Where are all my freaking tax forms? I’ve received maybe two out of the 20 or so that I usually get. Does anyone else feel like everyone is slow to get them out this year? 20SomethingFinance ...
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By Lindsey Pollak for Manpower I am writing this blog post while watching snowflakes pile up on the windowsill outside my New York City office. The snow is beautiful and peaceful…that is, until I have to go outside and trudge through it. As much training as I’ve had in “appreciating the moment” and “turning lemons [...]
If you haven’t played around with ‘Google Insights for Search‘ at all, it’s a pretty fun and ‘insightful’ tool. I did a search for ‘quit my job’ and one for ‘retire early’ to compare the trends ...
As you might imagine, I review a lot of websites. Well, the other day I found one that caught my eye because of all of the stats it gave – OdinJobs. I am still reading over the site so I don’t know a whole lot about it, but at a glance, Odinjobs seems to collect [...]
I previously highlighted the itemized tax filing delay, which came as a result of the Obama tax cut deal (aka the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010). The Act extended ...
A light post schedule this past week. Re-adjusting to my lack of time to write now that I’m no longer on a 10-day holiday vacation. 20SomethingFinance Highlights: - The Most Fuel Efficient Cars of 2011: I research ...
In October 2010, LinkedIn announced the early access release of our new Javascript platform for integrating LinkedIn content across the web. Since then, we’ve seen rapid adoption of our new Share and Recommendations widgets for websites and application looking to integrate more deeply into the LinkedIn platform. Today, I’m thrilled to announce that CNNMoney and [...]
In an earlier post, I demonstrated how I would use Copyscape to find additional companies to pursue in my jobhunting efforts. In this post, I want to show you another way to accomplish the same thing. Let me show you what I mean, step-by-step. 1. First step is to hop over to Yahoo Finance’s Industry [...]
I was a little startled to get my first paycheck of the New Year this week. 60% contribution percentage to 401K can have that effect. Painful. Maxing out your 401K by summertime makes it worth ...
Happy New Year! Over the holidays, I spent some time thinking about the career trends that are most on my mind as we head into a fresh new year. Here are my thoughts: 1. The job market is not improving fast enough for most Americans. I have to agree with a recent New York Times [...]
This past week, the IRS announced two tax filing date related changes, specific to 2011 that you’ll want to take notice of. 1. Tax Filing Deadline Moved to April 18 The tax filing deadline is usually on ...
I’m so honored to be invited as a guest author for Lindsey’s blog! I’m the founder and CEO of a student-run fashion nonprofit called Styleta, which collects and sells designer clothing donations online – a virtual Goodwill meets Gilt Groupe. For all of you women who are thinking about blazing your own path as an [...]
This post originally appeared on Lindsey’s “College to Career” blog for Manpower. As 2010 winds down, your thoughts are probably starting to form about the coming year: What do you want to accomplish in the next 12 months? Where do you want to be at this time next year? While we’ve all tried (and often [...]
This post originally appeared on Lindsey’s “College to Career” blog for Manpower. Top 10 Job Hunting Tips of 2010 I absolutely love end of year lists, and swooned when I found Time.com’s list of The Top 10 of Everything of 2010. Although Time’s list of lists is pretty comprehensive, ranging from apologies to new species [...]