To provide graduate students with insights from practitioners, Ben Baran from Foster Excellence has launched an “Early-Career Practitioner Conversations” series, which provides advice from successful practitioners who earned a graduate degree in industrial/organizational psychology, human resource management, or a related field within the past five years.

What is the difference between Industrial-Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior? Not much, but a recent question on LinkedIn inspired me to do some research and get to the details of it. I thought to throw the info up on here as well just in case any students deciding on grad school [...]

I recently read a post called Why it’s smart to quit a job after just two weeks of work, which caused some intense debate about how soon is too soon to quit your job. Most readers voiced opinions that six months is a good amount of time to quit if [...]

When I tell people I have two jobs, they look at me like I’m crazy. Or, with recent economic conditions, they ask me if I’d like to give them one of them. Actually, I wouldn’t. I love both and I appreciate both.

There are such benefits to having two jobs. What I learn in [...]