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My social anxiety is hurting my career and I don’t know what to do. It feels like I tried everything.

WWYD: I applied for an associate position at a plaintiff’s firm that is advertising how they’re currently expanding in leaps and bounds over 7 days ago, and even got an old classmate of mine who is currently there to forward my CV and other materials to the decision makers on top of applying through the normal channel. I haven’t heard a thing. Do I reach out to the firm to see where they’re at in the process? Do I continue to wait patiently for them to reach out?

Does getting fired really matter? What “record” does it go on? My FICO score?

What are some signs that you’re going to be laid off soon?

I'm an account guy and I steer away from dating account women... women in creative have my heart

FWA how is % calculated? What is the total hrs used?

What are your favorite one-liner words of wisdom you’ve picked up over the years?

What do you all have in place for your employee recognition program?

What document management software does your firm use? I’m helping our firm make some technology/software changes, and there are so many options out there. We are a small firm with approximately 20 attorneys.

My firm provides general business counsel to the corporation my family member works for. My family member just quick and they offered her a severence agreement. The family member asked if I could look it over. I do not do any work for this corp, but my firm does. I would like to help my family member, but worried about my ethical duty. Thoughts?

Anyone in this bowl did the CAMS exam? If so, is this an exam that can be passed without AML experience?

Fish, how do you deal with making significantly more than your boyfriend / girlfriend? Currently having a hard time with being overly generous but also know it's the fair thing to do

Amazon/ Apple/ Google/ Facebook which one has the best work life balance ? Especially for working moms ?

Is anyone noticing a trend toward offering part-time or contract roles to reduce risk/cost of bringing on full-time talent?

Among Google, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Dropbox, Uber, Snap, AirBnB, LinkedIn etc. which is the best company to join in terms of best engineering talent? Please feel free to add any companies that I might have missed.

Those who moved from selling to managing a team - how did you evaluate if the switch was right for you and which role did you find you enjoyed more? Being asked to consider the switch & I’m a unsure.

Anyone from sales transition into a technical role? If so what is the role and how did you do it.

Thoughts on Wash DC or Chicago. Which one is better? Where would you live?

Anyone have any book recommendations related to business/finance? Reading Billion Dollar Whale now and can’t put it down!

Planning a family vacation (with kids in their 20s) to Italy. Looking for a private tour thing. Like a company that does all the planning and kinda takes us everywhere so we don't have to think. Any ideas or recos appreciated. thank you!

Hey CTzens, was it possible for any of you to counter the offer initially provided by CitiusTech? They really are quite hard to negotiate with. They just match the offer given by other companies. Not sure how do I go on about that.
YOE: 4
Techstack: Big Data (Spark, Hive & Hadoop)

Any suggestions on which would be a better opportunity.. Data Engineer in AbInbev or Clifford chance?

Hey fishes, I am hearing Tiger Analytics is rescinding offer letters floated to candidates. One of my acquaintance was supposed to join as analytics consultant but they rescinded the offer 3 weeks before his DOJ. Does anyone have information regarding this?

Hi everyone!!
I’ve been searching for almost a year with minimal success, so I’m turning to you for help or advice. I am trying to relocate to GA but in the meantime I’m looking for a remote hrbp or hr manager role. I have a generalist, consulting, and training background. I want to gain more experience with DEI and possibly some in a mission based organization.

Anyone get a sense of impostor syndrome after receiving an offer? Worried they’ll regret hiring me.

Will a 3.45 gpa from UPenn/Duke/Northwestern kill my chances at H/S/W?

Posted in another bowl, but suggested to post here:

For those of you who left a company to go to another company after maternity leave, what were the reasons? How did it work out at the new firm?

Transitioning from biglaw to IRS Chief Counsel?

Hi all, has anyone here transitioned to Chief Counsel from biglaw? What was your experience like? When did you transition? Any tips or general comments?

Current jr. associate. Love tax, not loving biglaw. Have an llm. Looking to transition in the next few years (or earlier if possible).

Thanks for any help.

Best Marriott properties in the LA area? Preferably anything not downtown - like Santa Monica area

Is anyone else in a final-ish stage of an interview? I want to show excitement for the role but also want to be respectful of their workload with Thanksgiving and the holidays in the near future. I don't want to be a pest but I also don't want them to push it aside...

Hi folks,
Can u pls suggest some good companies for Salesforce developers with 6+YOE which have a good pay and a well work-life balance?

How is the onsite opportunity in HCL? Is it as good as TCS?

A family of 3 (expecting 4th soon) - planning to move to a single family house.. the prices are ridiculously high.. thoughts on where (which areas) I can look for with a budget of 1.1M max? 4 bed and 2500-3000 sqft

Supply chain folks. There is an ask from client to measure a KPi 'synchronization measure from raw materials to FG' from planning team. They need my suggestion. Is it right to think about throughput time (processing time +inspection time+moving materials+Queuing time) or the other way of showing split up ( washing +cutting + inspection + freezing +packing materials). Pls suggest

Where my DC peeps at??

Question about RSUs and taxes in the UK - Amazon makes us pay 6.9% of the NIC EmployER taxes when our shares vest, and this amount is deducted from RSU reported as income so we’re not double taxed. But do you know if we are able to claim back the 6.9% through tax returns? I hear a lot of people claiming some money back on RSU taxes but never understand what and how..