Careers: The Workplace

More Than a Statistic Approximately 22.7 million Black men and boys live in the United States, representing nearly half of the roughly 46.2 million Americans identified as Black alone in recent Census estimates. But those numbers represent real people living at every stage of life. They are boys preparing for school, young men wondering what

The Labor Market Is Not One Labor Market When people talk about the job market, they sometimes make it sound like everybody is standing in the same line waiting for the same opportunity. That has never been how the real world works. One job may have hundreds of people applying, while another employer cannot find

The Difference Between Earning Well and Owning Well Many of us spend a good part of our working lives trying to figure out how to earn more money. We chase promotions, larger salaries, bonuses, impressive titles, and opportunities to work for companies whose names carry a little weight when we tell somebody where we work.

Interviews Are More Than Answering Questions Most people walk into a job interview prepared to answer whatever questions somebody sitting across the table might throw at them. They rehearse their experience, accomplishments, strengths, weaknesses, leadership stories, and all the reasons they believe they are right for the job. That preparation matters, but a strong interview

The Myth of Having to Choose People have a way of telling us that we need to pick one lane and stay in it, as though a human being can only be one kind of person at a time. Be disciplined or relaxed, ambitious or content, tough or compassionate, intensely focused or easygoing, but somehow

Why the Beginning of an Interview Matters A job interview may look like a simple conversation about whether you have the education, experience, and skills to do the work, but a good interviewer is usually paying attention to something deeper. They want to know how you prepare, how you carry yourself, what motivates you, how

The Reality Behind a Reduction in Force Across this country, companies lay off hundreds, sometimes thousands, of workers every year, and for the people caught in it, the news can come like a bolt out of nowhere. One morning you are doing your job, and by afternoon an email tells you that the position you