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How to Deal with Employment Gaps in Your Resume

Eat Your Career

And I think that this has been changing since about 2008, which was when we had the great recession. People had employment gaps around that 2008-2009 time period. So I don’t think it is as common these days, that people are just flat out rejecting off the bat because of an employment gap. Chrissy is a great employee!

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Offices In The US Are Half-Empty, Which May Impact Banks

Allwork

What’s going on: Investors and regulators, on high alert due to recent bank failures, are now taking a closer look at the slumping US commercial real estate market, which is worth $20 trillion. The commercial real estate market has taken a huge hit in the past few months, with US prices plummeting by a staggering 15% from their previous (..)

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How Deesha Philyaw Built Her Writing Career From the Ground Up—and Landed a 7-Figure Book Deal

Success

There’s actually a format for how you query an agent and what you send and what you don’t send and when you send it.” How Deesha Philyaw got her first break This was before the economic collapse of 2008, when media outlets and magazines paid freelancers quite well. She also knew that she wanted writing to be her career.

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Blog Action Day 2008

Loosely Speaking

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Blog Action Day 2008 Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 1:00 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging As a participant in Blog Action Day 2008, I asked everyone I know for information on programs (actual or planned) which combat poverty.

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On the needles October 2008

Loosely Speaking

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs On the needles October 2008 Saturday, October 18, 2008 at 10:04 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Knitting Frenetic. You can’t be too perfect. That describes my recent approach to handcrafts. Ever feel that way at work? effectiveness. What I have now is: 1.

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Your Brain Is the Greatest Computer Ever Created

Success

Have you ever walked into a room and couldn’t remember what you went in there for? This article was published in February 2008 and has been updated. Or maybe you’ve grasped the hand of a potential client and, when the handshake broke, their name seemed to disappear from your memory? Of course you have—we all have.

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Is It Your Job’s Responsibility to Make You Happy During the Workday?

Success

While employers aren’t the sole architects of employee happiness, they undoubtedly hold influence over it. Macey and Schneider (2008) describe employee engagement as an idealistic state, not something that we are feeling every moment of every day,” Iverson says. Nathan Iverson, Ph.D., an associate professor of psychology and M.S.