Last week, Goldman Sachs announced it will no longer hold face-to-face interviews with undergraduates looking for full-time jobs and will only accept video interviews from undergrads—videos that applicants will record themselves using a software program and then upload and send along to Goldman. Underscore software program. You are not making a casting video for The […]
Your first few years on the job will set the tone of your early career and can jump-start the next few decades of growth and achievement in the workplace. Here’s what it takes to make the most of your first job. Be a sponge. Take the time to learn everything you can about the company, […]
Interviews are an important screening tool for companies. Done well, an interview helps the hiring manager decide whether you’re a right fit for the position and the company. If you are, you get a job offer. The decision to accept, however, is all you. To decide, you need to learn about the things that are […]
Over the weekend this post, An Open Letter to My CEO went viral. The now former employee of Yelp/Eat24 Talia Jane wrote the letter to Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman. In her letter she tells her story—a story that includes hunger pains and taking a handout from a CVS employee that overheard her conversation about not […]
When I was assistant regional manager at The Gillette Company in the early ’80s, I tried to explain to the president why I was not going to relocate across the country again when the step up position was available in my region. I had already moved from San Francisco to Boston to Chicago for the […]