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CareerVanity.com is a free online resource for employees, managers and job seekers.

Each week the web’s best source featuring career advice for women , analyzes and celebrates the career moves of past and present entertainment and business icons. Not only will you find articles on resume writing, and interview strategies, but you will discover job tips suited for entertainment lovers, pop culture junkies, and celebrity news addicts.

Web readers will find credible and fact-based career advice, sprinkled with a few dashes of magical entertainment pixie dust.  I offer tips and tools to help the recently laid off, downtrodden and frustrated job hunter and the ambitious, high performing employee effectively navigate the competitive job jungle with dignity, humor and resilience.

Looking for the latest dirt on Britney Spears, Lindsey Lohan and Paris Hilton, or a paparazzi crotch shot and worst dressed fashion photo to email to your friends? Sorry to disappoint you, but no celebrity bashing or nudity here. Career Vanity is a positive and nurturing place on the web for women searching for small business advice or how to resuscitate a dying career.

Use the articles, anecdotes and stories for stress reduction, escapism, education and entertainment. (No gossip, mayhem, madness or profiting from foolishness and other people’s embarrassment allowed.)

My goal is to give you effective strategies to help you not only get along with the sometimes insane, talented, competitive and highly demanding people at work, but most importantly find a job you love and keep it.

Here are a few featured career and small business articles to help you find your dream career!

1 .Work Full Time? Consider Online College Courses for a New Career

Are you considering online college courses as an option to change your career?

Everyone knows the importance of learning, so why should working full-time mean that you have to sacrifice your education?

No longer do you have to worry about attending a classroom lecture, or fitting your lifestyle and hobbies around a rigid and restrictive term timetable. Kaplan Open Learning’s online courses have flexible online college courses and programs, which allow you to study at your own time and pace around your job and busy schedule. Click here for more

2. Signs of Job Termination: Are You About to Lose Your Job?

Are the signs of termination looming over your head?

You are not alone. Amid talks of layoffs in many companies, employees all around the nation are gathering around the office water cooler to see who will be the next victim of job cuts.

As the recipient of an unexpected layoff in 2001, I have first hand knowledge of what it feels like to hear the following words:

“I’m sorry, but we are going to have to let you go. Click here to read more