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How to Negotiate Your Salary

{ Posted on Jan 20 2012 by April Dykman }
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This post is from staff writer April Dykman. One of my goals for GRS in 2012 is to write more about earning money. I quit my job a year-and-a-half ago to become self-employed, but I know that most people are employees, and ...Read More »

Confessions from the chaos: update

{ Posted on Jan 20 2012 by FruGal }
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I have now been following my new ‘get organised’ schedule for two weeks. When I began this process I gave my default stress level as a seven out of ten – quite high, I think you would agree; and it ...Read More »

Confessions from the Chaos: Prioritising

{ Posted on Jan 05 2012 by FruGal }
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It turns out that writing the list of things I need to achieve on a daily, weekly and monthly basis was more complex than it originally seemed. First I had to think carefully about what I spend my time doing ...Read More »

Confessions from the chaos: Time management

{ Posted on Jan 04 2012 by FruGal }
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This series is about learning how to organise my time in a better way, so that I can function on something more than running-on-empty, which is how I feel 90 percent of the time. While working as a freelancer brings ...Read More »

Confessions from the chaos: getting organised for 2012

{ Posted on Jan 03 2012 by FruGal }
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I am a chronic list maker. My life consists of endless lists-of-things-to-do that quickly evolve into lists-of-things-I-mostly-didn’t-do, with one or two things ticked off. I read somewhere recently that people use lists to create an appearance of self-control to mask ...Read More »

Job hunting in the new year – is now the best time?

{ Posted on Dec 13 2011 by Sian Meades }
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There’s a little lull between Christmas and New Year. Nothing much happens, you don’t really know what day it is and time is mainly punctuated by Eastenders being on in the afternoon, booze at 11am and segments of Chocolate Orange. ...Read More »

How to freelance over Christmas

{ Posted on Dec 08 2011 by Sian Meades }
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There are a lot of perks to working for yourself. But there are some downsides as well. And unpaid holiday has to be the worst of them. Two weeks Christmas holiday just before January when the tax return panic is ...Read More »

Do you work too much?

{ Posted on Nov 10 2011 by Sian Meades }
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I’m currently staring at my to-do list and panicking. Not just a little. I’ve got that nervy feeling in my stomach that says if I don’t half my list today, I’m probably going to throw up a little bit. My ...Read More »

How to negotiate your starting salary

{ Posted on Nov 05 2011 by The Lean Times }
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We all know it is not easy to find a new job these days. Between cut backs, layoffs and the recession, it seems finding your dream job is an insurmountable task.  Let’s say you have found the perfect job, you ...Read More »

Career Moves: How to Win the Office Politics Game (Part Two)

{ Posted on Oct 31 2011 by April Dykman }
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This post is from staff writer April Dykman. Last week we talked about the whys of office politics. Why do they exist? Why do we have to play the game? Today we’ll get to the good stuff: How to run a ...Read More »
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