HeyJaredZee’s Employment Emporium
Fair hiring. Better workplaces. Real talk. Zee’s Employment Emporium dives into job search strategies, toxic workplace fixes, and the intersections of work, politics, and culture—helping you thrive where you work.
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Ever Work For a Know-Nothing Manager? (opens the original)
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(Note: Hey Y’all, I’m back with the Manager series. As I mentioned, this series is part of book I’m hoping will come out later this year. Thanks so much for your support, your comments and letting me know this series made you smile.)Have you ever worked for a manager, and after about three weeks, you found yourself wondering: ‘Does this person know what they’re doing?’ Do they actually know anything about the work they are supposedly managing? And yet, that person was selected to lead an entire
Are Regulatory Ghost Hunters Coming for Those Ghost Jobs? (opens the original)
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Well, well, well.I’m not psychic or anything, but I have been writing about this for some time. And I was one of the FIRST to call out LinkedIn.Get this: apparently New York, California, and <a href="https://www.insidernj.com/press-release/moriarty-bill-to-prohibit-employers-from-posting-ghost-job-openings-clears-
1 Billion Rejections Later: Maybe Job Seekers Weren’t the Problem After all (opens the original)
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For years, job seekers have been told to fix themselves.‘Tailor your resume’. Use keywords. Quantify your accomplishments. Upskill. Downskill. Remove your advanced degrees because apparently being too educated can also make you less employable. Optimize for the applicant tracking system. Follow Up. Don’t follow-up too much. Be enthusiastic, but don’t be desperate. Whatever the advice, the message has pretty much been the same:The problem is YOU.Welp, after reading about the <a href="https://www.
The Ever-Changing Goalposts Manager (opens the original)
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There are managers who coach. There are managers who mentor. And then there are managers who move the finish line every time you get close enough to cross it. I call this type of manager, the ever-changing goalpost manager. These managers rarely tell you outright that they don’t want you to succeed. They don’t have to. Instead, they change the rules. Last week they wanted initiative. This week they want you to stay in your lane. Yesterday they praised independent decision making. Today they’re a
When Your Boss Is a Micromanager (opens the original)
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The micromanager doesn’t actually want professionals or people with expertise. They want human bots. No critical thinking. No strategizing. Just do what you’re told, when you’re told, the way I told you were told to do it. Any innovative thinking beyond their instructions is treated like a malfunction. The malfunction isn’t yours. It’s theirs. Micromanagers don’t hire people because they trust their judgment. They hire people because they need help being themselves. They need an extension of who
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