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How to Deal with Employment Gaps in Your Resume

Eat Your Career

And I think that this has been changing since about 2008, which was when we had the great recession. People had employment gaps around that 2008-2009 time period. So I don’t think it is as common these days, that people are just flat out rejecting off the bat because of an employment gap. Chrissy is a great employee!

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4 Powerful Lessons We Can Learn from Famous Amos Founder Wally Amos

Success

You couldn’t believe the response I got,” he told The New York Times in 1975. I think it’s important to love what you do because that love is transferred to what you do, and it turns into something absolutely fantastic,” Amos told NPR in 2008. Everybody, I found out, loves chocolate chip cookies.” According to Amos, love. “I

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Coworking is Disruptive Innovation

Small Business Labs

The early coworking spaces (circa 2008) were targeted at a niche (freelancers and other independent workers) that was considered unattractive and inconsequential to the commercial office space industry, including the executive suites industry sub-sector.    And inside it wasn't anything like today's coworking spaces.

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Offices In The US Are Half-Empty, Which May Impact Banks

Allwork

What’s going on: Investors and regulators, on high alert due to recent bank failures, are now taking a closer look at the slumping US commercial real estate market, which is worth $20 trillion. The commercial real estate market has taken a huge hit in the past few months, with US prices plummeting by a staggering 15% from their previous (..)

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Peter Shankman, the original creator of “Help a Reporter Out” is on a mission to restore truth in media

Success

Peter Shankman’s entrepreneurial beginnings Shankman’s start as an entrepreneur began in an unlikely way: selling snarky T-shirts in Times Square. He moved the queries to a Facebook group, and later to a website called Help A Reporter Out (HARO), in 2008. “I Here’s what he’s learned along the way. That is, until he got a call at 5 a.m.

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How Deesha Philyaw Built Her Writing Career From the Ground Up—and Landed a 7-Figure Book Deal

Success

There’s actually a format for how you query an agent and what you send and what you don’t send and when you send it.” How Deesha Philyaw got her first break This was before the economic collapse of 2008, when media outlets and magazines paid freelancers quite well. She also knew that she wanted writing to be her career.

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Your Brain Is the Greatest Computer Ever Created

Success

Have you ever walked into a room and couldn’t remember what you went in there for? This article was published in February 2008 and has been updated. Or maybe you’ve grasped the hand of a potential client and, when the handshake broke, their name seemed to disappear from your memory? Of course you have—we all have.

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