5 glaring signs your coworkers are untrustworthy

You don’t have to be best friends with your coworkers. We know some of you want to keep the personal and the professional separate, and that's totally fine. But at the very least, you should be able to trust your coworkers. You certainly wouldn’t…

7 signs your coworkers don’t like you

Many people spend half their waking weekday hours with their co-workers. So, if you figure you're asleep a majority of your home hours, you're getting to know what's going on in the lives of your cubicle mates more than your family and friends…

The working woman’s guide to dressing professionally when it’s blazing hot out

It’s summer! It took a while for those of us in colder climates to get to this point, but it's finally time to store the sweaters and place your cute warm weather gear at the front of your closet. So it's 90 degrees out and you need to figure…

7 harsh reasons you haven’t gotten a raise

You’ve been loyal, put in the time, done your best work, kissed the appropriate amount of derriere. Why, then, you ask, have you yet to get that raise or get promoted? Your last performance review doesn’t show any reasons why you shouldn’t…

Top 10 characteristics of successful and creative women

If you haven’t seen Wonder Woman yet, add it to your to-do list: you will be newly inspired to kick butt and take names. If you want to be all the woman you can be and achieve the great things you know you’re destined for, then there are…

How to get people to like you, according to an FBI behavior expert

We all want to be liked. We all want to be popular at work—at least enough to one day be promoted, enjoy success, and get along with our colleagues. And we all want to make that crucially important first impression into a great one. Networking…

Top 7 Job Skills You’ll Need in 10 Years if You Don’t Want to Get Left Behind

There’s an awful lot of doomsday chatter about the future of the workforce and how all our jobs will be replaced by robots by 2020. A lot of that might be true. The World Economic Forum’s 2016 Future of Jobs Report estimated that over 5…

7 Strategies for Women Who Want to be the Boss at Work

Even today, there are some unspoken double standards for women and men in the workplace. Sure, we’ve (hopefully) moved on from the worst of the Mad Men style of blatant sexism in the office, and these days you can find women working alongside…

7 Warning Signs Your Talent Is Being Wasted at Work

So you sought out a job, went through the interview process, and got hired. Whoo hoo, so exciting! What's more, you even feel confident that you were the best out of the bunch of candidates. But all the same, maybe since you started you haven't…

How to Criticize Your Boss Without Losing Your Job

Feedback, as any good professional understands, is critically important. There’s nothing like a little constructive criticism to put the fire under your tail feathers and help you to understand and grow past your own limitations. But it isn’t…