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Keep Your Blog Alive

United Insight To do so, you must post.  And I haven’t done so.  Not in a long while.  Month-and-a-half to be exact.  But you know what, I don’t feel too bad about it. Last week, I was in New York

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Resume Presentation

Times New Roman Your resume must look good.  And there are concrete things you can do to ensure that.  Here are some of the “presentation standards” offered by Wendy Enelow and Louise Kursmark in their book “Expert Resumes for People

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Jeff Bezos on Gifts and Choices

How to use one’s gifts…  Isn’t this the dilemma we face as we contemplate getting back into the work force?  We have the gifts with which we were born — intelligence, artistic or musical abilities, a knack for math, great

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Sell Yourself in Your Resume

Expert Resumes for People Returning to Work Your resume is a sales document.  You are selling yourself. “When writing your resume, your challenge is to create a picture of knowledge, action, and results,” write Wendy Enelow and Louise Kursmark in

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Volunteer Moms

asiseeit/iStockphoto.com I spent this past weekend in Austin with a group of girlfriends.  We all met when our 9-, 10-, or 11-year-olds were babies, and we needed someone to commiserate with.  Once or twice a year now, we head out

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Updating Your Resume

iStockphoto.com The unemployment rate is 9.6%.  The Bureau of Labor Statistics says that’s just “people who are jobless, looking for jobs, and available for work.”  That’s the highest it’s been in more than 20 years.  Twenty years. Now add to

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