Many baby boomers were planning on working well past retirement before the economy crashed last year. Now, working longer has become an imperative for many.
Liz Ryan | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living
Look, I said, that's what those Black Holes are made for. They're designed to eat resumes the way prom-goers suck down calamari at the Olive Garden.
Liz Ryan | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business
My friend Mollie called and she was mad, mad, mad. You won't even believe this, she said. I've been waiting for this job interview for two weeks, and ...
Liz Ryan | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business
A lady called me on the phone and said "Help!"What's up? I asked. This guy who used to work for me, she said, he's using me as a reference. I don't wa...
NY1 | Asa Aarons | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York
Free computer and online access is being provided at the New York State Department of Labor as a way to match the unemployed with companies that are h...
The Huffington Post | Tam Vo | Posted 10.13.2009 | Impact
Writer Becky Bosshart was laid off from her Las Vegas newspaper job while writing a series on the recession and unemployed Nevadans. Nevada is one of ...
Liz Black | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living
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.
HuffingtonPost | Julian Hattem | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business
As part of the Huffington Post's efforts to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we're rounding up s...
divinecaroline.com | Damsels In Success | Posted 11.22.2009 | Living
Based on my experience in the past decade of earning a living as both an entrepreneur and an employee, I believe that working as an employee can add t...
Gregory Daurer | Posted 11.15.2009 | Denver
Things still aren't looking good here in Colorado. As for the stimulus, the keg must have been turned off before the dram trickled down to me.
nytimes.com | GERRY SHIH | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business
This fall, law students are competing for half as many openings at big firms as they were last year in what is shaping up to be the most wrenching job...
Sharon Glassman | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living
Young people worldwide have become a cohort connected by companies, products and media. And job seekers would do well to do so, too.
Sharon Glassman | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living
Change Masters use their talents and tools to rule the day. Victims of change decry their fate. Now is an endless opportunity to be one, or the other. Which one will we choose?
Sharon Glassman | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living
Freelancers and job-seekers can spend the workday seeking work, earning a weary brain, tired body and no Benjamins to show for it.
Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone | Posted 08.17.2009 | Business
What most of us take for granted, twenty-somethings are learning for the first time. The quicker they can get up to speed the more successful they'll be in their interviews.
Neal Rodriguez | Posted 08.14.2009 | Business
Whether you're looking to attract your next great romance or a job, you've got to make a better impression than Bruce Wayne flying into dinner on helicopter.
Marilyn Machlowitz | Posted 08.02.2009 | New York
In these days of 9.4% unemployment we're asked why NY employers should still turn to search firms.
Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living
Having a successful career takes planning. To build the career you want think of yourself as the architect of your ultimate dream. You need a vision, a blueprint and the resources to build it.
Ali Weinberg | Posted 07.16.2009 | Living
I have a job; therefore I should feel a bit of "survivor guilt," even if I deserved my success just as much as any of my peers.
Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone | Posted 07.09.2009 | 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.
Jason Mannino | Posted 07.23.2009 | Living
These techniques coupling your vision with action will help bring your career back into reality.
Jason Mannino | Posted 06.29.2009 | Business
Eric's employment ad on Facebook positioned him as a positive candidate while simultaneously targeting the employers he was most interested in.
Eli Davidson | Posted 06.21.2009 | Living
Network with everyone and do it all the time. Help comes from the most unlikely people and places sometimes.
Stephen Viscusi | Posted 06.20.2009 | Business
Whether we are downsized, right sized, fired for cause, or not...unemployment in 2009 is not associated with only mid-level and lower-level jobs. It's an egalitarian phenomenon.
Mark Miller | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business