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Digital Age Brings New Fortunes: Here Are the Highest Paid YouTube Stars

The New Media Age has introduced many unique job opportunities to the market. People can now get paid for their design ideas on Pinterest, they …

A Quitting Bonus? Amazon’s “Pay to Quit” Policy Explained

“Please don’t take this offer” reads the first line of Amazon’s “Pay to Quit” proposition. The rest of the page explains how current Amazon warehouse …

Superiority Bias: Finding a Good Place to See Yourself

70% of people believe they have above average leadership skills.[1] This effect is called the Superiority Bias. (Sometimes, it’s called The Lake Woebegone Effect, Illusory …

5 Easy Ways To Improve Your Employment Brand

In the mid 1990’s, people were talking about employment brands (EB). Mark Hornung, now the Director of Employment Branding at Teradata, was arguably the first. …

Finding a Career: What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

Figuring Out What You Want to Do Figuring out what you want to do and what you are good at is something we’re asked to …

New Ways to Think About Employee Retention

The movement of people into, through, and out of an organization is a well-studied phenomenon. It is described variously as recruiting, attrition, retention, growth, layoffs, …

The Band’s Visit & Hamilton: Do Tony Award-Winning Casts Make More Money?

Sunday night, the 2018 Tony Awards celebrated the best and brightest of Broadway. The Band’s Visit came away with 10 Tony Awards, making it the …

Would You Move to Vermont and Work From Home for an Extra $10K?

A hermit thrush spots you hiking outside Waterbury after your visit to the Ben & Jerry’s Factory. He swoops down and lands on the snow-swept …

5 Completely Ineffective Leadership Styles (and How to Fix Them)

Real-life Leaders, Their Shortcomings, and How They Overcame Them “A business owner has to realize that, as the saying goes, ‘A skunk stinks from the …

Why Do CEOs Make the Big Bucks?

The Most Valuable Employees Deserve the Highest Pay Chief executive officers (CEOs) get paid lots of money for being the top employees in the company. …