Posts Tagged ‘unemployment’
Money Magazine: Age-Proof Your Career
The issue of age and the job search is a hot topic in the job search world lately. Age is one of those variables we have little control over and everyone will have the frustrating experience of being judge by age (too young or too old) as opposed to skill and capability. (And of course [...]
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CNN Money.com – How Age Proof Your Career
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When the “insider” has only an outside chance to get the job you want.
“I didn’t get the job because they promoted someone from within.”
I have heard this story before. It happens. Unfortunately, if you are a job seeker on the outside of the company you would LOVE to work for, it’s easy to conclude you have no chance hell of getting in the door unless it is on [...]
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When Being Open Closes Doors
When the market is tight I often have job seekers tell me that they are very open to any kind of opportunity. Open to move for the right position, open to take a pay cut and open to ‘just about anything”.
The hope of course is that openness will help land a job more quickly on [...]
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“Up in the Air” – The Movie
If you haven’t yet, you must see George Clooney’s movie “Up in the Air” – the story about a charming corporate road-warrior hired by spineless managers to fire their employees.
I saw it last weekend and as someone who spent 18 years witnessing thousands of people lose their jobs it was very hard to watch and [...]
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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?
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 “Job Clubs” Are Bad For You
Not that you need the assist, but let’s make this really simple anyway. If you were desperately looking for a gallon of milk, where would you go? To a place where other people who were desperately looking for milk are hanging out? I’m guessing probably not. You’d probably go where there’s milk. Or at least [...]
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Locked Out by a Factor of “Too”
Job seekers – all job seekers – have, or at least believe they have, some vulnerability that they feel gets in the way of their ability to get hired. Under qualified, over qualified, too old, too young, too ugly, too pretty, wrong color, wrong name, wrong town – the list goes on. It is not [...]
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