Shutterstock Dear Liz, I’ve dug myself a hole at work and I need to know how to get out of it. When I was hired, my boss Bart said “I’m out of the office most of the time, so Melanie is going to train you.” I thought that sounded great. Melanie spent a lot of time with me when I was getting started. She trained me, and she showed me how to do a lot of things for her in particular.

Have you ever wondered which professions out there in the workforce bring along the highest levels of job satisfaction? Did you ever question which cities hold the highest numbers of content workers? Though the results may not be definitive, we may have a better snapshot on jobs that gives us some answers to those questions, thanks to a recent report from LinkedIn.* But focusing on the U.S.

Shutterstock You know about IQ, and you can’t possibly have missed the memo on EQ, but have you heard about CRQ? Before you roll your eyes, I know that the last thing you need in your life is anotherwork acronym. But hear me out because this one’s not only interesting, it’s also going to get you ahead because it involves you, your boss and your reputation. CRQ stands for the courage quotient.

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Muhtar Kent, outgoing chief executive officer of The Coca-Cola Company,in July 2016. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Tis’ the season… for CEO changes. One week after Howard Schultz shocked the beverage industry with the announcement that he will relinquish his title of CEO of Starbucks, another beverage chief executive has said that he, too, has plans to leave his post: Coke chief Muhtar Kent said Friday that he will step down next year.

Millennials bear a lot of labels. One of the most common is “job hopper.” Unlike some labels, this one has data to support it: Gallup says 60% of millennials are open to a new job opportunity. And only half of millennials plan to be with their company within a year. As the year comes to a close, many people set goals and plans for the coming new year. For millennials, a new job or new company is likely a plan at the top of the list for 2017.

Shutterstock Dear Liz, I am a follower of your Pain Letter approach and I love it! Here’s what I have found. Only about one in four of the hiring managers I write to ever respond. The others just ignore my letter if they see it at all. I have followed up on a couple of my Pain Letters. One manager I followed up with never replied. The other one got back to me, and we had a great conversation (that door is still open). Here’s my issue.

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Shutterstock Dear Liz, Now that I’ve been reading your columns for a few months, I hear your voice in my head when I go to job interviews. I tell myself “Not every company or every hiring manager deserves me” and it helps a lot. I have to tell you what happened at a job interview last week. When I got the invitation to go to the interview I was already on the fence about the opportunity.

Shutterstock Professional speakers, like most people, want a lot of things. Good work opportunities, true love, and parking spaces whenever they’re needed come to mind, and that’s just for starters. Then there are some things speakers want that most people would find quixotic, to say the least. Speakers want an endless supply of gigs; most people would find that really, really hard work.