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As I have mentioned before in this blog and in the old Friuch blog, I get a lot of students dropping me a line asking questions about finding work, what kind of work they should be looking for and what my experience with various things I’ve done have been like. Today, I received a big [...]

I am currently helping a number of my friends find jobs right now and one of the most valuable tips that they’ve picked up on is my secret weapon – the SUPER COVER LETTER! The reason why I came up with this format is that I had heard from many recruiters and HR people that [...]

I was recently approached by Angela Palmier at Resource Etc in Illinois about my thoughts on virtual volunteering. She posted my thoughts almost in their entirely on her blog on Sunday [LINK]. In the article, I was trying to drive home the point that skilled consultants like myself are a different class of volunteer than [...]

Many moons ago, I was a young man working for Natural Resources Canada in Ottawa. At that time, we were helping develop two diamond mines (Ekati and Diavik)  in one of the most inhospitable locations on Earth – Canada’s frozen North. Today’s news that there may be massive, unexploited mineral deposits in Afghanistan [LINK] made [...]

My friend Donna Horn [LINK] tweeted this morning about HTML and inspired this post. @inspiricity hmmm. seems like knowing how to write #html is as basic and necessary these days as addition and subtraction… While I don’t believe that knowing HTML is as ubiquitous a skill set as basic math, I think it is a completely [...]