It's almost Independence Day, and time off, cookouts and fireworks are all on the horizon. But what if your job isn't lighting it up for you anymore? According to this CareerJournal article, allowing yourself to stay in a comfortable but unfulfilling job is a sure path to career stagnation. To move up, you need to kick yourself to possibly move on. Sounds like simple advice, right? "But it's summer...

In a post I wrote a few weeks ago, I wondered why companies wouldn't allow their employees to work remotely. After all, if you're essentially just commuting into office headquarters to sit in a cubicle and pound away at your computer keyboard all day, why not do that from the comfort of your home instead? You'll be spared a hefty gasoline bill, overpriced cafeteria lunches and, if you're a guy, hav...

At the beginning of June, there was a death in the world of fashion. No, I'm not talking about designer Yves Saint Laurent -- the Men's Dress Furnishings Association, which represents necktie manufacturers, shut down. The reason? Guys just aren't wearing the product anymore. According to a Gallup poll, only a record-low 6 percent of men wore ties regularly to work in 2007, down from 10 percent in 2...

One thing Americans don't do particularly well is vacations. We don't get nearly as many vacation days as workers elsewhere in the world, we don't use all the vacation time we do get, and -- perhaps worried about our job security -- we tend to check in with the office while we're away. What's more, about 25 percent of American workers get no paid time off  at all. In fact, we're the only indus...

As we head into the steamy summer months, we're getting ready to tackle the hot topics on job searching, life at work and career development here on the Monster Blog. Here are a few questions we're thinking about for upcoming posts: Does the length of your resume actually matter? We're seeing some resumes as short as 140 characters -- and others that seem to car...