Thursday, 9th February 2012.

The New Rules of the Resume

Posted on Thursday, 5th January 2012 by Charlotte W

Your resume is often your first impression on a potential employer. Learn how to get it to the top of the pile rather than the bottom of the circular file. If youre still using the first resume format you learned in school, no wonder youre not getting call-backs. The rules have changed, and you may have been doing it wrong all this time. Youre competing with more people than ever before, and your resume is the employers first contact with you – make it count. Present the information they want in an easy-to-read format, and the hiring manager is more likely to read the whole page instead of skimming and tossing.

Customize the resume to the field

Bankers should stick with formal black and white, but creative fields generally prefer to see a bit of… Read more…

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Improve Your Website with User Experience in Mind

Posted on Wednesday, 4th January 2012 by Jana Sanders

If your small business has a website, blog, or social media presence, then you’re certainly following the technological curve. However, there are a number of advanced tips that webmasters can use that will have an impact on their business. Many companies understand the importance of SEO and PPC, which will increase traffic to their site; however these visitors are wasted if they are led to a poorly designed site. The website is a window into the business, often the main face for small businesses. Therefore, it is important to design a website with your audience in mind.

User experience, otherwise known as UX, is the study of the interactions that a user has with a product. In general, designers who specialize in UX create websites that provide content and information with certain specifications in mind. T

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Lakeway man to plead guilty in scam

Posted on Thursday, 29th December 2011 by Mark Chambers

AUSTIN (AP) — A Lakeway man accused of participating in a scam that collected $1.6 million and caused the delay of more than 1,100 foreclosures has agreed to plead guilty to the charges.

According to court documents reported in the Austin American-Statesman on Monday 53-year-old Frederic Alan Gladle will plead guilty Friday. He faces up to seven years in prison.

Gladle is accused of charging clients about $750 a month to delay foreclosure on their property.

Gladle’s associates would have them transfer a share of their property to the company. Those shares would be transferred to an unrelated person who had filed for bankruptcy and was unaware of the transaction. B

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Audio clip: luring talented people, and companies, back to Michigan

Posted on Wednesday, 14th December 2011 by Mark Chambers

Amy Cell, who runs the Michigan Economic Development Corporaton’s MichAgain program, explains on this week’s Business Next radio program that talent can be lured back to Michigan by emphasizing our state’s low cost of living.

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Alumni Association to honor outstanding seniors and graduates

Posted on Wednesday, 7th December 2011 by Mark Chambers

The New Mexico State University Alumni Association will honor the fall 2011 Outstanding Seniors and Graduates at noon Dec. 9 during a luncheon in their honor at the Corbett Center Student Union ballroom.

The outstanding seniors and graduates are selected each semester by the dean from the university’s seven colleges and graduate school based on academic excellence, leadership and participation in community activities.

College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences will honor Amber Oberlin, from Middleburg, Pa. As a human nutrition and dietetic sciences major, Oberlin is graduating with a 3.961 GPA with crimson scholar status. S

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