Skip to content After winding its way through the legal process, the FTC’s headline-grabbing noncompete ban is off the table – at least for now. Before it could go into effect in September, an August 20 ruling in federal court barred the FTC from enforcing the planned nationwide ban. U.S. District Judge Ada Brown in … Read more

Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter have become an outlet for many. Rants, photos, and irrelevant status updates are the usual posts on these social sites. However, aside from family and friends, hiring managers and recruiters check social media profiles too. Recruiters have taken advantage of technological advances to assess an applicant’s character through … Read more

You’ve heard people tell you to network your way to a new job. But that seems easier said than done. You need a plan to grow your network. Maybe you don’t have a network or you don’t like to network or perhaps you don’t know how to network. Before you worry about any of this, … Read more

In the early 20th century, Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci was dissatisfied with the failures of the revolution in European countries and sought to explain why the revolution wasn’t taking place in these advanced capitalist countries. He developed the concept of cultural hegemony as an explanation. This concept posits that through the institutions of society—schools, media, … Read more

If you ever exchange work-related memes with your work buddies, you’ll have seen the ones on meetings that could have been emails. Almost every single employee, regardless of industry, has at one point sat in a meeting that could have easily been summed up in a few bullet points. Sometimes, however, talking about things in … Read more