Dear Liz, I am happy to be working again after being unemployed from April through September, but I have a new problem now. My new job is nothing like they told me it would be. I thought the interview process was hurried but I wasn’t concerned about it. I needed a job and this job met most of my “wish list” items. Now that I have the job, I can see that my manager “Mike” exaggerated the good parts of the job and neglected to tell me about the worst parts.

When it comes to job seekers looking for work in countries outside of their own, certain nations attract more attention than others. Thanks to a recent report from Indeed.com, a massive online job search platform that attracts more than 200 million unique visitors a month, we have a snapshot of which countries draw outside job seekers and which do not.

Part of The Series “Living And Working Better” Photo Courtesy: iStock In my years as a therapist, I could see clearly in my interactions with clients that how I approached them and their challenges could either make or break their day and their therapeutic progress. If we focused on all that was going wrong for them, they’d leave my office even more deflated and hopeless than when they came in.

Shutterstock Showing a little gratitude in the office could be the simplest, yet most effective way to boost morale and promote a healthy culture. Yet, many leaders hesitate to show their appreciation. Many wonder why they should show gratitude just because an employee does his job. Others worry that showing appreciation could backfire. “If I thank her for a job well done, she’ll expect a raise.

Shutterstock James Bone is the author of Cognitive Hack: The New Battleground in Cybersecurity–The Human Mind (Francis and Taylor, 2017) and is a contributing author for Compliance Week, Corporate Compliance Insights, and Life Science Compliance Updates. James is a lecturer at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies in the Enterprise Risk Management program and consults on ERM practice.

Earlier in November, Careem launched Dubai’s first female chauffeur service for women, called Ameera. (Photo courtesy Careem) When it comes to startup success stories in the UAE, ride-hailing service Careem is undoubtedly in the driving seat. Every week thousands of people in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region download the Careem app to their phones and order a car for the first time.

Cheers: Volkswagen’s brand chief Herbert Diess (Photo: RONNY HARTMANN/AFP/Getty Images) Volkswagen brand chief Herbert Diess presented his plan for the next ten years, and for the first time in many years, I saw something that wasn’t a collection of platitudes and fluff.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos demonstrates the new Amazon Fire Phone, Wednesday, June 18, 2014, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) In the past, Black Friday has been just that. A day. One day where you could hop online or run to your favorite store and score some serious deals. But if retailers like Amazon have anything to do about it, that way of operating could go the way of most commercial fruitcakes and get trashed.

Credit: Shutterstock “I didn’t realize the damage I had done,” Marcel told us during an interview. “Yet, there I was watching this man tear up in front of me as he handed me his letter of resignation.” “On the last three projects you said it didn’t matter if I wanted to be part of the team,” the man told Marcel. “If there’s nothing I can add, I feel like its time for me to go somewhere else.” Those are harsh words.

Shutterstock Dear Liz, I’m a process improvement specialist who has worked in manufacturing, professional services and most recently, healthcare delivery. I like to examine processes and see how they can be improved. I’m job-hunting now and I’m amazed at how opaque and unhelpful most job ads are. To make it worse, most job ads don’t include any information about the salary range for the job. That’s a bad process.