After taking the 3 surveys I found out that my stress levels are moderate. I scored a 190 on the life stress inventory, which implies that I have a 50% chance to have a major mental breakdown in the next 2 years. I thought that this percentage seemed very high for me because I don’t…

Compensation and benefits can play a large role in making big decisions in someone’s life. For me, this happened when I was looking for an internship as a project engineer. I had interviewed with multiple companies that I was interested in and got an offer from 2 of the 3 companies. Both companies were going…

I haven’t had many interviews in my professional career but with the few that I have had, I can tell you some went better than others. All my interview experiences came from when I was applying for summer internships. I remember my first interview and how nervous I was going in but by the end…

Job descriptions are the most important thing for a job title to have. The job description has all the information that is needed for the job and is broken down into tasks, knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics that are need for the job. The main objective of a job description is to help find…

Looking through the top 100 best places to work for I found quite a lot of places that I recognized and some that I had never heard of. As most people would do, I selected 4 companies that I knew well, or I knew people that worked there. I choose Edward Jones, The Cheesecake Factory,…

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