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Savvy Links: Get Yourself Noticed
- Get yourself noticed in your field — FiLife
- A photo exhibit: Women's worth, worldwide — DailyWorth
- Cut taxes without itemizing — Bankrate
- 10 Ways to provoke an IRS audit — The Consumerist
- Little-known tax breaks for your 2009 taxes — Yahoo Finance
- Online tools for mindful consumerism — Get Rich Slowly
News Flash: Yahoo! Has 700 Job Openings
When I overheard a woman bragging about her recent Yahoo! promotion on the bus the other day, I assumed it was a rightfully earned accomplishment - but headlines about high-level departures suggest the move may have been more out of necessity than purely deserving hard work.
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Savvy Links: 10 Ways to Conquer Procrastination
- 10 ways to conquer procrastination — Kiplinger
- How the recession will lower your heating bill this Winter — Walletpop
- Man wins lottery prize during embezzlement case — Yahoo News
- Are consumers adopting greener behaviors or just cheap? — Consumerist
- Yes, fake job references are a very bad idea — The Job Bored
Big Job Hunting Boards Aren't Where It's at Anymore
There's no time to waste on your job search. While you might become frustrated by time-consuming tactics, the quality of those strategies are much more likely to get you somewhere. According to The Wall Street Journal and several human resource experts, today's job search has to go beyond the job boards.
How Money Are You: Powerful CEOs' First Jobs After College
Just like the many celebrities who started their careers in less-than-glamorous jobs, the CEOs of some of the largest corporations had to work their way up to rollin'-in-it status. It would be awesome to say your job is, oh, just running Yahoo or Microsoft, but you can't exactly step out of college and fill a CEO's shoes. How much do you know about CEOs' first jobs?
2009 Is the Year of Cheap Lingerie
This economy has made a lot of people appreciative of the really important things in life, like spending time with loved ones. While I'm perfectly content spending my Valentine's Day in my apartment with my Valentine and a home cooked meal, there are plenty of cupids who can't forget traditionally risque gifts like lingerie or tiny tokens like a card acknowledging the day.
You don't need to look much further than this year's Internet search stats to recognize the trends for 2009: Yahoo!
Guess How Much: Salaries For Unusual Careers
For every boring job out there it seems there's one career that we've never heard of, whether it's one of the oddest jobs of 2008, one of the best-kept-secret careers, or a job that's just starting to gain popularity. Yahoo! found six unusual jobs that also happen to pay quite well.
Three Things to Ask For If Your Raise Is Unremarkable
Performance reviews aren't all about the money, but for an employee's bottom line, they are. Companies have been making big decisions this quarter based on the poor performance of the past year and the uncertainty they face going in to 2009. With big companies laying off by the thousands (in the last week we saw Yahoo and Goldman Sachs cut ten percent of their massive workforces) and many smaller companies instilling temporary hiring freezes, we can be fairly certain that 2008 raises will be, at most, unremarkable.
Recruiters' Tips on How to Answer the Weakness Question
Interviews tend to be relatively formulaic, and one thing we can count on is hearing the what is your biggest weakness question. "I don't know," isn't a sufficient answer — same goes for, "I don't have any weaknesses." The majority of you may have declared your hatred for the question, but that doesn't preclude you from having to come up with a passable answer.
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