December 2011
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Ho! Ho! Ho! Could This Be Next Year's Temp Job?
On the day before Christ- mas, cnn.com featured a story about seven men who wound up making a career out of playing Santa. One of them even runs a Santa Claus acad- emy. And if there’s someone playing Santa Claus there must be a Mrs. Claus waiting in the wings. Plus some elves and Santa’s helpers.
Read the story “Being Santa: tales from behind the red suit”. The men who...
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5 Ways to Make an Extra $500 a Month - Yahoo!... →
In the spirit of my last post about @TaskRabbit, here are 5 more ways to make an extra $500/month from @yahoofinance.
1. Rent out your living room
2. Rent out your car
3. Sell your knowledge
4. Cook for people
5. Sell your services
Learn more about how to actually do these things on Yahoo Finance.
Have you tried any of these ideas? Tell us about it in the comments.
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Need some extra cash? Maybe TaskRabbit is the way... →
“TaskRabbit – What Craigslist Should Have Been”
Believe it or not, this is actually not an advertisement. When I was unemployed I was doing everything I could to make a few extra bucks. I watched movie trailers, mystery shopped, helped family members with computer problems or whatever it took to get a few extra buckaroos.
When I came across TaskRabbit today while checking out a...
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When a Hiring Manager Turns into a Hiree-Hopeful.
Ugh. Those dirty words: Layoff. Jobless. Unemployed—dirty words for any reason, season and situation.
How painful it must be when those who used to be the ones behind the desks doing the hiring now turn into the ones now scrambling to grab interviews. Desperate clients surprise me when they tell me, “I used to read resumes and interview people—and now I have no idea how to...
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More Workers in Public Sector Retiring Sooner →
MADISON, Wis. — As states and cities struggle to resolve paralyzing budget shortfalls by sending workers on unpaid furloughs, freezing salaries and extracting larger contributions for health benefits and pensions, a growing number of public-sector workers are finding fewer reasons to stay…
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Practice a Little Detachment on Your Next...
What a preposterous statement! How can you give a good interview and be detached? After all is said about being aware of the interviewer and the dynamics, researching the company, breaking the brain to give the best answers to questions that you often don’t know what answers they seek from you, and so on, it’s a herculean thing to be asked to do by this employment counselor! Detachment is an...
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Jobless Rate Dips to Lowest Level in More Than 2... →
Somehow the American economy appears to be getting better, even as the rest of the world is looking worse.
In the midst of the European debt crisis, lingering instability in the oil-rich Middle East and concerns about a Chinese economic slowdown, the American unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped last month to 8.6 percent, its lowest level in two and a half years.
The Labor Department also...
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Obama Unlikely to Harness Political Credit From... →
“The U.S. jobless rate fell to 8.6 percent in November. It’s a sizable reduction, but it’s still not low enough for the president to get some credit. Daniel Stone reports.”
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Depressed and Unemployed Professionals Give...
Here’s an article from Mark Candella of the Ladder to help cheer any other unemployed chick up:
You had a bad day
It all went so wrong, so very, very wrong — right from the start.
You left your notepad with your hand-written questions at home; your CEO pulled you into a last-second meeting that made you a half-hour late to the interview; and you finished it off by saying “I think my...