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TweetShareA great article this weekend about how to make sure your email gets read. We’re inundated with email these days. A lot of it spam. How can you make sure your email gets read? This is especially important for job seekers. Especially if you’re sending in a job application, what can you do to make [...]

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TweetShareThis guest post is contributed by Kate Willson, who writes on the topics of top online colleges. She welcomes your comments at her email Id: katewillson2@gmail.com. The most important thing to keep in mind when you’re unemployed is this: until you have a hiring contract in hand, the job search is your job. By this [...]

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TweetShareRecently, we discussed ways to prepare for/manage work during the vacation season. The website unclutterer.com has another idea for helping you manage your tendency to veg out in front of your computer during holiday’s/weekends. Let’s face it, we’re all champion procrastinators. We sit down with work to do… but an hour later, we’ve read blogs, [...]

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TweetShareThere’s been a lot of talk this year that the vacation season won’t be the same. You hear about families staying home rather than break the bank to pay for the gas necessary to drive to Wally World. Also, I’ve seen a couple of cable news stories about how vacations are increasingly culturally passe in [...]

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TweetShare Also from WebWorkerDaily today: If you exist in a work environment where you have to manage multiple shipments every day (if you know the FedEx and UPS AND DHL delivery guys by name) then I’ve got a website that will completely rock your world. TrackMyShipments.com will do exactly that: track multiple shipments in real [...]

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TweetShareWith tax season coming up, I’ll be looking to highlight some financial and organizational tips over the next few months. First up, I have a tip I heard years ago that I don’t think has gotten wide currency: You Should Create And Keep Your Own Personnel File Every employer does it. Your personnel file is [...]

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TweetShareI got locked out of my house last year and my cell phone was inside the house. It was then that I realized I no longer had many people’s phone numbers memorized. In fact, I could only think of one number off the top of my head for anyone local I could call for help. [...]

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