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[Ed. note: Vanessa Van Petten is the teen author of the parenting book “You’re Grounded!”. She writes a parenting blog along with 12 other teen writers from the kid's perspective to help parents. Her work as a young family peacemaker have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Teen Vogue, Fox 5, CBS 4 and much more!]

Parents often walk a fine line between wanting to help their kids find a job and making their child feel nagged and overwhelmed. There are few things to keep in mind when helping your child with the job search:

1) Know they are feeling scared too

[Ed. note: This belongs to our series of posts featuring tips for recent grads from LinkedIn users. Jos Willard is a financial strategist who specializes in personal finance education for families and corporate employees, with a focus on debt repayment and retirement strategies. He’s been with Canada Loyal Financial since 2007.  He’s also been a broke student with loans to repay and a family to support]

There are many ways for recent grads to keep expenses down, without giving up the fun. Here are four quick and easy ideas:

1.) Rent, don’t buy. Movies, Games, Skis, anything you don’t plan to use more than once or twice, or that you don’t need to use more than once a month.  This can include cars if you live in a city with good public transit.  Libraries are even cheaper.  If you ski every weekend, on the other hand, buying can be more economical.

[Ed. note: This belongs to our series of posts featuring tips for recent grads from LinkedIn users. My name is Caitlin McPherson and I am currently a student at Sonoma State University. I am graduating in May with a BA in Communications. I would love to work for a Public Relations firm in the Bay Area and am actively seeking a career opportunity]

I have spent the last few months as an intern with Alice 97.3’s #1 morning show “Sarah and Vinnie”. With my internship coming to a close, I would like to share a few words of wisdom I gained while working for the radio station. Don’t limit yourself. I am a Communications major with an emphasis in Public Relations. I never dreamed of working in radio, but when I heard Alice was looking for interns I sent in my resume on the off chance that I would get a response. I received a call from the Executive Producer within 24 hours. On my resume I included all of my experiences, not just those limited to academics.  You never know what you’re going to have in common with others. Talk about yourself and more importantly ask questions.

As Hooman stated, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to be an intern in radio but you do need to be socially relevant, and generally intelligent. Networking is key… sometimes it really is about who you know. And check your ego at the door. A coffee run before the sun comes up has a way of putting everyone back in their place.

[Ed. note: This is a guest post by Scott Case, CEO of Malaria No More - a non-profit, non-governmental organization that aims to end deaths caused by malaria. Today is World Malaria Day and here are Scott's thoughts on the epidemic and what we can do to help fight it]

Over the past week, Ashton Kutcher’s race with CNN to one million Twitter followers showed the incredible power of new technologies and social networks to get a message out—and in this case, to help end malaria. Ashton leveraged his following on Twitter to raise awareness about malaria and drive donations to Malaria No More. But in today’s world of online communities, each of us has the same digital tools at our disposal to beat malaria. Each of us has the potential to influence our networks.

Networks open doors to the best expertise, to essential technology, and to financial resources that have a huge impact. We know that malaria can be stopped with simple tools like medicines, indoor sprays and mosquito nets. Momentum is building to end malaria deaths by 2015 – an ambitious goal, but achievable. As I mentioned earlier, it just requires the power of your network.