Sarah Sipek, CareerBuilder writer Receiving a job offer is an amazing feeling. All that effort you put into the job hunt paid off and now…
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By Ben Brooks, founder & CEO of PILOT
That faint knock on your office door or that ominous 15-minute “catch up” meeting scheduled on your calendar by one of your star performers. Then comes the news you’ve feared and have been avoiding; they’re resigning. You remain calm on the outside, but inside you panic. Experienced managers have seen this horror film many times, and it usually results in the manager trying to convince or even beg the departing employee to stay. This is both likely a bad idea and symptomatic of a larger people management and employee retention issue.
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Debra Auerbach, CareerBuilder writer
There are many famous quotes on the topic of failure and how it’s actually a good thing. But when you make a big mistake at work, it’s pretty hard to find the positive in such a negative situation. And reciting famous quotes about failure to your boss is probably not the best way to make amends.
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Deanna Hartley, CareerBuilder writer
Working day in and day out with the same co-workers is sort of like living with roommates — you share the same space for hours at a time and, unless you’re one of the Real Housewives, you try to create a conflict-free zone that breeds mutual respect and requires compromising.
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Sarah Landrum, Career Contessa contributor
Every day, millions of people get up and go to work. Some people are lucky and go to a job they love, but then there are some jobs that simply aren’t made to be loved, whether it’s because of the job itself or the environment the job is done in. The result is the same: Over time, a job you hate can have a serious impact on your health in a multitude of ways.
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If you’ve ever had a roommate or a sibling you’ve had to share a living space with, you may have learned the hard way not to push the boundaries of common courtesy too far. Similarly, there are many unspoken rules in the workplace as well — so pay attention and exercise civility to the people you have to spend most of your waking hours with.
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Elana Lyn Gross, Career Contessa contributor
It’s inevitable – at almost any workplace you will run into “problem” co-workers. Some of these types of problematic co-workers include the negative co-worker, the overly competitive co-worker, the gossip, the bully and the person who pushes off work. Hopefully, your office doesn’t have too many of these types of people, but if it does, here’s how to (almost) deal with working alongside them.
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Matt Tarpey, CareerBuilder writer
Whether it’s eating too much junk food or watching too much TV, we all have bad habits. For the most part these can be chalked up as guilty pleasures, but when a habit hurts your productivity or performance at work, it’s time to leave it behind.
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Matt Tarpey, CareerBuilder writer
Criticism can be difficult to take, even for the most confident worker. However, feedback is absolutely essential if you want to get better at your job and be considered for potential advancement.
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Mary Lorenz, CareerBuilder writer
When it comes to your job, you’re like a competitor on a reality TV show: You didn’t come here to make friends. You came here to win. (And by “win,” you mean do your job, get your paycheck and get home to finish binge-watching “Making a Murderer.”)
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