Jack Kelly
Forbes
New York, NY, United States
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In A Competitive Job Market, Here’s How To Win The Interview
The job market has become tougher and more competitive for white-collar professionals. On a nearly daily basis, companies have announced significant layoffs. Since more people are hunting for jobs, the competition becomes more intense. → Read More
Can Five Generations Coexist In The Workplace?
Five generations are actively in the workforce. The Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Generation-X, Millennials and Generation-Z bring different mindsets and expectations to the office. → Read More
How To Cope With The Constant Barrage Of Workday Microstressors
We all experience issues in the workplace that make us miserable. Getting laid off, losing out on a promotion and raise or being ordered to return to the office mentally and emotionally beats you down. Many mundane annoyances build up over time, making you feel disengaged from your job and company. → Read More
Layoffs And Economic Uncertainty Embolden Bosses To Call For A Return To The Office Grind
The corporate mood has shifted from being empathetic and attentive to the needs of workers. → Read More
Meta Ranks Thousands Of Workers As Subpar, Setting The Stage For Potentially More Layoffs
About 10% of employees were ranked as underperforming by Meta managers. The low-performance ranking is considered within the tech community as a foreshadowing of upcoming layoffs. Bonuses may be cut, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to slow down hiring engineers by “at least 30%” in 2023. → Read More
New York City Is Losing Out On $12 Billion Annually Because Of Remote Work
New York City businesses are losing revenue with people working remotely. The workers coming into Manhattan are spending $12.4 billion less per year than they were before the pandemic, according to a Bloomberg report citing data from Stanford University economist Nicholas Bloom’s WFH Research team. → Read More
How To Tell If You Self-Sabotaged Your Interview
In the current environment where thousands of employees are laid off on an almost weekly basis, you must bring your A-game to the interview. There is no room for self-inflicted errors. → Read More
Google Layoffs Show You Must Look Out For Yourself
Your company is looking after its own interests, and you must do the same. Think of what’s best for you and take actions that benefit your career. → Read More
If You Say These Things In An Interview, You Won’t Get The Job Offer
Traditional career advice generally focuses on what a candidate should say in an interview, but often leaves out what landmines to avoid. To make a great first impression, there are certain taboos a job seeker should refrain from mentioning in their initial meeting with a prospective employer. → Read More
What To Say In An Interview When You’ve Been Laid Off
Interviewers will invariably ask you, “Why were you let go?” One of the biggest challenges throughout the job search process is figuring out what to say when interviewing. It's hard for people who’ve succeeded most of their lives to suddenly feel like a failure, since they’ve been laid off. → Read More
In Between Jobs? Be Prepared For Well-Meaning, Bad Career Advice
If you’ve lost your job, you’ll likely receive career advice from your family, friends, co-workers and online gurus. While some of the guidance means well, be cautious and take it with a grain of salt. It's harmful to offer sweeping generalizations as every job market is different. → Read More
CEOs Of Apple, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan And Other Top Companies Are Taking Pay Cuts
The tides are turning as shareholders, activist hedge funds and corporate boards are taking action by cutting the pay of some of the top chief executives. → Read More
How To Overcome Interview Stress And Anxiety
One of the best ways to reduce interview stress is to conduct homework on the company, read over the job description several times, make sure you have the skills and experience relative to the requests of the job advertisement and practice role-playing the interview. → Read More
What You Must Do Before You Accept A Job Offer
After interviewing with three to 10 people over several months, you’ve finally received an offer from a company you’d love to work at. Once the euphoria wears off, it's time to focus on the nitty-gritty aspects of accepting the offer. → Read More
CEOs Will Be Clamping Down On Employees
With a contracting economy, the power dynamic has shifted from employees back to the employer. Workers no longer have the bargaining power they had during the Great Resignation and subsequent labor shortage. The days of employee-centric policies are over, and the bosses are back in charge again. → Read More
How Apple Has Steered Clear Of Layoffs Amidst Big Tech Job Cuts
Of the recent layoff announcements, you will see one company noticeably missing from the long list—Apple. With over 68,000 tech workers downsized in 2023, Apple employees have—so far—been able to avoid the ax. → Read More
You Are Right In Feeling That Your Boss Is Pushing You Out The Door
Since layoffs usually require hefty severance packages, create negative publicity for the firm and put fear into the workforce, as everyone worries if they are next to get a pink slip, some supervisors are taking a relatively stealth approach to lighten the headcount. → Read More
How To Conduct A More Empathetic Layoff
It's important for companies to empathetically plan and conduct a downsizing. In the current environment, with nearly 60,000 layoffs in January for just the tech sector alone, human resources and management must be delicately conscious of their concerns. → Read More
Tech Layoffs Look Terrible, But They’re Only A Pullback From Years Of Aggressive Hiring
If you casually consume the news, you’d believe that tech is radically and indiscriminately slashing jobs. However, the recent downsizings are a response to the vigorous hiring that took place throughout the years, which was significantly heightened during the pandemic. → Read More
Why Your Job Search Will Take A Hot Minute
If you are hunting for a new job, be prepared for a long slog. Layoffs from top companies have spooked both hiring managers and job seekers. → Read More