Social media: it’s the new watchword of the 21st century. People use their Twitter and Facebook accounts to share everything from what they had for dinner to how upset they are about their latest personal issues. Surely you can’t use social media platforms to find a job, right?
Wrong.
The articles, tips and tricks I’m about to [...]
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If you’re looking for freelance work, plenty of sites exist on the Web to provide you with potential jobs. However, finding freelance work is a numbers game, and you’ll get the most benefit from focusing on the most popular sites, where there are plenty of jobs to consider. While hundreds of freelance job sites exist, [...]
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LinkedIn isn’t just the Who’s Who in the employment world. These days, LinkedIn provides a valuable tool for job seekers who are looking for new employment opportunities. Don’t think you can find a job via LinkedIn? I’ve personally made contact with freelance clients when I wasn’t even searching. A good LinkedIn profile can work for [...]
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Twitter is one of the fastest-growing social networking sites, and it might be your key to finding a new job ASAP. Job hunting 140-characters at a time presents unique challenges, so make sure your Twitter account is ready before you begin your Twitter job hunt.
Maintain an Online Presence
If you’re looking for a job, Twitter provides [...]
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Finding a job is, in large part, all about connections. With more than 400 million active users, Facebook is a big player in the numbers game. Depending on your preferences and style, there are a few ways in which you can use Facebook to find your next job.
#1. Shout Out to Your Network
Successfully using Facebook [...]
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Freelance and work from home forums can provide valuable resources for freelancers. These forums provide support, information about freelancing and working from home, tips and often sources for work. Some of these forums are attached to freelance or work from home job sites, while others are independent forums. If you freelance or work at home, [...]
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Around Los Angeles, they are advertising the hell out of Justified, the new FX show starring Timothy Olyphant. The posters are awesome. And the early reviews are good, too. Problem: I couldn’t watch the Tuesday night premiere and my dvr recording function is busted and I’m too lazy to deal with Time Warner to fix [...]
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John Grisham, a longtime holdout on e-books, is letting his entire backlist become Kindle-available.
“It’s too late for that, because there already was a corpse in the coffin, and those nails have already been driven,” said Otto Penzler, who has operated The Mysterious Book Shop for 31 years, continuing to struggle as he watched most of [...]
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According to this Reason article, we are not on the road to economic recovery.
The root causes of what is now being called “The Great Recession” remain unsolved. The modest growth in the economy is almost entirely due to government spending, which is clearly unsustainable. Nearly ever single government response to the crisis is kicking the [...]
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(Sarcasm) Excellent CNN article on how white people are terrorists, too. (Non-Sarcasm) In case anyone hasn’t heard this sophomoric point before…
Edward Said used to make this point – how Arabs were actually not all that more active in terrorism than disaffected whites and that all the hullabaloo was a result of Hollywood movies and media [...]
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