Outplacement firms specialize in assisting recently laid off people with their job search. They are a great resource and unfortunately not everybody takes advantage of them.
Imagine how you would feel if you scheduled a trip to Italy, spent a lot of time planning the trip, got on your plane to fly there and finally landed ...
Ronald Reagan governed over high unemployment numbers, and he was covered by a hyper-critical media. Yet today, most TV news outlets are giving President Obama a free pass on equally bleak statistics.
I want to have a reason to wake up in the morning, change my clothes and get out of the house. I want to use my creative brain for something more than quirky tweets and stylish outfit choices.
Unemployment numbers only tell part of the story, and they do not offer a solution for relieving the economic chaos. Instead, let's turn to the 140 million people who have jobs, and find practical ways to inspire them in their work, so we can empower them to innovate us out of a mess.
President Obama recently made his fourth trip to job-starved Elkhart, Ind., whose plight has come to embody the American economic crisis. But the nation's sympathy and support for Elkhart might have never materialized if it were an all-black community.
While President Obama has spoken forcefully about laying a new foundation for the economy, we believe that the administration still needs to address two glaring shortcomings in its economic program.
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.
Right-wing fears of a massive army of Obama underlings ignore how beneficial that would actually be for the job market.
So what can we do when we're wigging out about our finances? Here's my "Top 5 Tips."
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.
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.
These techniques coupling your vision with action will help bring your career back into reality.
Eric's employment ad on Facebook positioned him as a positive candidate while simultaneously targeting the employers he was most interested in.
How will you explain being out of the job market for 26 weeks? What happens to your skill set in that period of time?
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 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.
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.
What makes mine different than other job searches? When I walked into a career center recently, people recognized me. "Wow, you were laid off too? It really can happen to anyone."
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?
Perhaps it's time to make the transition from the pursuit of more to the pursuit of more important.
