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Career Finance

Being a Rebel at Work Can Help Your Career

February 9, 2016

A great example of how rebelling a little bit can help your career is Donna Dubinsky. She was a sales and distribution manager at Apple when Steve Jobs decided to do away with warehousing and start a …

Career Finance

SuperSkill Investing

January 15, 2016

Here’s the conventional personal finance wisdom people have been told to follow, by bestselling books, expensive financial planners, and celebrity financial gurus: 1. As early as possible in your 20s,…

Career Finance

Big New Job Questions

December 22, 2015

When going into a possible new job opportunity, or just job searching in general, it's important to figure out some ways to predict the culture of the company you are considering working for. This can…

Career Finance

Financial Risk Pitfalls

December 7, 2015

There are many mistakes and pitfalls that we can learn from by looking at the past. Many of the money blunders that people commonly make can help us make better decisions in the future. After looking…

Career Finance

2016 Investments

November 11, 2015

Introduction The following recommendations for 2016 investments were provided by a Panel of Investors including value investor John Buckingham, editor of "The Prudent Speculator"; Richard Lehmann,…

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Career Advice for New Hires

October 20, 2015

Introduction One of the first things you must consider while new on the job is how to build a good reputation. A good way to start off is by really excelling on your first project, even if it means…

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30-second Hacks for Career & Finance

October 6, 2015

Hack #1 As soon as you wake up in the morning, think about the top three things on your priority list for the day. "Once you've identified what's important, you'll often find it's not many things,"…

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Career Advice for Millennials

September 24, 2015

Think of your career as a series of experiences It's not critical to stay with the same employer to have a good career. You need to collect experiences throughout your career, whether it be with 5…

Education

Dangerous Higher Education Economics

September 5, 2015

Free College One of the hot button issues on the minds of many people leading up to the Presidential Primary season is the cost of Higher Education. There are many proposals to dealing with this issue…

Top Colleges for Less Money

August 28, 2015

Introduction If you're a highschool student whose parents make only $40,000/yr and are struggling to pay the bills, you may be worried about your chance of affording the skyrocketing costs of tuition.…

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Nepotism: Good or Bad?

July 31, 2015

Intro Some of you might not know what Nepotism is. Wikipedia defines it as, "favoritism granted to relatives." The origin of the the concept comes from the Italian word "nepotsimo", which is based on…

The Keys to Public Relations

July 10, 2015

Introduction There are many reasons that people can use some advice on how to have better public relations. Unless you are someone famous or extremely high on the financial ladder, you probably don't…