Unemployed (or Preparing to Be)? These Sites Could Be Your Best Friends

by PC World

I have 3 Google Voice invites that are just sitting there doing nothing. So why not give them away?

RULES

If you’d like to get one. Twitter @unemployedsucks  I want a Google Voice Number! http://bit.ly/6UpKny

Then leave a comment here with your Twitter username and answer this question:

“What is the strangest question you’ve been asked in an interview?”

ELIGIBILITY

Giveaway is currently only open to USA because Google Voice is limited to U.S. phone customers.

(Sorry international peeps – I have some Google Wave invites that I’ll be giving away soon though!)

This giveaway ends on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 1pm PST.

UPDATE: There were two winners. Only two people entered. Giveaway is complete.

Winners will be chosen the old fashioned way – pieces of paper in my favorite top hat.

Winners will announced in this post and DM’d via Twitter.

ABOUT GOOGLE VOICE

Google Voice gives you one number for all your phones — a phone number that is tied to you, not to a device or a location. Use Google Voice to simplify the way you use phones, make using voicemail as easy as email, customize your callers’ experience, and more.

Google Voice isn’t a phone service, but it lets you manage all of your phones. Google Voice works with mobile phones, desk phones, work phones, and VoIP lines. There’s nothing to download, upload, or install, and you don’t have to make or take calls using a computer.

Google Voice will let you define which phones ring, based on who’s calling, and even let you ListenInTM on voicemail before answering the call. We use smart technology to route your calls. So, if you’re already on a Google Voice call, we’ll recognize it and use call waiting to reach you on the phone you’re on.

Note: At this time Google Voice is only available in the U.S.

Via Lifehacker comes Better Talking

1. Sign up to get a phone number to call and your pin

2. Call and take our prep interview at any time you wish

3. Share the interview with your network & experts

4. Get feedback & new ideas on how to answer tough questions

5. Win the job!

I’ll be testing this out tomorrow morning and posting the audio…maybe. I tend to sound like a kid on the phone.

ETA: I had real phone interviews this morning and have been running my errands – so I will be testing this out and posting the results on Friday morning.

When you’re unemployed, the biggest issue that overtakes your thoughts and keeps you up at night is finances.  Here are three free budgeting/financial tracking web applications to help you sleep better.

Mint

BudgetSketch

MoneyTrackin

CeeVee is a free web application that allows you to create a resume and display it uniformly for everyone to see.

CeeVee allows you to create your resume and format it cleanly. You can print, save as a PDF or share it on Facebook or Twitter.