Here’s a useful site for those of you looking to work in “The Biz.” Variety’s The Biz bills itself as the first job and networking site for entertainment professionals.
You don’t have to be a star, baby, to be in show business. The current most popular tags on their site are Sales, Marketing, [...]

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Many of you have read Tim Ferris’ outstanding book, The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich.  If you haven’t - you should!  It’s one of the three most powerful books I read all of last year.  
If you’re at all familiar with his book, you’re probably wondering why in the world [...]

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1/30th of a second… that’s all it was. But that 1/30th of a second has raised a bit of a ruckus thanks to a post on YouTube, where a video posted has already been viewed over 750,000 times and another similar video being viewed over 990,000 times! It happened on the widely watched cook-off “The [...]

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This was originally posted on The Recruiters Lounge, but I thought that the readers here might receive some benefit as well. (Hope so - Smile.)
Jim Stroud
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I don’t get out as often as I could (or as I should) I suppose, so when I do venture my head out of my laptop, I like to make [...]

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We all know that when you’re between jobs, planning to look for a job, semi-employed, or self-employed, every dollar counts!
One very easy way to earn some extra money is to leverage customer acquisition programs. Many companies, such as some banks, will actually pay you to refer them customers. Why do they do this? Well, customer [...]

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I saw a post on a job search group in Yahoo! Groups and sent an email to the job seeker with several suggestions.  I’m not including the original post here but am including the text of the email I sent her, in the hopes that someone else can also benefit from this.  In case you’re wondering, the title of this blog [...]

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Some of you might be saying “huh?” to that question….
Well here’s a start on the very basics of Squidoo and why it can matter to you and your job search.
“Squidoo is the world’s most popular site for building free, single pages about your passions.
Highlight books, blogs, vids, online shops, or just spread the word about [...]

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I found this article posted to the Atlanta Job Search Yahoo! Group - I saw it posted on the Atlanta Job Search Yahoo! Group, but it was originally published in Advertising Age.
Social-Networking Sites Have Become ‘Supercharged’ Job Sites, the New Way for Candidates and Employers to Gain Unique Insight as They Search
By Erik [...]

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Here’s another approach to reducing procrastination and getting more done.  I found this on 43 Folders, a site geared towards personal productivity and “life hacks”.
Who it’s for:
- procrastinators
- the easily distracted
- compulsive web-surfers
- people with a long list of very short tasks (a/k/a “mosquitos”)
- people having trouble chipping away at very large tasks
What [...]

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Tim Ferris, author of The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich runs a very useful blog. His book is one of the most powerful books I read all of last year, and I would HIGHLY recommend it to just about anyone.
There is a post here that includes [...]

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