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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 [...]
A Tale of 2 Cities (sort of)
More people might be looking for jobs in Portland, but you wouldn't know it at first sight.
I just returned from a week in Portland, Oregon. As many of you know, I live in the Phoenix area and I can tell you the cities are quite different on a number of levels.
The unemployment figure [...]
Welcome to Big Time TV!
I confess that my secret desire is to become the “Ali Velshi of Job Search”. I want to be on CNN. I want to have my own TV show. Call me delusional, but we all have our dreams, and that's one of mine.
Well, big dreams start with small steps. You want to be on TV? [...]
CareerBuilder Going Green?
With all the buzz around "green this" and "green that" these days, it was only a matter of time before someone dedicated a job board to a green JOBS category.
CareerBuilder has just launched a new site dedicated to green, or environmentally friendly jobs. Now job seekers can search for jobs within companies that apply [...]
