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TweetShareCounter-intuitive time, people! I am the sort of guy that tends to believe you should never be afraid to ask for a raise. (The proviso of course being that you shouldn’t ask too much or too often or expect things that are outlandish.) But even when times are tough for your company? That’s when a [...]

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TweetShareThe New York Times had an article today on salary transparency that has gotten a fair bit of attention in the blogosphere. The thesis of the article is that in this internet age, knowing what your co-workers make will become commonplace. The move toward an open workplace, the article posits, might be inevitable. Openness about [...]

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TweetShareDoesn’t it kind of feel like all sort of bills are coming due lately? I’ve written before about how at ResumeWriters.com we’re seeing the cost of the commute become a major factor in job searches for the first time ever. I’ve been helping people find jobs for more than a decade now, and until this [...]

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TweetShareUntil last weekend, I had never heard of PaycheckCity.com (h/t NYTimes). But I’m glad I was turned on to them. They have 3 free and insanely useful online calculators and assistants that are designed to help the average worker. The most impressive to me is the W-4 form assistant. Isn’t it confusing every time you [...]

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TweetShareApparently, people are taking to sites like craigslist and eBay not just to find original Voltron toys from the 80s… but simply to make ends meet (h/t SavvySugar). Americans unload prized belongings to make ends meet At Craigslist, which has become a kind of online flea market for the world, the number of for-sale listings [...]

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TweetShareThere’s a series of things “they” always tell us to do: payoff your debt, never carry a credit card balance, fully fund your 401k and IRA every year… One of the things “they” also mention is a rainy day emergency fund. How many of us out there are disciplined enough to have one of these? [...]

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TweetShareThe best time to prepare for a job loss or a layoff is before it happens. Anticipation. Preparation. I’ve been thinking a lot about this issue lately, so I’ll have a bunch of posts on this this week. There were a lot of good things on the internet this weekend about just this topic. Starting [...]

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TweetShareI think that this article from the NYTimes should be required reading for everybody. Forget the complexities of credit crunches and subprime mortgage loans, if you want to know why our economy is in the situation it’s in, all you need to do is read the article and view the accompanying graph. The bigger problem [...]

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TweetShareThis is something I’ve been worried about for some time now. We all know that the collective declines in the value of our homes has hurt our pocketbook. But the resulting immobility of the workforce – the fact that we can’t just pick up and move to a better job because we can’t sell the [...]

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TweetShareA commenter left a brief note last week about job search expenses. I was thinking of writing a more formal post, but as I sat down to think about it, I thought it better to list all the job search expenses I could think of. I don’t think a lot of people think about the [...]

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