Posted 4 weeks 2 days ago by Julie Rains
Productivity, Career Building
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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Posted 6 weeks 5 days ago by WC Porter
Career and Income, Productivity
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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Posted 7 weeks 1 day ago by Fred Lee
Career and Income, Productivity
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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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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Posted 9 weeks 3 days ago by Julie Rains
Career and Income, Productivity, Budgeting
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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Posted 9 weeks 4 days ago by Fred Lee
Productivity, Lifestyle
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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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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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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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
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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Posted 18 weeks 2 days ago by Philip Brewer
Productivity, General Tips
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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