Your manager’s time away from the office is your opportunity to demonstrate your leadership in his or her absence and gain respect that will position yourself for a promotion. Use these five steps to get you promotion-ready by the time your manager returns from vacation. (Photo courtesy of Shutterstock) 1. Identify your manager’s expectations and priorities before she leaves.

Courtesy of Pexels Welcome to The Salary Chronicles, where we’re bringing transparency to negotiation and salaries, one story at a time. We ask women to share their experiences negotiating their salary and what their advice is for others doing the same. We share these stories anonymously so they feel comfortable speaking as openly and as freely as possible.  This week we’re speaking with a woman who negotiated for more than just money.

Photo credit: Shutterstock Hiring managers know that interviews can be stressful and uncomfortable. So they usually give you the benefit of the doubt if you trip over your words or seem a little nervous. Those are forgivable offenses. But there are other behaviors, attitudes, and actions that aren’t forgivable. Here are nine of the fastest ways to get moved off the short list. 1. Arriving late. Nothing says “I am a terrible planner” like arriving late for an interview.

Attracting the right sales team can mean the difference between a business that grows steadily and a business that skyrockets to success. Sales teams have a profound, direct impact on a company’s bottom line, and the best salespeople know they’re worth their weight in gold. That’s why the cream of the crop work for companies that have a sales commission structure that appropriately compensates them for their skill and talent.

The vision of returning to the office after vacation and the reality usually have very little in common. While many of us expect to sit down at our desks after time away filled with boundless energy and restored creativity that will fuel new projects, what usually ends up happening is that we spend several scattered hours (or days) trying to process a deluge of emails and falling further behind on tasks that have built up in the interim.

Shutterstock Dear Liz, I had the most amazing job interview last week. For the first 20 minutes I thought, “I can do this job!” and also “I want this job!” The interviewer was a woman about 50 years old. She is a highly-placed leader in the organization she works for and she wants to hire a Number Two. I could have done the job. I was starting to picture myself in the position.

Shutterstock Happiness comes in so many different forms that it can be hard to define. Unhappiness, on the other hand, is easy to identify; you know it when you see it, and you definitely know when it’s taken ahold of you. Unhappiness is lethal to everyone around you, just like second-hand smoke. The famous Terman Study from Stanford followed subjects for eight decades and found that being around unhappy people is linked to poorer health and a shorter life span.

Shutterstock We met Alex, who had interviewed with the same company twice. “The first time I had an interview at that company, the HR Manager was very nice and very engaged in our conversation,” said Alex. “She told me that the job I was interviewing for was one of their highest-priority job openings,” Alex said.

America has seen hundreds of entrepreneurs seek an investment to grow, start or save their businesses over the past seven seasons of ABC’s hit business reality show Shark Tank. Here’s a look at 10  entrepreneurs age 30 and under to watch in 2016. They’ve all experienced steroidal growth since appearing on the show and have glistening futures ahead even if their on-air deals didn’t go through. 1.

Shutterstock Dear Liz, I’m job-hunting for my second full-time job. I got a job with a huge consulting firm straight out of college and I liked it for two years, but the constant travel was too much and I could see that my learning curve was slowing down tremendously. I’m still working for the consulting firm, but I’m between projects right now so it’s the perfect time for me to job-hunt.