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Need Help Paying for College? Consider One of These 10 Scholarships

While college can be an exciting time, it can also be stressful. There are exams. There’s choosing a major (and figuring out what to do with it). And then there is the fun of paying for it all.

May is National Scholarship Month, and in celebration, FastWeb has released its list of top 10 most unusual scholarships. Here they are, with my thoughts on each:

  • Duck Brand Duct Tape Stuck at Prom Contest: This prom season, create a dress out of duct tape to be eligible for this scholarship. I wonder what the sticking point is?
  • Chick and Sophie Major Memorial Duck Calling Contest: According to the press release: “Students can quack their hearts out for 90 seconds using four calls: hail, feed, comeback and mating and win big ducks, oops, we mean, bucks for higher education.” It reminds me of the old Klondike commercial: What would you do for a scholarship?
  • Patrick Kerr Skateboard Scholarship: If you’re smart and can ride a board, this one can be yours. Moving right along…
  • Scholar Athlete Milk Mustache of the Year (SAMMY) Award: Only good students with amazing milk mustaches need apply.
  • Tall Clubs International (TCI) Scholarship: I’m ineligible for this one — I’m only 5 feet tall. You get the idea.
  • Vegetarian Resource Group Scholarship: Promote vegetarianism and get good grades, and this baby could be yours.
  • Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contest: Calling all science fiction writers: There’s money in your craft.
  • Excellence in Predicting the Future Award: No, not fortune-tellers — this scholarship is for someone interested in economics and the prediction market.
  • American Welding Society Scholarships: For those who can keep it together — like student welders.And finally:
  • Van Valkenburg Memorial Scholarship: Those with this unusual moniker or a variation can turn schoolyard taunts into cash.

If you’re looking for a scholarship of any kind, check out FastWeb. And these articles will guide you on how to prepare for your career while you’re still in school.

Originally
from The Monster Blog

by Christine

on May 4, 2007, 10:07PM

Written by Jeff Bosco with no comments.
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Think Outside the Career Box

“Think outside the box.” How many times have we heard or read this catchphrase, intended to stimulate creative imagination and innovation? After all, innovation is a hot topic in the business world — the key to staying ahead of competitors at home and overseas. But, as anyone who has ever participated in a brainstorming session can report, it often seems as though getting out of the box just leads to projects and products that get out of hand.

The issue is that creativity and innovation must be implemented in a world where there are rules and limitations. In this BusinessWeek item, “Turning Limitations into Innovation,” Google VP Marissa Ann Mayer discusses how the tech leader balances creative constraints with “a healthy disregard for the impossible.” She also points out another key limitation for successful innovation: Setting short time limits for implementation.

Mayer explains, “Speed also lets you fail faster. Have you ever wondered how a product so lame got to market, a movie so bad actually got released, a government policy so misguided got passed? In cases like these, the people working on it have spent so much time and are so personally invested that it’s too painful to walk away.”

What’s good for a successful employer like Google is also good advice for employees. Are you thinking creatively about your career? Do you work with “a healthy disregard for the impossible”? Are you really thinking out of the box or just trying to stay in one — too invested in a job or company to walk away? Being creative in your career means taking on the big tasks while defining limits on what you will accomplish, along with establishing a timetable for success — or failure.

Here are more resources about career creativity:

Originally
from The Monster Blog

by Ryck

on Apr 18, 2007, 3:01AM

Written by Jeff Bosco with no comments.
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How Research Can Catapult Your Interview Performance and Your Career

Millions of dollars are spent annually on marketing research by savvy companies aiming to maximize their marketing dollars when showcasing their products and services to their prospective clients. They recognize that to capture the attention of a potential customer and successfully elicit a subsequent purchase, their wares must be targeted specifically to their clients’ needs. Unprepared companies that lack thought and consideration in their marketing research and going in blindly with their promotions are often left feeling disappointed at the lack of response their advertising campaigns receive. (more…)

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Developing Product Knowledge While Searching for Employment

What happens with the employers is they think, “You’ve been with you all your life. If you don’t know your key skills and abilities, then how am I to know them and if you are not confident about your key skills and abilities, then how am I to be confident with you and therefore, hire you”.

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Ten Signs That You Are Ready for a New Job or Career

After reading our article, you can impress your friends with the amazing amount of knowledge you have gained on this subject. Copyright (c) 2006 Transition Dynamics Enterprises, Inc.

You’ve been in your job for a few existence. You get a moderate wages and your payback are obliging. But you marvel if something’s gone. You try to tell manually you should be ecstatic you have such a good job, but some being you have to face how unecstatic you are at work.
To understand the next part of this article, you need to have a clear grasp of the material that has already been presented to you.
Are you settling? Are you making do in a job that very isn’t a very good fit for you?

Read this inventory of ten clues to establish how many of these statements reveal how you feel about your work. (more…)

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