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Check Your Network: How Networking Perpetuates Racial Discrimination

Check Your Network: How Networking Perpetuates Racial Discrimination

If you pay attention to career advice — from Sheryl Sandberg or Warren Buffett or from or from this website, for that matter — you know that networking is crucial to finding a job, keeping it, and advancing within and beyond it. But of course, not everyone has access to solid career networks through friends, family members, or college. And a new study suggests this is a major factor that helps explain why the black unemployment rate is so high. More »

Four Celebrities Who Admitted They Were Wasted On The Job

Four Celebrities Who Admitted They Were Wasted On The Job

Hairstylist and Jennifer Aniston BFF Chris McMillan will go down in the hairstyle history books (which I really hope exist) for creating the iconic “Rachel” haircut in 1994. But McMillan just told Women’s Wear Daily that he was high when he came up with the ‘do. “I’m 14 years sober, so I feel safe enough to say that,” he said. In his honor, here’s a brief list of Celebrities Who Later Admitted They Were Wasted While Doing Their Jobs. More »