Shutterstock In the corporate world, there is a defined hierarchy of coolness. In recent years, tech companies (your Googles and your Facebooks) tend to be at the top of the heap. Being seen as cool is now a recruiting imperative for a brand looking to attract top young talent.

Shutterstock Dear Liz, I work for a staffing firm and our team really enjoyed your column I Would Never Hire A Candidate Who Did This.

Shutterstock Ever had a co-worker try to humiliate you or ridicule your ideas in front of others? There are professional ways to put a stop to poor behavior in the workplace. Question: I have a co-worker who tries to make me look bad at every opportunity. For example, during a recent meeting I made a suggestion to the team. Everyone liked my idea except for this one person. She singled me out and tried to humiliate me by making fun of my idea in front of everyone.

Shutterstock Job-seekers and working people both have a tough way to go. It’s not easy to find a good job, and work itself is harder and more demanding than it’s ever been. That’s why it frustrates me to hear the same old tired career advice thrown around that we were already sick of 20 years ago.

Shutterstock Dear Liz, I had a great job interview last week because I followed your advice, so I wanted to tell you the story. The interview was horrible for the first twenty minutes. The hiring manager “Samantha” was obviously distracted and tired during our interview. We met in her office. When her phone rang, she didn’t pick it up but she looked at the phone each time to see who was calling.

In the past, I was never one to get out of the office. Over the years I would work late into the night building my business, but did so in seclusion. Then in 2011, as I founded my current endeavor, it was obvious to me that this was going to be a much more multifaceted company. I came to the realization quickly that I would need to do things differently with this one. Shutterstock After inventing a medical device, I worked hard to determine what I needed to do to move it to market.

Shutterstock Beginning a new job can be charged with an odd combination of excitement, fear and anxiety. You’re pumped to start this chapter of your professional life. You’re scared of all the new stuff you’ll be required to learn. You’re worried about fitting in (or worried that your boss is worried), catching on quickly and exceling in your role. These feelings are all completely normal.

Fiverr.com has exploded as the premier source of micro outsourced services on the Internet. Thanks to a multi-million dollar advertising campaign, it is increasingly very hard to find people who haven’t at least heard of Fiverr. Not surprisingly, more and more businesses, both online and offline, are using the services offered on Fiverr.

Source: Shutterstock Within the next few days, Microsoft will shut down Sunrise, a calendar app it acquired early last year for $100 million. Realizing it needs to step up its own calendar game, the software giant plans to incorporate all of Sunrise’s features into Outlook. Several companies have noticed how pervasive the calendar is in the life of the consumer. One is using it for digital marketing, and some have added media and even incorporated artificial intelligence.

Workplace bullying is frighteningly common and takes an enormous toll on our businesses. Research has determined that almost 75% of employees surveyed had been affected by workplace bullying, whether as a target or a witness. 75%. That’s huge. So what exactly is workplace bullying? Shutterstock “Workplace Bullying is repeated, health-harming mistreatment of one or more persons (the targets) by one or more perpetrators.