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Personal Development

Okay YBPs, now that you’ve landed your dream job (or the job that’s on the path to your dream job), you have a little more time for yourself. Don’t just use it to catch up on the latest tv shows, conquer your new Wii game, or make extra deposits into your sleep bank (which, [...]

8Mar2007 | Sheria | 1 comment | Continued
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Throw Back Posts

YBP Guide may have a new look, but we’ve been around for months! Check out some of our best throw back posts:
be more productive- a few tips and tricks, hardware and software related, that can give you a leg up in the corporate hustle.
Compromise- our take on compromising in romantic relationships.
Losing Your Mind?- tips for [...]

4Mar2007 | Kimberly | 0 comments | Continued
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Office Romance

“Offices are often the easiest places to meet and fall in love,” says one expert. Here’s how to keep your career and relationship intact.
Have you ever had a crush on a co-worker? Maybe even pushed your luck with that crush and found yourself in a hot and heavy office romance? I think many YBPs have [...]

15Feb2007 | YBP | 0 comments | Continued
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dohowto.com : video tutorials

all ybp’s know that part of staying one step ahead of the competition is not only adapting to your environment, but learning new skills. for some us, especially those that may not be as technically sound as bill gates or steve jobs, learning technical skills can be difficult.
with the explosion of online video with youtube.com [...]

9Feb2007 | Fredric | 1 comment | Continued
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Two Tones

African-Americans come in many different beautiful shades of color- fair, butterscotch, olive, caramel, chocolate. Yet our categories of color are merely labeled either “light skinned” or “dark skinned.” Skin tone is determined by the amount and type of the pigment melanin in the skin. So why does this simple genetic makeup cause such shallow [...]

2Feb2007 | Kimberly | 0 comments | Continued
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tech news 1/31: “bears will win it all!” edition

that’s right! i guarantee victory even if lovie won’t. either way, i can’t wait for sunday. on to the news…
bill gates capped off the release of windows vista yesterday with an appearance on the daily show. while i was hoping for some typical jon stewart antics, the guest appearance was very sublime with steward only [...]

31Jan2007 | Fredric | 4 comments | Continued
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Shrink Student Loans with Public Service

New grads who want to change the world often find that fighting poverty begins at home, as they contemplate their first measly paycheck and Kilimanjaro-size student loans. One solution: With assistance programs that repay student loans in return for work in underserved areas, you can do good and still make a big dent in that [...]

19Jan2007 | Kimberly | 3 comments | Continued
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Dealing with Email Efficiently

In this day and age of technology our main vehicle of communication is through email. But sometimes email can be a pain, especially when you are trying to get a lot of work done or trying to do other things online. Is answering your email killing your productivity?

While a fair proportion of the email you [...]

16Jan2007 | Kimberly | 0 comments | Continued
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hp.com’s ‘change artist’ series…

hewlett-packard, the loveable company who acquired compaq, is debuting a new series webcast in conjunction with cnn on its website called ‘change artist‘. its meant as ‘a resource to help executives manage change more effectively’.
while you may not be in the most immediate ‘executive’ position right now (or maybe you are), the first edition of [...]

12Jan2007 | Fredric | 1 comment | Continued
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