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Tech & Work

10 stages of a nightmare job search

It's tough to keep your spirits up when you've been job hunting for an eternity. But Steve Tobak has been there, and his perspective may help you get through the ordeal.

After Hours

The 10 most annoying employees

Certain behaviors are almost guaranteed to drive your boss crazy. Unfortunately, you might not even know you're doing it -- until the day you're shown the door.

CXO

10 workplace rules of engagement

Despite our best intentions, our workplace behavior is sometimes less than perfect. Here are some rules to help minimize the missteps and improve our on-the-job interactions.

Enterprise Software

10 things that good bosses do

Eliminating bad behaviors from your management repertoire is a step in the right direction. But to truly excel as a boss, you must learn how to motivate, inspire, and challenge your staff.

CXO

10 ways to destroy your management career

Your career can survive a few missteps -- in fact, what you learn from your mistakes can fuel your progress. But certain errors are guaranteed to blow your aspirations to smithereens. Here are 10 mistakes to avoid at all costs.

CXO

10 classic career disasters and lessons learned

Those professional missteps and failures often teach us more than our accomplishments and successes. Steve Tobak shares the positive outcomes of some of his negative career experiences.

Software

Five tips for avoiding staff meeting nightmares

Regular staff meetings serve as a platform for resolving problems and hammering out critical decisions... except when they're poorly run. Steve Tobak offers some advice for making sure your staff meetings are actually useful.

After Hours

10 dumb company names in an ADD world

Just for fun: What company names drive you crazy? Steve Tobak suggests a few.

Software

Five tips for surviving a dysfunctional boss

Is your manager about to drive you bonkers? Steve Tobak shares some survival strategies.

After Hours

10+ ways to be productive when you’re brain dead

Cognition on the fritz? Here are some ways to salvage the day even if you're not hitting on all (or any) cylinders.

Recruiting a Scrum Master with the right combination of technical expertise and experience will require a comprehensive screening process. This hiring kit provides a customizable framework your business can use to find, recruit and ultimately hire the right person for the job. This hiring kit from TechRepublic Premium includes a job description, sample interview questions ...

Knowing the terminology associated with Web 3.0 is going to be vital to every IT administrator, developer, network engineer, manager and decision maker in business. This quick glossary will introduce and explain concepts and terms vital to understanding Web 3.0 and the technology that drives and supports it.

While the perfect color palette or the most sublime button shading or myriad of other design features play an important role in any product’s success, user interface design is not enough. Customer engagement and retention requires a strategic plan that attempts to measure, quantify and ultimately create a complete satisfying user experience on both an ...

stevetobak

10 stages of a nightmare job search

The 10 most annoying employees

10 workplace rules of engagement

10 things that good bosses do

10 ways to destroy your management career

10 classic career disasters and lessons learned

Five tips for avoiding staff meeting nightmares

10 dumb company names in an ADD world

Five tips for surviving a dysfunctional boss

10+ ways to be productive when you’re brain dead

How to recruit and hire a Scrum Master

Web 3.0 quick glossary

How to recruit and hire a User Experience Designer

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