Carol Kleiman

Once a month, the 56 employees at CCC Technologies Inc., a full-service telecommunications provider based in Elk Grove Village, get a chance to participate in an organized event that lifts...

Here's an update on the power of power at work: Hiring power: A job interview notoriously is a powerless situation for most applicants. But Cathleen Faerber, president of the Wellesley...

Q. I resigned from my job and currently am unemployed. But I've been getting frequent phone calls from my previous employer who always has "just one question"--and then I spend...

You can sense when a profession is on the rise: Its practitioners form an association. Academic institutions offer certificate programs in the field. And the association itself offers certification to...

Performance reviews--how they're conducted and what role they play in your career--have long been under attack as being stacked against you, the employee. The problem with them is that typically...

Q. I hate my new job but I'm afraid to quit because I know jobs are hard to get--and it took me such a long time to get this one....

If women want to get ahead in the workplace, don't they have to be more like men--in particular, like the 495 men who are CEOs of the country's top 500...

Right-to-work is the law in 22 states. And while many employers enthusiastically endorse it, labor unions just as vigorously denounce it. Right-to-work means that workers can't be denied the right...

Carol Kleiman is on vacation. The advice is as relevant today as it was when it was published last year. Q. My department has been asked to take personality tests,...

Carol Kleiman is on vacation. The advice is as relevant today as it was when it was published last year. In 1971 when Dick Lyles, an Annapolis graduate, was promoted...