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Series of articles on how to search, apply, and interview for jobs. We also touch on how to negotiate a better salary, maintain good work relationships, and take full advantage of employee benefits.

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Why Now May be the Best Time to Negotiate Your Salary

Have you recently thought: “when is the best time to negotiate my salary?” Do you do it right before you boss leaves for vacation? After the quarter’s earnings call? On a full moon? When exactly is the best time to ask for a raise? While all of the above may help you in determining the

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How to Prepare for a Layoff

How are you prepared for a layoff? As a single income provider for my family of 5 (wife and three kids) being prepared for a layoff is something I need to be ready for. I never want my kids to go without just because I’ve been laid off. When I talk to my grandparents about

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Making the Most of Your Home-based Business

Article by Andrew Pearce, CEO of Powwownow, the UK’s leading free conference call provider Do you run a home-based company? If so, do you use conference calling and other business solutions available that could enable you to keep costs to a minimum at the same time as optimizing output? If not, you could be missing

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How to network to find a new job

I consider myself an introvert so when people told me that I should network to find my next job, I felt like I had to learn a foreign language.  I thought networking was for extroverts who are salespeople but I am a teacher and a painter.  How could I network?  Well I did, and it

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8 tips for the unemployed

In 2001, just weeks before 9/11, I was let go from my job at a large design firm. It was a shocking experience and one I wouldn’t wish on anyone. Today there are many folks in the same predicament I was in. While unemployed, I did learn a few things that I want to pass

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