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TweetShareThe news today that layoffs are increasing at an alarming rate is not good news for jobseekers, or the economy. Key quote: For the past three months, American companies have been cutting their workforce in increasing numbers, according to a new report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an outplacement consultancy group in Chicago. In July, [...]

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TweetShareGenerally, a severance package is made up of pay and benefits given by an employer to a dismissed employee. But contrary to some belief, a severance package is not given as an entitlement prescribed by law, rather it is an employer’s prerogative – which means this benefit is given as a token under the employer’s [...]

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TweetShareAmericans’ Online Search Behavior Points to Significant Increase in Personal Financial Turmoil.

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TweetShareI originally published this post series more than a year ago, when this blog was very young. It occurred to me that these post have even more relevance today. Click through to read the entire series. How To Save Your Job “The Weatherman Technique” “The Lifeboat Technique“ “The Late Surge Technique“ “The Ninja Technique“ “The [...]

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TweetShareLayoffs are coming fast and furious. The employees of Citigroup got absolutely clobbered today. Who survives when jobs are on the chopping block? Let me use a car salesman(person) analogy here. Let’s imagine you are the owner of a car dealership. A recession is in full swing. No one is buying cars. (And let’s leave [...]

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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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TweetShareWe’ve spoken in the past about strategies you can employ to anticipate and avoid layoffs. But what happens if you survive a round of layoffs? What should you do if you look around and you’re one of the last men standing? Here are some quick tips: Figure Out The Company Game Plan, and Get On [...]

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TweetShareDear Banks: Stop failing. Or, at least, stop failing all at once. We at ResumeWriters.com legitimately cannot handle all the people you are sending our way. Or, at least, we can’t handle them all at once. Worst case scenario: if you keep flooding us with people-in-need-of-resumes, I might not get back to blogging for a [...]

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TweetShareOn the road, unfortunately, so this will be my first attempt to put a post up entirely from my iPhone. We’ll see if the picture actually formats correctly… Anyway, today’s Wall Street events reminded me to remind you of some sound advice I gave a long time ago: The stock market can give you early [...]

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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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