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I know some wouldn’t judge but to others a failed small business might scream no hire for any sort of management position. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. Can I ask my interviewer to get a Covid test? MORE
Unlike your colleague, you’re not dissembling or kicking the can down the road or answering poorly; your calm competence itself is illustrating the reason you’re now the one managing the work. I responded to the candidate and forwarded the information to the hiring manager. MORE
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This role would oversee a team struggling to recover from a toxic former manager, and this team had repeatedly come to me, as someone in leadership, for help with that situation in the past. MORE
As someone who is new to the HR industry, I’ve been spending the past month familiarising myself with commonly-used recruitment processes and technologies among HR professionals and hiring managers. MORE
I accidentally threw a sandwich and it caused a work crisis was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: OK, this is a ridiculous situation, but it’s also serious and spiralled out of control (we think?) MORE
Those resumes will wind up in the "no" pile because the hiring manager doesn't care enough to search the document for truly relevant information. Recruiters and hiring managers are looking for individuals who are a good match for their job opening. MORE
We are hiring for a senior manager role in my organization for the second time in a year. It was implied heavily that due to the mentorship, they’d be seconded into the senior manager role if it became available. I have a really good relationship with the hiring manager. MORE
His response makes me anxious to give him more management authority, as it plays into a bit of a punitive streak he has (he would call it a justice streak). First and foremost, that’s not what management is about. But managing a team cannot be an outlet for that impulse. MORE
It’s the Thursday “ask the readers” question. A reader writes: Most of my company has been working from home due to the pandemic, like everyone. The only people in the office consistently right now are me, our VP, and occasionally the president. MORE
If you aim to grow that side business in 2021 and beyond, you’ll need to attend to some important action items before long. It’s enough to say that your workstation should be flexible enough to manage your different working styles, modes, and moods. SideHustle business in 2021 MORE
Rightly so, I would HATE to have been managing a new employee who’s acting erratically while working from home for the first time. As a manager, how would you like to receive the information that my not drinking has directly related to my being wonderful at my job? MORE
Their companies or managers wouldn’t allow it in the past. What I am wondering is: are the managers noticing how many bullets they are dodging when employees work from home? When I was a manager, I swear at least 25-50% of my time was spent on this kind of crap. MORE
My manager is currently transitioning out because she found a better-paying job in a different field with room for growth, and I will be moving up to the manager position soon. As a manager, I will still be making less than the average would be for my current role. MORE
was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: Is a job being posted for a long time a red flag about the business hiring? There is an organization I would like to work for and they’ve had a position they have been trying to fill for over a year. MORE
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Let’s take a look at what employee attrition is, its causes, how to calculate your attrition rates, and how to manage attrition at your organization. There are very few people who begin and end their careers in one company. MORE
Planners have different management styles as leaders, and as employees, planners have different work ethics. I’m a procrastinator, through and through. My most significant feat as such was as an undergraduate student, when I went to the library at 6:00 pm to start research on a paper. MORE
I am very happy to be starting 2021 with a letter about witchcraft. I have yet to bring the situation up with my manager. A good manager will take that seriously. A reader writes: I am an employee at a gas station. MORE
company bombarded me with emails, then retracted a job offer because I wanted time to think it over weekend open thread – January 16-17, 2021 was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. MORE
Published by Henry Holt and Company, January 12, 2021. Copyright © 2021 by Albany Park Partners, Inc. She’s partnered with her local HR manager to bring the work–life balance rules to other business units and teams within the company. MORE
walked in on me while I was pumping breast milk our coworker has filled the office fridge with old, moldy food and refuses to toss it my coworker asked me to hide my breast milk because she doesn’t like seeing it in the office fridge was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. MORE
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In the interim, team members who now have no manager or a weak position interim leader are sending each other videos of famous castaways to note their rudderless floating in your organization. Cue the water cooler talk of whether management knows what the * they are doing. MORE
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They have been repeatedly warned by our management to follow social distancing guidelines, but their behavior remains unchanged. I found the shift manager and asked to speak in private, then angrily told him about all the rule-breaking I’d witnessed. MORE
I work in a function where the standard professional title has “Manager” in it. Let’s say I was a Manager, Llama Grooming before BigCo. At BigCo, “Manager” is officially (with huge exceptions) reserved for people managers, so I came in as a “Senior Grooming Technician, Llamas”. MORE
What happens if Trump manages to get the 12th amendment invoked and pulls out a late win? The post The Real HR Show: It’s 2021 and Election Results appeared first on Evil HR Lady What’s going to change for HR people when Biden takes over? MORE
While I was there, I ran into my division head (my manager’s manager). She said she was asked to quickly pick something by her manager. She was surprised to see me but when I mentioned what I was doing, she said she remembered my manager told her. My manager approved this. MORE
2: Complexity Management. The following is adapted from F*ck the Glass Ceiling: Start at the Top (and Stay There) as a Feminine Entrepreneur. Have you ever heard someone say “you throw like a girl”? Chances are, it wasn’t a compliment. MORE
Do hiring managers have to conduct a certain number of phone interviews? Do hiring managers often have a certain number of phone interviews they’re required to conduct or schedule? Well, the manager never called during the scheduled time. It’s five answers to five questions. MORE
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Police came, got the co-op manager, got some kind of animal control to deal with her large, friendly dog, and eventually went into the house. The excited co-op manager came out and told us that she was in bed with a man. MORE
“The day-to-day monotony was grinding me down.”. Nathan Evans had a job other people envied, but he came home every day feeling bored and unchallenged. MORE
No matter how much work you put into brand building, digital asset management, and public relations, chances are you’ll eventually face a challenge that doesn’t bode well for your business reputation. MORE
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The extroverts who manage and work with introverts have also noticed the positive impact WFH has had on them. If you could return to your pre-pandemic work arrangement right now, would you do it? I conducted an informal email survey last month to hear how 9-to-5 professionals would answer that question. What were their reasons for wanting a more traditional in-office or an alternative working-from-home (WFH) arrangement? MORE
As a manager, I hate writing them. To keep reading, click here: Reimagining Performance Management for 2021 and Beyond. The post Reimagining Performance Management for 2021 and Beyond appeared first on Evil HR Lady. I love performance appraisals. MORE
Managers often find it difficult to give clear, actionable feedback–especially when it’s negative. During the 2020 shutdowns, I managed to watch 16 seasons of Top Chef, and while my cooking hasn’t improved, my feedback–giving and receiving–have. MORE
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In those jobs, you’re typically managing your own workload and it’s not a role where someone else needs to cover for you if you’re gone for a while. was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. MORE
A snappy video showing their key skills and headlines and the types of things they are looking for could be a great thing to send to hiring managers and encourage them to look at something a little more exciting than a resume. MORE
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Ms. Career Girl
JANUARY 4, 2021
Here are 3 things that you can change in 2021, that will not change your life. Make a New Year’s Resolution for 2021 to do something with it. If you are one of the incredible people who managed to finish a degree while working , don’t just rest on your laurels.
Jobacle
JANUARY 7, 2021
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Evil HR Lady
JANUARY 6, 2021
As a manager, I hate writing them. To keep reading, click here: Reimagining Performance Management for 2021 and Beyond. The post Reimagining Performance Management for 2021 and Beyond appeared first on Evil HR Lady. I love performance appraisals.
Ms. Career Girl
JANUARY 12, 2021
2: Complexity Management. The following is adapted from F*ck the Glass Ceiling: Start at the Top (and Stay There) as a Feminine Entrepreneur. Have you ever heard someone say “you throw like a girl”? Chances are, it wasn’t a compliment.
Evil HR Lady
JANUARY 4, 2021
Managers often find it difficult to give clear, actionable feedback–especially when it’s negative. During the 2020 shutdowns, I managed to watch 16 seasons of Top Chef, and while my cooking hasn’t improved, my feedback–giving and receiving–have.
Evil HR Lady
JANUARY 11, 2021
Planners have different management styles as leaders, and as employees, planners have different work ethics. I’m a procrastinator, through and through. My most significant feat as such was as an undergraduate student, when I went to the library at 6:00 pm to start research on a paper.
Jobacle
JANUARY 4, 2021
Digital Asset Management. By using a Digital Asset Management system, such as the one you can find on Bynder.com , you can store everything in one place and ensure that each individual has access to the assets they need to do their work. Project Management.
Jobacle
JANUARY 6, 2021
No matter how much work you put into brand building, digital asset management, and public relations, chances are you’ll eventually face a challenge that doesn’t bode well for your business reputation.
The HR Capitalist
JANUARY 5, 2021
In the interim, team members who now have no manager or a weak position interim leader are sending each other videos of famous castaways to note their rudderless floating in your organization. Cue the water cooler talk of whether management knows what the * they are doing.
Evil HR Lady
JANUARY 5, 2021
Let’s take a look at what employee attrition is, its causes, how to calculate your attrition rates, and how to manage attrition at your organization. There are very few people who begin and end their careers in one company.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 15, 2021
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Undercover Recruiter
JANUARY 6, 2021
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Ask a Manager
JANUARY 15, 2021
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Ask a Manager
JANUARY 8, 2021
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Ask a Manager
JANUARY 1, 2021
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Career Realism
JANUARY 7, 2021
Those resumes will wind up in the "no" pile because the hiring manager doesn't care enough to search the document for truly relevant information. Recruiters and hiring managers are looking for individuals who are a good match for their job opening.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 8, 2021
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Ask a Manager
JANUARY 1, 2021
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Ask a Manager
JANUARY 4, 2021
I am very happy to be starting 2021 with a letter about witchcraft. I have yet to bring the situation up with my manager. A good manager will take that seriously. A reader writes: I am an employee at a gas station.
Water Cooler Wisdom
JANUARY 5, 2021
The extroverts who manage and work with introverts have also noticed the positive impact WFH has had on them. If you could return to your pre-pandemic work arrangement right now, would you do it? I conducted an informal email survey last month to hear how 9-to-5 professionals would answer that question. What were their reasons for wanting a more traditional in-office or an alternative working-from-home (WFH) arrangement?
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 14, 2021
Published by Henry Holt and Company, January 12, 2021. Copyright © 2021 by Albany Park Partners, Inc. She’s partnered with her local HR manager to bring the work–life balance rules to other business units and teams within the company.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 13, 2021
While I was there, I ran into my division head (my manager’s manager). She said she was asked to quickly pick something by her manager. She was surprised to see me but when I mentioned what I was doing, she said she remembered my manager told her. My manager approved this.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 5, 2021
I accidentally threw a sandwich and it caused a work crisis was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: OK, this is a ridiculous situation, but it’s also serious and spiralled out of control (we think?)
Corn on the Job
JANUARY 4, 2021
A snappy video showing their key skills and headlines and the types of things they are looking for could be a great thing to send to hiring managers and encourage them to look at something a little more exciting than a resume.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 14, 2021
My manager is currently transitioning out because she found a better-paying job in a different field with room for growth, and I will be moving up to the manager position soon. As a manager, I will still be making less than the average would be for my current role.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 7, 2021
Their companies or managers wouldn’t allow it in the past. What I am wondering is: are the managers noticing how many bullets they are dodging when employees work from home? When I was a manager, I swear at least 25-50% of my time was spent on this kind of crap.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 11, 2021
They have been repeatedly warned by our management to follow social distancing guidelines, but their behavior remains unchanged. I found the shift manager and asked to speak in private, then angrily told him about all the rule-breaking I’d witnessed.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 11, 2021
walked in on me while I was pumping breast milk our coworker has filled the office fridge with old, moldy food and refuses to toss it my coworker asked me to hide my breast milk because she doesn’t like seeing it in the office fridge was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 12, 2021
This role would oversee a team struggling to recover from a toxic former manager, and this team had repeatedly come to me, as someone in leadership, for help with that situation in the past.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 13, 2021
His response makes me anxious to give him more management authority, as it plays into a bit of a punitive streak he has (he would call it a justice streak). First and foremost, that’s not what management is about. But managing a team cannot be an outlet for that impulse.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 7, 2021
It’s the Thursday “ask the readers” question. A reader writes: Most of my company has been working from home due to the pandemic, like everyone. The only people in the office consistently right now are me, our VP, and occasionally the president.
Evil HR Lady
JANUARY 5, 2021
What happens if Trump manages to get the 12th amendment invoked and pulls out a late win? The post The Real HR Show: It’s 2021 and Election Results appeared first on Evil HR Lady What’s going to change for HR people when Biden takes over?
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 12, 2021
Unlike your colleague, you’re not dissembling or kicking the can down the road or answering poorly; your calm competence itself is illustrating the reason you’re now the one managing the work. I responded to the candidate and forwarded the information to the hiring manager.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 15, 2021
I work in a function where the standard professional title has “Manager” in it. Let’s say I was a Manager, Llama Grooming before BigCo. At BigCo, “Manager” is officially (with huge exceptions) reserved for people managers, so I came in as a “Senior Grooming Technician, Llamas”.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 6, 2021
In those jobs, you’re typically managing your own workload and it’s not a role where someone else needs to cover for you if you’re gone for a while. was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 4, 2021
Police came, got the co-op manager, got some kind of animal control to deal with her large, friendly dog, and eventually went into the house. The excited co-op manager came out and told us that she was in bed with a man.
Ms. Career Girl
OCTOBER 30, 2020
If you aim to grow that side business in 2021 and beyond, you’ll need to attend to some important action items before long. It’s enough to say that your workstation should be flexible enough to manage your different working styles, modes, and moods. SideHustle business in 2021
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 14, 2021
was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: Is a job being posted for a long time a red flag about the business hiring? There is an organization I would like to work for and they’ve had a position they have been trying to fill for over a year.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 5, 2021
I work at a furniture store and just had an odd meeting with my store manager and am not sure what to think. I guess I’m really asking whether you’ve ever witnessed or heard of a real-life situation where a job-seeker managed to recover from a boneheaded move like this.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 10, 2021
Rightly so, I would HATE to have been managing a new employee who’s acting erratically while working from home for the first time. As a manager, how would you like to receive the information that my not drinking has directly related to my being wonderful at my job?
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 7, 2021
We are hiring for a senior manager role in my organization for the second time in a year. It was implied heavily that due to the mentorship, they’d be seconded into the senior manager role if it became available. I have a really good relationship with the hiring manager.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 13, 2021
Do hiring managers have to conduct a certain number of phone interviews? Do hiring managers often have a certain number of phone interviews they’re required to conduct or schedule? Well, the manager never called during the scheduled time. It’s five answers to five questions.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 11, 2021
I know some wouldn’t judge but to others a failed small business might scream no hire for any sort of management position. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. Can I ask my interviewer to get a Covid test?
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