Dear Liz, I work in a startup. The company is growing so fast that new people start every week, but people leave almost every week, too. It's not the worst job I've ever had but there are a lot of inexperienced, obnoxious supervisors around and they tend to promote immature people to supervisory jobs. I made the mistake of...

Dear Liz, I am about as meek and mild a person as you could find, but I still left two job interviews recently. If the interview questions are so obnoxious that I can see I would never want to work for the company, then I leave. In one case the interviewer asked me "What are your greatest faults?" Usually they ask "What's your greatest weakness?" which I feel is a really dumb and inappropriate question, but at least it is posed as a question about weaknesses - areas a person might be working on improving, like financial reporting skills or something like that. The interviewer who asked me...

LinkedIn is considered the mecca for professionals to recruit and connect with one another. And yet, even with the abundance of options, it's still hard for recruiters to find the right candidate, as a lot of profiles just aren't up to standard. Albeit, some folks start a profile because they think it's necessary, but...

Dear Liz, I love your advice about giving recruiters my salary target instead of my salary history. I am actively job-hunting and I got three messages from recruiters last week. All of them asked for my salary history and I gave them my salary target the way you suggested. One of the recruiters said "I need your salary history or I can't work with you" and I said "Buh-bye, in that case!" and that was that. The other two recruiters were fine with my salary target, which is very reasonable for the kind of work I do. My problem is...

Dear Liz, I just got a call from a company I interviewed with three weeks ago. I thought it was a good interview, and I guess they thought so too. Now the company's HR Manager is telling me they want to go ahead with an offer - but...

Long before I was old enough to have a job, I heard my parents say "Never quit a job before you have another job to go to!" I heard them tell my older brothers and sisters "Wait until you find a new job -- then quit!" It's sensible advice and we all try to follow it. Sometimes...

One of the most common mistakes a job-seeker can make is to wait too long to say "See ya!" to a job opportunity that's going nowhere. Some unscrupulous or clueless people will keep you in a recruiting pipeline for weeks or months when you actually have no chance at getting the job...

Dear Liz, I'm a technical sales support specialist. I had a terrible relationship with my former boss "Hal." Hal has a strong personality and he doesn't worry about people's feelings when he has something to say. Over the nine months I worked for Hal I heard him call me and my co-workers lazy, stupid, unqualified, overpaid and...