The Candidate’s Turn: Questions for the Interviewer

When you ask the interviewer questions you are showing a level of seriousness about the job you are applying for. It let’s interviewers know they need to sell themselves as much as you are selling your self.

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Potentially Over-Rated Work Qualifications

Some work qualifications listed in job postings may be over-rated. Actually, some work qualifications may be darn right silly, especially when you look around and see the number of successful people who lack these qualifications and excel at their jobs nonetheless.

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What’s The Most Common U.S. Work-related Illness?

What’s the most common U.S. work-related Illness? It may surprise you to learn it is hearing loss. The number of occupations that expose workers to dangerous levels of noise is quite large. It is believed to be around 22 million.

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Are You a Great Employee?

Have you ever thought about whether you are a great employee? What did you decide? What is your true value to the company? What do the managers think of you? Every employer has a list of great employees. It may not be written down, but it exists. Are you on this list? Here are a few traits of great employees.

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Can Money Buy Happiness?

Recent research findings between money and happiness appears to run counter to the many decades of research that show a poor relationship between money and happiness. So can money buy happiness? This research points to the fact that it can to a certain extent.

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Improve Your Health at Work

If work wasn’t forty hours a week or more, we could easily justify not worrying about health at work. But we spend so much time working that it is important to incorporate these simple activities into your daily routine in order to improve your health.

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Long Work Hours for Women Linked to Chronic Illnesses

Women with long work hours—averaging 60-hour workweeks over the span of three decades—triple the risk for diabetes, cancer, arthritis, and heart trouble. Whereas men working the same amount remain relatively unaffected. One possible reason is that women who have long work hours have additional stressors because they often take on the majority of familial responsibilities.

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