With the release of my new book, How to Reinvent Your Career: Make Money Doing What You Love, I have been talking with a lot of people about ways for job seekers to get noticed. If you are currently in the market for a new job, don’t under estimate the importance of...
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Facebook to make announcement, blogs swirl with rumors of new phone, redesign, Skype parnership
The blogosphere is in a tizzy over Facebook's much-anticipated announcement, as techies ask the burning question: What exactly will the social networking site unveil? And the rumors are flying as Facebook holds an invitation-only press event on Wednesday. ...
Millennial Workers – New Ways of Doing Things
My daughter, Toni Rothpletz, and I wrote The Young Adult’s Guide to Understanding Personalities for the post-boomer generation. We refer to them as NewGens in the book. Part of this post-boomer generation includes the millennials. In a recent Inc article,...
Few Women in Management
Women made little progress in climbing into management positions in this country even in the boom years before the financial crisis, according to a report to be released on Tuesday by the Government Accountability Office. As of 2007, the latest year for which...
Choosing a College Minor or Co-Major: What Degrees Pay the Most and the Least
When I received my BS in Business Management from Arizona State University in the 80s, choosing a minor was a common thing. I chose Personnel Management at the time, because I was very interested in the human relations side of management. It seems you don’t hear as...
Maslow’s Heirarchy of Needs and Twitter
I found an article in Psychology Today titled Understanding the Psychology of Twitter. There are some pretty interesting statistics in it about Twitter, including how only 10% of American internet users use it. One of the things the author, Moses Ma, discusses in...
Stephen Hawking’s IQ – How Yours Compares to His and Other Famous Persons’ IQ
There is a lot of talk recently about Stephen Hawking since his recent comment about God and the creation of the universe and the release of his upcoming book. This has led to many searching for information on Hawking. Interestingly his IQ is reported around 160. ...
Cities Where Women Earn More Than Men
Median Wages for Women vs. Male Peers Metro Area Wage Ratio Atlanta, GA 121% Memphis, TN-AR-MS 119% New York City-Northeastern NJ 117% Sacramento, CA 116% San Diego, CA 115% Miami-Hialeah, FL 114% Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC 114% Raleigh-Durham, NC 114%...
5 Places to Find a Job and 5 Places Not to Find a Job
Where the Jobs Are from AOLjobs: Michigan -- added 27,800 jobs The District of Columbia -- added 17,800 jobs Massachusetts -- added 13,200 jobs New York -- added 10,500 jobs Minnesota -- added 9,800 jobs North Dakota continued to register the lowest jobless rate at...
Books You Love Book Review for: New Book by Dr Hamilton for Online College Students
The Online Student User’s Manual will show you — what you need to know about computer and software requirements how to use the search engines and upload assignments how to organize and manage your time how to track and schedule your assignments how to communicate...
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