Yeah I know, not exactly a shocking observation. We’ve all been through horrific interviewing processes, and even the Wall Street Journal is writing about people who got into a job only to realize it wasn’t what they were promised. Clearly, we have a problem. The question is, why? There are multiple answers to that question,…
I have to thank my wife for finding this site the other night when she was Googling for some Excel tutorials. It’s done by the Goodwill Community Foundation and it not only has tutorials on tech topics like Excel, Gmail, and Internet Safety, but they also cover a range of topics involved with job searching,…
There is no question this is a difficult job. “A class action alleges that Facebook Inc. fails to provide a safe workplace for content moderators who suffer from psychological trauma relating to their jobs of weeding out graphic content depicting child abuse, suicide and other violent events.” The suit claims that Facebook didn’t take the normal steps…
This doesn’t surprise me, and I’m sure the numbers in the US would be similar, maybe even lower. Just 17 percent of UK managers feel “very confident” in ability to support colleagues experiencing mental health issues. A shocking proportion of managers in the UK workforce have never received training to equip them with the skills needed to spot mental…
As always, it was a long week, and there are many things to think about. I went back through my own Twitter timeline for what I had to say live about the ILTA conference last week, and I’m struck by the number of risk factors at play for law firms, obviously, but by a couple…
Yesterday, I wrote about the risks facing law firms from all around that came to mind as I sat through some of the sessions. Tuesday morning, I listened to Keith Lockhart from AccessData talk about responding to data breaches, and then watched 15-year old Marcus Weinberger do some basic hacking. Oh yeah, there’s also that…