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Monday Morning Funnies: Mistakes to Avoid on Your Resume

Resume writing, or maybe it’s just writing in general, seems to be a lost art. It should go without saying that your resume should be free from grammatical, spelling and syntax errors. But apparently that’s not common sense. Here are a few mistakes to definitely avoid when presenting a resume. (These are taken from real resumes. I hope these applicants are not wondering why they didn’t get the job!) It’s all about the word choice! As a writer, I’m acutely aware that my word choice is a key element to my writing. Be succinct and to the point, but for … Continue reading →

What if a Customer or Client Wants References?

Did you think that “references” were just for more traditional jobs? If it has not happened already, the day will likely come when a potential client or customer will want to check up on some references before deciding to purchase your products or services. So, what do you do and how do you handle it when someone wants to check up on your business’ references? It is best to anticipate that prospective clients will want references and collect them as you go along. You can ask happy and satisfied customers or clients if they would be willing to provide a … Continue reading →

Career Emergency Preparedness

Preparing for a job-related disaster is important. Jobs are far from secure these days, even for the best employees. If you have a plan in place and are willing to do a little work up front, you can weather a job or income loss with ease. Here are the steps that you need to take for career emergency preparedness and preparing for a job loss. Create a Resume Plan Most people don’t even think about updating their resumes until a job loss or changes in their work environment happen. Unfortunately, this can be the worse time to try and update … Continue reading →

Explore the Disney Universe

One of my favorite party games is called “Smash Brothers.” It’s a Nintendo game wherein players control various famous characters from across the company’s franchises in a series of knock-down drag-out battles. I find getting to control Yoshi one minute and Link the next more enticing than Nintendo’s other common multi-player games, such as any of the sport or arcade games featured on Wii Play. Anyone who’s read my Disney blog for a while knows that my favorite video game is “Kingdom Hearts,” and no small part of that is because during it I get to play and interact with … Continue reading →

Helpful Hints For A Successful 2011

It’s the New Year, and many of you are probably wondering how you can make your home-based business even more successful than it was last year. There are many ways that you can find increased success in 2011. Here are a couple of ideas for things that you might want to do this year – perhaps even right now, today, or this week. It’s time to update your résumé. This is an important thing to do each year, because you are constantly acquiring new skills as you go about your work. Even though you may not be out there applying … Continue reading →

Do You Need Professional (Genealogy) Help?

Many people pursue genealogy as a hobby. For others, their passion for genealogy has led them to become professional genealogists. Those of us that are not professional genealogists may wonder who hires professional genealogists and what they are hired to do. Professional genealogists research the history of people. They work on projects that range from simple record searches to helping people get around “brick walls” in their personal research to writing books about entire families and their heritage. Many different people enlist the services of professional genealogists, such as people who would love to know their family history but have … Continue reading →

The Evolution of Baby Names

Are you agonizing over what to name your baby? Most parents our though tons of baby name lists searching out the perfect baby name for their little one. Relatives get involved, too, and everyone seems to have a definite opinion. While parents have discussed possible baby names for as far back as there were babies to name, parents today have a harder time of it, I think, then parents of past generations in our recent history. In previous generations, most babies were given family names. They were named after fathers, mothers, aunts, uncles, grandmothers, grandfathers and great grandparents. While some … Continue reading →

Teacher Misconduct is Not Always Made Public

Parents put a lot of trust in teachers. They put their most valued possession, their children, in the care of teachers and school faculty. In many cases the parents know very little about the teachers. In some cases, the parents never even see or meet their child’s teacher. In most cases, concerned parents are very eager to meet and get acquainted with the new caretaker of their child. With the important roles that teachers play in the lives of our children, we expect that the teachers would be honest, trustworthy, and dependable. Sadly, this is not always the case. Teachers … Continue reading →

Netflix Offers $1 Million Prize

What happens when the number one DVD rental company isn’t happy with being twice as popular? The company decides to sponsor a contest for improvment. The movie rental virtual store Netflk uses a complicated system of algorithms and other software coding to offer recommendations of new movies to its customers, based on preferences and what those customers have rented in the past. But Netfliks wants to gain even more market share by improving upon that system, and the DVD giant is offering a $1 million prize to anyone who could improve upon that system by at least 10 percent. Thousands … Continue reading →

Second Marriages: Buying a New Home Together

It’s arrogant to presume that when a person marries for a second time that they do so for anything less than the reasons a person may marry for the first time. It’s very common in this day and age for men and women in their 40s and 50s to meet, fall in love and marry. They may or may not have been married before and chances are they have children from previous relationships. There is one challenge they face in their middle age that may never have confronted their younger counterparts – where to live? Where Should We Live? A … Continue reading →