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I’m more of an Onion man myself, but if you get your at-work laughs from Dilbert, you might like to hear that the Dilbert.com website has gotten a bit of an upgrade.
h/t WebWare.
There are animated versions of Dilbert strips available, as well as an extensive expansion of the Dilbert archives that will eventually include every […]

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From the WSJ.
Via SavvySugar.
If you work in a corporate environment, it’s just as important to get business casual right as it is to nail traditional business dress. Maybe more important: Savvy corporate politicians know that casual days are the times when their appearance will be most closely watched.
“People actually judge more on those days because […]

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When I got back from vacation this week, I had an Ask Brian question waiting for me that was very specific. It boiled down to: “I have two job offers. Which one should I accept?”
I did my best to help the emailer, but that sort of question is not one I can usually share here […]

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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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Last week, after Charlie Gibson’s assertion in the last debate that people earning $200,000 a year qualified as middle class, I got into a discussion with my fellow travelers about what exactly you’d earn to qualify as middle class.
Then I saw this article in yesterday’s NYTimes about the $20-an-hour wage and how it’s now a […]

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While I was away last week, I missed the news that Indeed.com has introduced job search by salary requirements.
h/t Job Search Guy
With this new feature, you can now enter your desired annual salary in the search box on their search parameter and receive a list of all jobs that are estimated to pay at […]

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I apologize that there will be no further posts from me this week. I will be in Ecuador, pictured below.
(Actually, I’m already there… such is the magic of pre-posting!)
Anyhoo… I won’t be in an area with an internet connection (or, at least, I will be shocked if the internet reaches out to where I am… […]

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Short answer to the Post-Title Question Of The Day:
Yes.
But for a longer meditation on this subject, read this post from a Career Coach over at DivineCaroline.
So, here’s a big secret to making your interview easier:
Look at the interviewer and mentally say to yourself (in your mind—not aloud!), “Someday, I’m going to be working with this […]

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Just in time for lunch hour, Readers Digest has a handy list of 15 ways to maximize your lunch hour.
No, it’s not a list of ways to squeeze work into your lunch hour. But it is heavy on ways to eat healthier and with greater ease. And yes, there’s a suggestion or two to get […]

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Regular readers of this blog will remember that before the writer’s strike, I did a weekly rundown of episodes of NBC’s The Office.
You can imagine my delight when I rang up my TIVO last night and saw that The Office was back.
The Dinner Party was The Office’s version of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? […]

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