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Unemployed? Ten Quasi-Productive Things to Keep You Busy and Maybe Accomplish Something
Here are ten things to do this summer that are free or cheap, and that are at least more productive than loafing on the couch. You’ve got the time, right?
Looking for a job? Try a sandwich board
Seven years ago, I reported a piece about white-collar unemployment for which I interviewed a man who advertised his availability by wearing a sandwich board in midtown Manhattan. Seems we’re back to those bad old days. Here are some drastic measures some job hunters are taking, according to CareerBuilder:
• Candidate advertised on a
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Confessions of a high-school cheerleader
I was probably someone you hated in high school. I wasn’t just a cheerleader; I bullied my way into the captain job as a junior, over two seniors with more experience but gentler personalities. I ruled our squad like Hitler in a miniskirt. Under my command, what started as a roundly mocked troupe of Aquanetted, Maybellined moppets won …
Workers say: vacation? What vacation?
Ah, summer. I can practically taste the season of sangria and barbecue coming, what with the record rainfall and brisk temperatures in the Northeast. My summer will be spent tending to a newborn—who’ll be not the least colicky, I just know it—and traveling with her and her sister to my family’s home in Japan, where the party will be …
Tough choice for moms: less pay vs. less time
In the Cullen household, Mother’s Day is known as Sunday. As in the day Mommy does the laundry, the food-shopping and cooks a big batch of something we eat until we’re sick of and throw out the following Sunday. As in the day Daddy plays a matinee and sometimes a concert. Oh, I bet I’ll get a funny card or two, and my sisters are …
Like an eHarmony for jobs, but not
I’m lazy. You are, too. If we had our way, everything would come to us via silver platter at the snap of our fingers: groceries. Clothing. Jobs. So when a new online jobhunting service promised to do all the work while I sat here, bony ass on my grubby non-Aeron office chair, I decided I would do a favor to all you other lazy workers and …
More Action in Video Resumes
The country’s biggest job board is plunging into the vidumé (thanks, Gerry) scene. This week it announced plans to “be the first major online job site to launch a new video résumé service, enabling job seekers to enhance their online applications with videos highlighting their qualifications, accomplishments and other key …
Disney Wants Your Video Resumes
I got a nice note from Brodie, star of the video résumé I featured here. I had posted his TVCV, which he’d sent to CareerBuilder’s Disney Dream Job Contest for pirates, parade performers and the like.
Thanks for the link and the kind words. My Haunted Mansion video was not chosen to be a finalist… because my Jungle Cruise video
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Wanna Work for Disney? Master the Video Resume
I’m telling you, this vidumé thing (thanks again, Gerry) is catching on. I just got this notice:
Workers across the country are competing to live out a dream job for a day at Disneyland and America votes on who makes the cut.
From March 6 to March 30th, the public can go to http://www.careerbuilder.com/disneydreamjobs and vote for their
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