Which firms have the best reputation for developing marketers that can reach the C-level? What makes them better than their peers? And how do some of the “hot,” newer firms in tech stack up against some of the more mature firms? To answer these questions, I collaborated with Christine DeYoung, Partner at DHR International, a leading senior-level executive search, management assessment and succession planning company, to survey executive recruiters who specifically place C-level marketers. While there are a number of different methods for determining the best...

Shutterstock Harvard has more millionaire alumni than any other university in the world, according to a new survey. The Ivy League institution, which counts Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, as well as Barack Obama, among its former students, leads the U.S. charge of the rankings. The U.S. dominates the global rankings, with four out of the top five, nine out of the top 10, 17 of the top 20 and 31 of the top 50 colleges for producing millionaires.

It is unfortunate that so many large and small employers are stuck in the past when it comes to their job interviewing processes, but it’s reality and we have to deal with it. Perfectly wonderful managers still often ask job applicants brainless and done-to-death questions because their companies require it. Here are answers to ten of the dumbest interview questions still hanging around.

If a well-paying jobs with healthy salary growth are what you are looking for after college, only a few fields of study have been shown to provide the most direct path to them. (Image credit: Shutterstock) Students on their way to university sometimes think ahead to what kind of future they’d like their education to provide.

Dear Liz, I started a new job two weeks ago and it’s going great. I wanted to share my interviewing experience with you because it was the first time I’ve job-hunted since I started reading your columns. It really hit home this time that I get to decide which company and which manager to work for. I’m not cocky but I know I have some skills that a lot of employers can use. I had seven different opportunities in my pipeline but three of them were basically bogus.

Dear Liz, I got laid off in March with five months of severance so I took a little time off for R & R. I had been working full-time with two weeks vacation a year for over twenty years. The only time I had more than two weeks of vacation in a year was when I got married, twenty-four years ago. I took three weeks for our honeymoon. The rest of the time I was working hard.

Michael Phelps competes in the Men’s 200m Individual Medley Final in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (Photo by Adam Pretty/Getty Images) Watching the likes of Simone Biles and Michael Phelps these past few weeks, it’s easy (for me, at least) to feel as though these Olympic athletes are an entirely different species.

Dear Liz, I love your advice! Thank you for understanding that going to work can be emotionally draining sometimes. That’s the situation I am in right now. I used to love my job, but I hate it now because I can’t stand my boss. She is extremely personal and vindictive. She is an unhappy, back-stabbing person who looks for an excuse to criticize people.

This is Mentoring Moments (#40), a series of WOW-you-need-to-know-these stories from successful women of multiple generations. Mentoring Moments is now a podcast. From left to right: Liana Rosenman and Kristina Saffran, cofounders of Project HEAL When she was 10 years old, Kristina Saffran developed anorexia nervosa, a potentially life-threatening eating disorder characterized by self-starvation and excessive weight loss.

Shutterstock Depending upon the circumstances, sometimes I’ll suggest to my clients that they explore freelance work. All too often, the response I get is, “What?!? Are you crazy?” One client—we’ll call her Sally—nearly had a heart attack.