Five Tips To Improve Your Resume
With the national unemployment rate clocking in at 8.8 percent this past March, competition for work remains stiff, especially if you’re trying to climb the ladder. So how do you stand out from all the rest? The first thing potential employers will see is your resume, so make it look professional. It’s essential to snagging an interview. Tailoring your resume to each job you apply for may seem tedious, but it’s a worthy time investment. Advice for how to make adjustments abounds, but there are some fundamentals that permeate any well-constructed resume.
Five Celebrity Money Fails
Celebrities may dictate fashion and style, but they’re no arbiters of personal finance, at least not in my book. If there’s one thing about money that celebrities have taught us, it’s that you can just as easily burn through 10 bucks as you can several million when you don’t stop to embrace the basic rules of money. You know the plain vanilla stuff like: saving, budgeting, planning and protecting your assets. Oh, and it also helps to file and pay your taxes.
Find a Penny, Save a Million
This following is a guest post by Bob Bobala, personal finance guru and former Motley Fool editor-in-chief. In a sign of the times, educators in Florida are trying to collect 2.6 million pennies – one for each student in the state – to make a…
Digital Extroverts Vulnerable To Identity Theft
Today’s twenty-somethings may be the most extroverted generation in history. They chronicle their trips around the world. They fess up to personal bankruptcy. They Facebook, they tweet, they text, they talk–and talk, and talk, and talk. Unfortunately, this conversational navel-gazing could increase the risk of…
Credit vs Debit: Which Should You Use, and When?
Will that be credit or debit? Those little plastic cards may look the same, but they are oh so different. Let’s clear up credit vs debit. What’s the difference between credit and debit? When you make a purchase with a debit card (even if you…
Confessions Of A Mac Convert
Hello, my name is Aaron, and I am a recent Mac convert. As one of the last hold outs at Mint.com (now the Personal Finance Group for Intuit, overseeing all Quicken products), I have no idea how I lived without the beautiful screen and crisp,…
Combining Finances In A Relationship
Can a couple where both participants have different attitudes towards money and different incomes survive in a relationship with combined finances for their household budget? A differing philosophy or income is not an automatic problem. What’s really important is the goal. If two people agree…
Checking Your Credit Report
Several years ago, one of my employers did a routine background check that included pulling my credit report from one of the three bureaus. They were confirming that the details on my resume matched the details on my credit report, which is common for companies in that industry. They discovered that in addition to living in Pittsburgh, PA for college, I spent some time living in rural Pennsylvania a hundred miles away from Pittsburgh. The only problem was I didn’t live in rural Pennsylvania ever.
Cheap Travel Ideas: Fly, Drive, or Neither
Even though holiday travel and vacation isn’t far behind us, you’re probably already stuck behind your desk, daydreaming about your next getaway. If you’re a travel nut, you’ve probably realized that those little weekend trips and summer vacations can add up. Hopefully these tips and cheap travel ideas will help you save a little the next time you hit the road.
Cents & Sensibility: The Real Cost Of Paying Bills Late
You might think leaving your bills for later is an easy way to avoid pain and suffering, but you’re going to end up hurting even more when you realize how much damage you’re really doing to your wallet and your credit.