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How to get freelance hiring right
Being business savvy isn't about keeping every employee you hire. It's about attracting the right people for your company and empowering them to do their best work. Even if those people are freelance workers. In the creative sector I'm part of…
Sponsored: Brand Glory Agency Is Seeking Freelance Sales Reps & Sales Assistants In New York, NY
Brand Glory Agency is seeking freelance Sales Assistants & Sales Reps for the upcoming COTERIE trade show, happening September 22 - 24 at the Jacob Javitz Center. Continued collaboration is possible. We represent leading women's contemporary…
How Far Does A $100,000 Salary Really Go In 2024?
Sarah Mitchell is a marketing director in McAllen, Texas. On her generous $100,000 annual salary, one might be inclined to suppose that she lives luxuriously and can afford more than mere day-to-day necessities. But Mitchell has discovered, like so…
Black enrollment dips at top universities after end of affirmative action
It's been more than a year since the Supreme Court ended affirmative action, and the enrollment of Black students is down at elite colleges. Scott White, former director of guidance at Montclair High School in New Jersey, and a freelance writer for…
10 New AI Remote Jobs Hiring Now In 2024
Did you know that AI has the potential to add between $2.6 trillion to $4.4 trillion to the economy every year? This was the remarkable revelation uncovered from McKinsey's research on the economic potential of artificial intelligence, which…
Rising costs and AI adoption shape global meetings industry
Meeting planners face rising costs in hotels, F&B, and A/V, while AI adoption grows significantly in the MICE industry. Washington, D.C. – Global DMC Partners (GDP) has released the results of its Q3 2024 Meetings & Events Pulse Survey, a…
Future of Sauce Magazine in St. Louis unclear after recent layoffs
Sauce Magazine is now down to a skeleton crew after a series of cuts under a year of new ownership left the monthly food publication with half its original staffers. Nearly the entire editorial team of the St. Louis food magazine, founded in 1999…
Used Car of the Day: 1994 Mazda B2300
Published: September 12th, 2024 Today we bring you a fun relic of 1990s corporate synergy -- this 1994 Mazda B2300 pickup truck. For sale somewhere around Rockford, Illinois for $5,000, this bad boy has a five-speed manual transmission, six-foot…
Kim Jong-un's spies infiltrating UK firms as 'IT workers' with chilling aim
SECRET spies from North Korea posing as freelance IT workers are plaguing UK companies to earn cash for Kim Jong-un's sanction-hit regime. Many firms are at risk of being targeted by fraudulent North Koreans who are actively applying to secure jobs…
Sauce Magazine lays off half of staff. Future of St. Louis food publication unclear.
ST. LOUIS — Sauce Magazine is now down to a skeleton crew after a series of cuts left the monthly food publication with half its original staffers. After Friday, the 25-year-old magazine will employ only three full-time staffers, down from…
The Harris-Trump debate is over-but the memes carry on
Days after Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump went head-to-head in their first (and so far, only) televised debate, the memes don't appear to be slowing down. After Trump's unhinged and unfounded claim that migrants in…
I Left A $170,000 Job For A More Fulfilling Career
In our series Salary Stories, women with long-term career experience open up about the most intimate details of their jobs: compensation. It's an honest look at how real people navigate the complicated world of negotiating, raises, promotions and…
Miracle Bamboo Pillow Review: Adjustable And Surprisingly Cooling
Like many informed consumers, I have a strict no-infomercials policy. But sleeping on the “As Seen on TV” Ontel Miracle Bamboo Pillow for 30 nights made me rethink my stance. As a self-described hot sleeper who frequently wakes up in…
Thieves Allegedly Steal $70,000 Worth of Pokémon Cards After Asking Store Staff Which Were Valuable
Thieves are once again targeting the Pokémon Trading Card Game, with a duo in Japan allegedly making off with $70,000 worth after asking staff which ones were valuable. As reported by NHK and translated by ComicBook, a Pokémon TCG…
I waited 5 years after undergrad to enroll in graduate school. Waiting made me a better student.
After college, I entered the workforce and enrolled in a Master's program five years later. Waiting for grad school helped me get a handle on my finances and gain valuable experience. I became a better grad student because I took those five years…
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