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Has Your Job Hunt Hit a Dead End?

Posted Wed, 06/09/2010 - 01:02


Is your job search plan working? A lot of people are finding themselves out of work for far longer than they have been in the past. Partly this is due to the slow economy, but also the state of the art has changed in the world of job searching with the rise of social media and online job search. What has been an effective method of finding work may no longer be so.

Six Steps to Surviving Your Layoff

Posted Wed, 06/09/2010 - 00:59


So you’ve gotten your pink slip. Though we’re given to understand that layoff notices are now commonly sent by email so not only is it not pink, there’s no slip. At any rate you’ve been laid off. Even if you were expecting it this is a terrible blow. So what are you going to do? You’ve got to accept it. They won’t let you keep working there and feeling sorry for yourself won’t make your house payment. It’s time to move on.

U.S. gains 413,000 jobs, but few in private sector

Posted Tue, 06/08/2010 - 01:45


Job seekers lined up Thursday to speak with potential employers during the Skid Row Career Fair at Los Angeles Mission.

Real Ways to Spread Your Network

Posted Tue, 06/08/2010 - 01:29


Networking is key to locating and landing new and awesome jobs. It’s a simple statement and fairly true, but how exactly does that help? Bloggers, experts and talking heads yammer about the power of networking endlessly (I admit guilt of this one myself) without telling us how the f we do it. Well, I’ve seen the errors of my ways and mortified my flesh with limp pasta and am now ready repay my debt to job-hunting society.

How to make your job search painless

Posted Tue, 06/08/2010 - 01:25


Job hunting sucks. Plain and simple, finding a job is a lot more work than having one and at the end of the day there’s no paycheck to make up for it. On top of that, most of us aren’t very good at it. It’s not like one gets a lot of practice, and if you do that’s a whole other problem. So, once we’ve got a top-notch resume and cover letter what should us normal folks do to get a job without losing our minds in the process?