Career Advice

When you disagree with management's practices or the business's decisions, can you voice your dissent without killing your career? Reporting issues to the boss can be a slippery slope. You should consider multiple angles to decide which path you'll take: silence, speaking up, or exiting altogether.

Conventional sales pitches are a thing of the past, says sales expert Jeffrey Gitomer. These days, personality is as important as presenting the pros and cons of your particular product or service.

Unless you're unemployed, job-hunting eight hours per day is unrealistic. Luckily, two hours may be all you need.

Behind every glamorous new software start-up are legions of folks who sell the company's products and services. Combining technical expertise and sharp people skills, sales engineers have become the unsung heroes of the latest tech boom.

It's that time of year again: Many workers and managers are preparing for the dreaded performance review. But a few companies are deciding not to do them.

How you follow up after a job interview is critical as following up in the first place. An October survey of 1,000 hiring professionals found that 81% said follow up should happen within two weeks.

Looking for a new gig? Sausalito, Calif.-based workplace culture website Glassdoor.com has released its annual list of the Top 50 Best Places to Work in 2012. Among companies that ranked in the top 50 were Facebook, Google, Apple and Intel, and finance firms Ernst & Young, Goldman Sachs and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

As most people have figured out by now, the annual holiday party isn't an opportunity to get sloppy drunk and paw your favorite co-worker. Office parties can, however, become an opportunity to advance your career.

With their retirement nest eggs shrinking, more baby boomers are buying annuities as a hedge against declining returns. Selling them requires insurance agents to probe an individual's appetite for risk before recommending a specific annuity contract to carry that person through retirement.

As traditional media companies slash budgets and shed staff, many of their editors and writers are finding new opportunities directing content for retail, social networking and entertainment companies, among others.