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How to turn an internship into a full-time job

Posted Tue, 04/13/2010 - 22:11


So you’ve got your internship, but with graduation looming you’re wondering what to do come Fall. You’d like to stay with the company. How do you convince them that you’re worth paying?
Being such helpful folks we’ve gathered some ideas on this point and decided to share them with you.

• First, find ways to get more experience.

7 Ways to Appear Smarter Than You Really Are

Posted Tue, 04/13/2010 - 21:58


Ever wonder how you could exude a sense of mental superiority over everyone you met? Well follow these surefire steps and you’ll be on your way to looking like a douchebag… I mean genius.

1.) Wear glasses. It’s no secret that people associate glasses with intelligence. Look at any of your intellectual heroes, Jean-Paul Sartre, Noam Chomsky, Elton John. What do they all have in common? That’s right, they all wear glasses.

3 hilarious craiglists job posts

Posted Tue, 04/13/2010 - 21:56

Craigslist doesn’t always deliver but when it does, it’s hilarious.

The Superhero industry has fallen on hard times.

This actually sounds like a pretty sweet gig.

What a terrible, terrible person. I wonder what the hourly rate is.

How to spot a bad manager

Posted Mon, 04/12/2010 - 19:14


Bad managers come in all shapes and sizes. So how do you go about differentiating the “OK” managers from the truly incompetent? Here are 5 tell-tale signs that your manager may be in need of a serious management lesson.

1. Dislikes your use of free time to develop yourself.
What this shows is that you have a manager so insecure with his/her own abilities that they see an employee’s drive to improve themselves as a threat.

2. Doesn’t tell you much

17 odd state tax credits

Posted Mon, 04/12/2010 - 19:14


I’m sure there are more than a few of us perusing over our old receipts in our annual tax filings. This time of year usually has us looking unkindly on anything “tax” related but here are a few strange and quirky state tax credits that may amuse you and perhaps even save you some money.

1. In Hawaii you can receive $3,000 is deductibles for maintaining “exceptional” trees.

2. In California you can deduct the reward you received from a crime hotline.