It's been a long, dry spell for many of the suit-clad Wall Streeters who were handed their pink slips before hardly anyone was talking recovery.
But sit down with a handful of ex-finance industry workers volunteering to work for free as interns in a city-sponsored retraining program, and they seem almost ... happy.
In the current economy, it's an uncommon reaction to the loss of a job. But for some...
Many job hunting boards talk about creating your own personal brand. And branding is a part of marketing. Large organizations even have "brand manager" within their marketing effort.
There is a lot of talk in the past few years about social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace and the granddaddy of business networking sites, LinkedIn.com. There are also Plaxo, Spoke and even the alumni-oriented websites like classmates.com, but LinkedIn -- with over five years of growth, remains the most accepted.
From workbloom.net:One tactic the bad guys are trying is a twist on an old standby: e-mails
purporting to come from legitimate companies that say they're still hiring.
The messages are loaded with links to the company's official Web site to
throw off...
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Are you tired of junk?The event was a Wall Street Pink Slip Party, where the unemployed mix with
recruiters and curious bystanders to network, look for work, and share
their stories.
With employers shedding 600,000 more jobs in January, the undercurrent at
this party in a Manhattan bar was decidedly glum.
"Wall Street, directly or...
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There is some hope for over-40 workers. In a post on CareerDiva, Eve asks "Who's the most screwed in this economy?" The answers may surprise you.
Subway was offering up to a $5,000 cash reward for the arrest of anyone involved in the robberies of several metro-area Subway restaurants.
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MILWAUKEE - Please, please accept a high-paying job with us. In fact, just swing by for an interview and we'll give you a chance to win cash and prizes.Sounds too good to be true, especially in an economy riddled with job cuts in nearly every industry. But applicants for nursing jobs are still so scarce that recruiters have been forced to get increasingly inventive.
One Michigan company literally rolled out a red carpet at a recent hiring event. Residential Home Health, which provides in-home...
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Behind the latest unemployment figures showing another 500,000-plus Americans lost their jobs is a sad truth: The deeper the recession becomes, the more it touches people whose livelihoods have never been threatened by dark financial times.Now the employment line includes workers who've never lost a job before and always believed experience and hard work would protect them.
Many of them are shocked and depressed - or stuck in denial. And they must confront the worst job market since the end of...
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Here is an update on our earlier story about reducing your commuting costs. The author lives in New York, but other major metro areas have transit systems that may help reduce your costs. In most cases, your taxes are already subsidizing the systems:SEATTLE - As a New Yorker, I don't own a car, and I really hate driving.
So I challenged myself to avoid the driver's seat as much as possible during a recent West Coast trip, something made practical with all the online transit planners that have...
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Some holiday job search tips from Kim Isaacs at Monster.com:** Consumers Warned to Avoid Fake E-mails Tied to Bank Mergers
Online
scammers are taking advantage of tough economic times. While e-mails
phishing for sensitive data are nothing new, scammers are taking
advantage of upheavals in the financial marketplace to confuse
consumers into parting with valuable personal information.
The
Federal Trade Commission urges caution regarding e-mails that look as
if they come from a financial institution that recently acquired a
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - The worsening economy appears to be helping computer crooks with one of their toughest tasks: tricking people into opening their homes and bank accounts and becoming "mules" for laundering money or stolen goods.The scams themselves aren't new. They're pitched in spam e-mails as "work-at-home" jobs that promise excellent part-time money for helping companies pay clients in other countries. The victims are asked to open new bank accounts in their names, agree to accept anonymous...
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From CareerHubBlog.com:Don’t despair—this can be one of the best times to find a job! Don’t believe the myth about this being a terrible time to network and seek job opportunities. Instead, leverage the fact that many still do believe that—and use the opportunity to gain greater exposure with fewer competing candidates.
Even with companies cutting back—we’re all hearing about new reductions-in-workforce announcements every day—those same companies, and others, are still hiring. The...
November and December (along with July and August) are the slowest months for this website. Cold weather, the holidays and other distractions tend to decrease both the published openings and the number of job seekers who are really doing their homework and legwork on a job search. 
From Spherion's newsletter:
We are all aware of the tough questions employers may ask. In an article on CareerHubBlog.com, Louise Fletcher poses the question, "Is There Anything We Should Know?"The economy may be going through hard times, but there are jobs to be had in Washington DC. The new Obama-Biden administration has posted over 8,000 vacancies - but before you rush to get your application in, take a look at the
application form:
The questionnaire includes 63 requests for personal and professional records, some...
From Employment Digest
Like many of us, you may spend the entire work day on the the phone and computer, and then come home to spend the evening paying bills, returning calls and looking for a job on the computer. Sooner or later, you will ask yourself, "Why did I spend an hour in traffic and ten bucks on gas to do the same things I do at home?"