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How to Organize Your Job Search
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A Simple Way to Organize Your Job Search

Shooting out so many job applications that you're not spending time catering your résumé and cover letter to each position is simply counterproductive.
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Shooting out so many job applications that you're not spending time catering your résumé and cover letter to each position is simply counterproductive. However, an efficient job search includes dedicating several hours each day to the employment cause, and ideally this means applying for a handful of jobs each day. Keep track of your daily job search by creating log. Maintain a spreadsheet with the following details and update it at the end of each day.

  • Applications sent: name of positions and companies.
  • Where you found the job.
  • Followup status.
  • A section listing the job sites you visited that day.

Organizing your job search will ensure that none of your efforts slip through the cracks, and looking at your full spreadsheet will make you feel accomplished.

How to Organize Your Kitchen For Healthy Eating
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5 Tips on Organizing the Kitchen For Healthy Eating From Celeb Dietitian Ashley Koff

This week’s bonus challenge for the Get Fit For 2011 giveaway is to give your kitchen a healthy makeover.
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This week’s bonus challenge for the Get Fit For 2011 giveaway is to give your kitchen a healthy makeover. Now is the time to clean up your cabinets and rearrange the contents of your fridge to decrease unhealthy temptations. We asked celebrity dietitian Ashley Koff for some advice on making your kitchen a safe zone. Watch, learn, and then take up the task.

Tips For Organizing at Work
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Savvy Confessions: My Work Life Is a Disorganized Mess

This question comes from Savvy Confessions, a community group which features anonymous postings of career and money secrets.
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This question comes from Savvy Confessions, a community group which features anonymous postings of career and money secrets. Weigh in with your suggestions below!

I'm an organized personal in general, and I get the job done (on time!), but I must confess my work life is totally disorganized. My calendar is never updated. My desktop is a mess. My files aren't filed. I have a system, and for the most part it works, but I certainly don't keep things in order on the computer or on paper. For better or worse, it's all floating around in my head. Do you keep things neat and tidy at work, or you are you scattered too?

Want to spill a secret about work or money? Join our Savvy Confessions group and share it with us — your identity will be safe with you! These posts will be kept anonymous.

Keeping Desk Space Clean
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I'm Asking: Do You Keep Your Workspace Clean?

Keeping a neat and orderly desk can help you keep your thinking clear, but clutter is inevitable.
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Keeping a neat and orderly desk can help you keep your thinking clear, but clutter is inevitable. At any given moment I have a mug, water bottle, stacks of paper, Post-its, snacks, and random books piled high in my workspace. Do you keep yours clean, or fight the buildup?

January Must Dos
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January Must Dos

Whether or not you're a believer in New Year's resolutions, there's always room for improving the order in our financial houses.
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January Must Dos

Whether or not you're a believer in New Year's resolutions, there's always room for improving the order in our financial houses. Begin the year on an organized note and set yourself up to be in better touch with your finances in 2009 by following my January must dos. Start the slideshow to check out some steps to take this month.

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Decluttering Your Purse
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Decluttering Your Purse

My bag is big.
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My bag is big. And I love it. I have a never-researched theory that a woman's purse habits tend to mimic those of her mother, but that's just based on my own experience. Any backers? My everyday purse doubles as a gym bag so that I don't have to carry around multiple bags, but it's a dangerous thing to have by my side because it lends itself to accumulating random junk.

The Unclutterer posted suggestions on what items should fill different types of purses: minimalist purse, small purse or clutch, daily purse, and corporate work purse (which is really a list of items for a carry-on bag for a business trip). She says that each purse should contain nothing more than the listed items to stay organized and agrees with our sentiments that receipts can be the biggest culprit for clutter. My everyday bag falls somewhere between the contents listed for the small purse and the daily purse; what about yours? Are you meticulous about what you carry around (like counting out four quarters) or do you have a modified clutter situation?

  • Minimalist purse: Money clip with cash, subway/metro card, one credit card, and your driver’s license; house key and car key
  • Small purse or clutch: Money clip with cash, subway/metro card, one credit card, and your driver’s license; tube of lipstick; powder compact; cell phone; collapsible brush or hair pick; pack of Listerine breath strips; four quarters (no other change); safety pin; band-aid; house key and car key
  • Daily purse: Pen; small notepad; powder compact; collapsible brush or hair pick; tube of lipstick, lipgloss, or chapstick; pack of Listerine breath strips; hand sanitizer; tube of lotion; tube of sunscreen; sunglasses; small paperback book; house key and car key; wallet with cash, checks, subway/metro card, credit cards, and driver’s license; cell phone; four quarters (no other change); two tampons; pill holder with a few pills each for headaches, cramps, heartburn, diarrhea, and allergies; pocket pack of Kleenex or two McDonald’s napkins; ponytail holder; safety pin; fingernail file; two band-aids