By Kevin M
In 10 Ways To Survive a Down Economy (published on Christianpf.com June 1) we listed ten strategies to help you deal with the bad economy. Our topic for today, Strategy #3:
“Improve your repertoire of skills constantly. The better you are at what you do the more valuable you will be to your employer. The improvement can also be in preparation for future endeavors. It’s never a bad idea to have a skill or skill set which is totally unrelated to your primary employment. Hint: if it’s something you like to do, it may not even feel like work.”
The Importance of Skills
The job market today is largely skills driven. You may not get a job that you apply for if you lack a specific skill the employer is looking for, even if you have the education and experience for the position. In today’s job market there’s no shortage of credentialed candidates in most fields, so the advantage will often go to the person with the widest set of desirable skills.
Continue reading Strategy #3 to Survive a Down Economy: Improve Your Repertoire of Skills Constantly →
Kevin M
Expense Reduction Strategies Forum–We’re taking on this weekly forum as a way of exchanging ideas to help lower the cost of living. This includes expense reduction and elimination, but goes beyond, even to include lifestyle changes that may bring savings on a number of fronts. Ideas on ways to cut personal, household or business expenses are welcome!
On July 20th in this space we talked about using a diet as a way to save some money (Is Now A Good Time To Go On A Diet?). As most of us understand, typical diet plans are expensive, requiring membership in the diet program, the purchase of healthier but more expensive foods, or even the purchase of food and meals directly from the diet sponsor. But our plan actually saved money and was infinitely more basic: diet by eating less food!
In this week’s edition of the Expense Reduction Strategies Forum, I’d like to take the health/expense reduction connection to the next level. We can save money and improve health by eating less, but even greater payoffs, both financial and in the quality of our lives, can be had by going even farther, by realizing a reduction in living expenses by taking better care of our overall health.
Continue reading Save Money By Taking Better Care of Yourself →
By Kevin M
Maybe you or someone you know isn’t having much success in finding employment, and while the poor state of both the economy and the job market are primarily to blame, use of ineffective search methods may be contributing to the frustration.
Yahoo! HotJobs ran an article on Monday, Deceptive Targets in the Job Hunt:
5 Methods That Waste Your Time. In the article, Caroline M.L. Potter zeros in on five common job hunting strategies which are either outdated, completely ineffective or even counterproductive.
Continue reading Useless Job Hunting Methods →
By Kevin M
We’re taking on this weekly forum as a way of exchanging ideas to help lower the cost of living. This includes expense reduction and elimination, but goes beyond, even to include lifestyle changes that may bring savings on a number of fronts. Ideas on ways to cut personal, household or business expenses are welcome!
Hopefully, at this point, we’ve all learned that memberships and subscriptions mostly benefit the merchant by keeping us on board as loyal customers, whether or not we actually use what it is we’ve paid for.
If you’re a heavy user of a certain service, a subscription or membership can prove to be a real cost advantage. But never assume you’re saving money just because you’re in the plan. More significantly, if you have several subscriptions and memberships, it’s highly unlikely that you’re getting much benefit from all or even most of them.
Continue reading Eliminate Little Used Subscriptions and Memberships →
On The Radio
By Kevin M
On Tuesday, August 25th, I will be interviewed by Neal Frankle for his program, The Wealth Pilgrim Show, on BlogTalk Radio.
You can listen to the interview, or even participate in the discussion by either of the following methods:
CALL IN: The call-in number is 347-637-2262 . Guests can listen/call in on any [...]