Work Life

JANUARY 23, 2024

This interview has been edited for length and clarity. so I was a government contractor—which is very common in the D.C. I have people on my payroll now, so I don’t want to forfeit losing a brand deal that is all our revenue, because I chose to say something. I live right outside Washington, D.C.,

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FEBRUARY 24, 2022

This post, our boss’s lack of self-esteem drives us crazy, interviewing when you can be very picky, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. However, for reasons unknown (government agency) they posted the titles outside of our site as well, meaning I now had seven applicants for the two spots.

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Vantage Circle

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Exit Interview , etc. Ensuring compliance of the company's working with the governing laws. Policy audits are also necessary to ensure that each of them has full compliance with the governing legal norms. These audits look into the leave structure, disability structure, health and safety, hr policies, payroll, etc.

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APRIL 10, 2022

And if a hiring manager doesn’t understand that’s what “clients” means in this context and asks about it in the interview, it will be awkward to explain that you really mean students. Originally I was being payed though a payroll service with direct deposit. I would find it odd to see a teacher referring to students as “clients.”

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Ask a Manager

AUGUST 8, 2017

Recently I had an interview for a HR manager position with a small organization of approximately 100 employees. The interviewer is a COO and only has a desk even though he deals with confidential financial information. Should my coworkers be allowed to see payroll data? Asking for an office as a condition of accepting a job.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

When I read it in 2015, I was working both a full-time government job and launching a side business that would eventually eat up 80 hours of my week. You need to actually get out there and hear people, whether through interviews or surveys or combing through product reviews or forums. “It Set up interviews. Don’t try to guess.

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JUNE 21, 2021

I wound up sending them all kinds of documentation — the timeline for the hidden check thing, photos of all of the surveillance items, dates and files for shady things that she did with resident accounts, in depth and verifiable accounts of her doing shady things to employees, proof of payroll fraud … just, a LOT. I got out!

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Ask a Manager

MAY 29, 2015

Part of your answer to this question (“can we delay payroll if someone isn’t turning in their hours on time?”) Earlier this year, a company I freelance for moved their payroll department to India. It’s enough of a burden that I’ve started interviewing for work as my freelance lifestyle has become unsustainable.

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APRIL 2, 2020

I work at a government agency where almost every task is done in teams or via collaboration. I threw myself into applying for jobs and used your tips for my resume , cover letter , and interview prep. I was thrilled to get an interview request less than a week after applying. How do I list collaborative projects on my resume?

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MARCH 28, 2021

Fast forward seven years, and I bounced around a little, but still work in the audit field for a government entity. HR investigated on my prompting and found out my position had been coded in payroll incorrectly, leading me to get extra pay for a shift differential even though I was working a standard shift.

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JULY 21, 2021

Another asked if I could set up time to chat about my decision process so that they might improve the interview experience, and then proceeded to use that time to try and convince me to ditch the position I had already accepted. If you frame it that way, interviewers are less likely to worry you’ll leave when he’s done with school.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

He is on the payroll in a way because he has filled out all of his paperwork, but won’t actually start being paid until he starts teaching in August. If you’d like, you can add, “In part, my response is governed by my need to ruthlessly triage the demands on my calendar right now!”.

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JULY 19, 2017

For over a decade now, I’ve worked in payroll in HR departments across the Canadian federal government. But will this hurt me if an employer tries to contact me for an interview? What is the best way to screen for this quality in interviews? This occurred in 2010, when I was a senior compensation advisor.

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JANUARY 23, 2018

I did free work as part of an interview — and then my interviewer published it without crediting me. I interviewed for a writing job at a university — actually the university’s law school. I interviewed for a writing job at a university — actually the university’s law school. What would you have done?

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Ruby

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Read the Interview Jill McKenna: Thanks, everyone, for being here. That way your manager can go in and say, for instance, our HR was spending too much time on payroll correction. So our biggest challenge was, as we got word of things potentially going awry, is the government shutting everything down. I am Jill McKenna.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

I finally had enough of a paper trail (it was a bureaucratic government job) to let go of the people who need to go and shift everyone else around. I applied, and was rejected without an interview. I know that if I could get an interview and have them call my references they would understand what happened. Fast forward a year.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Listen to the audio of the interview here. Many prescribing doctors learn about the chemical imbalance theory from senior respected specialists who often are on the payroll of the company. before going to the doctor, I check the government database for how much pharma money they are receiving. Dhar: In the U.S., Absolutely.

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Insperity

AUGUST 18, 2020

Retain all payroll records for three years. Problematic interview questions. Interviewers may think they’re making innocent small talk with a job applicant when they ask certain red-flag questions , such as: What year did you graduate from school? Learn more about interview questions you should never ask.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The interview went really well. I think I exceeded expectations during the technical portion of the interview. I got a call later that day saying not only are they offering me the job, but they are increasing the salary significantly above what was mentioned in the ad (that we also discussed in the interview)!

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Ask a Manager

JUNE 3, 2016

A reader writes: Two days after I finished my last position, I had a phone interview and was then asked for an in-person interview for a job 300 miles away. The first interview felt like magic — lightening in a bottle. After the interview, I sent my thank-you notes, then radio silence. I was pumped! Radio silence.

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Insperity

JULY 29, 2019

In a perfect world, all businesses would operate in strict accordance with the laws and best practices governing HR. Process new employee paperwork, including I-9s Maintain employee files Prepare employee payroll Process employee termination paperwork Ensure requisite compliance posters are posted and OSHA logs maintained.

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Work Life

DECEMBER 3, 2024

But there were 26,000 fewer open positions in the federal government. A Reuters survey of economists estimated payrolls increased by 200,000 jobs last month after rising by only 12,000 in October, the fewest since December 2020. The job openings rate increased to 4.6% in September. Stocks on Wall Street were mixed. in October.

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Vantage Circle

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The hiring process, however, isn’t just about checking resumes and conducting interviews—it’s about ensuring your candidates are reliable, qualified, and trustworthy. Customer Review “They don't currently integrate with our payroll system, but it looks like they will have that done soon.”

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Attendance Bot

MARCH 3, 2025

A survey of HR leaders found that AI is widely used for managing employee records, payroll, recruitment, performance tracking, and onboarding. To safeguard employee data: Establish strict data governance policies. This growing reliance on AI is streamlining processes and enabling HR teams to focus more on strategic initiatives.

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Work Life

OCTOBER 9, 2024

“I think a lot of seniors are going to say that this is not really enough to keep up with prices,” said AARP Senior Vice President of Government Affairs Bill Sweeney. If the trust fund is depleted, the government will be able to pay only 83% of scheduled benefits, the report said. Recipients received a 3.2%

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