Carol Kleiman

Grooming requirements: Female employees over the years have fought requirements about their appearance that employers have tried to impose on them: They've won lawsuits over having to wear circulation-stopping fishnet...

Dear Coach, After being unemployed for 16 months I took a job that lowered my salary from $100,000 to $40,000 a year. I am very embarrassed, even ashamed, about doing...

How networking works: Networking wherever and whenever you can might not always be a good idea. That's a concern of Gail Golden, a consultant at RHR International Co. RHR is...

`There's an impression that a woman's lucrative working life is over when she jumps on the `mommy track,' but despite all the gloom and doom of some back-to-work moms' stories,...

Dear Coach, I don't understand why employers need to check your credit. My credit is nobody's business. I try hard to pay my bills. Did it ever occur to these...

Always tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That's the advice given by Russ Jones to job candidates concerned about their resumes and what to say...

Giving adoptive parents support is a way of life at Intuit Inc., a provider of business and financial management software. The company, based in Mountain View, Calif., has some 7,000...

Dear Coach: I have an advanced degree in international business. I received it while studying in Mexico City at a school that is part of a university in the United...

Questions asked in job interviews aren't very funny, especially the one now being asked that requires you to answer, "What makes you laugh?" In fact, the plethora of new queries...

A serious indictment of work/life benefits is that too many of them are geared to high-ranking professionals who generally are free to set their own schedules and don't have to...