Job Search Going Nowhere?
It's been a while. I'm sure all five of you have really missed my words of wisdom. :) Well, a month after starting this blog and my e-book webpage, I found contractual work as a brand manager - which has kept me busy for the past 8 months, thankfully. Contract work is becoming popular with
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Now, you probably already started searching on Monster.com, career builder, indeed.com type of websites which is a good start, but even if you’ve spent countless hours here applying to 500 jobs, you’ve barely scratched the surface my friend. Many of these jobs are posted online only as a formali
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For all of my fellow Generation Y-ers, why us?? We've suffered a double economic whammy thrown in with a side of entitlement. Okay, maybe more than a side, but we'll address our deeply embedded feelings of entitlement later. We've endured the dot.com boom and bust cycle in the 90s, and some of
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Maybe the 'mass exodus' is an exaggeration, but I personally know several people who are switching from careers in sales, administration, even marketing to careers in medicine. There's a notorious shortage of nurses in America, so perhaps this is a good thing! I also spoke to a few people, especia
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My third day running on empty, I figured I'd pushed my car (and my luck) far enough, so I finally stopped at a gas station to fill up my car. By the way, I continue to be grateful that it no longer takes $40.00 to fill up my car. I live in the North Florida area, in a good community, where it's c
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I think that some of the toughest questions in an interview tend to fall in these five categories: 1. Gaps in Employment: "How you come you didn't finish college? Or why were you terminated from your last two jobs?" 2. Relocation/Culture Fit: "Why would a city-loving person like yourself want to
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Jokes about the unstructured life of the unemployed run rampant these days, from daily pj wearing errand runners to afternoon phone calls to your mom to dish about why Rafe on "Days our Lives" is so clueless. While we all have our occasional extra Sunday in the week, how do you stay productiv
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So, LinkedIN is a professional networking must. I've joined a few of the thousands of available groups, and I pledge to be active on those groups versus a silent member. We'll see how I fare with this pledge a few weeks down the line! I also really enjoy reading other LinkedIN users'
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I started this blog to reach out to my fellow unemployees who are actively seeking their next job. I hope this becomes a community for all
job seekers to connect with another, share their experiences, and commiserate. These are times of uncertainty and pervasive feelings of screwiness, but hey, we are all in this together.
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