- Hired Gun and UX designer Jeff Gothelf writes for Usabilla about a simple (and potentially entertaining) “squint test,” which helps ensure that web designs emphasize what they need to.
- Working for more than one boss requires super-sized amounts of communication and other skills, but you can do it and still preserve your sanity. Forbes has some tips.
- NPR reports on employers and employment agencies who won’t even consider candidates who don’t already have a job. Discrimination or just good business sense?
- Inc. wants to help you hire creative employees. Tim Donnelly talks with creative directors and hiring managers to get their take.
- Joyce Lain Kennedy lays it on the line: “Employers traditionally have paid every dime of a candidate’s travel expense to an interview . . . . If you agree to pay travel costs [for a job interview in a city that's far away], you look so desperate you may as well stand on a street corner and sell apples.” [Chicago Tribune]
- “I WILL get rejected today.” What if you approached your job search like a game? [WorkWise]
- Ready for a real break? Seattle’s Space Needle is running a contest whose very lucky winner will get to be sent into space.
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