- How Many Credit Cards Should You Have?
Key Points
There’s no "perfect" number of credit cards; the right amount depends on your financial habits.
Credit scores aren't harmed by having too many cards, but having too few accounts can make it harder to build…
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- The Best Credit Card Buying Guide
Finding the right credit card means balancing rewards, interest rates, fees, and your financial goals. Here’s what to consider before applying for a new card.
Types of Credit Card Perks
Up-Front Bonuses
Cards offer ca…
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- Credit Cards Troubleshooting Guide
Using credit cards comes with its own set of challenges—technical issues, declined transactions, fraud alerts, billing problems, and account management difficulties. This guide covers common credit card problems, their …
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- A Simple Guide To Credit Cards?
Credit cards offer convenience, rewards, and opportunities to build or manage credit. Here's a detailed guide to understanding types, popular picks, and tips for choosing the best card for your needs.
Types of Credit C…
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- A List of Automation Proof Jobs: Physical Therapists And Nurses Are The New Call Center Workers
Don't worry about losing your job to robots and other machines. Because physical therapists and nurses are the new call center workers, where many jobs will be.
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- Difference between working at big company and at a startup
The common response to working at a big company to that at a startup is that you learn more things at a startup but job security is not so secure. The above graphic, from Reddit, paints a clearer picture. The 'stack …
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- âEUR~Antibiotic apocalypseâEUR(TM): 700,000 people a year die from drug-resistant infections
The Guardian writes about a report by doctors saying that about 700,000 people a year die from drug-resistant infections, and that this global figure is growing relentlessly and could reach 10 million a year by 2050.
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- Wage Theft: A Problem Bigger Than Plain Robbery
According to a news report, in 2012 US authorities recovered $933 million from employers, whom they termed as perpetrators of wage theft. Compare this amount to the $341 million the authorities value all the property tak…
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- The 25 Most Important Business & Career Skills All Smart People Should Know
1. Business Management: Basically, the art of getting people to do things
2. Marketing: Because the purpose of a business is to find a customer, thus, marketing
3. Selling: Knowing how to sell things to peopl…
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- How to be remarkable #130: Tell honest stories (to fix your company, startup, yourself and your job)
The Bizarro Storytelling Exercise gets its name from Bizarro, the comic book villain, and it is about using honesty to get a clear idea about your situation. While storytelling has long being championed as a problem-solv…
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- Making money from your voice: The future is in doing narration
Professional announcers, speech pathologists, broadcasters and actors are not only ones who make money from their voice. Doing narration is becoming a promising vocation if you learn to modulate your voice through some v…
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- Three main career ideas from The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
Reid Hoffman (co-founder of LinkedIn), and Ben Casnocha (famous for being a very young Silicon Valley Entrepreneur) wrote this book, where the main idea is a little stale: 'manage your career as if it were a start-up bus…
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- Why most prepaid calling cards are fraud (and what you can do to avoid being duped)
A report from Consumer reports says that almost 75% of prepaid phone cards bought did not disclose calling rates. That's not all. Most prepaid calling cards had many fees and surcharges hidden carefully in the very fine …
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- A simple guide to the KPO (Knowledge Process Outsourcing) industry
Here are five questions people ask most about the KPO (knowledge Process Outsourcing) industry:
1. What is KPO?
KPO is the second wave of outsourcing. First, you had the wave of BPO (Business process Outsourcing) compa…
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- Tata's next bad car after Nano: Megapixel, a hybrid car that will give 100kmpl
Coming 3 years from now, Tata will introduce the Megapixel, an awful name for a car, a 4-seater hybrid car that will give 100 kmpl mileage (under battery-only power), powered by a combination of a petrol engine and a bat…
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- How to survive in a tough, manipulative workplace: work on your boss, colleagues and competition
99% of all workplaces work on the jungle law principle - survival of the fittest and the 'cunningest', if there is such a word. Rather than complain about it, you got to survive by your wits. A summary of an excellent ar…
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- Three ways to answer 'what is your biggest weakness': Answer bullshit with bullshit, give cliched answers
Most interview questions are useless, perhaps meant to gauge whether you can bullshit your way out of all kinds of situation more than anything else - modern business reality is a virtual breakfast of bullshitting champi…
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- Five ways how to deal with uncomfortable job interview questions: Without lying, say what the interviewer wants to hear
The idea is to deal with uncomfortable questions without having to lie and telling the interviewer 'what he wants to hear'. The idea is also to 'Think Ahead, Answer Professionally, and Admit When You Don't Know.'
1. B…
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- How to handle your exit interview: Be honest, but don't burn your bridges, move on with dignity
You are entitled to give honest answers in your exit interviews, but do so without burning your bridges - relationships with boss and co-workers. For example, in my only exit interview so far, I said I had no growth pros…
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- Six subjects to be careful about in your next job interview: Start with not dissing your past employer
1. Don't ever say negative things about previous employers - the interviewer will then think his company will be the next target.
2. Talk positive things about previous employers - things you learnt.
3. Avoid talking a…
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