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Online Job Board Dos and Don’ts

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Since this past summer, MomsToWork has been offering a niche job board for our readers and the larger Internet population. We’ve focused primarily on non-traditional jobs – such as jobs that are part time, flexible or telecommute. The response we’ve seen has been overwhelming. Here’s what we’ve learned during this time. For prospective job applicants: [...]

Tip: Use Heavier Stock Paper For Resumes & Cover Letters

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From a study conducted by MIT researchers, how the objects we handle affect the decisions we make: Consider the clipboard test. Ackerman, Nocera and Bargh asked 54 people to scrutinize a job candidate by looking at a resume placed on either light or heavy boards. The people using heavy clipboards viewed the candidate as possessing [...]

Cute Holiday Activities For Kids: Call Santa, Video Santa, NORAD Tracking And More

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photo credit: Chris R McFarland It’s that time of year again … Christmas is just days away and we’ve got some excited kids to keep occupied. Here’s a list of some cute online holiday activities to fill the days. - A personalized Santa video directly from the North Pole. A company in Canada has created [...]

Trailing Spouse: Is there any Uglier Name?

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This is part of a series about relocating a family internationally, called What I’ve Lost, What I’ve Gained, for BlogHer’s month of blogging. What do you call a woman or a man who follows her spouse as he or she relocates for work, often sacrificing a career and identity? These spouses pack up the family, [...]

Tales from the Land of the Demented

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My mother cuts through the water without a splash. She manages about 400 metres of evenly-paced freestyle before she stops and grins at me, panting behind her. Even in her demented state, Mum can out-swim her daughter. It still gives her pleasure.

Ugg-ly Winters in Australia

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Winter in Sydney means getting warmly dressed before you go inside on a mild winter's day. You don't get undressed at bedtime, you get re-dressed.

News flash: Killer Lurks in Aussie Shopping Centres

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Moving is a liberating bitch. You lose so much, you gain a lot. After 16 years of living in the USA, we moved back to Australia nearly four months ago. During Blogher’s month of blogging, I’m going to post every day on the theme, “What I’ve Lost, What I’ve Gained, ” a light-hearted account of [...]

Yes, we have no bananas

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  Moving is a liberating bitch. You lose so much, you gain a lot. After 16 years of living in the USA, we moved back to Australia (where we were both born, raised, educated, worked, etc.) nearly four months ago. During Blogher’s month of blogging, I’m going to try to post every day on the [...]

Help Wanted: Need Memorable Email for Job Search

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What email address is right for my job search? JuliePower589@gmail.com didn’t sound memorable enough for my newly-updated resume or job application. I’ve seen folks use email addresses and handles like fabcookandmotherroftwins@gmail.com and SexyLongLegs@Hotmail.com for job applications or on LinkedIn, but call me old fashioned, but it doesn’t seem professional enough to me … If I [...]

No more swearing at bedtime (or the benefits of sport for young boys)

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Last night, I read to my kids, kissed them goodnight, turned off the light, and guess what? Miracle of miracles, they went to sleep. For the nine years of our twins’ lives, bedtime has been something that we’ve often dreaded and delayed just to put off the kids’ delaying tactics (how pathetic is that?). The [...]