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9 Tips for Time Management and Taking Control of Your Work Day

Newsflash! You are not the most important person in the office and work will still get done without you working an extra hour every day. The trick is making those work hours really count. Here are 9 tips to strike a better balance between work and life

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Revisit Yourself: Insight from Career Coach Suzannah Scully

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The following dose of reflective positivity comes from Suzannah Scully. Suzannah is a life coach and image consultant in San Francisco, and while the concept and execution of The Daily Anchor may be mine, but the inspiration I owe to Suzannah.

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A Survival Guide for How to Keep Your Job in a Recession

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It doesn’t matter where you work or what your position is or how secure you think your job is; in this recession nobody is inherently safe from “strategic workforce reductions.” You need to earn your pay every day and continually reaffirm your worth in your employer’s eyes, and even then there are no guarantees. If you don’t believe me, ask some of the employees who…

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Tax Implications of Leaving Your Job – Some Good, Some Bad

If you lose your job, you could be in for some tax surprises – some nice, some nasty. If you receive unemployment benefits or severance pay, cash in a retirement account or have a big change in income, your tax bill could be much more – or less – than you expect. To avoid surprises, here are some tips…

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What to Do if Youve Been Laid Off: Finding a Job in a Recession

11.1 million people are unemployed. The job market is flooded with insanely talented people. And you just got laid off. @%^#!
Even in a strong economy job-hunting is a stressful ordeal, but the prospect of finding a job in a recession can be downright depressing. While there’s no magic trick for finding a job right now, here are some things you can do to drastically increase your chances of finding an opportunity for employment…

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More Reasons Why Now Is The Time For Hatching Something New

Neil Davidson at Red Gate Software published this post on OnStartups in response to Jason Cohen’s post, 6 reasons why this economy is good for startups. Neil chidingly curses Jason for beating him to the punch, but comes up with 6 more great reasons for why now is as good a time as any for startups…

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How to be Great at Sales

I used to think that there was this huge chasm between the average and the top performers on a sales team. While the results may be separated by a lot of white space, the effort required to generate is relatively close. The key difference is the top performing sales executive can have an intelligent conversation with a prospect on a range of topics relevant to the prospect’s business, the average performer can only speak about their solution…

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