Shutterstock Have you had a bad experience with your job search – it took a long time to get interviews scheduled, you heard feedback late (or worse, not at all), you had a hard time navigating the process? If so, you’re not alone. Future Workplace, a research firm, and CareerArc, an HR technology provider, conducted The Candidate Experience Survey, with 1,200 total respondents (both candidates and employers).

Being a freelancer, consultant or part-timer has never been easier. But which positions lend themselves well to the “gig” economy? (image credit: Shutterstock) Because of the advancements in information technology and a rebounding economy – and a tighter job market – it’s never been easier for freelancers and part-time workers to market themselves and find positions that work for them from employers almost anywhere. As more and more in the U.S.

It used to be that certain skills could land you a specific job. Nowadays getting a great position means showing employers that you have those basic competencies plus some versatile hybrid skills that can be used in many roles. (image credit: Shutterstock) When you sift through the job postings across many job categories in a handful of industries, you find that certain skills are more in demand than others.

Shutterstock Dear Liz, I have an ethical dilemma. I work on a team with three teammates. We are all women. We work together really well. None of us are personal friends outside of work. That’s why I was surprised when one of my teammates (we’ll call her Jane) pulled me aside last week. Jane asked me, “Can you keep a secret?” I said yes. Then she asked me, “Do you promise?” I said yes again. I thought she was going to tell me something trivial.

Shutterstock Dear Liz, I am ready to walk  into my boss’s office and quit, I’m so frustrated. I’m writing to you instead because I know there’s got to be a better way to handle my short-tempered boss, but I don’t know what that other way is. I’m sick of her hair-trigger temper. I almost got fired today because of a harmless email message I sent Sandra, my boss.

In honor of Father’s Day 2016 this Sunday, let’s raise a toast to 15 dadpreneurs who have a scored a deal on ABC’s hit business reality show Shark Tank — the most competitive prize for small business owners. Here’s a look at their achievements and their advice for juggling a business and kids. 1. Eli Crane, Bottle Breacher Military veteran Eli Crane, dad of two girls, fashioned a deal with Mark Cuban and Kevin O’Leary in a November 2014 episode.

Pexels In a perfect world, your completed assignments would speak for themselves. You’d work on friendly, collaborative teams with fair-minded co-workers, and each person would be free with praise and full of self-effacing humility. You’d never have to worry about self-promotion or navigating office politics to get your due. But the reality is that you need to speak up. Generosity and a humble nature are great attributes to have, of course.

Photo credit: Shutterstock Setbacks are a normal part of the path to success. Unless your role is to serve as a mindless cog in a wheel of predictable work, you will encounter setbacks – many of them – throughout your career. Even the biggest superstars at work experience impediments. Maybe a project doesn’t go as planned, or your star employee whom you have mentored for years resigns.

AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File The sale of LinkedIn to Microsoft for $26.2 billion created waves, with people questioning why Microsoft has decided to move into the social media business to the future of social media itself. And that’s the question on everybody’s lips. This could well change the future of social media as we know it. This article is going to examine the reasoning behind LinkedIn’s acquisition and what this could mean for the wider world of social media.

In the 2001 hit movie A Beautiful Mind, we got a peek into the brain of Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash. Brilliant (but also schizophrenic), Nash pioneered a negotiating concept known as the Nash Equilibrium. His insights, in particular about when it pays (or doesn’t) to change course, would go on to be applied to everything from nuclear arms negotiations to traffic planning and penalty kicks in football. I’m not a mathematician. I’m certainly no John Nash.