There’s an eyeopening article in today’s Wall Street Journal, http://tinyurl.com/nn5uut, about some of the hoops that job seekers have to jump through when applying for an open position these days. Go to an interview and you won’t just be answering complex case questions or providing an on-the-spot business analysis. In an effort to really determine [...]
Time can rob you blind, especially if you’re out of work. How many weeks until your severance or COBRA ends? How many weeks after that until your savings are used up? How many hours are there in the day to look for your next gig?
At GetHired we always advocate working smarter rather than just longer [...]
When I headed to lunch yesterday I took along last week’s Time Magazine cover story on the future of work http://tinyurl.com/r7pu6h. It was a great accompaniment to my yankee bean soup and tuna sandwich. The article is actually a series of 10 essays from a group of Time reporters who specialize in [...]
It happens the first week of every month. The BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) releases the unemployment figures for the month previous. If you’re out of work the numbers will either give you some glimmer of hope that you’ll be employed again sometime in your lifetime. Or give you an excuse to say “what’s the [...]
The current jobs recession has been very democratic, everyone’s been hit – the unskilled and expert, those just starting out and long-term experienced professionals. Everybody is suffering. But the impact will be felt hardest by one group – older workers. That’s because once economy starts to turn around, they’ll be the last ones hired.
Why? Because [...]