- Micro Crisis Survival Manual #10: Asked To Sign A Severance Agreement
A practical manual for the moment HR slides the paperwork over and wants the discomfort gone
This is one of those workplace moments where the room is designed to make speed feel mature.
They say things like:
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- Micro Crisis Survival Manual #5: Put on a PIP (Performance Improvement Plan)
A practical manual for the moment “improvement plan” might mean “last chance,” “paper trail,” or “managed exit”
A PIP is one of the most psychologically confusing workplace events because it arrives wearing two fa…
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- Micro Crisis Survival Manual #4: Asked To Resign - Slow Down First (Aka The Forced-Resignation Manual)
A practical manual for the moment your employer tries to turn a firing, pressure campaign, or managed exit into “your decision”
This is one of the dirtiest workplace moments because it is designed to create speed,…
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- Micro Crisis Survival Manual #2: Super-Useful Work Boundary Scripts
How to push back professionally without sounding chaotic, weak, or impossible to work with
Most people do not fail at boundaries because they are lazy.
They fail because in the moment they are:
tired
in…
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- A List of Automation Proof Jobs: Physical Therapists And Nurses Are The New Call Center Workers
Don't worry about losing your job to robots and other machines. Because physical therapists and nurses are the new call center workers, where many jobs will be.
Via Mint
Next: Read 2500+ consumer guides to shopping…
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- Difference between working at big company and at a startup
The common response to working at a big company to that at a startup is that you learn more things at a startup but job security is not so secure. The above graphic, from Reddit, paints a clearer picture. The 'stack …
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: Where to look for writing and reporting jobs
Start with searching for jobs on job search engines. Most of these sites provide RSS feeds and email alerts for your job search. Use them.
Indeed http://Indeed.com
Oddle http://oodle.com
Simplyhired http://simplyhir…
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- jobsearchguide: a simpleguide to 22 cool sites to find web related jobs
The internet is a great place to look for jobs and no list can a complete list. So, for starters:
Job Search Engines
1. Indeed - don't forget to set feeds and alerts for your job searches
2. Simplyhired
Special…
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- workguide: how to work like Paul Krugman
Nobel Prize (2008) winning Economist Paul Krugman has written about how he works and lists out his four basic rules of research which I think is applicable to every knowledge worker around:
1. Listen to the Gentiles -…
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