“I’m not so excited about this role…but I have to pay my rent.” “So how much vacation time would I get?” “Honestly? I’m quitting because I hate my boss.” It’s crucial to know what not to say at a job interview because one cringeworthy remark can cost you the job. These statements are instant job interview dealbreakers. Courtesy of unsplash.

Is your 9 to 5 gig slowly killing you? Do you think you have the talent to make it on your own? Then it’s probably time to quit your day job and start your freelance business. But many people I know who feel called to pursue their dreams of starting a freelance business don’t actually take the plunge unless forced out by layoffs.

Dear Liz, I’ve got a tough leadership situation to deal with. I run a Marketing department for a manufacturing firm. Our company is growing. We launched a new e-commerce site last year and the site has been very successful so far. There were a lot of start-up issues with it but those are basically behind us and sales volume is growing every month. I got approval in March to hire an E-Commerce Manager to run the site and to be the interface between Marketing, IT and Inventory.

Shutterstock If you’re like me, you may be exhilarated by the possibilities inherent in augmented reality (AR) workplace training. Not only does AR open the doors for limitless creativity and innovation, it also enables enterprises to speed up the training process and make it more beneficial to employees.

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon (credit: JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images) At first blush, the part-time work program recently announced by Amazon seems to add the type of flexibility that employees, particularly Millennials and women – have been clamoring for. More broadly, the general consensus seems to be that added flexibility is a good thing.

(Photo courtesy of Shutterstock.) We’re living in a golden age of entrepreneurship. There’s never been a more favorable time for founders, freelancers and members of the side-hustle generation seeking to define success on their own terms. Look around and you’ll find no shortage of inspirational figures leading the way.

By James Hu, Next Avenue Contributor  When applying for a job, your resumé is the first impression a hiring manager gets. Naturally, you want it to provide all the best information about you. And if you’ve been working for three decades, there may be a lot to say. But if your resumé is too long, it might get ignored or tossed. Now that most job applications are submitted online, hiring managers are bombarded with tons of resumés.

It can be hard in the throes of job-hunting to remember that it is much easier to get paid what you’re worth when an employer is about to hire you than it is to get a pay raise once you have the job. Most large and many medium-sized employers have built salary compression into their pay policies. Salary compression is what happens to you when you get a cost-of-living raise every year but the value of your talents in the marketplace goes up more quickly.

Shutterstock We’ve all embraced the latest leadership tools and techniques. And we’ve become as awesome as we can be. Until now… Going beyond the brain is the next frontier of leadership. Making The Brain’s Best Parts Bigger As humans, we have 100 billion neurons available. Yet only about 15% are activated, according to HeartMath Institute, in large part because we focus so heavily on the outer world. Let’s explore what’s beyond the brain.

Shutterstock We love our habits and routines.  All those unconscious tasks we undertake and file automatically, leaving us to pay closer attention  to new tasks and activities that we are not so familiar with. We can move routine things along quite happily on a daily basis, feeling comfortable and knowing where we stand.