Jobs

Fiverr Outsources Your Small Jobs for $5 [Outsourcing]

Want to hire someone to design your business cards, teach you backflip techniques, or send you a postcard from France on the cheap? Fiverr hooks you up with people willing to do all sorts of neat things for five bucks.

Set Up a Praise Folder to Track Successes for Performance Reviews, Resume Boosts [Career]

Earlier this week we discussed creating a "Never Again" folder to track mistakes. Reader dongola7 offers another great suggestion for tracking the opposite—your successes—with a Praise folder.

What Managers and Freelancers Can Learn From the Grateful Dead [Career]

In between writing hits like "Sugar Magnolia" and "Franklin's Tower," it turns out The Grateful Dead were pretty shrewd businessmen. The Atlantic took a look at the band to find out what managers and freelancers can learn from them.Photo by Alaskan Dude.

Keep Your Resume Out of the Trash by Quantifying Your Accomplishments [Resume]

The last thing you want in the present economy is for a simple oversight or cliché on your resume to send it to the trash can. This list of resume-killers can help keep your resume out of the trash.Photo by Woodley Wonderworks.

Structure Your Next Meeting Like a Dinner Party [Meetings]

Most people enjoy dinner parties, but endless work meetings? Not so much. Office productivity blog Work Awesome suggests structuring your next meeting more like a dinner party might make them more enjoyable for everyone.

Retire Sooner by Banking Labor, Not Just Income [Money]

Nearly everyone has heard the glory of compound interest sung—how if we all saved from our first day in the workforce until our last we'd have an enormous nest egg. Get that egg faster by investing your labor, too.Photo by wili_hybrid.

Skip the Raise, Ask Your Boss for These Perks Instead [Salary]

If your company is already tightening its belt, it might not do much good asking for a raise during your next performance review. Instead, consider asking for other perks that might be almost as good as cash in your pocket.Photo by TedsBlog.

Expertise Requires Time over Talent, So Get Busy [Expertise]

Career blogger Penelope Trunk carries a 2007 article from the Harvard Business Review with her everywhere she goes. The article, called The Making of an Expert, discusses the reality of expertise, which, simply put, is this:Photo by Joe Shlabotnik.

Top 10 Tips and Tools for Freelancers [Lifehacker Top 10]

Freelancing isn't something you should just jump into, but it makes sense for a good number of workers. If you're looking into, or getting started with, working on your own, here are 10 resources we think every freelancer can learn from.

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