Create an Interview Portfolio Showing Your Knowledge, Skills, Achievements and Abilities

When you are on a job search you want to give an employer reasons to hire you. You want to showcase your education and work experience by providing persuasive evidence of your work, skills and accomplishments.

So create a portfolio, an historical scrapbook that address common interview question categories such as team-building, problem-solving, leadership, management, culture

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How to Work from Home and Avoid a Commute: Plan for Success

Here are some tips on how to work from home.

Set up your workspace

Setting a laptop on your kitchen table can make it difficult to focus and get anything done. Instead, have a designated work area where you “go to work.” Specifying a workspace draws boundaries. Tell family members who are home with you that when

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Working: Having a Job in the Suburbs Can be a Lifestyle Challenge

Having a job in the suburbs can alter your lifestyle. It can change your social life, your travel time to work and your ability to network in your industry, so it’s important to consider the benefits and challenges before you accept.

Working in the suburbs can rule out the use of public transportation to get around,

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A Framework for Your Job Search

These themes can provide you with a good framework for your job search.

Be the Solution to an Employer’s Problem

Package yourself as a solution. Think of yourself as a consultant to the company. Be careful not to give out the “been there, done that” attitude. You need to appear excited about everything. And don’t assume that because

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Steps to Protect Your Cash Flow

Here are some steps you can take to protect your cash flow during tough times. It may be a job loss, or large and unexpected medical bills. Whatever the cause, it threatens your income stream or raises your expenses. You’ll need to take drastic measures to restore your cash flow as much as possible.

Eliminate Nonessential Spending

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Job Search: Tips for Writing a Good Resume

Here are job search tips to help you create a resume that will help you be noticed and land a job interview.

Reject the Objective

Your resume objective may actually hurt you. Your resume gets tossed when it lists an objective totally unrelated to the position that’s open. Really, just get rid of the objective altogether. It rarely

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Tips for College-Bound Students - How to Get Into a Good College

Here are some tips that college counselors and experienced parents of college-bound students have provided on how to get into a good college:

Get a job, either part-time during school or full-time during the summer, and stick with it. It shows a good work ethic and reliability. Colleges are looking for students who will stick with school and graduate.
Take

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Tips on Writing a Good Cover Letter for Your Resume

Cover letters should be brief.

With a cover letter, you can get more context than you might get in a résumé.

Cover letters also are ideal for clearing up anything in a résumé that might confuse or concern recruiters.

Make sure every cover letter is error-free or your hard work could backfire.  Sloppiness can automatically eliminate an applicant

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