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Thinking Differently

Seth Godin is one of my favorite authors, bloggers and overall genius thinkers. He recently posted information about a program he is setting up, essentially a six-month educational opportunity with him. As valuable as a MBA (he says), and he might be right. At first it sounds crazy…six months unpaid, you have to be in New York, pay your own expenses…who would do it?

But then I started thinking about the whole concept, and it’s brilliant. At minimum it’s a one-of-a-kind opportunity to do something entirely

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Handling freelance work on your resume

Q. What do I put on my resume when I continually freelance for a certain client over and over again? Or when I do a lot of short-term freelance projects for a variety of clients?

A. Great question, we get this one a lot. Our suggestion is to make your current position Freelance (Designer, Writer, Cat Trainer, whatever you think is the best description of yourself). For the dates use whenever you left your previous position until Present, or whenever you first started doing freelance work (even if you

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