to the office early, stay late, work weekends, are routinely contacted by both managers and clients to fulfill last minute requests (whether reasonable or not), and remain tied to their email 24/7.

Shutterstock You just told your friend that you’re going to start the job search and she enthusiastically responds with, “Send me your resume, I’ll send it around.” Or you find an “in” at your dream company and are told just to email over your resume, despite there being no relevant positions available.

Shutterstock My son starts kindergarten in a week and a half. It’s a big life change, not only for him but for the entire family. A symbolic coming of age and the beginning of the next stage of his growth and learning. What have we been doing for the last week to help ensure he gets off on the right foot? Rehearsing. Every morning the alarm goes off and we rouse him from his slumber, just like a normal school day.

Come fall, the pace picks up at work: more meetings, calls, emails and deadlines. There are more people in the office and more competing priories, making it challenging to complete projects and feel in control of your schedule. You can find yourself in survival mode and just trying to keep your head above water. (Photo courtesy of Shutterstock) It is time to stop trying to survive, and start thriving.

The working world has turned upside down over the past twenty years, and most people don’t realize it. If they recognize that momentous changes have occurred in the talent marketplace, they haven’t adjusted their approach to managing their career accordingly.

Shutterstock Sensitive people get a bad rap. Research suggests that genes are responsible for the 15-20% of people who qualify as “highly sensitive.” Psychologist Elain Aron has studied this phenomenon extensively, and using MRI scans of highly sensitive people’s brains, she’s found that they experience sounds, feelings, and even the presence of other people much more intensely than the average person.

Massachusetts is in the process of making history by making it illegal for employers to ask job applicants for their salary history. Here are ten reasons why the rest of the U.S. should follow suit. Every open position has a pay range that is established when the job is created.

Pexels.com There’s no question that modern technology has the power to make our lives a lot more comfortable, convenient, and efficient. However, it can be difficult to know which devices will actually be useful day to day, and which ones will collect dust. Here are the gadgets these successful millennial CEOs wouldn’t be caught without. 1.

Dear Liz, I need your help! I’m so frustrated. I’m the Office Manager for a branch of a national IT consulting firm, and because there’s no HR person in our region I take on the HR duties, too. One thing I do is place job ads and screen the resumes we receive from job applicants.

Everything is not as it seems in ‘They Live’ (Credit: Universal) As we get ever closer to Nov. 8, 2016, some days it gets to harder to decide whether life is imitating art or whether art is imitating life. Whichever side of the political fence you are on, or maybe you’re on the fence itself, there is no shortage of content, from features films to documentaries, that has a relevance to the presidential race.