It’s a question people ask all the time regardless of where they are in the hiring process, but the answer really depends on the organization.

I’ve been responsible for hiring at multiple companies I’ve worked for and it’s never an easy job. It’s also something I’ve only taken part of in small companies and this is something all job applicants need to realize. A small company probably doesn’t have an HR department. More likely, there is some jack-of-all-trades employee that wears multiple hats trying to hire as well as do multiple other jobs. [More]

The first big-box retail store I saw close was Circuit City. There was one right next to my college and, only being friends with strange people, everyone I knew was talking about the weird stuff you could buy during their going-out-of-business sale. (How many display shelves does a dorm room need?)

Each year it seems one more business is added to the Retail Extinction list. In just the past couple years The BonTon, Sears, Kmart, and Toys R Us all declared bankruptcy, and not the kind where you just restructure debt and move forward like nothing happened. [More]

I know, this is some boring new-home owner post, but I have to ask, what do people have against Sears?

The company is doing poorly because their suppliers have been calling in debts all at once. Just imagine if you were paying all your bills, but then your student loan servicers asked you to pay back the full sum of your debt by the end of the year. People would probably be walking around talking about how poorly you were doing too. So why are their suppliers doing this? They’ve lost confidence in Sears because they think YOU have lost confidence in Sears. [More]