There’s a scary trend building among employers, according to a recent article on The Lookout. If you’re hunting for a job, it’s getting harder and harder to find opportunities if you aren’t currently employed. Job placement professionals and recruits, such as Matt Deutsch of TopEchelon.com have reported seeing an increasing number of employers who won’t […]
Not every location in the United States is experiencing the same high unemployment rates. Recently, CNN published the results of a study showing places across the country that have actually seen a growth in job availability from 2000 to 2009. If you’re job hunting and don’t mind moving, the following areas might be able to […]
Man, it was a long winter. In some parts of the country, the snow fell like something out of a disaster movie, and people got plain tired of the struggle. When you add the endless economic woes and the stalemates over political actions, it can seem like things will never lighten up. If the weather, […]
I have to give a presentation tomorrow to people who have been unemployed a year or longer. They’ve asked me to talk about fear, a subject that fascinates me. I know they’re thinking about the day-to-day fears that hold job seekers back, such as a fear of rejection and a fear of telephoning strangers – […]
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the October unemployment numbers and, unfortunately, they are worse than expected. The unemployment rate rose .4% over last month to 10.2% — the highest it’s been in 26 years. Economists had predicted the rate would hit 9.9%. Also in October, 190,000 jobs were lost, putting the nation’s total number […]
Parade Magazine ran a great feature in last weekend’s paper with the top 10 jobs for a recession. Some of them were the same-old standards I’ve been posting about for the last year (like in Job Search Tips for the Economic Recovery and Newsweek’s Top Recession Proof Careers). But there were a couple jobs on […]
If you are a recent college graduate, odds are you are taking the brunt of these tough economic times. Two years ago, the unemployment rate among college graduates was less than 3%. Today it’s more than 9%. And with a continuing lack of job creation, those numbers are likely to increase — since the ’08 […]
It seems that every time the country starts to feel hopeful about the economy, we get another sobering job loss report to dash our spirits. After the slower-then-expected job loss report in August, economists were predicting the end of the recession by year’s end. Now, economists — and even the President — are warning us […]
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