Words and Phrases That Can Ruin Your HR Career—and Fast!

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Human resource professionals love their jobs but they lead a rough work life. Employees complain, the benefits are never enough, and business owners look to them to “fix” the often unfixable. You can become unsympathetic quickly and may be guilty of using these 10 no-no words and phrases.

10 Words to Doomland

A CBS Money Watch story by Robert Pagliarini called “7 Deadly Words You Should Never Use If You Want a Better Life” prompted me to think about HR professionals and how the words they choose can land them in a place of no return—Doomland, I like to call it. I’ve thought of ten words, in fact, and if you are an HR professional (which I studied for in college and was for many years) and you find yourself using these words often, perhaps you’re a little burned out.  more...