The path to success can be derailed by clashes with difficult people, and even if the clash isn't disastrous, it can make your life very unpleasant. Everyone has a store of coping mechanisms that we resort to when we find ourselves in stressful situations. Difficult people force us to fall back on...

In the battle of the sexes, recent studies show that women have certain characteristics that make them better leaders--though men still hold the majority of these positions.

Everyone has to start somewhere -- and sometimes, that "somewhere" is as an assistant.

Lynda Fraser, Vice President, Human Resources Contract Division, Solomon Page Group

Changes in life are inevitable. Through networking you never know who you will meet, how you will meet them or where these connections may take you … Tara Thurber, Recruiter, Solomon Page Creative and Marketing

Now that LinkedIn has become the standard place to present your professional history and credentials — not to mention the fastest way to check somebody else's — the humble résumé has lost its once-hallowed position as the canonical version of your professional identity. Your LinkedIn profile should...

Compared with offices of the past, the modern workplace is paradoxically both more informal and more relentless. Doors have been replaced by cubicles, formal desks with tables, and long-planned meetings with ad hoc collaboration. Work and home have blended, to the general benefit of work: more and...