(Photo credit: iStock) Working for a bad boss can be physically, mentally and/or emotionally draining, but sometimes the best thing to do is change how you’re looking at the situation. Instead of feeling frustrated and angry, consider all the things you can learn and how it could actually help your career development. The missing manager. This boss tends to be disengaged from employees and the day-to-day work.

You’ve probably heard the story about the go-getter with the unconventional resume. The one that resembles a Facebook profile, infographic and movie poster all rolled into one. But do these flashy stunts work? The answer depends on the person you ask. Illustration by Propoint designer Gregg D. New Yorker Nick Begley reaped two job offers and a digital marketing position after sending his resume in the form of a candy bar.

Shutterstock If your to-do list has more than three items, you are in trouble. Why? Because as soon as your list exceeds three items, it actually decreases your productivity. Most people have dozens of tasks on their lists and looking at those lists leaves them feeling exhausted before they even begin. In the face of theses long lists, here are 21 games people play to feel more productive and/or less overwhelmed.

Roughnecks working Permian basin outside of Midland, Texas. After mothballing 1,200 rigs, the industry may be ready to turn around. (Photographer: Brittany Sowacke/Bloomberg) The frackers have found that America has more oil than ever thought possible, and they’ll need fewer rigs to get it out.  Oil is back at $50 a barrel. Militant attacks in Nigeria have cut that country’s oil output to a 20-year low. China’s output is collapsing.

Shutterstock An issue that keeps people up at night is, how do I continue to build my career when there is a transaction or a transition of leadership at the top? A Strategy& study, PWC’s strategy consulting business, found that in 2015 16.6% of global corporations had CEO turnover . On average, global CEO turnover has been steadily increasing since 2000 .

Photo: Shutterstock I always like hearing from readers because they provide practical perspectives that often give me keener insights than I get from management textbooks. That was how I felt recently when I heard on Twitter from Doug Bacon, who goes by @throwingwords. He threw a few my way and I liked them. He was responding to a Forbes piece I did last year on a Harvard Business Review study suggesting that a key element of effective Millennial management involved thoughtful coaching.

Shutterstock Working abroad can be incredibly valuable when it comes to advancing your career. But alongside the perks there are some challenges – and I learned one important life lesson about finding balance between my work and life, while creating an international career.

As a recruiter for 20 years, I have posted my fair share of jobs, so job postings are a routine part of hiring. However, most of the candidates I would ultimately hire came from referrals or my own active search methods. Therefore, applications to job postings are just one source for recruiters. As a job seeker, you want to stay updated on job postings (they’re great for giving ideas for companies or to have something to specifically ask your network about).

For years now it has been true that it’s much easier to perform a job than to get the job. Many corporate and institutional functions and activities have devolved over the past twenty years, but the recruiting process in virtually every medium-sized and large employer has devolved the most. These days it is a trial to get through the typical recruiting process.

56.4% of developers are building robotics apps today. 45% of developers say that Internet of Things (IoT) development is critical to their overall digital strategy. 27.4% of all developers are building apps in the cloud today. 24.7% are using machine learning for development projects. These and many other insights are from the Evans Data Corporation Global Development Survey, Volume 1 (PDF, client access) published earlier this month.