Set goals before consulting any pros (Everett Herald)
Now more than ever, job seekers have access to resources that can prepare and support them as they search for new positions. There are career counselors, resume writers, life coaches, online job boards, how-to books and, of course, newspaper articles....more...Curbside trash course (Daily Record)
Don't even think of recycling that bottled water cap. That microwave dinner tray with the recycling symbol on it? Trash that as well. "There's just not a market yet for those kind of plastics," said Penny Jones, recycling educator at the Morris County Municipal Utilities Authority....more... Mailbag (Tucson Weekly)
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans....more... PM UPDATE: ACT test preparation course begins Tuesday (Muskogee Phoenix)
Connors State College will host an ACT - Standardized Test Preparation Course for high school students. There are two course dates ? 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday on the Warner Campus and 9 to 11 a.m. Sept. 29, on the Muskogee Port Campus. Cost for each course is $35....more... Welty Writers Forum Features Top Authors (WCBI Columbus)
Ellen Douglas, eleven other writers, and one visual artist will honor the legacy of Mississippi University for Women alumna Eudora Welty as they read and discuss their work at the nineteenth Welty Writer?s Symposium to be held October 18?20 on the MUW campus....more... OPENING DOORS (New York Post)
Julius Diaz was 55 years old when he lost his job at John Chatillon & Sons in Kew Gardens, Queens. Diaz had worked at the scale company for 25 years, most recently as a quality-control inspector, when it went out of business in 2005. He started......more... Pretty on paper (FSView)
We all have to enter the "real world" at some point in life. Whether that means using pizza boxes as furniture, sleeping in a box on the highway because you still have not paid off student loans or earning insignificant amounts on paychecks, it is looming in the near distance....more... No comments (LA Weekly)
Ah, yes. The L.A. Weekly has finally figured out how to pan a live stage show without actually bothering to see it: simply make fun of the show?s title in the calendar listings! Like most, I have read my share of negative reviews in which the title of a show was turned against the production itself....more... Don't let friends ruin your job search (CNN.com)
Friends provide us many things: love, support, camaraderie. Perhaps the most valuable thing they offer us is advice. They're who we turn to when we need guidance on life, love and everything in between. But there is one subject on which to tread carefully when we're seeking advice: job hunting....more... |