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Better Worklife, Finding THAT Job
Millennials, This Is What You Should Look for in a New Job
Searching for a new job can be overwhelming. Since this is where you’ll spend the majority of your waking hours, it feels like everything’s important. Indeed, a lot is important: benefits, company culture, co-workers, management style, advancement opportunities, job duties, location, and many others. But kununu reviews indicate that there are three new job requirements […]
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Bringing Work to the Bar: How to Put Fair Limits on the After-Work Hang
After many months mining through kununu employee reviews, I’ve noticed something interesting: rather than celebrate after-work time with bosses and coworkers, many employees dread and resent it. Why? First, after-work events can wreck work-life balance. Dozens of employees commented that what’s supposed to be optional bonding time is effectively mandatory. “There were parties and events […]
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3 Truths I Wish I’d Known the Day After I Graduated College
When I graduated college, I felt like I pretty much had the world figured out. Four years into the workforce, there are a few things I wish I’d known: 1. No one cares about you in the real world. In college, everyone keeps track of each other: how people wear their hair to parties, […]
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After Work Anxiety: Why We Get Stressed When We Get Home
Sometimes work is so busy we don’t even have time to be anxious. Then on your commute home, or on the family room couch at 8 p.m., stress hits like bricks. Without intending to, you’ve brought work home with you. It’s sitting next to you, staring at you, and it feels like there’s nothing you […]
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Today’s Most Sought-After Workers Are Blue Collar
America has enough people at desks. While demand for desk workers has plateaued in recent years – with a few notable exceptions, like tech – the demand for service workers and manual laborers is still booming. Nurses, for example, are currently some of the most in-demand workers in America. The carpentry trade is projected to […]
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The Work Humans Are Wired to Do
Early humans had a simple, hard job: hunt and gather enough food to survive. These acts of survival, which were once part of daily life for hundreds of thousands of years, have just recently been replaced. Since food abounds and daily survival isn’t a concern in the first world, our daily lives have a slightly different focus. The […]
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3 Unavoidable Truths About Work-Life Balance
According to a survey by kununu and InHerSight, 80% of women and 70% of men say work-life balance is very important to them. Meanwhile, lack of work-life balance is one of the primary reasons millennials quit their jobs. But the term is so widely used that it’s easy to forget what it signifies, and what […]
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What You Need to Know About Retirement Savings in Your First Job (and Every One After That)
How to make smart long-term financial decisions from Day 1. According to Wells Fargo’s 2016 millennial survey, 69% of millennials think having a retirement plan is “extremely” or “very” important – but just half actually have one. For many millennials, saving for retirement is convoluted and diluted alongside other new job logistics. But retirement savings […]
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Red Flags for Job Seekers: What An Employer’s Application Process Says About Them
How an employer screens, communicates with and interviews job candidates can shed light on their work culture, priorities and attitude toward employees. Hundreds of kununu reviews surfaced four prevailing comments about the job application process. Here’s what these common hiring scenarios say about your potential employer, some of which allude to red flags you should […]
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Better Worklife, Real Talk, Work
Why Recent College Grads Shouldn’t Work Remotely
In today’s flexible, tech-based workplace, recent college grads are increasingly seeking remote work opportunities right out of college. But there are some compelling reasons they shouldn’t. Marissa Mayer’s Bold Move In February 2013, Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer banned her 12,000 employees from working from home. Though her memo really only affected around 200 workers, her […]
