Your Job
Learn about how to negotiate your salary, and how to calculate how much you will be bringing home in each paycheck. You will also learn to understand the benefits that you receive in addition to your salary.
How Have You Survived a Layoff?
Many people are struggling to survive layoffs. With a difficult job market, the job search is taking a lot longer than it normally would. Learn how people are managing to get by and share any tips or advice you have to help others do the same.
Tips to Increase Your Income
Often people are looking for easy ways to increase their income. This requires work, and planning, but there are options both part time and full time that can help you increase your income. Learn other people's tips and share your own to increase your income.
Furlough Survival Tips
Furlough can throw you for a loop. It puts into question your future job security, as well as changing the amount of money that you make. Some employers will spread the cost over time, others will just have you go without pay for a week or two. How have you survived furlough? What tips do you have to help others?
Can Unemployment Benefits Run Out?
Unemployment benefits do not last forever. Sates may choose to extend them during down times in the economy, but you should be planning and preparing now, just in case you do not find a job before you benefits run out.
What If I Don't Qualify for Unemployment Benefits?
You can be without a job and not qualify for unemployment benefits. Newly graduated college students do not qualify for benefits, and often struggle to find a job. If you find yourself jobless with no benefits there are steps you can take to protect your finances.
Buy Your Professional Wardrobe
Buying your first professional wardrobe can be expensive. Here are tips to help you save money while still dressing professionally.
Survive a Furlough
A furlough is forced unpaid leave. This means that you lose a part of your income. You can survive a furlough if you plan ahead now.
What Is Furlough?
Furlough is when you have a forced unpaid leave. The advantages of furlough are that you keep your job, and your benefits. However you do lose your pay and your income.
Four Ideas to Help You Make More Money
If you want to get out of debt or simply improve your quality of life, you may be looking for ways to increase your income. You may be looking for a way to supplement you income for a short term or for an option that may eventually grow enough to allow you to quit your job and focus solely on a new business or freelancing.
Choosing to Walk Away from Your Job
If you want to stay home with your children, you may have a lot of different factors to consider, be sure to include the difficulty you may face in returning to the workforce. There are strategies you can employ to make it easier to get a job.
Recover From a Job Loss
Losing your job can throw you into a financial tailspin. Learn what you can do to recover quickly from this crisis. You will need to manage your money wisely while you look for a new job, and focus on making the most of your situation.
Prepare for a Possible Layoff
Whenever there is a recession or a downturn in profits many companies resort to layoffs to protect their bottom line. It is important to be prepared so that if you are ever laid off you will be able to handle the crisis. Learn the steps you need to do in order to survive.
How to Start Telecommuting
If you are looking for a flexible way to be at home during the day, a way to save money on gas or for a way to make extra money at home, you should consider telecommuting. You can take a full-time or part-time telecommuting job at home, while still having your traditional full time job or you can work on transitioning your current job into a...
How to Manage a Second Job
Working full time and getting a second part time job can be exhausting. It may be a good short-term solution to financial problem, but it is likely not the best long-term solution. It can cut into many aspects of your life. If you are taking on a second job, you need to plan carefully so that it is worth your time.
Tell Us About Your First Job Out of College
Share your story about your first job out of college and the things that helped you get the job. If you are just starting to look for a job or you want to learn about other people's experiences, reac what others have to say. See submissions
Ideas for Your Office Holiday Gift Exchange
There are several different ways that offices handle gift exchanges. Some offices will allow people to choose to participate in an official exchange and people will draw a name from a hat and buy gift for one person. Generally there is a price limit set on those gifts. Other offices do a white elephant gift exchange, with a preset price. Other...
Should I Move When My Significant Other Gets a Job Offer Out of State?
The answer depends on whether or not your career or your relationship is most important to you, and whether or not you can achieve the same career success if you move. Each situation will have a different answer. Learn what things you should consider when faced with this question.
5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Go Back to Graduate School
Going back to graduate school may seem like the solution to all of your financial and career related problems. However it may only make the situation worse. You should carefully consider these questions before taking the plunge.
