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10% Unemployment – Now What?
Well, it finally arrived. On Friday the Labor Department reported that the official unemployment rate for October rose to 10.2%, from 9.8% in September. We knew this was coming and that it was just a matter of time. Hundreds of thousands of people are unemployed and job opportunities just aren’t available.
OK, now that we’ve broken [...]
The New Norm – High Jobless Rates
Yesterday’s AP article from Tom Raum only highlights more reasons why the current high jobless rates might well be the norm for the next several years. Many economists believe the recession has technically ended and the nation’s GDP may show a modest uptick in the next few years. Yet almost everyone acknowledges that the unemployment [...]
Finding Niche Job Boards
Normally I don’t advertise other people’s blog pieces here, but this is a good info post from Chris Russell over at Secrets of the Job Network. Chris runs my radio programs over at his JobRadio.fm site, so it’s only fair that I share this one from Chris.
Whether you’re new to job search or you’ve [...]
Have You Considered Working a Temp Job?
If you’ve thought before about working a temp job, here’s some further ammo for considering it.
Today the US unemployment rate rose to 9.8%, the highest this country has experienced since June 1983. That’s 15.1 million Americans now out of work.
According to the US Labor Department, another 263,000 jobs were lost last month, higher than expected.
Additionally, [...]
Think Positive Thoughts
Sounds trite, doesn’t it?
For all the advice given by job search “experts”
(myself included), one might wonder what are actually true or just subjective
thoughts. A new article by Liz
Wolgemuth at US News suggests there is something to such things as actually
developing and following a plan for your job search. A recent study at the University of [...]
