Everybody knows an office jerk.
They’re the ones who yell, scream, pound the table — and in general, make the office a bit miserable for everyone. They may be absolutely fantastic at their job, but that doesn’t mean that people have to like working with them.
Here’s another reason to hate them: they’re probably making more money than you, for doing the exact same thing you’re doing.
So why is that?
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The Psychology of Sex, Gender, and Jobs
Hormones can make you do/say all sorts of stuff.
But did you know that your hormones can dictate what your eventual career path would be?
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And Other Offers Too Good to Refuse from The Small Ads
One thing that successful people have going for them is that they’re always hustling, always striving to make that next dollar.
Or, when looked at from a more practical viewpoint: as Dave Ramsay often says, “you don’t have an debt problem, you have an income problem”. In other words, you can make ends meet – but you need to get off your fat butt and take on a second or third weekly paycheck in addition to your primary job.
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Career Essentials: The Cover Letter
A while back, Web Watch covered 10 WORDS NOT TO USE ON YOUR RESUME.
We figured it was time to also provide job-seekers 10 THINGS NOT TO INCLUDE ON YOUR COVER LETTER, especially after one recent interview session that Web Watch had to sit through recently.
Granted, the issue we had was with the resume itself rather than with the cover letter, but hey – it’s all in the name of a good story, isn’t it?
The candidate presented a resume that showed appropriate skills the job required – no issue there. But they decided to include a list of previous job experience that had absolutely no bearing on the job they were interviewing for.
Seriously, why would they include that they trained runway models how to model fashions if the job they were applying for had absolutely no relationship to the fashion industry? C’mon people – after you reach a certain age and success level in your career path, it’s time to exclude your GPA and college experiences from your resume. Nobody cares that the potential Vice President of Sales and Marketing spent their summer as a part-time employee at The Gap 25 years ago. Show us what you did last month, or the last five years.
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Resume Magic: Trade Secrets of a Professional Resume Writer
When was the last time you had to write a resume?
You never know when you may find yourself in a situation where you may need to produce your resume at a moment’s notice. Web Watch recommends that once a year, you take out your existing resume and update it with the past 12 months-worth of accomplishments, while your most recent job review is fresh in your mind.
It won’t hurt, and then you have it ready on the off-chance that a recruiter calls you with “The Most Ultimate Job Opportunity Ever… if I can have your resume in my hands by 3:00pm today…”
If you’ve been out of work for any length of time during this recession, you may want to consider that the issue with your lack of good job prospects may not have anything to do with WHAT you want to do, but rather WHERE you’re trying to work.
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Some people think that their jobs are kind of tough.
You’ve got your standard fireman, policeman, oil rigger, human cannonball, Alaskan fisherman. Yup, those are some very tough jobs, all with high incidents of injury and death. For every 100,000 full-time workers, fatal injuries for firefighters is about 4.4, when police rate at 13.1.
But there are some JOBS THAT AREN’T THAT TOUGH, BUT STILL HAVE HIGH INJURY RATES. Here’s a list of those jobs that may sound easy and lucrative, but in reality may end up putting you in the hospital or worse Take being a farmer, for instance – their rate of injury is 38.5. And some would say that working on a ranch is the easy way out.
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Growing up, almost every boy has a dream to someday work for Playboy Magazine (link NSFW).
Because how fun would it be to surround yourself with The Most Beautiful Women of the World, all day, every day?
And to party at the Playboy Mansion? That’s a dream that everyone has, no matter how corporate some of the more recent parties are rumored to have become (the Mansion is owned by the Company, after all, so they do have some entertainment bills that need to be paid somehow).
But here’s your opportunity to work for Playboy as a PHOTO ARCHIVIST (this link is SFW).
The job details are after the break.
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