Career Blog

If you’ve just graduated with your degree, no doubt you’re excited to start your career. Classes are finished, exams are over, and you’ve landed your first job. Congratulations! It’s all smooth sailing from now on in…or is it?

Employers are looking to put more butts into office seats in 2023. It reflects the push and pull over working conditions in a post-COVID business environment.

Money and career choices make people anxious for a reason. How do you make an informed long-term decision even with short-term money woes? Read on for more information.

When workers are demotivated, they’ll fall back on doing the absolute bare minimum. They may be mostly doing their job, but they likely aren’t doing it well and they don’t really care anymore. That kind of disengagement has an insidious long-term effect that goes beyond the individual employee. I...

In the professional field, I’ve started to get earnest about asking for more hard feedback from colleagues. The kind of information you hear when you ask people, “tell me what you really think.” “Don’t hold back.” I mean, I've been asking many people for this kind of feedback, lately. It’s addict...

You’ve heard about the Great Resignation. But what about the Great Regret?

Other than a salary increase, most employees’ top request would be for more vacation time. Learn what to do—and what not to do—when considering asking your boss for more days off.

Another year, another opportunity to do better. What can you do to create a better work experience in 2023, not only for you, but for those around you?

Here are four helpful tips for crafting the perfect end-of-year note

The four-day work week is a dream for many workers, but how feasible is it really? That’s a complicated question but, in short, it depends on who you ask and what industry you’re in.

As a part of the recognition of the 2020 Star Nurses finalists we will spotlight nurses through the end of summer. Check back each week for more spotlights from our 92 Star Nurses.

With increased attention on employee well-being and burnout, we wanted to learn more. A recent Energage study of more than 240,000 workers indicates employees do seem to be struggling.

While there are many reasons why employees leave an organization, one big factor is a lack of development. Common challenges can hinder efforts to create a strong culture of growth and development.

The SWOT analysis isn’t just for business planning. You can use it as a personal planning tool too, by asking yourself the right questions about your internal strengths and weaknesses and external opportunities and threats.

How emotionally savvy are you at work? You might be surprised by how many emotion-related pitfalls you encounter. But with some practice, you can learn how to regulate your emotions and be an example for your peers.

It’s easy to look at lunch as extra time to squeeze in more work or errands, but what if you reframed lunch time as “me time”? The personal—and professional—dividends could be great.

I had to intentionally interrogate how I had arrived at these beliefs, make a cognitive shift, and craft a new definition for success for myself rooted and connected to my most sacred values. I am so glad that I did.

Once someone opens up to your eyes about the unintended consequences of your words you start to get very aware of doing better and mindful of what you say.

There will come a time when you will do, or say something embarrassing, at work. If it hasn’t happened already, it will. It has been almost fifteen years since my particular…experience.

It is easy to discount the importance of soft skills—after all, shouldn’t everyone know how to get along with others? But not preparing to showcase your interpersonal skills would be a mistake. Learn how to shine the spotlight on your soft skill as a job applicant.