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Top 20+ Micro Freelance Marketplaces and Why You Should Use Them

The most popular micro freelance marketplaces on the Web according to Alexa. What are "micro" freelance marketplaces? Freelance marketplaces where the prices are small, anywhere from $5 to $100 per project. Why use micro freelance marketplaces? 3 reasons 1. Make quick pocket money to pay for other purchases online 2. Get ideas for new skills that are currently in demand 3. Test market such a new skill with a small project where there's less pressure, quicker feedback. To find the right ones for you, we've compiled this list of the top micro freelance marketplaces. The list mentions site specialties and main language when not English. The list will be updated as we discover more sites, so if you know of any, leave a comment to tell us.

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April 5, 2011

Must-Read Tips

7 Kinds of Job Search Kindness To Make You Squirm

What is sometimes a small thing for you can be a big deal for someone else. The 3rd annual #Kindness Party will take place on Twitter this coming Sunday, April 3rd. More details below. There are actually lots of ways to be kind to people on their job search. Most don't require much effort, but they will all be very appreciated. 7 ways to be kind to job seekers Here are a few ideas to get you going: 1) Proofread a resume The more someone works on their resume, the less likely they are to notice spelling mistakes (especially homonyms) or missing words. Your fresh pair of eyes could help out there. 2) Translate a resume When I started my first Israeli job search in 2001, my friend Assaf S. - and especially his mom - did a great job translating my resume into Hebrew. Too bad its English source wasn't so terrific in the first place.

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March 31, 2011

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How I Registered JobMob as a US Trademark

JobMob is now a registered US trademark. This is how it happened.

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March 30, 2011

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How to Quickly Recover From Bad Job Interviews

8 tips for getting over every job seeker's worst nightmare. This is a guest post by Nisa Chitakasem. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines. It’s every job seeker's worst nightmare. You’re in an interview for a job you really want and it all starts going wrong. Whether it’s your phone ringing or you giving the longest, most irrelevant answer to an interview question ever, once things start going wrong it feels like there’s no way back. But there is. It is possible to get things back on track and limit the damage during the actual interview. There are also some follow-up steps you can take after the event to rectify the situation and to move on with your job search regardless of what the outcome of the bad interview is.

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March 24, 2011

Speak Your Mind

Happy 4th Birthday to JobMob

Starting a 5th year and counting... Although JobMob's first blog article appeared back in December 2006, I waited until March 21st 2007 before officially launching the site with press releases and fanfare. Part of it was that I didn't really know much about blogging back then, and part of it was that I just wasn't sure in which direction JobMob would go. Of course with that name, it would be mostly about job search (although the first article wasn't) and I always felt it could appeal to a wide audience (although the first articles didn't), but it took some time for me to discover my blogging voice or rather, for me to really become comfortable with growing that voice in public, with its ups and downs while you, my kids, the Googlebot and just about anyone was watching. That must be why one of the first posts was a craptacular piece about making mistakes in public and coming out smelling like roses.

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March 21, 2011