Stop Hiring for “Cultural Fit”
When you prioritize candidates you “click with,” you run the risk of discriminating against candidates from different backgrounds....
Younger Workers Lose Out When Their Coworkers Delay Retirement
Research suggests there is merit to complaints from younger workers that when older workers delay retirement – by choice or necessity – they block the career path for colleagues who...
How to Be Prepared for Important Career Moments
No one wants to be left struggling for an answer in front of a client or a boss, or stuck stammering in a job interview or networking event. The solution,...
How to Create a Human-Friendly Workplace in an Age of Automation
The trend toward automation is often discussed in terms of the financial and practical benefits of a division of labor: When are machines better equipped to tackle a task than...
A Nation’s Wealth May Depend on How Much Its Workers Can Learn on the Job
In a recent study, researchers investigated a factor in human capital that hadn’t received much attention: on-the-job learning. The researchers found that the rate at which people acquire skills at...
How to Build a Collaborative Workplace
There will always be a place for individual geniuses—for the lone wolves, the rogues, the nonconformists. But as the benefits of collaboration become clearer, individuals are sometimes at a disadvantage....
To Land Top Jobs, Women Need Different Types of Networks than Men
While it’s true that highly connected women tend to land better jobs, the most successful women also have something they cannot get through “beers with the boys”: close ties with...