Insperity

APRIL 2, 2012

But with tight privacy controls on social media sites allowing users to lock down their information, there is often little “dirt” to be dug up. In recent months some employers have begun asking for applicants’ Facebook log-ins and passwords as part of the interview process; a practice that has stirred up quite a bit of controversy.

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Insperity

MARCH 29, 2012

Some ways to make flexibility work for you: Give employees more control over their schedules. Legal assistance. Between interviewing, hiring, training, reduced productivity, and other associated expenses, replacing an employee can cost upwards of $3500. Offer flex-time and flex-location options. Allow flexible paid time off.

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Success

JULY 14, 2024

There’s always the potential for a poor-fit applicant to make it through the application and interviewing gauntlet. As long as you’re not violating ethical or legal considerations (or firing someone you don’t like for personal reasons), you’re doing something for the benefit of all stakeholders.

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Success

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Think Faster, Talk Smarter By Matt Abrahams Spontaneous communication in meetings, interviews or casual conversations can be intimidating. Whether preparing for an interview, giving a public speech or simply improving your everyday conversations, Think Faster, Talk Smarter provides practical tools to help you improve your communication.

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Work Life

OCTOBER 7, 2024

While countries such as Sweden, Italy, and Austria have legal guidelines to address mobbing behaviors, American laws to reduce psychological harm in the workplace are surprisingly lacking—or otherwise nonexistent. Mobbers often have excellent impression management or control of information with their targets. In the U.S.,

Leadership 98

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Insperity

AUGUST 21, 2014

A job description is a legal document, so make sure it is compliant with Title VII regulations that outline nondiscriminatory practices. You think you need a bookkeeper now, but as the business grows, will you ultimately need a controller? OK, if all your boxes are checked, you’re ready to get the search and interview process started.

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Mad in America

MAY 9, 2024

I couldn’t help but reflect that my interview with him could have been more helpful in at least one concrete sense—that I could have paid closer attention to the emotional dimension of his predicament—had I not had the completion of this unwieldy document in mind. It was required to have “measurable” objectives (e.g.

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Success

MARCH 2, 2023

While there are physical reminders of his disease, he’s able to control it most of the time with medication and a healthy lifestyle. We have no control over it, but it’s not horrible.” It’s been a long hard road for Fox, but you’d never know it from chatting with him. But it’s not long before you cease noticing these frailties.

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Work Life

AUGUST 28, 2024

Instead, I prefer to call them “toxic bosses” because they exert power and control in ways that harm, rather than help, their teams. In our initial study, we conducted in-depth interviews with 20 employees across industries in North America on the behaviours and impacts of toxic leaders.

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Fellow

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Be more present during interviews while AI takes care of the notes, then easily share those notes with other stakeholders in the process. Again, Fellow has robust permissions controls to make sure only those who should have access to particular recordings will have it. Fellow transcribes and summarizes meetings in 16 languages.

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Vantage Circle

JUNE 26, 2023

Companies have revamped their recruitment and hiring processes to be more inclusive, implementing alternative assessment methods and considering diverse communication styles during interviews. Using alternative assessment methods Traditional interview and assessment methods may not be effective for neurodivergent individuals.

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Eat Your Career

AUGUST 5, 2024

Some are within your control. Doing so just opens the door to an uncomfortable conversation that could put the company in hot legal water if not navigated exquisitely. Might your interview skills need some improvement? But they loved me in the interview!” Interviewing is a weird game. Many are unfair. Many are not.

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Ask a Manager

APRIL 19, 2015

Furthermore, I can’t control who she invites to her home and for what reason. I’m being asked to work for free as part of an interview process. I was recently called back about a job working in a cupcake bakery, and they have been asking me to work for free as part of the interview process. Is this normal or even legal?

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Ask a Manager

MAY 31, 2022

This post, I had to clean up after my boss’s toddler, refusing to interview after business hours, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. But legalities aside, having you clean up after her toddler is bad management, disrespectful, and not what you’re there to do. It’s five answers to five questions.

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Work Life

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It launched Donna from legal secretary to COO. People who are good at self-regulation are able to manage their emotions so that they don’t control their words and actions. So show off your EQ in job interviews! This practice helps increase awareness of your feelings and gives you more control. Just saying.

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Ask a Manager

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Luckily, she graciously agreed to be interviewed, and here’s our Q&A. Figuring it would be fun or funny to be a matchmaker (and figuring that I needed to start receiving a paycheck ASAP), I applied and got called in later that day or the next day to interview. interview with a lab worker at the Arctic Circle.

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Work Life

JANUARY 23, 2024

This interview has been edited for length and clarity. I got the only job that I could get, which was as a telemarketer cold-calling people and trying to sell them LexisNexis legal software. The issue though, is that a lot of the laws are based on blue and red states and who’s in control there. I cried every day.

Salary 111

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Ask a Manager

JUNE 27, 2016

Co-founder is out of control and a jerk. Interviewer told me that she’s hard to work for because her expectations are too high. I recently had an in-person interview at a large tech company. I went through an HR phone interview where I was warned the boss may be hard to work for. It’s five answers to five questions.

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Ruby

JULY 3, 2020

Katie Hurst, Ruby’s Director of Strategic Communications, takes the mic in this edition of Business Unusual, interviewing Nalini Prasad, Chief Strategy Officer at BluShark Digital , about the power of local marketing and the importance of Google My Business.

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Ask a Manager

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

When that happens, ideally we want them to try to give us some grace, especially if it’s something we have no control over like a voice. Should I tell my friend my concerns about the team he’s interviewing with? I don’t think it’s legal for her boss to have her continue the secretarial stuff as a volunteer.

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Ask a Manager

OCTOBER 18, 2021

You’ve explained the situation to your managers, and it’s clear that it’s outside of your control and disability-related. To be clear, “outside of your control” wouldn’t always be enough on its own. The details have not been worked out and she’s in talks with HR and Legal. Legal releases have become standard with severance.).

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Minding the Workplace

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

That certainly was my experience of serving on the board of directors of a small charitable foundation based at New York University, my legal alma mater , as relatively recent graduate of the Law School. I entered law school wanting to become a public interest lawyer and eventually pursue a career in politics and public policy.

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Ask a Manager

OCTOBER 3, 2022

It was also determined that Jane, based on things she said when interviewed, had made the report in retaliation for her ongoing personal issues with Anna. Interviewers who quote a lower salary range than they listed in the ad. At the interview, they would say $50,000-$55,000. You’re correct: bad idea but legal.

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Ask a Manager

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Another paralegal and I handle all legal work, and there is a person who works in a different department who helps out but isn’t well trained when it comes to paralegal work.) It’s been overwhelming and the workload has gotten out of control, something that our HR rep, who is also our boss, is aware of.

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Ask a Manager

APRIL 10, 2022

Affinity groups exist to help demographics that have been systemically marginalized and kept out of spaces controlled by the dominant group. They have a leadership style that can be quite controlling and, due to this, I am eager to get off the leadership team and have a bit of distance. Can my boss legally pay me through PayPal?

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Ask a Manager

JUNE 24, 2020

Any even mildly competent company is going to prioritize their legal well-being over some dude’s desire to fake-punch other dudes in the groin. This person is a bit of a star in our industry, and during one of the interviews I did recently, the hiring person commented on the connection, asking me how I knew him.

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Ask a Manager

MARCH 31, 2015

I am really angry and upset over this betrayal of trust and loss of control, but I’m not one for confrontation so I don’t want to get stressed out at mentioning my disappointment to her. Wow, she was way out of line, both legally (HIPAA) and ethically. I missed an interview invitation while I was recovering from surgery.

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Ask a Manager

APRIL 8, 2015

A week after resigning, during a work interview with a new employer, the interviewer confronted me about contradicting dates and statements in my CV vs LinkedIn profile. Confused and upset, I left the interview and checked my LinkedIn account. Regardless of the reason, is this behavior legal?

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Ask a Manager

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The question in front of us right now is: how do we accommodate the technicians (employees, not independent contractors) who need flexibility in start times due to circumstances beyond their control, while still maintaining standards and a sense of fairness among all the employees (particularly the other technicians)?

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Ask a Manager

AUGUST 9, 2021

I didn’t even know she had interviewed or joined until she announced it, as our home offices are on opposite coasts and our departments do not work with each other. Last year, Bella left her old company, where she complained about a passive aggressive boss and anxiety-inducing workload, to join my company.

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Ask a Manager

AUGUST 3, 2020

I know in Normal Times this is legal, but I had assumed the CARES Act allowed for people to get paid time off due to COVID. That sounds way too controlling. That can undermine the company legally — so in some cases employers do want control over what kind of references are provided.

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Ask a Manager

MARCH 4, 2020

Should I tell interviewers my weakness is my temper? I know a pretty typical interview question is to describe your weaknesses. How do I say this in an interview in a way that isn’t totally a turn-off? Interviewers are likely to consider it prohibitive. And get the temper under control! My weakness is my temper.

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Ask a Manager

JULY 29, 2015

I understand I don’t have to list every job on my resume, but what concerns me is the job application employers gives out during interview sessions (where they have the part about write down X years of work history or every job you ever had). This woman has zero control over what you put down on your resume.

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Ask a Manager

MAY 30, 2022

They said that legally they can’t tell her she can’t use it because that would be discrimination. And legalities aside, your doctors probably have no interest in denying someone a bathroom when they need one. When can I ask about parental leave when I’m interviewing? My dilemma is this.

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Ask a Manager

MAY 12, 2019

She I had a really nasty friend break-up — she used to be very manipulative and controlling around me, and I was really badly bruised by the whole experience. My interviewer seemed uninterested in me from the start. She ended the interview after 15 minutes. She’s now sitting three feet away from me, every day.

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Ask a Manager

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Her boss, who has described herself as having “control issues,” has told my wife that because of her, the corporate cards will probably have to be shredded. But if it’s not hyperbole and the boss decides to shred the credit cards because of this, that’s about her clearly severe control issues and not about anything your wife did.

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Ask a Manager

MARCH 12, 2015

I have repeated so many times “check the museum’s website” but now everyone thinks I’m the holder of all the information for everything about the course and it’s getting out of control. Here’s her update. My situation is resolved. I had elaborated on it a bit more in the comments. short answers'

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