July 1, 2010
Almost every employer requires traditional CVs, but visual resumes are increasing in popularity and can make you stand out of the crowd and land the job. After looking at hundreds of visual resumes (there are thousands on YouTube), I can say that these types of resumes can either be ingenious masterpieces or flops (or at [...]
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June 28, 2010
Trying to find a job is hard enough, but when you’re bombarded with a flurry of online listings from search engines, it can get pretty overwhelming. Going through pages and pages of job listings gets old quickly, so how do you take control of your search and get to the bottom of it all? Look [...]
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June 17, 2010
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the future, the job market, and what opportunities exist today given all of the economic, social and business changes throughout the world. Old powerhouse industries of “industrialized” countries of the Western World all seem to be gravitating to countries with a lower cost workforce and fewer [...]
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June 10, 2010
One thing I am always on the lookout for are new and creative ways to earn more money on the Internet. Here at MakeUseOf, I’ve covered a number of resources you can use to generate income, such as selling eBooks, selling online computer support, and a whole list of things teens can do to earn [...]
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April 29, 2010
As the world transitions to conducting work, business and play online, more and more communications that were formerly done offline in a formal way, are now quickly accomplished on the Internet. One excellent example is how the job hunting process is now almost exclusively online. You make a portfolio with your resume and work samples [...]
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March 18, 2010
When you’re looking for a job, you don’t have a lot of chances to catch the interest of a potential employer. After the cover letter, the curriculum vitae (CV) or resume is one of the first documents recruiters see. To keep them interested in you, this document should highlight your strengths, be easy to scan, [...]
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February 5, 2010
A lot of people would like to be able to make extra cash on the Internet in their spare time. Many people do, such as bloggers, e-retailers and freelancers. I’ve recently found two great ways you can make money online when you create your own products like T-shirts, mugs and posters. And no, it doesn’t [...]
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February 1, 2010
While popular services such as Monster and CareerBuilder may have some job postings (the Internet doesn’t truly list all the openings), they also make you jump through lengthy account-creating and advertisement hurdles in order to get a chance at creating or uploading a resume. If you’re uploading a resume that you created the painful way [...]
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January 18, 2010
What exactly is the Amazon Mechanical Turk? The best explanation comes from the original Mechanical Turk. In 1779, Wolfgang von Kempelen created The Turk, an intricate and amazing chess machine – an “automaton” – complete with moving gears and cogs and a life-sized model of a man with a beard, dressed in Turkish robes and [...]
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