Could You Work for a Liar?
You apply for a job knowing the advertised salary range is somewhat below what you previously earned. The market is very different now, so even though you are well-qualified for this job, you aren't opposed to taking a pay cut. Then you get a job offer and aren't you surprised to find out that the employer is offering a salary below what was advertised? This is what happened to one of our readers.
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Taking Minutes
Your boss asks you to do her a favor. Her secretary is out sick and she needs someone to take minutes at the weekly department meeting. The task sounds like a simple one, but don't underestimate its importance.
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Career Planning Jargon: An Explanation
Every trade and profession has a vocabulary that is specific to it. This is known as jargon. People who aren't in that field might have difficulty understanding some of the language. When I was very little, my mom stopped taking me to the pediatrician we had been seeing because she couldn't understand the "medicalese" he used. After all, she wasn't a doctor or nurse.
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Weekly Career Profile: Social Worker
 Social workers help people deal with barriers—physical or mental illness, poverty, and drug and alcohol addiction to name just a few—that are preventing them from functioning well in their environments. They work in hospitals, schools, colleges, community agencies, nursing homes and prisons.
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Should Your Behavior Outside Work Affect Your Career?
During Thursday night's Republican debate in South Carolina, candidate Newt Gingrich responded angrily when moderator John King asked him about the allegations Gingrich's ex-wife made about him in an interview with ABC News' Nightline. I will not go into what those allegations were, but, if true, they don't put him in a very positive light. Many say that Gingrich's personal life has little to do with his ability to be president of the United States. Others believe differently and think it has everything to do with it. What if Gingrich was a regular "Joe." Let's say his boss found out about something he did outside of work that wasn't so nice. Could he lose his job over it?
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