By Eli Amdur To witness history – and to recognize it as such while it’s happening – is rare. To do that twice is mind boggling. Yet that’s what we’ve done since 2008. That year, we witnessed the onset of – and began enduring the prolonged, painful progression of – “The Great Recession,” when the […]

            Question: “How do I deal with the salary history or salary expectations question in job applications and interviews?”             Answer: Apply for a job in New York City (at least for now).             As we all know – all too well and for all too long – the bane of job seekers’ existence has […]

            Much has been discussed about the strength of our job market. Statistics have been spewed, analyses offered, predictions launched – including here. Well, the stats and analyses, but I’ve learned not to make predictions. They seem bold when you make them but foolish once you have. On the other hand, expectations make for meaningful […]

            We love our catchphrases, don’t we? Indeed, along with our obsession with memes, slogans, jingles, mottos, monikers, and links, we’re a catchphrase culture. And one of the big ones of the last couple of years, hands down, is “The Great Resignation.” Problem is, turning things into snappy little quips tends to romanticize them, although […]

Apparently, my follow-up three weeks ago to the previous week’s contest needs more follow-up. To animate my point that a broad mind is needed to understand a wide world, I listed 14 interesting factoids, asked you to match them up in relevant pairs or triplets, depending on how you inductively connected which dots – an […]

            Millions of young workers who started their careers since the onset of the pandemic have still neither been to their employers’ brick and mortar addresses nor met any of their coworkers in person. Millions more haven’t been to the office enough times to know what “going to work” feels like as a regular element […]

            A month ago, my article on the unprecedented strength of our job market suggested all the ongoing factors that could have derailed our high-powered job creation engine: a new Covid variant, supply chain issues, inflation, truckers’ strike, shaky couple of months for the stock market.             Factors that could have caused trouble – but […]

Last week, I opened a discussion about one of the most existentially meaningful steps we can take: developing a broad mind to understand a wide world. Surely that’s always been true, but never more than now, given the nature, pace, and scope of change as we hurtle through this dizzying century. (For last week’s column: […]

           You need a broad mind to understand a wide world.             Assume the things you’ll need to know in order to plan and navigate your career (and your life in general) are growing faster than your awareness of them.            Assume the future is coming at us so fast that half of it is […]

            If you have visions of working remotely for the rest of your career, get over it. With very few exceptions, it’s not going to happen – not full time, anyway.            Will the workplace continue changing? Of course – and for the better. But you’re unlikely to continue shuffling around the house in your […]