Posts Tagged ‘On-Line Jobs’

The Illogical Game of Hide and Seek Jobs.

by Duncan Mathison

The Illogical Game of Hide and Seek Jobs.

Why companies don’t advertise or post their job openings. It’s more comon than you think!

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Degree-less and Doomed??? You have got to be kidding.

by Duncan Mathison

Degree-less and Doomed???  You have got to be kidding.

I am all for college degrees. In fact I have a couple myself. But for many people, getting the college degree didn’t happen either by plan or by circumstances. Despite this they have built a good career holding the types of professional jobs even though their peers in similar positions had degrees.
How does this happen?
Simple actually. These degree-less people [...]

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The Straight Line Job Search

by Duncan Mathison

The Straight Line Job Search

I had a client who just hated networking. This was not new of course, but he was really serious about it. He did not like to ask for favors. He did not like the fuzziness of it and it seem to him like a bit of a crap-shoot to meet with people in hopes that [...]

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The Only Unemployment Rate I Care About is Mine.

by Duncan Mathison

The Only Unemployment Rate I Care About is Mine.

The announcement by the Bureau of labor Statistics  that the Unemployment Rate is 10.2% is grim news indeed.  Of course, those in the news business who figure if bad news sells, worse news should sell even better have taken the “if you think that’s bad, look at this!” approach.  Brian Sullivan of Fox Business News [...]

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Employers Hire 4 Million in July: 1.5 Million More Jobs Than Job Openings – Huh?

by Duncan Mathison

Employers Hire 4 Million in July: 1.5 Million More Jobs Than Job Openings – Huh?

This Sunday the New York Times reported that there were only 2.4 million job openings in July for the 14.5 million unemployed.  This means there is a 6-1 ratio of job seekers to jobs – the worst ratio since the U.S. Government began tracking the data in 2000. To get this number, the Bureau of [...]

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Why the 1-2-3 of a Typical Job Search Does Not Add Up

by Duncan Mathison

Why the 1-2-3 of a Typical Job Search Does Not Add Up

I read yet another disappointing job search advice column in a special section of this Sunday’s Union Tribune.  It was the same old tripe that gets trotted out and passed off for quality job search advice.
I call it the 1-2-3 of job search.  Which often adds up to a big zero in today’s economy.   It goes [...]

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