KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Quinton Lucas formally recommended a new city manager on Wednesday. Lucas chose Brian Platt, who has served as the city manager in Jersey City, New ...

Letters of recommendation can help people secure jobs, gain entrance to college or earn a raise at work. If you are preparing to write a letter of recommendation for a work performance evaluation, ...

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Over the decades that I’ve worked in universities, I’ve watched academic letters of reference become increasingly inflated. And letter inflation goes beyond the academy; friends who hire in business ...

Johnny C. Taylor Jr. tackles your human resources questions as part of a series for USA TODAY. Taylor is president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, the world's largest HR ...

Jennifer Aniston (left) and Mike Judge in 1999 film Office Space.. Everett Collection In the 1999 movie Office Space, Jennifer Aniston plays Joanna, a waitress at a restaurant who in one scene becomes ...

Tucson City Manager Michael Ortega is recommending to the mayor and City Council that Reid Park Zoo should expand to the northwest, a plan that does require using some of the park’s green space but ...

MIAMI — Chief Art Acevedo’s suspension turned into termination of employment on Thursday night at Miami City Hall after a 6-month tenure as a designated outsider who had been tasked with reforming the ...

To land a job or get into a university, we usually need someone to vouch for us. It can be tough to ask—recommenders are typically more senior than us, they’re busy, and we don’t always know where we ...

ANSON COUNTY — County Manager Leonard Sossoman introduced renewing the county’s contract with the Department of Motor ...

A much-cited 2012 study found scientists were more enthusiastic about identical applications for a lab manager position when a generic male name was at the top, versus a female one. The implications ...