Career Advice, Finance, Money Tips
41. Cutting College Costs
Your time at college will probably be some of the best years of your life...and also the most expensive! Expert April Masini offers her tips for how you can cut costs and save money while away at college.
42. Networking Tips On Getting Ahead At Work
Most people think of networking as something you do in between jobs, but as one reader quickly learned, it's just as important to do it when you're employed as when you're not. Advice expert and columnist April Masini offers her tips for creating bonds and contacts within her own company to make sure she is at the top of everyone's minds when it comes time for promotions.
43. Must Have List for Adult Students
Get your pencils, get your books .... what? Pencils aren't on the back to school shopping list anymore? When you decide to go back to school as a continuing education adult, you may find that you're not exactly sure of the back to school supplies you need these days. Advice expert and columnist April Masini shares her list of the top five unexpected necessities continuing education adults need for back to school.
44. Telecommuting: Pros And Cons
Many people jump at the chance to telecommute, while others are a bit wary about working at home rather than in the office. Best-selling author and advice expert April Masini lays out the benefits of employees telecommuting and also helps calm worries about social isolation and being passed over for promotions.
45. Myspace Business Tool
Myspace isn't just for teens looking to connect with each other. Businesses can attract customers and form relationships with them through starting their own Myspace page. Relationship advice expert April Masini explains why your business may be missing out if you don't have a Myspace for it.
46. Career Advice - Humor in the Workplace
Of course your job isn't always funny, but you shouldn't spend 8+ hours in an office every day without cracking a smile. Best-selling author and advice expert April Masini answers your questions about why and how to bring humor into your workplace.
47. Advice on When To Tip for Service
While tips were once given only for exceptional service, it seems that these days you are expected to tip for service more and more. Advice expert and columnist April Masini explains how most people tip and also gives three motivations for tipping.
48. Long Work Hours - Short Vacation
Americans love to work, but don’t they also love to vacation? These days, people are taking fewer extended vacations and are instead opting to take many long weekends. Advice columnist and expert April Masini explains why this phenomenon is occurring.
49. Career Advice - Discussing Difficult Subjects At Work
Need help when it comes to talking to your boss about sensitive subjects? If so, relationship advice expert and columnist April Masini has a list of tips that will help you approach your boss and talk with him or her about a sensitive topic.
50. Financial Advice for the Average Family
Most people would rather spend money than save money, but if you don't work on budgeting, you may find yourself in trouble. Best-selling author and advice expert April Masini offers her tips for budgeting so you can learn how to save.
51. Fashion Trends- Appropriate Way To Dress for a Job Interview
Want to look professional, classy, and still stylish in the boardroom? Advice expert April Masini gives you the tips you need to be sure that all-important first impression is the right. If you're looking to score a new, high-powered job, you need to read April's advice on the appropriate way to dress for a job interview.
52. Career Advice - Adult Student
There is a widely held, stereotypical path that "everyone" takes from high school to college to a career. But lots of people wait until after they have begun their careers to go back to school. It can be difficult to become a full-time student when you're older, especially among a bunch of 20-year-olds, but you can succeed! Advice expert April Masini offers tips to tell you how you can go to the head of the class as a non-traditional student.
53. Interview Tips After Out Of Work For 6 Years
Job hunting is tough, and getting back into the market after taking some time off complicates matters even more. What are some of the skills you need to prepare yourself for reentry and how can you be successful at the job hunt? Advice expert April Masini gives some practical job hunting tips.
54. Free Financial Advice - Debt Stress
Being in debt certainly affects a person's credit score, but where else will it take a toll? One woman is worried about her daughter's inability to pay off her loans and credit cards, and wonders if debt is going to creep into other areas of her life. Relationship advice expert April Masini explains how debt is not just confined to finances.
55. Rich People Have Problems?
As with any group of people, some wealthy people have issues and some don't. Best-selling author and advice expert April Masini describes some of the various issues people with a lot of money may have, and why.
56. Work to Live or Live to Work
Studies show that U.S. workers don't take all their vacation time, and one reader has fallen into that rut. He writes to advice expert April Masini asking whether taking vacation will risk his career. April explains why vacation time is so important.
57. Career Advice - Helping Your Adult Children Job Hunt
As a parent, it's hard to know when to butt out, especially when you are finally sending your child out on their own for the first time ... and they're not setting the world on fire. When your kid graduates college and is unemployed, how far should you go helping them find their first job? Relationship advice expert and columnist April Masini gives some tips on parents for how to help -- not force--their children to succeed.
58. Tips On Getting Ahead At Work With Co-Workers
When working in cubicles, the lives of others become your own. You know everything about your cubicle neighbors: how often they talk to their mothers during work hours, what time they get up for a coffee break, the music they listen to. While you need to have a certain level of tolerance for coworkers, what happens when things go over the line? How do you handle coworkers' "quirks" without ruining your relationship? Advice expert April Masini has some tips.
59. Career Advice - Strange Behavior and Dress At Work
As society gets progressively more liberal and accepting of outside-the-norm behavior, helped in part by celebrity behavior, lines are beginning to get crossed in the workplace. One manager writes to advice expert April Masini asking her when it's appropriate to be a little wacky at work, and what he can do when he thinks things have crossed the line.
60. Career Advice - Motivation Tips
Everyone's heard the term self-motivated, but what happens when you have a staff or employees who don't have that quality? How can you keep them motivated? Advice expert April Masini offers some simple tips for staying motivated that will keep everyone on their toes.
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