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TweetShareIf you’re starting a new job, you’ve probably got a million and one thoughts running through your head: What will my new boss be like? Will I get along with my co-workers? How soon can I start digging into my new projects? You might be so busy thinking about the big picture that you’re overlooking [...]

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TweetShare Unemployment seems stuck at 10% and it’s not getting better very quickly. One unique feature about this recession seems to be that if you do lose your job, it could take you a long time to find another one. Every day there are more headlines about the long term unemployed and how tough it [...]

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TweetShareSo after all the hemming (himming?) and hawing, I guess we’re getting a stimulus package. The whole idea behind this thing is to create jobs… stem the flow of job losses… prevent a new great depression… give everyone a pony… take your pick. Is there useful news here for job seekers? Are there specific jobs/industries [...]

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TweetShare (No, not that Jobs…) I’ll let Marketwatch sum it up: Nonfarm payrolls contract by 533,000 in November, the worst monthly job loss in 34 years. Since recession began 11 months ago, 1.9 million jobs have been lost, pushing jobless rate to highest level since 1993. Now, I want to temper this news with something [...]

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TweetShare (No, not that Jobs…) You might have seen the headlines this morning. The jobs report pretty much confirms the badness we’ve been feeling. The jobless rate is at a 14 year high. But charts are worth a thousand words, so here’s a handy chart of the jobs reports from the last 12 months:

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TweetShareAs I promised last week, it’s time to take a step back and assess where we’re at. You may have noticed that things have been crazy and scary in our economy recently. The good news is that hopefully Hank, over there to the right, might finally have landed on a mixture of fixes that will [...]

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TweetShare (No, not that Jobs…) It seems the banking and housing crises might be nearing the end of their panic throes. …aaand we are beginning to enter the downswing in the hiring market. The job market seems to be lagging the other problems we’ve been seeing in the economy, but a downturn in hiring could [...]

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TweetShareUp here in Michigan, the summer of our discontent seems to go on and on and on. It’s well known that this region has been struggling with with what experts like to euphemistically call an “economic transition” for several generations now. But this year, with the US automotive industry teetering literally on the edge of [...]

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TweetShareI wanted to post this story, and then I found this picture that tied together both of today’s informational posts. I’ll just quote from the first line of the story: When even lawyers are nervous about losing their jobs, you know things are getting rough. Lawyers In The Lurch (Businessweek)

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TweetShareI’ve mentioned before that I’m a veteran of the “startup company” environment. Getting a job at a startup can be a hell of a boost for your career… if you survive it. You can learn more in 1 year at a startup than you can in most other work environments. The ad-hoc nature of the [...]

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