Shutterstock I’ll never forget the day my client Joan* revealed to me that she had slept with her boss, but yet wasn’t sure why she wasn’t getting promoted at work. “That can’t be what’s holding me back at work. No one knows about it,” she told me. I was fairly confident that it wasn’t as much of a secret at the office as Joan had assumed.

Photo by Abigail Keenan As a first time startup CEO, one of the key skills I am constantly learning is decision-making. Going through life, we often made decisions for ourselves; our college major, first job out of college, the city to live in, friends we make. Being a startup CEO means that the decisions you make often impact not just yourself but also the company’s direction. At the same time, most decisions are made in face of uncertainty.

Back in 2014, I published a playful article about Amazon’s early efforts to build out its drone-delivery initiative, Prime Air, as seen through a handful of the Seattle company’s job ads. It’s time for a revisit. Prime Air is coming to life, and there’s nothing like a fresh stroll through Amazon’s career listings to see how.

Shutterstock There are three things your LinkedIn profile must tell others, but the vast majority of LinkedIn’s 400-plus million members fail to provide clear and concise answers. The result is that LinkedIn does not work very well for them. Let’s make sure that you avoid this trap. Your profile needs to tell casual readers the following: Image: Bruce Kasanoff Your focus: This does not equal your current job.

Dear Liz, I’m job-hunting and running into a brick wall, not because of my resume or my qualifications but because the manager I worked for from 2011 through 2015 is mad at me for quitting and refuses to give me a reference. He is the company’s owner. My performance reviews (I only had two of them in four years, but that’s because the company is very casual about written performance reviews) were stellar.

What if the most productive thing you could do for your career was leave the office? It is. I recently had lunch with a friend who runs the website for a major publishing company. We spent an hour at a small bistro in Midtown Manhattan, eating avocado toast and sharing a basket of calamari. We spoke to one another for five of those sixty minutes. Is she mad at me? I wondered. Was I talking too much about “The Bachelor” again? No. That wasn’t it.

Shutterstock Dear Liz, I was hired into my company seven years ago as a Credit Analyst and I’ve been promoted twice since then, first to Senior Credit Analyst and then to Assistant Manager. Eighteen months ago my former boss Eliza made me Assistant Manager of Credit and Collections. Eliza and I were a great team. Eliza had to quit her job to take care of her mom when her dad passed on about six months ago.

Shutterstock Dear Liz, I’m so disappointed because I had a great first interview two weeks ago and I was getting excited about the opportunity. The job is a newly-created role with a bank that is getting into online banking and wants someone to create marketing programs specifically for their online services. I have a background in payment systems and marketing so it seemed like a perfect fit. I had my second interview this week. I met the Director of Marketing.

Shutterstock Not long ago, I met a woman who told me she waited to start looking for a new job until after she got a promotion and title change (from associate editor to editor). At the time that we were speaking, she’d lined up her first interview. While not terribly unhappy in her current role, she was ready to move on. “I probably would’ve done it sooner,” she confided, “but I was embarrassed by my job title.

More than $1 trillion in IT spending will be directly or indirectly affected by the shift to the cloud during the next five years. Business Process Outsourcing spending will shift at a 43% rate to the cloud by 2020. Application software spending will shift at a 37% rate to the cloud by 2020.