All Blog Posts Tagged 'tips' (5)

This is from our friend, Steven Rothberg, at CollegeRecruiter.com. It's simple and sage advice for finding a summer job. Four things that a student can do to find a summer job at the last minute are:

• Call all of your adult family members and friends of your parents. Tell them you're looking for a summer job, what you're good at, and what type of work is of interest to you. Don't ask them for a job. Instead, ask them to give you the names and phone numbers of three people

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Use gasbuddy.com to save on gas costs on the way up and back. Watch The Story of Stuff and you won't want to buy anything again. Use the KISS principle..great for saving $$$. Spend money on what you need not what you want. If you're paying to eat at the Employee Dining Room (EDR), eat there. Don't drink your paycheck away. Buy your gear via MyCoolWorks - the G… Continue

Thanks for all who joined in last night and for everyone's patience in finding the chat. I hope with the new box dedicated to Chat on the main page, it helps a bit, but realize it still isn't as intuitive as the old version. There was a request for how to close the box and the answer is to just click again on the words "My CoolWorks (# members online). They are the keys for everything. Like I wrote on the main page, the bottom line is to be responsible for yourself, but we… Continue

Hey Folks - Below are few links to blogs and websites that might be helpful during your job search. Enjoy! Need a resume-building skill?- Learn to write from a blog about the new generation of work - YWORKING.COM by Matt Elliott… Continue

Hi my name is Dallas and I want to start off by saying thank you very much to cool works and all the people who work so hard helping all of us pursue our dreams. I found out about cool works almost 4 years ago and it opened up my eyes to all the things that are possible if you just take your life in your own hands. It is true about what they say about traveling.....a lot of people just wont understand what your doing. Even if your path is so clear to you, it may be next to impossible to convey t… Continue