Twenty-three-year-old Charlie Hoehn says the best way for a recent graduate to get a job these days is to first offer to work for free. He explains in this slide presentation. (Hit “full” on the bottom-left menu to be able to read the slides.) Recession-Proof Graduate View more documents from Charlie Hoehn.

Pixar University‘s Randy Nelson speaks last year about the company’s corporate culture and what it looks for in a new hire. (Disclaimer If you’re an animated character looking for work, there is a different hiring process.) From Edutopia.

Last month we posted an entry about being unemployed for one year from the blog Jobless and Less. Now, here are two posts about that same depressing milestone from the blog State of the Unemployed Union. The feelings of self-doubt, depression, and finally growth may be familiar to anyone who has gone through such a [...]

So here’s something I just learned. Frequent flyers and miles junkies have their own online community, consisting of web sites littered with ticket-buying lingo. If earning frequent flyer points or scoring the absolute best deal from the airlines lifts your inner 747, then click yourself on over to forums like FlyerTalk, FlyerGuide.com, and View From the Wing, written by Gary Leff, a university chief financial officer with a “miles and points obsession.”

Just how did mortgage-backed investments that were rated AAA by the ratings agencies Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s, and Fitch, wind up as “toxic assets” that precipitated a financial crisis that nearly brought down the world economic system last year and fed straight into this vicious recession? After all, investors depend on the agencies to assess [...]

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As mentioned in previous posts, fewer people eating out means less in tips for waiters and waitresses. But in some New York restaurants, at least, the wages ain’t so hot either. From the NY State Dept. of Labor last month: State Labor Commissioner M. Patricia Smith today announced the findings of a targeted Labor Department [...]

You know about the great diversity of answers to the question “Who are the worst tippers?” on Waiter Rant. We posted about that here and here. But many people, in their posts, also included their opinion on the type of people that are the best tippers. So here ya go: Florida Jews The absolute best [...]

Our previous post about Waiter Rant‘s thread on “Who are the worst tippers?” highlighted these groups of people: Canadians, middle-aged blue collar men, Scandinavians, Brazilians, women in groups, Baptists, senior citizens, African Americans, elderly country club women, recovering cocaine addicts, Indians, flatterers, non-smokers, teachers, upper middle-class baby boomers, athletes, Japanese, French, Europeans, Jehovah’s Witnesses, elected [...]

The Senate yesterday rejected a health care amendment on abortion that mirrored the restrictive Stupak amendment passed by the House. The amendment bans federal subsidies that would be provided for individuals’ health insurance from being paid to any insurer that offers coverage for abortion. Abortion rights supporters were stunned and dismayed that the House, with [...]