Expert Behavioral Interviewing

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Behavioral interviews are all the rage in human resources circles. Why? HR managers believe the most accurate predictor of future performance is past performance in a similar situation. So, they want you to explain your career in a series of stories based on the situations they present. It can be a challenging exercise to say [...]

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5 Ways To Disaster Proof Your Finances

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Earthquakes, floods, and forest fires know no season. Spring tornado season is just around the corner and soon thereafter, we enter hurricane season. If you were thrown a curveball and had go through a hurricane, tornado, earthquake, flash flood or forest fire – would you be financially prepared to weather the storm?
Natural disasters serve [...]

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Choices In Discount Brokerage Firms

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The 8 Types of Jobs

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Welcome, welcome. Come on in and have a seat on the couch right there. Just relax. We’re going to have a little conversation about your job anxieties. As a matter of fact, just lie back on the couch and let’s focus together on letting all your misgivings about your current or even future job [...]

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Roundup and Link Love: New Roundup Submission Form!

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Today is the debut of my new Roundup Submission form found on the top navigation bar of each page on this site. If you would like to be included in my next roundup, head on over to the Roundup Requests page and enter your information. I usually compile a roundup of great posts every two [...]

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Get A $25 Gift Certificate for TWO BUCKS

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Restaurant.com has opened up their site once again, offering $25 gift certificates to great restaurants for the unbelievable price of TWO DOLLARS. If you want to get $25 in food for a tiny fraction of the price, head on over to Restaurant.com and use the coupon code: BITE when you check out.
I’ve actually used these [...]

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What If Governments Used YNAB?

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Sounds far fetched, I know, almost as crazy as our current administration banning the great American pastime of fishing. With bad news coming out of Washington so fast and furious that it’s hard to keep up, maybe someone from YNAB needs to educate our legislative and executive branches on what a budget really is and [...]

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Now I Know Where Our Government Learned Math

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It’s a funny little video, but it seems to represent how everyone involved in federal, state, and even local governments does math – badly. States and municipalities are increasingly running out of cash and on the verge of bankruptcy. Some municipalities have raised sales taxes as high as 12 percent! Just like the video shows [...]

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Two Thousand One Hundred Forty Two Reasons You Should Check Out NetQuote

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That’s how many of your fellow readers checked out NetQuote last year after reading about it here at The Wisdom Journal. That’s a lot of people! One reader even took the time to email me about how much money he saved on his homeowners insurance using their service.

And what exactly IS NetQuote? Think of it [...]

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How To Submit A Roundup Request

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My bi-weekly roundups are great fun – no really. I enjoy the reading part, but the coding part sometimes takes up a lot of time. So, taking a cue from my friend Paul at Fiscal Geek, I created a roundup submission form similar (eerily similar, no?) to his. Matt from Debt Free Adventure created one [...]

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Your Family Charter: Why Are We Here Anyway?

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