Tag: employment

Dozens of people have asked me to address dating within the nonprofit sector, and by dozens of people, I mean ...

There are plenty of websites that focus on general interviewing skills and questions you may encounter in an interview, but here ...

I attended a workshop on accessible employment recently and was reminded, as I've written about before, what a fraught topic ...

Recently on a cloudy August morning, I was simultaneously texting a young person to see if they were okay after ...

The people of color that I’ve been talking to are getting kind of sick of the equity, diversity, and inclusion ...

Working with multiple generations in any field can be challenging, and human services is no exception. Most challenging can be ...

I’ve been reflecting on the complex dynamics of employment relationships (ER) — let’s call them ERs because of the acronym’s ...

It concludes about 80% of the job postings I find require a driver's licence and vehicle as a condition for ...

It makes me so sad when I meet social workers who have lost their dreams, their passion, their why. Just ...

When David Freud stated that some disabled people were “not worth” the minimum wage, he was not saying this for ...

US Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez (Left) President of Center for American Progress Neera Tandan (Right) A couple of months ...

What century is this? I have been obsessed lately with the retrograde decision made by the Supreme Court in the ...

There seems to be an unspoken rule in social work that no fun is allowed. Aside from play therapy for ...

Many of you reading this may be recent or soon to be graduates, and/or  you have been looking at the ...

As many of you know, internship experiences are the most important part of a social work program. Since the MSW ...

Education has long been considered one of the gateways to socioeconomic success in the United States. In today’s labor market, ...

President Obama recently launched his initiative entitled, My Brothers Keeper, and it was created to address the under achievement  among young black ...

by Vilissa K. Thompson, LMSW Recently, President Obama signed an executive order to increase the minimum wage to $10.10 an ...

Deciding whether or not to disclose about your mental illness in the workplace can put you in a very compromising ...

Being terminated from a job is never a pleasant experience, even when the work environment is toxic. Termination from a ...