Category Archives: Cube Rules Commentary

Commentary on the Cubicle Warrior life.

How your goals impact your performance review

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emailprint photo credit: duncan Business goals are the holy grail of performance reviews. Or, at least they should be. After all, the business goals we work to achieve should be the most important work we can do to help the business achieve its goals for the year. Goals, though, are a slippery slope when it comes… Continue Reading

The Day the LOLcats Died

There is current legislation in the Senate that will try and restrict sites like Cube Rules from providing content. You can take action to call your Senator to stop these bills.

How to update your resume for 2012

photo credit: sir_watkyn It’s 2012 — and time to update your resume with your 2011 business results. Most people won’t, you know. Then, when it comes time to pull out that resume, blow away the dust, and update it, those same people won’t remember what they did in 2011 to put on their resume. Or,… Continue Reading

3 career lessons from 2011

photo credit: TC Morgan Photography Pundits will have their best and worst of 2011 articles out there. The best and worst needs noting, of course, but, to me, neither of them are actionable. Instead, I like to look at the experiences we’ve had over the year and then determine what lessons we can learn from… Continue Reading

Dice.com – The Secret to Networking

One of the great privileges I’ve had over the last year or so is to write for Dice.com’s career advice area. In fact, I’m part of the Dice blogger network and my role, along with a few others, is to provide great career advice for potential job seekers. Now, what I write there will be familiar to… Continue Reading

The collapse of public education — and the impact on jobs

Via: Online Universities Blog

The Modern American Worker – Infographic

Infographics are the rage — here is one relating to the modern American worker. It doesn’t take long to understand the frustration of the American worker about not getting ahead…   Via: Business Insurance Hub

Careers are over

photo credit: Alex E. Proimos Most of us realize that just having a job does not make it a career. But there are a lot of us out there that think the goal in our adult working life is to have a career, not just a job. Unfortunately, careers are over. Think about it. In… Continue Reading

The ultimate answer to balancing your work and life

photo credit: liber Regular reader of Cube Rules will notice that the number of posts here have been few and far between since, oh, about August 15th. I’ve done some work over on Dice.com, but the work here has been a lot less. It all goes back to what a lot of people like to… Continue Reading

5 actions employees should take in case of debt default

photo credit: Johnny Vulkan The traditional media is finally catching up to what a lot of us have seen for a while: There is a very good possibility that the United States will default on its debt on August 2nd by not raising the debt ceiling. The impact of that, according to pundits, is anything… Continue Reading