Productivity

How Online Job Boards Can Actually Help A Job Search

Posted 4 weeks 2 days ago by Julie Rains

Productivity, Career Building

people looking at job boards

There was a brief period, before the last recession, when my career-services clients actually found jobs on online job boards. They’d post resumes, and interview requests and job offers quickly followed. For the past several years, though, clients have told me that they felt as if online applications led to a black hole: resumes were submitted but companies never made contact; even a rejection letter would have meant progress, indicating that a human was somehow involved in the decision-making process. Though I don’t recommend online boards as a direct path to a new position, I do find them extremely useful in a job search and I’ll tell you why.

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Getting Ahead At Work: Are You A Hammer Or A Swiss Army Knife?

Posted 6 weeks 5 days ago by WC Porter

Career and Income, Productivity

Swiss Army Knife

Is it better to be great at one specific thing or just really good at a whole bunch of different things? While one might put you in a class all by yourself, the other can make you more valuable to your company. Which one is more likely to get you noticed? The answer is kind of obvious.

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Hey Boss, Please Don’t Bother Me, I’m Daydreaming

Posted 7 weeks 1 day ago by Fred Lee

Career and Income, Productivity

man thinking

Long considered the sole provenance of the lazy and uninspired, the process of daydreaming may be more productive than we thought.

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Time Is Money: Budget Them Both Out

Posted 9 weeks 2 days ago by WC Porter

Personal Finance, Productivity, Budgeting

We hear it all the time: Time is Money. But do we really treat our time with the same respect we treat our money? If we really do believe that time is valuable shouldn't we be budgeting it out just as strictly as we do our money? Who knew playing video games (or trying to) could teach such an important lesson?

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A Frugal Resource: The Community College

Posted 9 weeks 3 days ago by Julie Rains

Career and Income, Productivity, Budgeting

community college building at night

One of my favorite frugal resources is the community college. Even though I’ve taken several classes at my local college, I’ve barely tapped into the depth of resources available not only to enrolled students but also to community members. Here are ideas on getting value from your tuition and tax money, especially useful for the currently employed, unemployed, entrepreneurs, and business owners interested in starting a new career, expanding skills, and saving money.

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Are You Addicted to the Internet?

Posted 9 weeks 4 days ago by Fred Lee

Productivity, Lifestyle

laptop

Some experts think that surfing the web can you make you more productive at work. Then again, so might amphetamines, which begs the question, at what point does it get to be too much?

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How do you spend money to save time?

Posted 10 weeks 4 days ago by Torley Wong

Productivity

It's a — pardon the expression — timeless saying: "You can always make more money, but you can't make more time." The staunch followup to that tends to be that you can make better use of time.

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Beat the Nirvana fallacy: why doing something is better than nothing

Posted 14 weeks 10 hours ago by Torley Wong

Productivity

The problem with the Nirvana fallacy is simple: there's NEVER a perfect solution, only shades of decisions that are better than others, and mistakes you make and can hopefully learn from. Find out more inside!

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How To Make Your Own Soda, Tidy A Room In Three Minutes, Cure A Hangover And Become A Movie Extra. Phew!

Posted 14 weeks 5 days ago by Paul Michael

Personal Finance, Frugal Living, Life Hacks, Productivity, General Tips, Shopping, Food and Drink, DIY, Consumer Affairs

MacGyver

I’m a big fan of Howcast. Their website is a treasure trove of information, and you can also find their videos on popular sites like Metacafe and YouTube. Sometimes their advice is really useful, sometimes it’s just plain weird, but it’s always very entertaining. Howcast videos also end with a handy dandy fact; the icing on the cake so to speak.

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That "What if you knew you were going to die" question

Posted 18 weeks 2 days ago by Philip Brewer

Productivity, General Tips

Heron on a branch over a frozen pond

You've no doubt seen the question in many different forms. Sometimes it's, "What would you do if you learned you were going to die tomorrow?" Other times it's "What would you do if you knew you'd live a hundred years?" Some people try to pack the whole thing into one exhortation, "Live like you were going to die tomorrow, plan like you'd live forever." It's always bugged me.

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