Is getting a lawyer to look over your job offer a good idea? Certainly as the job offer gets longer and more detailed, getting an experienced employment lawyer can be a good idea so that you’re not signing anything you might regret. Unless you’re a lawyer yourself, sometimes it can be difficult to figure out [...]

I read an article today about how many young people are temporarily shutting off access to their social media – access to their Facebook and MySpace profiles for example – when they start looking for a job so that potential hiring managers don’t find something about that person that perhaps puts the person in a [...]

I just finished reading Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In the 1981 book on negotiation by Roger Fisher, William Ury and Bruce Patton. The first thing you have to get past with this book is that since it was originally written in 1981, many of the references and examples are dated. In terms [...]