You can prepare all you want for a job interview, but still be asked a curveball question that leaves you stumped for how to answer. Should you say “I don’t know” when you actually don’t know? The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kathy Caprino, M.A. covers careers, leadership and personal growth. Interviewing for a new role can be exciting, but it also can ...

Tackling tricky interview topics requires more than just quick thinking, according to Madeline Mann, founder of career coaching business Self Made Millennial. Candidates also need to demonstrate a ...

It’s impossible to overstate the importance of communication within the business world. If you needed to boil down the secret to success into a single concept, it would be communication: The ability ...

I recently asked an acquaintance how she was four times in a row. Here's how to avoid getting stuck on this conversational hamster wheel. While checking in at the gym the other day, I chirped, “Hey, ...

​Customers avoid difficult questions for a simple reason: They don’t want to hear an answer that might force them to walk ...

"You want to be single?" I said yes. And then I told her that I thought single was a stupid term. It made it sound like you were unattached to anyone, unconnected to anything. I preferred the term ...

It was, to say the least, embarrassing. One programmer in particular, who was a favorite of the old director’s (who was fired for cause), was simply rude, asking the new department head pointed, ...

We’ve all had them: questions from clients with answers that seem so obvious to us that they can be difficult to explain. As financial advisors, it’s easy to get frustrated when a client asks ...