Those of you who are regular readers know that I work in the High Tech industry at a large telecommunications company, that was until Wednesday July 30th, when my position there was declared redundant and I was given a severance package.
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On Being Laid Off
Posted by bigcajunman under Human ResourcesFrom http://www.canajunfinances.com 4437 days ago
Job Hunting Update
Posted by bigcajunman under Self-DevelopmentFrom http://www.canajunfinances.com 4670 days ago
Very few people find and land new jobs simply by applying to jobs on job boards, or in newspapers. Unless you have a killer resume, which somehow slides through every screening program, you are going to find your next job through contacts, friends, former co-workers or people you meet through those
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The Cost of Cheques
Posted by bigcajunman under FinanceFrom http://www.canajunfinances.com 4670 days ago
Cheques Cost $40 I may have a free chequing account, in that I am not charged for the use of cheques on my bank account (even though I am charged $13.95 a
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Dumber Than Snake Mittens
Posted by bigcajunman under MarketingFrom http://www.canajunfinances.com 4678 days ago
I have a Dilbert calendar in my office and this month’s cartoon has the punch line that you can read on the title of this post, and it is an astoundingly good one liner. The concept of Snake Mittens is so obviously wrong, it would seem an impossibility that anyone would think this was a good idea,
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Video: Work Life Balance
Posted by bigcajunman under Human ResourcesFrom http://www.canajunfinances.com 4687 days ago
Work-life balance, says Nigel Marsh, is too important to be left in the hands of your employer. At TEDxSydney, Marsh lays out an ideal day balanced between family time, personal time and productivity — and offers some stirring encouragement to make it happen.
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Link Building a Tutorial (External)
Posted by bigcajunman under Social MediaFrom http://nothowtodoit.com 4757 days ago
I have already given some ideas about creating internal links with Link Building a Tutorial (Internal), (see I just created an internal link right there), but now we need to do the important task of creating External Links (i.e. links from other sites, that hopefully have a higher Page Rank than yo
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Link Building a Tutorial (Internal)
Posted by bigcajunman under Online MarketingFrom http://nothowtodoit.com 4764 days ago
So it has taken me about 6 years and a lot of mistakes to figure out how to slowly but surely build links into your site (and across your site) and thus build your Page Rank as well.
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Twitter Etiquette
Posted by bigcajunman under Social MediaFrom http://nothowtodoit.com 4799 days ago
I am still learning how to use Social Media as a tool to drive more readers through Canadian Personal Finance (and thus hopefully create more income from the site) but I am starting to learn a few things about one of the major social media engines Twitter.
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SPAM Comments Grow Exponentially
Posted by bigcajunman under ResourcesFrom http://nothowtodoit.com 4850 days ago
It seems that with web site popularity comes a deluge of SPAM and non topic related comments, as well, which then causes more overhead for the web site.
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How to Control Your Own Content and Stop Scraping
Posted by bigcajunman under ResourcesFrom http://nothowtodoit.com 4855 days ago
For those who are not sure what I mean by a scraper, it is someone who steals your content without giving you credit for your work. They typically put Adsense all over their pages, and use your RSS feed as the mechanism to get your content. I have found many “mirror” sites of my content all over th
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