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Job Fair Alert: Tacoma, WA on May 18, 2010


May 18, 2010
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade Center's
1500 Broadway
Tacoma, WA 98402
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AARP Branding Workshops

AARP® will be teaching job seekers how to brand themselves in specifically designed hour long workshops entitled ""The Power of Promoting Yourself at 50+"

10 games to boost your brainpower


We’ve warned you before about the serious, possibly fatal consequences of prolonged boredom. Now we’re back to let you know what to do about it. Play games. Strategy games are the best and most fun way to blow out the cobwebs and maximize that mental dead lift.

Tax Week: President Obama Plans Tax Increases on Investment Income


The White House has spent, and continues to spend, a great deal of money. Like most presidents Obama is planning changes in the tax code in order to cover the bills (at least some of them) and perhaps change the way this country does business.

Why you should never use a recruiting agency


“Never trust a recruiter.” Most guys get given that advice sometime in high-school, usually from an older dude who did. They’re on the list with company attorneys and used car salesmen. The problem is, we forget that professional recruitment agencies are as bad, or worse, as the Army guys we’ve been warned about.

How much of the bailout will you pay?


With Tax day out of the way we find our thoughts turning to the uses those funds are put. Like its citizens, the government has a nasty habit of spending money before it’s made it, and the Economic Recovery Act is no exception. $862,000,000,000 is a lot of money. More than most people can picture.