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by Greg Cruey on December 23, 2009
Mashable has a nicely detailed look at what you can do to beef up your resume.
The piece is aimedf at college students with the idea that they can spend winter break attacking some of the issues in...
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by Greg Cruey on December 22, 2009
Mashable's Sharlyn Lauby had a piece a while back on how to maximize your potential on LinkedIn.
If you're not familiar with LinkedIn is a social networking site designed for professionals ...
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by Greg Cruey on November 27, 2009
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BusinessWeek ran a piece recently that highlights some of the dangers of freelance work.
What is freelancing? It is the idea of offering your services as a way for businesses to ou...
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by Greg Cruey on September 29, 2009
Dan Schawbel (Personal Branding Blog) recently talked about ways to position yourself for the career you want.I prefer the term career over the term job. A job is a single occurrence, while a career i...
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by Justin McHenry on May 29, 2008
Forbes had an article last week about "surprising" six-figure jobs, or at least jobs where it's possible to make $100,000 or more, even if not everyone makes that much. Among the bigger ...
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by Justin McHenry on April 23, 2008
U.S. News & World Report has just packaged many of its best articles about work and finance, as well as its Alpha Consumer and The Inside Job blogs, into a nice "Guide to Being a Grown-Up&quo...
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by Justin McHenry on October 12, 2007
Interesting column by Charles Wheelan at yahoo finance this week about the phenomenon of women taking maternity leave at their jobs and then quitting the job once the maternity leave is over. They get...
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by Justin McHenry on September 13, 2007
I read J.D.'s story about having to fire an employee today and it reminded me of the time I got fired. I didn't get fired fired exactly, but sort of. The story's pretty pathetic, but I hav...
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by Justin McHenry on August 1, 2007
I've done a lot of reading today, so I unfortunately can not remember what article I saw that talked about how to do better at your job so you could make more money. The tips on how to do better a...
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by Justin McHenry on July 3, 2007
I just ran across this article "Six Tips for Success Right Out of College," and I thought it was pretty good. Not being so young myself anymore, I realize that maybe I too have some advice t...
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by Justin McHenry on May 8, 2007
I have been self-employed many times throughout my career, and even though I now work for someone else, I have wide latitude to work from home, so I still have the freedom that comes with the situatio...
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by Justin McHenry on May 3, 2007
My career has not necessarily been one that legions of fans want to emulate, but I've done pretty well. I've made decent money, I've worked either for myself or for others I respect, and w...
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by Justin McHenry on May 1, 2007
The word "millionaire" has always conjured up images of the good life---sitting by the pool sipping margaritas, having our driver Charles bring the car around for our Sunday drive in the cou...
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by Justin McHenry on February 15, 2007
In my third hour of snow blowing yesterday, I began to think about how I was missing work due to the lousy weather conditions and that no one in California had a foot of snow to reckon with. Then I be...
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by Justin McHenry on September 12, 2006
I'm just finishing up a very interesting book called The Accidental investment banker by Jonathan Knee (I'll have a review tomorrow or the day after). One section in particular struck me, and ...
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by Justin McHenry on September 8, 2006
My friend makingourway (you can tell we're friends because we're on a first-name basis) has a bit of a career dilemma.
He's got the inside track on a job in Chicago, but it would require...
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by Justin McHenry on August 2, 2006
The scenario of the college student who wants to study 19th century literature while his or her parents are pushing for pre-med has been a staple of many a movie, book, or afterschool special. In gene...
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by Justin McHenry on July 18, 2006
Back in high school and college, I worked in a supermarket, stocking shelves, etc. Every time I passed by the deli counter, I'd hear the women (and occasional man) asking customers "What else...
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by Justin McHenry on July 3, 2006
I went for a run yesterday and came upon a woman with a large tattoo on her upper back and shoulders. Five or six years ago this may have been more noteworthy. This time it just made me think how comm...
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by Justin McHenry on June 7, 2006
A lot of times we think of personal finance as being only about how to save, how to invest, how to get the best prices on whatever we buy, but not necessarily about how to get more money coming in in ...
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by Justin McHenry on May 25, 2006
Over at Yahoo! Finance, Laura Rowley has a column with letters in response to her earlier column on whether or not an Ivy League education is really better for you than getting your degree from a less...
