Posted on August 30th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
A new start-up has drawn $4 million from investors to fuel an online tutoring service called InstaEdu.com. So far they claim to have 3000 tutors on hand. It costs $24 an hour to get tutored, and the tutors get to keep $20 of that, an unusually generous split. Tutors can work as little as 20 minutes a month. You have to be 18 and have some tutoring experience to apply. Students choose the tutors they wish by reading online profiles. We noticed that some are graduates from prestigious colleges. (Kind of a sign of the times.)
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Posted on May 23rd, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
These are all from the social networking site LinkedIn. Deepak Chopra on ending his career to find his bliss I dumped a pile of papers on my boss and quit on the spot. Read more Sallie Krawcheck on being sabotaged by a cat My ugly cat awkwardly upstaged Bank of America’s CEO. Read more Charlene Li on keeping silent about body odor I waited far too long to tell my boss he stank — literally. Read more Herb Greenberg on botching a drug raid I embarrassed myself in front of my hero, and the cops. Read more Nicholas Thompson on being fired from his first job I managed to work at 60 Minutes for less than 60 minutes. Read […]
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Posted on September 10th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
After we wrote about smartphone apps for small jobs, a reader living on a retirement income asked about apps that don’t require a smartphone. He was especially interested in “mystery shopper” jobs at retirement communities, because they pay well, and only ask that you pretend to be a customer.
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Posted on August 6th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
After logging on to a few free college courses at Coursera.org, which we wrote about last week, we have a few more choice words – and we will try to keep them printable. A lot of the courses are from major colleges, including the well-regarded Ivy League. Too bad. What we learned above all, is that everything depends on the professor, and some of them are very bad. The real duds were in the humanities and social sciences.
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Filed under: career, education, video, web, YouTube | Comments Off on SOME ONLINE COURSES ARE OFF
Posted on July 30th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Wow! This is the way to go! Coursera.org offers more than 100 free courses from universities such as Cal Tech, UC Berkeley, Rice, John Hopkins, U.of Illinois, and 11 others. The number of students is approaching a million. Bill Gates’ favorite online learning site, KhanAcademy, has hundreds more college courses, many on technical subjects, and they too are all free. Is this a trend? Is it the future? We certainly hope so. Considering the cost of attending a major university these days, there has to be an alternative. Sending a student to four years at one of the biggies like Princeton, Harvard, U. of Chicago, etc., costs around a quarter of a million dollars. Have two kids? That’s half a […]
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Posted on July 10th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
PathBrite.com is a free career service aimed at those who want to submit more than a typical resume. It lets you bundle together video, audio, documents and recommendations into one package. You choose whether the results are seen by one person or a long list of potential employers. (Unless you’re an American Idol, our advice is to keep it brief.)
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Posted on June 5th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
“Workfu” uses your connections to find you a new job. It’s still in the testing phase, but you can sign up at Workfu.com using a Twitter account. Signing up for Twitter is free. A Workfu score tells you how likely a job is to fit your needs.
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Posted on March 30th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
HireVue is a free app that lets job candidates do interviews from their iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
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Posted on February 17th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
GetHired.com offers free job postings for employers. The GetHired link can then be posted on CraigsList or other popular sites. The site encourages video resumes and virtual interviews through video chatting.
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Posted on February 7th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
As soon as we mentioned elance.com and some of the other sites that list jobs for freelancers, we heard from two more of course; they’re Freelancer.com and vWorker.com.
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Filed under: career | Comments Off on GETTING HELP
