Career Advice, Finance, Money Tips
81. Relationship Advice - Coping With Job Loss
When your partner loses his or her job, the effects can take a toll on everyone, including a marriage. Dating and relationship advice expert April Masini offers up some advice and tips that should help ease you through these tough times a bit without hurting your relationship.
82. Career Advice - Dismissed, Termined, Fired
Try not to get all fired up when you're getting fired! According to advice columnist April Masini, it's much better to keep your cool. Read her expert advice on how to handle getting fired.
83. Career Advice - Pros and Cons of Video Resumes
Video may be the way of the future (think You Tube), but does that mean that when applying for jobs you should start sending in video resumes? Advice expert April Masini offers her advice on sending in video resumes.
84. Career Advice - Job Transfer Guide
Moving can be a big transition for anyone, but when the move is due to a job transfer and you don't know anyone, it can be even more difficult. Advice columnist April Masini gives one job-transitioning reader tips on how to survive a move to a new city.
85. Business Etiquette - Celebrating at Work
Birthdays, anniversaries, new babies, weddings ... all things you'd celebrate with your family and closest of friends, but lately, you're celebrating them at work!? Advice expert April Masini tells one boss who is fed up with all the celebrations what's appropriate and how to reign it.
86. Employee Layoff and Termination Tips
Firing an employee is always difficult, but how do you balance the needs of your company with being kind to employees? And how do you deal with it if some of the people you are firing are friends? Best-selling author and advice columnist April Masini gives one boss in a tough spot advice on how to let employees go.
87. Business Benefits of Hiring Telecommuters
Several of this manager's employees have asked him to begin telecommuting, but he's not sure whether they will be as productive as they would be in the office. Best-selling author and advice columnist April Masini explains why the telecommuting option is sometimes the best one!
88. Career Advice - Is Grad School Right for Me?
Grad school is a big decision in many ways: you'll be giving up a lot of time, a lot of money, and a lot of earning power. Is it worth it to go? When's the right time? While only you can decide when the perfect time for grad school is, April Masini, advice columnist, says there are a lot of reasons NOT to go. Read on to hear them.
89. Latest Female Fashion Trends - Women's Buying Power
This entrepreneur is thinking about striking out on her own, opening a luxury boutique for women. But is there enough interest in this niche? Advice columnist and best-selling author April Masini explains why her idea is a great one!
90. Business Etiquette - Cursing At Work
This manager runs a small group of younger associates who seem to have no problem dropping curse words at every opportunity. She worries about the impression they're making on others in the company and frets that they might one day be inappropriate in front of a client. Relationship advice columnist April Masini gives her an airtight policy to keep language clean in the workplace.
91. Career Advice - Office Gossip
With the amount of time spent in the office, it's inevitable that you and your fellow co-workers will begin to gab. Office gossip is common, though often times unprofessional when that information being talked about is deeply personal. Advice columnist April Masini lets employees know when to gossip, and when to keep your mouth shut!
92. Financial Advice for the Average Family - Decorating On A Budget
We all want homes like the ones in the magazines, but who can afford it? Actually, you can, now that designer decor has infiltrated stores like Target. Advice expert and columnist April Masini gives you a few ideas for decorating for less.
93. Tips On Getting Ahead At Work - Work Habits
Do you have trouble holding a job down for very long? It may be hard for you to admit, but it's possible that you keep getting "let go" because you are annoying your boss. If you're constantly late, disorganized, and messy, you could be getting on your boss' last nerve. Best-selling author and advice expert April Masini is here to tell you that it's actually not that difficult to prevent yourself from being annoying; it just takes a bit of self-discipline.
94. Education-Technology Is Changing Language and Literature
A new report says fewer and fewer English majors are being required by university standards to study Shakespeare. With an ever-globalized world and technology changing the meaning of language, should universities be clinging to the 'great books' of Western literature or offering more diversity for a culture that may regard these old books as the thoughts of "dead, white European males." Advice columnist and best-selling author April Masini thinks that the lack of a Shakespeare requirement is a sign of an intellectual changing of the guard.
95. Career Advice: Dead-End Job?
Getting passed over for promotions, not getting raises or just all around hitting a brick wall? You may be stuck in a dead-end job. Columnist April Masini diagnoses those in a dead end job--and gives tips on how to improve their career situation.
96. 10 Tips to Stay Safe On Campus
It's that time of the year when high school juniors and seniors are visiting schools and deciding on which college is right for them. However for parents, in light of recent tragedies, it's more important than ever to add security on college campuses in the deciding on a school. Advice columnist and best-selling author April Masini lets parents know what questions to ask about campus secutiry.
97. Business Travel Tips - Office Communication
Today's business asks many of its workers to become road warriors, traveling around the country or around the globe to meet with important clients or company partners. But while on the road or in the air, many employees still need to be in touch with what's going on at the central office. Columnist April Masini lets us know how to stay available to everyone from subordinates to bosses, customers to coworkers, while keeping to your travel agenda.
98. Advice On Working With Teens - Job Tips for Teens
Summer time is rapidly approaching, and that means teens will start showing up on work sites for their annual summer job. While it's great experience and important to instill a work ethic in these young adults, many employers don't know how to properly work with these high schoolers. Columnist April Masini advises summer employers on adapting their existing procedures for teenagers.
99. Business Tips - The Web Vs. Employers
Having online resources at their fingertips, unions and attorneys are using the Web for leverage against employers that allegedly don't treat employees well. These sites are meant to bring public attention to a problem, and attorneys also use similar sites in seeking plaintiffs for employment class-action lawsuits. Expert advice columnist April Masini weighs in on the debate if employers should be worried.
100. Email Etiquette - 'Netiquette'
Email has revolutionized communication. With the click of a button, one is able to talk to anyone across the globe within seconds. But this effortless ease has also caused many to practice bad 'netiquette'--that is poor online manners. Columnist April Masini lets us know when it is okay to email and when the online communication is outright inappropriate.
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