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TweetShareIn every recession, there are certain things that boom. And almost every recession leads to a boom in Business School students. It’s a strategy that makes sense. You can only bang your head against the wall so many times before you decide to try something else. And sometimes that “something else” means hunkering down and [...]

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TweetShareHere’s a different philosophical take. From the make lemons from lemonade department… A bad job market might mean you’re not going to get your dream job for a while. But maybe you should take this time as an opportunity to figure out where you want to see yourself when the bad times end. The storm [...]

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TweetSharePresident Bush signed a war funding bill today that included an extension of unemployment benefits. The extension covers workers who use or have used all their unemployment benefits between November 2006 and March 2009. So, if you’ve already used your benefits, you might need to re-apply. The part I find interesting is that this could [...]

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TweetShareDoesn’t it kind of feel like all sort of bills are coming due lately? I’ve written before about how at ResumeWriters.com we’re seeing the cost of the commute become a major factor in job searches for the first time ever. I’ve been helping people find jobs for more than a decade now, and until this [...]

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TweetShareI’ve written before that I’m worried people chained to underwater mortgages will upset the supply and demand balance in the job market. One of the unique things about the American job landscape is the ability of workers to easily go to where the jobs are. If you can’t find decent work in New Jersey, you [...]

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TweetShareApparently, people are taking to sites like craigslist and eBay not just to find original Voltron toys from the 80s… but simply to make ends meet (h/t SavvySugar). Americans unload prized belongings to make ends meet At Craigslist, which has become a kind of online flea market for the world, the number of for-sale listings [...]

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TweetShareThe headlines speak for themselves. March payrolls down 80,000. This is the largest decline since March 2003. The decline in payrolls was steeper than the 60,000 decrease that had been expected. Job losses thus have totaled 232,000 since the New Year, an average of 77,000 lost jobs per month. Unemployment rate jumps to 5.1%. Data [...]

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TweetShareThis is something I’ve been worried about for some time now. We all know that the collective declines in the value of our homes has hurt our pocketbook. But the resulting immobility of the workforce – the fact that we can’t just pick up and move to a better job because we can’t sell the [...]

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TweetShareHere’s a different philosophical take. From the make lemons from lemonade department… A bad job market might mean you’re not going to get your dream job for a while. But maybe you should take this time as an opportunity to figure out where you want to see yourself when the bad times end. The storm [...]

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TweetShareAlso from BusinessWeek (good stuff from them this week)… Lets think of offbeat places to look for work. Every time I’m in the mall, I see that little store that makes keys, and fixes shoes and repairs watches. I always wonder… how do stores like that survive? Every mall has them. I’ve never given them [...]

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