Career Planning and Recruitment

Everyone these days talks about networking for job searches. But for those who are just starting their initial job search, they might not know exactly what networking is. While it sounds like a computer term, networking is actually utilizing the people you know to find jobs in your field. For example, if [...]

Most people are aware of the protected categories of people who are protected by laws and legal statutes from workplace; people cannot be turned down for a job or fired from a job because of their race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age or because of pregnancy. However, there are other things that are [...]

Are you currently unsatisfied with your job or the company in which you work for? If you are, you may have considered changing jobs. If you have thought your decision over and decided that seeking employment elsewhere is best for you, you will need to resign from your current position. Unfortunately, for [...]

Before you hand your r?sum? in to a company where there is a job posting that you want, you know to look it over for any problems and to update it. This usually involves adding your current job and inserting any skills, experiences, and responsibilities gained by that job. You also may need [...]

According to the Federal Title VII law, an employer does not have to provide any leave of absence time for a woman to deliver her baby. This may sound odd, and according to California state law, it is. In fact, California state law requires necessary pregnancy leave of four months or less for [...]

Before you hand your r?sum? in to a company where there is a job posting that you want, you know to look it over for any problems and to update it. This usually involves adding your current job and inserting any skills, experiences, and responsibilities gained by that job. You also may need [...]

This is a very complicated issue of workplace discrimination. When companies are having financial troubles they often let employees go. Sometimes they offer "early retirement" packages to their older employees. Essentially what is happening here is what is termed as the "golden handshake", a forced early retirement because the person in question [...]

Sexual orientation discrimination is considered by many Americans to be an issue of the utmost importance in today's' workplace. No matter where a company or business is located, a person should not be discriminated against because of his or her sexual orientation. The person should be able to open about his or her [...]

Of the two common types of racial discrimination that are found in the workplace, disparate impact is the harder one to describe and even harder to prove. Disparate impact, unlike disparate treatment, is not directly aimed at a particular person or race, nor is it intentional. In fact, it is often a complete [...]