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I’ve posted several times about how the idea of job search networking can seem nebulous and confusing to people. “Ok, I understand that I send in my resume and hopefully they call me for an interview. But how exactly do I network?”
Hopefully you can see several practical strategies on how to network by reading this [...]

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I usually don’t get talked into shilling for companies on this blog. But this resource is too good not to pass along.
FedEx Office (most of us will remember them as Kinkos) is offering free resume printing this Tuesday, March 10.
From the press release:
The company invites customers to take advantage of this one-day event by visiting [...]

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Let’s face it. None of us are really fans of PowerPoint.
The common complaint is that far from adding color and pizazz, PowerPoint hasn’t proven to make presentations any less boring or dull. In fact, many argue that the very reliance on rote slides and sequencing can make speeches and presentations worse.
But like pollution, bad pop [...]

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Until last weekend, I had never heard of PaycheckCity.com (h/t NYTimes).
But I’m glad I was turned on to them. They have 3 free and insanely useful online calculators and assistants that are designed to help the average worker.
The most impressive to me is the W-4 form assistant. Isn’t it confusing every time you start a [...]

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Here’s an appropriate post for a Monday.
BusinessWeek has a short article about how some companies, in the name of worker and server sanity, are encouraging workers to hold off sending emails over the weekend.
I think we can all relate to coming fresh into the office, only to be deluged by a mountain of emails that [...]

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I’m usually hard on Microsoft on this blog. But nerdy tech circles today are abuzz at the announcement of Live Mesh from Microsoft. Think of Live Mesh as one ring to sync them all, every device and every file… provided you use Windows.
Apparently, this whole system is not quite ready for immediate use, but [...]

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digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/educational/6_Skills_To_Leave_Off_Your_Resume’;It’s always a good idea to fill out your resume with any specific skills or specialties you might possess. Doing so is a good strategy to give you that extra little edge to stand out from a similarly qualified candidate.
And for years, a good way to do that was to include a list [...]

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I remember when wifi and laptops first proliferated in college classrooms. Right away I noticed: no one was paying attention.
Oh, don’t get me wrong, there was plenty going on… plenty of IM discussions amongst the students in the audience.
The same sort of problem has made its way to corporate life: (from the Mercury News, via [...]

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For those of you that are hip to RSS and RSS feeds (all the people that have subscribed to this feed are clearly hip) you should be aware that almost every major job board now allows you to sign up for job search RSS feeds.
Input the criteria you’re looking for (city, state, industry, keywords, etc.) [...]

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The stupid popup you see above was annoying me all yesterday. Look, my desktop is messy… literally covered in icons.
That’s the way I like it, that’s the way I work. Where does Windows get off nagging me to clean my room, so to speak?
So, I did a little Googling, and now I’ve banished it from [...]

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