Everthing You Need to Know About Dividends, How Your CV Can Age You, Renter's Website Reviewed, Disability Risk Data & More
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New Website Has All You Need to Know About DividendsIf you're a newcomer to dividend stocks, The Dividend Guy has launched a new website called What Is a Dividend? He says that if you're already familiar with dividend stocks there won't be much What Is a Dividend can teach you, but he's being overly modest. It's not only an amazingly comprehensive primer but provides information useful even for seasoned dividend investors.
How Old Does Your Resume Make You Look?
I was shocked recently to hear someone who'd just turned 40 talk about how anyone over the age of 30 now worries about being discriminated against in the workforce because of age. That's shocking. And it also makes the resume advice our friends over at Financial Highway has provided doubly useful. If you're worried that your resume makes you look too old to even get called in for an interview, this post provides useful tips on how to organize your resume to stress your skills and recent experience rather than employment history.
The Habit of Not Spending
Could you save 50 percent of your income? Our friends over at Canadian Dream: Free at 45 can. No, that's not a typo. He really saves 50 percent of what he earns. Find out his secret.
Are You Asking for Trouble?
Personal Finance guru Gail Vaz Oxlade asks this question on her
blog: "If you're 30 years old, what's the likelihood that you'll have a long-term disability – lasting more than 90 days – at some point in your life?" The answer to that - and additional questions she poses - might shock you.
RentSeeker.ca Site Review
Landlord Rescue reviewed a renter's website last week that highlights some of the advances being made in providing a valuable online resources to both renters and landlords.
5 Last-Minute Tax Tips
Fox business anchor Lori Rothman, writing for Women on the Web, provides five good http://www.wowowow.com/money/5-last-minute-tax-tips/tax tips and four out of the five are useful in Canada, too. Just ignore tip No. 1 -- because the Canada Revenue Agency doesn't provide extensions.
Chocolate Covered Matzoh?
It's freaky but true: Chocolate covered matzoh is one of the reasons to look forward to Passover. Our pals over at Captivate provide recipes for contemporary Passover dishes and tosses in one traditional one for how to make your own chocolate covered matzohs.







