Pressmaster / Shutterstock.com You can almost smell it in the air. Selling season is here. This time of year, people start to liquidate piles of stuff that have accumulated in their basements, garages and storage spaces. Selling season means negotiating season. After nearly three decades of buying and selling vintage goods, I’ve seen every bargaining […]
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How to Get More During the Great Resignation The Great Resignation, as it’s become known, has been a wake-up call for employers and a shift in consciousness among workers. During the pandemic, employees realized that they were no longer willing to accept certain circumstances in their job, leading many to quit resulting in a shortage […]
SeventyFour / Shutterstock.com After millions quit their jobs during the past couple of years in what has come to be called the Great Resignation, many workers are now considering resigning once again. In the past 12 months, 21% of U.S. workers took a new job, according to a Grant Thornton survey. Of that group, 40% […]
Less than two years ago, I was giving advice on finding a job in an employer’s market. I said to shift your mindset from that of a job seeker to that of a Top Performer. Don’t try to just land a job. Show the company why they’d be lucky to have you. You want to […]
fizkes / Shutterstock.com Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared on Filterbuy. The U.S. job market has made great strides in its recovery since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. In April 2020, the unemployment rate skyrocketed to 14.7%, the highest it’s been since the Great Depression. But since the spring of 2020, the unemployment […]
Bezbod / Shutterstock.com Remote work has gone mainstream. Once a fringe opportunity available mostly to freelancers and a handful of others, nearly half the full-time workforce — 45%, according to Gallup — now log at least part of their workweek from home. A large percentage of these workers have discovered that working from home has […]
Roman Samborskyi / Shutterstock.com Whether you can’t wait to retire or plan to remain at your desk for as long as possible, a sobering reality remains: For many of us, there will come a day we no longer are able to work. Perhaps illness keeps you from holding a job. Or maybe age discrimination — […]
Billy F Blume Jr / Shutterstock.com For years, people groused about low pay at Walmart. But now, you can make up to $110,000 as a starting employee when you drive one of the retailer’s trucks. Walmart announced Thursday that those who join the Walmart Private Fleet can make that much money during their first year. […]
fizkes / Shutterstock.com Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared on FlexJobs.com. Your day job may be your dream job, but it may not be enough. It might not provide the income you want or have enough security to make you feel stable. Or, you may have stopped growing professionally but aren’t ready to leave. Whatever […]
A StockStudio / Shutterstock.com Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared on Self. Generation Z — or Gen Z for short — is the generation succeeding millennials that represents about 20% of the U.S. population. The Brookings Institute’s definition of Gen Z is people born between 1997 and 2012, the oldest of whom are now just […]