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Judge Sam Alito
October 31, 2005 by Steven RothbergReaction has been mixed today after the announcement by President George W. Bush that his latest pick for the U.S. Supreme Court is Judge Sam Alito. See TPR or Used Car Salesman for one example of reaction from the recruiting community.
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“It’s Time To Profit From Your Pastimes”
by jim stroud
Do you exist from payday to payday? Do frequently you find yourself saying, “There has to be more to life than this?”
It’s very natural for people to seek the security that a job using their professional knowledge and skills offers. They spend most of their lives doing something they’re good at but don’t necessarily love.
What an awful way to live our lives. Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, cautions us, “Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price.”
The reality is that prosperity and security come from using our gifts and talents fully. We frequently invest our talents and passion into hobbies and rarely give thought to turning these into income generators.
Using your favourite hobby or pastime to create an income has many benefits. Why? Because any business you decide to become involved in should be doing something you love – something you believe in – something that you would work at no matter what income it generated.
By working at something you believe passionately in you will find the energy, drive, and stamina to see your business through the tough start up phase and the times when there is more work to do than you can handle.
Do you like cooking? Create a cookery website that offers recipes, hints and tips to readers. Start a subscription newsletter for others who like cookery and sell your recipes by publishing a simple booklet. Do you enjoy making things? Sell them at markets and boot sales and through mail order (be sure and mark up the price for shipping and handling).
Do you enjoy DIY? Print and distribute flyers in your neighbourhood listing your services. Do you enjoy travel? Write a small tour guide about the places you visit and sell it through your website and to tourist operators to give to customers who visit those areas.
Almost anything you love doing can be magically transformed into a business opportunity for you.
Start educating yourself by reading and researching other home-based businesses. The Internet is crammed with information and much of it is free. Read magazines like
“Small Business Opportunities,” and “Entrepreneur,” many of their articles are excellent. Read books on starting a business.Attend meetings for Small Business Owners in your area. Ask your local Chamber of Commerce, Business Link or Enterprise Trust about these meetings. The insights you will gain from people who are already in business is priceless.
When you turn your favourite hobbies into income sources there’s no telling where you’ll be in a couple of years time. You may even be able to resign from your ‘secure’ job and pursue your passions full time. Wouldn’t that be great?
What are you waiting for? It may take time to realise a profit but you will be living with joy and passion that will enrich your life in hundreds of ways.
Creating an abundant life is that easy.
Start creating yours now!
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Write for the CollegeRecruiter.com Blog
October 28, 2005 by Steven RothbergIf you’re a college student or recent graduate who wants to be journalist or writer, then you may wish to consider applying to intern for CollegeRecruiter.com. See the CollegeRecruiter.com Journalism Internship job posting.
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Are you a weekend warrior?
by jim stroud
Some say weekends are for relaxing, sleeping in or traveling. But if you’re a full-time employee and you dream of entrepreneurship, weekends can be for that, too. Take those 48 weekend hours (and, let’s be honest, those precious weekday evening hours, too), maximize your efficiency, and build your startup.Brian Eddy and Chad Ronnebaum did that very thing when they built Q3 Innovations, a product design, development and distribution company that specializes in the personal safety market. These Eagan, Minnesota, entrepreneurs started in 1999 when both had full-time jobs–in fact, Eddy, 30, a lawyer, just recently left his law firm to work on the business full time, while Ronnebaum, 30, still works full time in the pharmaceutical industry. Friends since the sixth grade, the pair decided that even though they both had successful careers, they wanted to own a business and bring products like the Alcohawk, a digital breath alcohol screener, to consumers.
During their six-year startup phase, says Eddy, “We worked about 50 hours a week at our careers and about 40 to 50 hours a week at our business.” A typical weekday for Eddy was getting up at 7 a.m., doing business activities until 8:30 or 9 a.m., then heading to the office. After getting off work at 6 p.m., he spent about an hour with family and went into entrepreneur mode for the evening and most of the weekend.
How can weekend entrepreneurs ensure startup success?
READ: Weekenders
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Personal Portfolios
October 27, 2005 by Steven RothbergIf you’re looking for a new job and frustrated by a lack of interviews, don’t assume that all you need to do is spif up your resume. Candidates often place too much emphasis on their resume and not enough on the other facets of a job search, such as researching industries, organizations within the industries, departments within the organizations, and the hiring managers within those departments. Candidates should also place more emphasis on researching themselves.
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The Big Payback! Courtesy of Uncle Sam…
October 25, 2005 by jim stroud
Thousands of people have money sitting at the
Internal Revenue Service that could be claimed if they would just tell the tax collectors where they live.The IRS said Tuesday that $73 million in tax refunds that were sent to taxpayers this year did not reach the destination. In most cases, the post office returned the checks as undeliverable because the taxpayers had moved.
The money belongs to more than 84,000 taxpayers, some of whom have more than one check waiting to be claimed.
Checking on the status of a refund
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Career Coaching
by Steven RothbergOne of the great benefits of being one of the owners of CollegeRecruiter.com is that I am able to speak with both employers and job seekers about the job market and the process of hiring new talent and finding a new job. Yet one of the frustrating aspects is that I am now so aware that so many job seekers make the same mistakes over and over again. For example, probably once a week I hear from a job seeker who is frustrated because they’ve applied to hundreds of jobs yet can’t seem to get hired. When I question why they would continue to do the same thing over and over again when it hasn’t brought them success, most basically shrug and say that’s the only way that they know to find a job.
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Is It Time To Update Your Resume?
by jim stroud
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Dr. Tony Evans: Your Career And Your Calling
October 24, 2005 by jim stroudThe Urban Alternative (TUA) is a Christian ministry that seeks to equip, empower and unite Christians to impact individuals, families, churches and communities for the rebuilding of lives from the inside out by means of Radio, Television, Rallies/Crusades and Resources.
Kill the cubicles!!!
October 23, 2005 by jim stroudWhat would happen if you allowed the workers to design their own workspaces? Would you get more comfortable motivated workers who refuse to go home? Could be… Just ask the guys at Pixar who flat out refused to allow cubicles to confine their creative imaginaries. Ain’t it Cool News toured the Pixar facilities and (among other things) posted pictures of their workspaces. Below is a clip from an AICN blogpost. Ahhh… feel the envy.
Instead of cubicles, each of the animators has a customized space. There was one guy who had this groovy corner office that was open on two sides, and he had no chair at all. He had the entire office set up so that he could work standing, like so:
That was a pretty extreme example of what someone could do with their space. A lot of the animators decided early on that they didn
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