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The Smart Girl's Guide to Negotiating Anything
Here are the five purchases you can and should haggle over before handing over your cash.
5 Ways to Find Out if You’re Underpaid
If you think you’re underpaid, you’re not alone.
6 Ways To Slack Off at Work — and Get Away with It
The average employee is productive just four hours a day.
Best Get-Ahead Books for Alpha Females
Marie Claire's book picks for career women.
6 Ways to Save On Your Utility Bill
If rising fuel prices are chomping away at disposable income, some relief may be on the way.
5 Vacations That Could Boost Your Career
Any vacation that de-stresses and refreshes will improve your outlook and performance at work. But there are some getaways that could have a more direct impact on your career. Here, some getaways designed to help you get ahead, according to Pam Grout
Looking to Save a Few Bucks? Don't Cut These Corners
If you’re scrutinizing your budget for clever ways to save, avoid these tempting mistakes.
The Chic Girl's Guide to Business Travel
The Low Down on Business Travel Expenses
Keep your expense report flag free with these tips on what you can and can't expense in buisness travel.
3 Smart Strategies for Frequent Fliers
The inside scoop on scoring CEO-style perks.
Jet Blues
The highs and lows of corporate travel.
Traveling With Your Boss
How to make the trip turbulence free.
Tips for a Well-Stocked Bar
Marie Claire tells you what you need in your liquor cabinet.
Tech Porn!
Gadgets you'll need for your place if you're living alone.
How to Pimp Your Pad
Kishani Perera, the owner of Fuse I.D. in L.A, offers a room-by-room analysis for Marie Claire, explaining where to spend and where to rein it in.
7 Must-Haves for a Single Girl’s Toolbox
Nothing is more annoying than waiting for your building’s super to assume the title of Mr. Fix-It.
4 Things to Grab as You're Being Laid Off & 1 Thing to Leave Behind
Businesses are slashing jobs fast in this ailing economy. Marie Claire tells you how to be prepared if you get laid off.
13 Things We've Learned From Living Alone
It's amazing how quickly one person can go through a roll of toilet paper.
Living Alone Is Hard
Marie Claire's girl's guide to living alone from Mindy Kaling.
The Roommate Heave-Ho
We were a threesome out of a sitcom, all inside jokes and good-natured snark. Two girls, a guy, an apartment.
Beating the Sunday Blues
6 Simple Rules for Assistants With Big Ambitions
Whether you’re a wanna-be Hollywood mogul or Wall Street kingpin, you’ll likely begin your career ascent at the lowest rung.
Five Money Questions You Must Ask Your Man
The speed with which he whips out the plastic isn’t directly proportional to the depths of his pockets. Your big spender could be hiding behind a mountain of debt. Before shacking up or tying the knot, make sure you know his current financial si
The Smart Gal’s Guide to Getting a Raise In a Recession
Five Brilliant Ways to Blow Your Budget
Setting a budget and actually sticking to it is crucial if you ever want to get a grip on your spending. Problem is, budgets, like diets, can be unforgiving when it comes to the occasional splurge. Marie Claire has the scoop.
11 Things We Won't Ask You to Do to Save Money
11 things Marie Claire won't ask you to do to save money.
Six Ways Your Coworkers Can Help You Get Ahead
If managed carefully, your work buddies can help propel your career, say Janice Reals Ellig and William J. Morin, authors of Driving the Career Highway. They offer some important tips for, yes, exploiting those relationships for your long-term succes
5 Tips for Successful Networking
When it comes to networking, working a room can be daunting. But there’s no underestimating the value of connections gleaned from a good contact. Marie Claire tells you how to get connected.
The Most Coveted Summer Internships
School’s out, which means tens of thousands of students across the country are angling for summer jobs and internships. But given the woeful state of the economy, only a third of them will likely find work, according to a recent report by the Ce
The Time Paradox
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo observed that we tend to fixate on either the past (nostalgics), the present (hedonists), or the future (goal-oriented workaholics like you). Marie Claire has the story.
Secrets and Lies
When I found out my business partner had been hiding a tragic truth, I was devastated--then furious. But I knew one thing for sure: I wasn't going to give up. If there was a lesson to be learned.
Why Brunch is Not the Answer
8 reasons to skip brunch.
Girl’s Guide to Paying Off Student Loans
Debt—it’s the four-letter word that haunts many of us from the moment we frame the diploma. Recent college grads carry a debt load averaging $20,000, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Trying to pay that down on an e
How to Talk about Art
You may not know your Lucian from your Sigmund, but you can still hold your own at the art museum with this conversation guide.
Tuning Out
The Sabbath used to be the holiest of TV nights.
A Better Way to Spend Your Sunday
How I Survive the Sunday Blues
The Trouble with Sunday
Sunday. The day of reckoning.
Five Easy Steps to De-Clutter Your Desk
You’ll likely spend more time scavenging your desk for paperwork than on vacation this year. In fact, the average executive pilfers six weeks a year searching for important documents buried in clutter, according to the Wall Street Journal. Simpl
Millionaire by 30? Easier Than You Think
For those us making $30,000 or so a year, reaching the millionaire’s club seems like a long pipe dream. Marie Claire tells you how to make some money.
Surviving a Layoff
You worked late and did everything right. But your company pink-slipped you anyway. Now what? Three women prove there is life after losing your job.
Gas It Up While Keeping Your Costs Down
Gas prices are skyrocketing, and things don't look like they'll be letting up anytime soon. Marie Claire has ways you can save some money.
Hitting the New Sex and the City Hotspots
After the Marie Claire staff saw an early screening of the long-awaited Sex and the City movie, a few of us revealed our rabid fans status by taking the Sex tour. In New York City, cosmo-sloshing devotees can pack one of those big double decker buses
Movies for Women Who Like to Kick Ass in the Office
As soon as that clock strikes quittin’ time, make a beeline for your sofa, order some takeout, and pop in one of these cinematic classics starring kick-ass career gals who broke the rules and succeeded.
The Best Motivational Tunes for Monday Mornings
Half of American workers reported having sleep issues on a Sunday night in anticipation of the workweek, according to a recent survey. What’s the best way to motivate for a long workweek? Motivational songs.
Five Work Expenses You Can Expense (and 2 You Can’t)
Whether you’re on the job or looking for one, it’s easy to rack up a hefty tab of related expenses. (Toner isn’t cheap!) If your company won’t reimburse you, don’t jut swallow the costs. Some expenses can be written off come
How to Score a Job That Pays Over $100K Annually
Unless you live in one of the country’s major cities, odds are you’re making roughly $32,000 a year, the average American’s income, according to the Census Bureau. Only 5% or so of the nation pulls in over $100,000 a year. Clearly earn
Are You a Big Fat Liar?
The Lying Matrix
Our karmic continuum of dishonesty.
Cleaning Up Your E-Image
Scrubbing down a tarnished online reputation
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