College students graduating this month are entering a still-precarious job market. Bill Shapiro's advice to them: Aim high; who cares if you get rejected? Shapiro knows the sting of rejection better ...

One of my biggest goals for this year was to learn not to take rejection so personally. Whenever I found the courage to ask for something (like a raise or promotion) and got turned down, it sent me ...

Let's be real—rejection sucks. Actually, "it sucks the big one," says Rachel Wright, LMFT, a licensed marriage and family therapist in New York City. Research even shows that the brain reacts to ...

Want student loan forgiveness? A shocking, new report says that 80% of you will get rejected. Here’s what you need to know. The orange line in this chart is not the border of the chart; it’s the ...

Fire up your Internet and go on a web series hunt. What you’ll probably find are the creative outputs of twenty and thirty-somethings—folks clamoring to express sensibilities seasoned by the years of ...

You may think you're living in a Chase Sapphire Reserve world, but your rejected credit card application says "ha, no" — you're really a few tiers down, maybe more of a Chase Freedom Unlimited ...

Several recent news reports suggest businesses are finding it easier to get bank loans or other forms of financing. That would be good news for the economy, because access to capital, especially ...

I found myself in an impromptu coaching session with my 12- and 14-year-old sons last week that had me reflecting on chats I regularly have with (slightly older) branch bankers. In this case, we were ...