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Working more than 20-hours per week will start to have an effect on your grades, but whether you are looking for more money, more experience, or both, working for 10-15 hours/week can help you out a lot when you are in University.
Studies show that half of the students who work while in college do it [...]

Do you want to try and guess the salary of Google CEO Eric Schmidt?
I’ll give you a hint: he doesn’t have a six or seven figure salary. He doesn’t even have a five figure salary. The fact is, he gets just $1/year.
When he was originally hired in 2001, Eric Schmidt was offered $250,000 [...]

Whether you are on the phone with the airlines or you bought some defective merchandise, there are many situations where you might hope for a better resolution than the customer service agent “helping” you is able to offer.
What are your choices?
1) You can give up.
2) Use expletives and throw the phone across the room.
or
3) You [...]

(Also known as network selling, direct selling, or multi-level marketing)
1) Never agree to go to an interview without getting a company name. Once you have the company name, you should research it on the internet. If you can’t find them, or anything about them, or if they require that you purchase costly inventory, then [...]

1) You don’t have to worry about the loan shark taking the risk.
If you think your friends or/and family might lend you money, even though traditional bankers are saying no, then you probably have a pretty good relationship with them. You believe they care about you, and you probably feel the same way about [...]

No matter how many people say that it is a candidate’s market out there, it sometimes feels like no one wants you – especially if you aren’t entry level anymore, but aren’t quite mid-level yet either.
If you are a year or two out of college, you are switching careers, or you have taken a [...]

5) Low expectations.
Such a large number of small business close, that no-one will necessarily think so badly if yours does as well. Unless of course they made the mistake of investing in you.
4) No need to come up with lame excuses.
Actually, the problem is that in a lot of situations, your clients [...]

Here is how to effectively avoid “hiring” issues:
1) Keep a record of your interview notes – don’t write anything that may be considered discriminatory. Keep a record of the job description and requirements which you provided to the employee originally.
2) Don’t exaggerate or understate your expectations of the employee, the success of the company, the [...]

Everyone knows that discrimination is illegal, but do you know the breadth of questions which are considered discriminatory in employment law? Small businesses often have a harder time in this area, because there is not always a HR (human resources) specialist on staff. Many traditional employment applications that you might be using have questions which [...]