If you’re out of work then you’re all too familiar with the unemployment rate – 9.5% and rising. But in the July 8th Wall Street Journal, Conor Dougherty reported on another jobs number that doesn’t get nearly as much attention – the Job Openings Rate. That’s the number of jobs actually available at any given [...]
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 [...]
I have to confess, I’m continually amazed by the number of job seekers whose sole method of finding a job is responding to postings on employment sites like Monster or CareerBuilder. Now I’m not saying that job boards have no value. But if that’s your only job search strategy then you’re up against some very [...]
As I’m sure you’ve found, more and more companies are asking for (and even insisting on) salary requirements or history, well before they make you an offer. Often it’s stated in the job posting with a line like, “Please include salary requirements.” With so many qualified candidates chasing too few jobs, companies are looking for [...]