Online Career Tips

By Greg Peters, Business2Community.com
Special to Online Career Tips

Remember way back in 2012 when we had good old candidate Mitt Romney and his binders full of women to kick around?

Those were the days, weren’t they? Life was good, tweeting was easy and the cotton was high.

Romney offered up those “binders full of women” like a batting-practice fastball to a home run-starved big leaguer in need of a game-winning dinger. He made the gaffe during the second presidential debate, and by the following morning he had created a cottage industry of satire on the InterWeb.

Romney’s comment went from debate misstep to a viral sensation in the land of Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and all things cyber-ly considered as the phrase rose to cult status. By the next day, the Facebook page “Binders Full of Women” had 274,000 likes; Tumblr pages were created, at least one career had been saved and scores of tweets had been sent.

While there were binders they weren’t literally filled with women, what the Republican presidential hopeful so ungracefully referenced were the folders filled with the resumes of women that had been submitted to him as governor of Massachusetts when he sought out qualified female candidates for state cabinet posts.

By Dan Schwabel, Business2Community.com
Special to Online Career Tips

Many people I speak to feel stuck in their current jobs and the reason is often because it’s simply not the right fit for them. We often talk here about corporate culture and how important it is to match your brand to your employer. Despite a still high national unemployment rate, workers are constantly looking for their next move. 35% of workers are already preparing for their next job after two weeks in, reports CareerBuilder. Staying in the wrong job can be detrimental to your career because you have a bad attitude, are less productive and your unhappiness can negatively impact your social life.

By Joyce Lain Kennedy, ChicagoTribune.comSpecial to Online Career Tips

DEAR JOYCE: I'm a single mom working from home three days a week. I can afford a sitter two days a week. I understand that Yahoo and Best Buy ended their policies of allowing employees to work out of the office. Maybe I'm overreacting, but are we seeing the beginning of the end of job policies that allow employees to work from home at least several days a week? -- L.A.L.

Today more Americans are working from home at least one day a week than ever before: more than 9 percent of U.S. workers, compared with 7 percent in 1997.

And the last I heard, Best Buy non-store employees can still work out of the office, but now they will need a manager's approval.

By Michael Horn, Forbes.com
Special to Online Career Tips

A few weeks back, I had the honor to emcee the closing awards dinner at the Education Innovation Summit in Scottsdale.  The evening took a sour note though as the dinner keynote, which Andy Kessler delivered, stunned and offended the majority of the audience by essentially arguing that as digital learning rises, we won’t need teachers anymore.

The audience took to Twitter to voice vehement disagreement, and my co-emcee and I—we were just as surprised as everyone else—did our best to distance ourselves from the remarks and hit the reset button on the evening.