Job Seekers
What If Your Team Was All A-Players?
By Dean Sippel Not everyone on a team can be an A player, right? Steve Jobs, among others, would say, “Wrong!” “The Mac team was an attempt to build a whole team like [Woz], A players,” Jobs described. “People said that they wouldn’t get along, they’d hate working with each other. But I realized that…
Read MoreHow to Deal with Verbally Abusive Patients
We’ve been there. The patient is incredibly rude, demeaning, or even saying sexually explicit things to you. Patient satisfaction has been preached to you constantly.. but what do you do when the patient crosses the line? I’ve had quite a few experiences of all of the above. I felt helpless until I figured out the…
Read MoreShould I Tell My Co-Worker She’s About To Get Fired?
By Liz Ryan Dear Liz, I have a pretty good job, but some of the managers here are very political and untrustworthy. The worst manager in our division, “Bob,” has been known to stab employees in the back before. One of my best work-friends, Cyndi, works for Bob. The truth is that Bob should work for Cyndi…
Read MoreCCRCs Push Salaries Higher as Comeback Continues
by Tim Mullaney Pay continues to rise for management-level employees at continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) around the nation, with an average annual increase of 2.70% between last year and this year. That eclipses the 2.63% average increase for CCRC management positions between 2014 and 2015. The statistics come from the Hospital & Healthcare Compensation…
Read MoreFive Unmistakable Signs You’re Too Smart For Your Job By Liz Ryan, Contributor
Because we are so oriented to seek safety and security and a stable paycheck, we can easily fall under a spell and stay at a job too long. It can be hard to notice the signs that you are stagnating in your job. If you’re not learning new things all the time, you are slipping…
Read MoreFive Red Flags That Scream ‘Don’t Hire This Person’
Dear Liz, I enjoyed your column “I Would Never Hire a Candidate Who Did This” and I fully support your advice to Hank. I manage a 14-person team and I can’t imagine why any manager would need to know a job-seeker’s complete job history just to make a hiring decision. Speaking for myself, I’d rather…
Read More7 Ways To Sound, Look And Feel More Powerful At Work
I’m going to give it to you straight: You’re probably not being assertive enough at work. But don’t get down on yourself. It’s because you’re conditioned and discouraged not to be. Just type “women” and “assertive” into a search engine and you’ll find one piece of research after the next showing that when women are…
Read MoreHow is Your Phone Etiquette?
Ring, ring, ring… It’s for you! In a world of texting and email, phone etiquette has fallen by the wayside. Slang and casual conversation is okay with friends and family, but it doesn’t fly with employers or other professionals. If you want to be taken seriously you might want to examine your phone etiquette. As…
Read MoreIf You’re Not Outside Your Comfort Zone, You Won’t Learn Anything
You need to speak in public, but your knees buckle even before you reach the podium. You want to expand your network, but you’d rather swallow nails than make small talk with strangers. Speaking up in meetings would further your reputation at work, but you’re afraid of saying the wrong thing. Situations like these —…
Read MoreWhy Working ‘Just’ Three Days a Week As a Nurse Is Utterly Exhausting
was sitting at my computer screen, entering orders for a physician, and trying not to forget what he had said since I had neglected to write it down. I was charting my note, mentally taking inventory of all the tasks I had accomplished and problems I had identified and reported. My eyes felt gritty and…
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