As startups scale, employees often have the opportunity to advocate for and define their next role since it likely doesn't yet exist, writes Margaret Roth. Base the parameters of this position on improvements the business needs to make and the growth in responsibilities you've experienced since your hire.
Before a big project, consider walking through what could go wrong and how your team or organization will react, Dan Rockwell writes. "Prepare for negative outcomes that are likely," he writes.
Networking event attendees whose primary goal is to gather as many business cards as possible should stay home, writes Ivan Misner, founder of BNI. "I've tried telling them that this is not networking -- it's either face-to-face cold calling or worse yet, it's simply 'card collecting,'" he writes.
The US Supreme Court will hear a case next term to determine whether employees participating in pension plans will have more ability to sue when they consider the plan mismanaged.
The final phase of the interview process at several major tech companies seeks to learn about your character, writes Minda Zetlin. She lists examples of questions from 19 firms, such as Amazon, Oracle, Salesforce and Apple, provided by tech-career consultancy Pathrise, which also offers tips for answering them.
Don't just follow up an interview with an email, instead send a handwritten card by mail or leave a short thank-you message on a hiring manager's voicemail the next day, writes Ashira Prossack. Be sure to talk about your unique skills and mention something you may have learned in the interview, she suggests.
Naps help us re-energize as long as they aren't too long, writes Claire Hannum. It's best to sleep 20 to 30 minutes in the afternoon to avoid the deep sleep inertia that leaves us feeling out of it.
The city of Vienna has launched a new tourism campaign called "Unrating Vienna" which features funny low-rated reviews to promote the message that travelers should judge the city for themselves, rather than solely relying on online ratings. One example of a review was for the Leopold Art Museum -- which is home to numerous critically acclaimed pieces by Austrian artists -- stating that the "paintings are disgusting."
