Getting Fired Is A Great Opportunity To Serve Your Community

Christine Lias, 06.25.2009

Every time that I volunteered (I know this sounds corny and trite) but I felt as if I had a positive and applicable impact on someone.

The Obama Secret Army Job Corps

August J. Pollak, 06.22.2009

Right-wing fears of a massive army of Obama underlings ignore how beneficial that would actually be for the job market.

5 Easy Tips for Feeling Better When You're Freaking Out About Money

Karen Luniw, 06.11.2009

Author "Attraction in Action: Your How to Guide to Relationships, Money, Work and Health"

So what can we do when we're wigging out about our finances? Here's my "Top 5 Tips."

Closed Your Small Business and Now Need a Job

Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone, 06.09.2009

Authors of GOAL! Your 30 Day Game Plan for Business

Let them know the transition from company owner to employee is something you are embracing rather than enduring, and that this position is an important step along the way to your ultimate career goal.

On the Career Couch: Career Calamity Recovery

Stacey Radin, 07.05.2009

The loss of a job can be a transformative period in your life that forces you to reflect-- it provides the time to take stock, reevaluate options, current lifestyle and goals.

Career Lessons from My Recruiting Desk Part I: Getting the Meeting

Jason Mannino, 07.05.2009

career strategist, personal development coach, speaker/facilitator

These techniques coupling your vision with action will help bring your career back into reality.

Are You Advertising Your Job Search?

Jason Mannino, 06.29.2009

career strategist, personal development coach, speaker/facilitator

Eric's employment ad on Facebook positioned him as a positive candidate while simultaneously targeting the employers he was most interested in.

Unemployment Benefits Can Destroy Future Job Prospects

Grant Cardone, 06.08.2009

Author of Sell to Survive and International Sales and Business Expert

How will you explain being out of the job market for 26 weeks? What happens to your skill set in that period of time?

Harry Potter's Five Steps to Courage

Tom Morris, 05.21.2009

Tom Morris is one of America's most active public philosophers.

Who would have guessed that the world's most popular fictional wizard could teach us all a thing or two, or five, about courage, change, and dealing with daunting challenge?

Do You Have What it Takes to Push Up Through the Earth and Bloom Again?

Stacie Krajchir, 05.14.2009

Author and founder of The See + Sprout Project and The Bungalow PR

Do I have the strength to bloom and push through the Earth? Ugh, that sounds so hippie and so not where I am at or something I am open to right now. So, I don't know.

The Job Report In Context

Ian Welsh, 05.04.2009

ianwelsh.net

I'd expect that we're going to see quite a few more devastating months. I wouldn't expect to see any job gains before 2010, and they won't be very large.

Don't Be Held Hostage by Possible Layoff!

Dr. Susan M. Guthrie, 04.16.2009

psychotherapist/life coach

Dear Dr. Susan, Although I don't like my job, it's been perfect for me because my daughters are young and my bosses are great about letting me take time off when they're sick. Should I stay?

Enough with the Doom and Gloom

Ken Dychtwald Ph.D., 04.12.2009

Renowned Psychologist, Gerontologist and Author

Perhaps it's time to make the transition from the pursuit of more to the pursuit of more important.

Finding Work: What Works

Marilyn M. Machlowitz, 04.10.2009

Do the sometimes wacky ways that people find jobs (or opportunities find people) in better times still hold promise?

Dear Dr. Susan: Dealing with Critical Mothers and Laid-Off Husbands

Dr. Susan M. Guthrie, 04.09.2009

psychotherapist/life coach

There is something pretty devastating about losing your job - after all, your job is not only how you survive financially, it's where you get much of your sense of worth.

No Job = No Layoff!

Adam Baer, 03.08.2009

Writer in Los Angeles who blogs at www.glassshallot.com.

Even if all of the world's money is hidden in a hatch trapped in a Very Special Lost Script, guest-written by Bernie Madoff, no form of work or career has ever ceased to progress from someone acting self-promotionally.

Evidence the U.S. Layoffs Trend Has Peaked

Penny Herscher, 04.06.2009

Serial Entrepreneur and CEO of FirstRain

There's evidence that the number of layoff announcements and reported layoff events has started to drop.

The Unemployment Report: Analysis and Ugly Pictures

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart, 04.06.2009

Former bond broker, tax lawyer, financial blogger

Since the recession began, we've lost 4.4 million jobs or 53%. There is no way to spin those numbers as anything except terrible.

Is Health Reform a Job Killer?

Jim Jaffe, 04.05.2009

Reformers interested in making American medicine more efficient should never ignore the story of Philadelphia department store magnate John Wanamake...

Darkening Clouds... Silver Lining?

Arianna Huffington, 04.05.2009

While we are trying to move the economy to full capacity, we also need to make sure that our communities are operating at full capacity. Our full capacity of giving. Our full capacity of service. Our full capacity of compassion. As America's Misery Index soars, so must our Empathy Index.

The New Lure of Government Jobs

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International, 04.05.2009

Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. The latest Labor Department report release...