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Part 11: Organizing a job search: keeping track of it all

Probably one of the most overlooked part of job hunting is record keeping. Most of us just don’t do it.

It’s worth money!
But there is one really good reason to burn the time and energy required to keep records of your job search: money. Yup…it is worth money to keep accurate records of your hunt for a new job: the cost of your job search is tax deductible and, Read more…

Part 10: Organizing a job search

The previous articles have all presumed that you have located an appealing job opening advises you how to pursue it. But there is an additional dimension to which you need to pay attention: organization of your search. This falls into two categories: 1) finding job openings to apply to and 2) keeping track of your applications and interviews (which can be very important if you are collecting unemployment and they want you to verify your efforts).

Creating opportunities Read more…

Part 9: Getting away gracefully…giving notice at your old job

So, you have a brand new job! Congratulations! Now, how to resign from your old one…

You did negotiate a start date that allows you to give appropriate notice at your old job, right? Every place is different, but in America, two week’s notice is the norm…anything less could leave you with a bad reference, something you wish to avoid at all costs.

Friday is not always the best day to quit… Read more…

Part 8: You got the offer! Negotiating a good salary…

The phone rings and when you pick it up, it is the HR rep for the company you interviewed with on Tuesday…they want to make you an offer!!

LISTEN!
That’s the first thing you do…listen. Don’t interrupt, don’t ask questions, just listen to the offer. Let the person speak, make the obligatory “mmm hmmm” noises at the appropriate places so the speaker knows you are there and you are Read more…

Part 7: Saying “thank you” never goes out of fashion

The interview is concluded, you’ve gone home, and now all you can do it wait, right? Well, not exactly…

There is this old-fashioned Read More...

Part 6: Interviews: You look the part…now what do you say—and not say?

So, you’ve got your hair cut, your interview outfit chosen, and the date and time are set. What else do you have to do to prepare for that all-important interview?

Well, you are going to need to bring some paper work with you. If you do not have a nice portfolio, go to a stationer’s store and buy a plain, inexpensive one to carry your documents. You want to look neat and tidy, and carrying a bulky briefcase won’t Read more…

Part 5: Interviews: what they see means more than you think!

I am always amazed at people who go through all the work to secure a job interview, but put no effort into preparing for the interview itself…it’s kinda like making detailed preparations for a big wedding but making no preparation for the marriage itself!

Conventional wisdom says you should “wow” them…you should look like a page out of Vogue or GQ, you should look chic and dazzling and Read more…

Part 4: Cover letters: useful tool or a waste of time?

I suspect most people hate writing cover letters. They don’t know what to say, they think nobody reads them, they think they are a waste of time. So, instead, Read More...

Part 3: Creating that killer résumé for yourself   **FREE SAMPLE**

Here’s how to create the Holy Grail of résumés…one perfect page…for yourself.

Download the .pdf file (scroll to end of this article) and either print it out or keep it on screen for reference. The example has a list of numbers, 1 through 14, each corresponding to an arrow. This is what you need to know to make your own résumé this user-friendly.

1.    This entire section is in the document Header. It helps conserve space Read more…

Part 2: Analyzing your résumé: find the good, change the bad, throw out the ugly

In the years that I reviewed and prepared résumés for people, the most common format brought to my office was what is known as the “chron” or “chronological” résumé. This basically has your name and contact information stacked at the top of the page beneath the word “resume” then shows your education history in chronological order followed by your employment history, also in chronological order and with a paragraph or more about each job. Some if these Read more…

Part 1: Get that job interview by crafting a killer résumé!

The economy is tough, jobs are scarce, and you need a new one. But every résumé you send out gets a “Thanks, but no thanks” response…if you even get response at all. It’s happening everywhere…but not to everyone. What do you want to bet that the people getting those interviews…and the jobs…have killer résumés? If you want one too, just keep reading. Read more…

Seems like there is always an old curmudgeon out there who can’t take a joke…or keep up with the times. From claiming that dog diapers will give the poor dog a rash or compromise its mobility (they don’t) to insisting that dogs don’t Read More...

America’s First Dog, Bo Obama, has everybody atwitter about single coated dogs. Because they don’t shed, single-coated dogs tend to be more tolerable to allergy suffers…and a lot more user-friendly to householders who don’t enjoy trying to remove dog hair from every surface of their homes!

While single-coated dogs may be a boon in many respects, they do come with a downside. First of all, because these dogs do not shed, they require regular brushing and haircuts, as the hair grows continually, just like human hair. And secondly, because they never Read more…

Nobody wants to be stuck in the kitchen when it’s hot!

This is a summer favourite because you can do the cooking at night after it has cooled off and then the next day, while the kitchen  is still miserable from the heat of the day, all you have to do is assemble a pile Read More...

Who can resist that appealing look, those pleading eyes, the expression that says “I’m your best friend…won’t you share that delicious treat with me?” Even though we know we shouldn’t give our canine pals treats from the table, we love them and we do it anyway. But would we do it if we knew that tempting morsel was, for our dogs, a deadly poison?

Thousands of dogs are sickened every year…many of them fatally…from our ignorance of the foods that are harmless to us, but toxic to them. Most of us know Read more…

Free Sewing Pattern!

If you have ever gotten up at night and, en route to the bathroom, stepped in a cold, wet puddle of puppy pee…or worse…you may understand why an ever-growing number of folks are opting for doggie diapers. At first, the thought of  putting diapers on a dog seems like a pretty silly thing to do. But upon reflection, if we don’t allow a naked baby butt to have access to our beds, sofas, carpets and car upholsters, how is a puppy butt any different? Puppy urine is no more sanitary, soaking into your sofa cushions, than that of a human baby and a puppy pile on the carpet is no easier to clean up than one left by your toddler. If you wouldn’t let an un-potty trained kid run around naked in your house, why would you let an untrained puppy? Read more…

Part 1: Sweet Poison

Just about everybody knows that the delicious human treat, chocolate, can be toxic to dogs, but did you know that xylitol, a popular artificial sweetener, is even more deadly? While they are mammals like us, dogs are physiologically different Read More...

There are a lot of potential negative side effects to spaying your dog and some of us would rather not expose our dogs them. But deciding to not spay your female comes with its own set of risks, chief among them unwanted litters and pyometra, a potentially fatal infection of the uterus. The choice to not spay, therefore, brings to the pet owner increased responsibilities.

It is doubtful that most pet owners have heard of pyometra Read more…

What would you think if someone told you that, in order to prevent tooth decay and orthodontia bills, you should have your children’s teeth all taken out? Or suggested that since one in nine women get breast cancer, which is exacerbated by oestrogen, you should make sure your Read More...

I’m the first to admit it…I’m not exactly a slave to fashion. I’m into comfort and when comfort and fashion clash in my life, fashion inevitably loses.
But I am a keen observer of fashion, some of which I like and some of which I loathe, and recently I’ve Read More...

I detest insects. Yah, yah, I know about their place in the ecosystem and all that stuff, but surely expecting them to keep to all but the 255 square meters of this planet I call my house cannot be called unreasonable, can it?

Oh, there are a few of the multi-legged little Read More...

I quit smoking sometime in 1985-86 and have not had either a cigarette or a craving for one since. I smoked two packs of menthols per day for 18 years.  For me, it wasn’t that difficult.

The key, I ultimately discovered, is that you have to be ready to Read More...