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What Really Matters in an Interview
Korn Ferry CEO Gary Burnison highlights what job seekers must get across when they meet with potential employers.
The New Survival Strategy: More Meetings
As mid-career office workers strive to keep their jobs, they’re homing in on the one arena where human skills still reign supreme: meetings.
6 Ways to Handle Decision Fatigue
Managing all the back-and-forth business shifts going on right now can take its toll.
April 23, 2026
In such a tough job market, more workers are taking any job they can find—regardless of their interest in it. How that can corrode a firm’s culture and mission.
April 22, 2026
With their pick of candidates, some firms are asking for Sunday interviews or extending ‘work trials.’ What’s next?
April 21, 2026
AI and hiring cutbacks have quietly prompted one of the biggest resets in HR budgets in years. Could that be a mistake?
Best-selling author Dan Goleman says new AI models are being trained in an emotional-intelligence skill that many leaders can’t—or won’t—master.
April 20, 2026
AI and hiring cutbacks have quietly prompted the largest reduction in HR budgets in years. Could that be a mistake?
April 15, 2026
The new roles are there for the taking, but firms aren’t hiring because the skills aren’t there. How to solve the greatest talent imbalance in a generation.
August 15, 2023
The next wave of generative AI is moving away from generalist platforms to more specialized tools used for specific purposes. Here are five that are gaining traction with business users.
UK leaders in AI say the algorithms that hurt women candidates have improved.
August 14, 2023
Stressed out employees are rolling back their time on the job by 37 minutes, a new study shows.
Businesses struggle to adjust amid heft tax hikes corporations and consumers.
Hope is not a strategy, but there are plenty of good reasons why leaders need hopeful employees, says best-selling author Dan Goleman.
Merger and acquisition activity continues to be down. Will this lifeblood of business begin to pick up, and how can companies grow in the meantime?
August 11, 2023
The so-called
Leaders walk a fine line when trying to give employees an extra few days off in the waning summer weeks.
August 10, 2023
Companies offering flexible work schedules are hiring talent at twice the rate of those that don’t. Is the big push for RTO slowing—and for how long?
August 9, 2023
Retailers have looked to toymakers and hoteliers for new CEOs lately. Why they might not be the only industry soon looking for outsiders.
There’s been slew of high-profile departures of chief diversity officers lately. Is there something new stymieing DEI efforts?
August 8, 2023
As heatwaves roil everywhere, over half of US workers want to wear shorts on the job.
