Survive at Work

By Barbara Poole

A few months ago, career columns were all about how to leave your job, or escape from your job, or develop a social media job search strategy, or write a resume, or present yourself to a prospective employer in ways that would dazzle, and so forth.  In the wake of 500,000 layoffs and far more [...]

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Are You Out of Control for 8.5 Hours a Day?

By Barbara Poole

What kind of working world exposes workers to so much stress that a new term was coined to describe it? Who else has suffered down in the trenches of a “high stress, low control job”? Well folks, welcome to the American workplace.
According to an article from NursingCenter.com , “Women experiencing “high stress, low control” situations anywhere [...]