Category: Career Growth

The power of an online resume comes down to one uncomfortable fact: recruiters are already looking for you online before you ever hand them a PDF. A comprehensive LinkedIn profile…

The perfect career for your personality is a phrase that sells a lot of quizzes, but the actual research behind personality-based career matching says something more modest than the marketing…

The original eight flight attendants were registered nurses hired in 1930 to prove that flying could be safe, and the job they invented barely resembles the one that exists today.…

The opportunity to explore different career paths is bigger than most career advice admits. The average American born in the late 1950s and early 1960s held 12.9 jobs between ages…

The only way to resign, according to a lot of career-advice content, is two weeks’ notice, a face-to-face conversation, and a polite letter. The actual employment law and HR research…

The new generation of young women leaders is not short on ambition: 80 percent of women say they want to be promoted, according to the largest annual study of women…

The medical transcriptionist boom is a phrase that shows up constantly in career-advice content, but the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics tells a very different story: the occupation is projected…

The many benefits of a nursing career go well beyond a stable paycheck: real federal data shows a median wage over $97,000, a projected shortfall of more than 100,000 nurses…

The lost art of resume thank you letters shows up in one blunt statistic: only 24 percent of job applicants send a thank-you note today, down from 51 percent less…

The key advantages of telecommuting get reduced to “no commute” in most casual conversation, when the actual research on remote and hybrid work covers real, measurable effects on retention, employee…