employment

What To Do After You Become Unemployable

3 June 2011

After you’ve been unemployed for 6 months, most HR departments consider you unemployable. They figure that others have looked you over and passed for some important reason or other. This seems to completely ignore the fact that most businesses are still not hiring and even considering further layoffs.  I think most of these people are [...]

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What To Do After You Lose Your job

2 June 2011

Okay the ax has finally fallen. You got pink slipped, laid-off, downsized or whatever the euphemism of the day is.
First, tell your family. You’re going to need their support and now you need it.
Second, Buy a suit. You need to look nice for interviews.
Third, post your resume on job sites. Indeed, LinkedIn, Careerbuilder and the [...]

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What To Do Before You Lose Your job

1 June 2011

The economy still stinks and appears to be getting worse despite the cheerleading.
Are you seeing signs at work for a layoff? Company stock prices stagnant, managers hiding, projects getting wrapped up sooner rather then later, and so on.
The first thing is to polish up your resume. Get it fully up-to-date, you don’t have to put [...]

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Op-Ed Columnist – Structure of Excuses – NYTimes.com

30 September 2010

I’ve been looking at what self-proclaimed experts were saying about unemployment during the Great Depression; it was almost identical to what Very Serious People are saying now. Unemployment cannot be brought down rapidly, declared one 1935 analysis, because the work force is “unadaptable and untrained. It cannot respond to the opportunities which industry may offer.” [...]

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The Geography of a Recession

19 August 2010

This blows me away. I know its bad but this is like something from one of those contagion movies.
However it is fun to notice that the center of the country, that is mostly grassly plains and farmers and ranchers seem to be fine.

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