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What Is a Credit Freeze, and Should I Do It?

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million reports of identity theft. When you apply for credit, lenders typically pull your credit report to decide if and how much to give you. Credit freezes restrict access to your credit report. If lenders can’t see your credit file, they can’t approve the credit application.

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Paying Candidates for Interviews: What Should Be Covered and Why?

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Job candidates’ credit cards might be getting more action than they should, all while they are between employment opportunities. Multiply that by their hourly rate and as an agency or employer, you want job applicants to sacrifice that investment for free?” A new suit. An airplane ticket to another interview. Two days of meals.

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Bad Credit 101: The Small Mistakes That Are Killing Your Score

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You just applied for a credit card, or maybe it was a new apartment or a loan, and you got denied. You were under the impression that your credit was solid. It just sucker punched you in the face, so now you’re wondering what’s causing your bad credit score. Accounts in collection cause a bad credit score.

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Keep Tabs on Your Credit

Clutter Coach

It reminded me that it’s time for my yearly request for free credit reports. The Fair Credit Reporting Act says that all three of the major credit reporting agencies offer free credit reports to everyone once a year. There is a maze of menus to get through, but it’s worth it.

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Love CSI? How About a Career in Computer Forensics?

On The Job

The National Security Agency has plans to hire 3,000 specialists to combat the thousands of cyberattacks every day in the United States , while the Department of Homeland Security is hiring about 1,000 more cybersecurity specialists. This kind of job requires you to have great people skills, be able to write good reports and be intuitive."

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7 Unexpected Ways Your Finances Matter When Job Hunting And Working

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

One of the most surprising things for me was to learn that not all companies will give you an expense account or a company credit card. The company will ask that you charge everything from business travel to catered lunches on your credit card and they will reimburse you. Have cash in your bank account.

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Don't Let the Numbers Get You Down

On The Job

Then, of course, there are the other numbers that stalk me in my private life – my car’s gas mileage; my exercise time; my weight; and whether I have enough credit card points to earn a dinner at Applebee’s. It seems one agency thought to woo Microsoft business by telling him trade secrets about Lotus.

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