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TweetShareIt’s the end of the year, so the prognostications about the 2008 job market are beginning. For the first time since 2003, I have to begin the year with a pessimistic outlook. Let’s face it, we’re going to be damned lucky if we avoid a recession next year. And just plain lucky if we avoid [...]

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TweetShare If you have career or job search question you would like answered on this blog, click here to Ask Brian. Reader Loraine from Alabama writes: “I saw your advice to Mike from last week. My question is along similar lines, but from a different angle. I.E., I don’t want my boss to know anything! [...]

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TweetShareIf you have career or job search question you would like answered on this blog, click here to Ask Brian. Reader Mike from Somewhere writes: “My old job wants me back. They have NOT made a definitive offer, but they seem to feel it’s only a matter of time before it trickles through HR and [...]

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TweetShareIt wasn’t too long ago that six figure salaries were only for athletes and executives. You were lucky if you got out of college and made $20,000-$30,000 a year at your first job. $50,000-$60,000 a year was a solid, middle class income. It was what you aspired to. Anything beyond that was, well… rich. Blame [...]

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TweetShare Last week we posted a comprehensive series outlining the various strategies you can employ to survive layoffs and downsizing. Read each entry below and feel free to add your strategies to the comments. How To Save Your Job “The Weatherman Technique” “The Lifeboat Technique“ “The Late Surge Technique“ “The Ninja Technique“ “The Zen Technique“

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TweetShareThis is part one of a five part post on How To Save Your Job. Here is Part 2. The Weatherman Technique To paraphrase from a famous cartoon character, Knowing is Half The Battle. When downsizing is on the horizon, your best chance for survival is to be the first one to know about it. [...]

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TweetShareI’m not saying I’m any sort of expert on the economy. I’m not saying that the recent surge in clients we’ve seen at ResumeWriters.com is any sort of leading indicator. I’m not even saying that I know what it means when even the Federal Reserve Chairman announces the economy is slowing. What I do know [...]

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TweetShareIf you have career or job search question you would like answered on this blog, click here to Ask Brian. Reader Jason from West Texas writes: “If I’m overqualified for the job, should I leave things out of my resume so I don’t seem so overqualified? The situation is this, I’ve been out of college [...]

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TweetShareI’ve been sitting on this one all day, but it seems to be the number one most emailed article on Marketwatch today, so it seems other people are as conflicted about this as I am. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, “models, demonstrators, and product promoters” as a category is one of the worst [...]

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TweetShareCareers can be faddish things. 2-3 years ago, ResumeWriters started getting a flood of resumes from fields we hadn’t had many clients in previously: mortgage agents and brokers. And the number of people with freshly minted real estate licenses on their resumes more than doubled. I remember in late 2004 we had to hustle to [...]

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