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Self-Assessment-The First Step in Strate...

Every day we are bombarded with reports from the media on the difficulty of finding employment, with competition being tougher than ever.  You can’t watch the news without seeing at least one feature story  on job hunting.  So, how can you compete in this challenging market?  Well, you need to have a strategic and focused approach to your search that will make you stand out to...

Pile On Mentors in Tough Times

Written By:  ELIZABETH GARONE Found on TheWallStreetJournal.com… The Job Trekkers NOTES: This is something I am terrible at, I constantly think that the learning process is my struggle and that if I can not forge forward, it is my fault… But a friend who seeks out mentors to grow is always telling me, “you need to find a mentor; they can tell you the ins and outs of...

DOWN, NOT OUT : HOW TO BOUNCE BACK

LOSING A JOB CAN BE A CRUSHING BLOW — HERE’S HOW TO BOUNCE BACKBy TORY JOHNSON August 3, 2009 In 1993, I was a 22-year-old hotshot. Or so I thought. As a publicist for NBC News, I was living on the Upper West Side, enjoying a nice life. Not bad for a girl from Miami Beach who had always dreamed of making it in the Big Apple. I was on a roll. While still in college, I had...

Back to the 9-to-5—Finally

Back to the 9-to-5—Finally
By ALINA DIZIK from www.wsj.com Last December, with unemployment at 7.2%, The Wall Street Journal enlisted eight people who had lost their jobs to write about their hunts in a new blog called “Laid Off and Looking.” All eight had M.B.A. degrees; five had worked in finance at big banks. They had been unemployed for a median of nine months. More on Careers Second Acts:: From Day...

How to feel happier, both right now and ...

How to feel happier, both right now and down the road
Thursday, April 23rd 2009, 4:00 AM - As found in the Daily News- Mendez for News Run for your life: Exercise, such as jogging, can lift your spirits. (Page 1 of 2) How does one rise above the now-daily economic doom and gloom? Science has not just proven how beneficial happiness can be, new cutting-edge research has discovered exactly how to go about getting it. So put your pocketbook...

Five steps to make yourself great

By Penelope Trunk As Read in Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist   The best way to get control of your career and stability in your life is to be great at what you do. Superstars are not out of work right now. Really. Even in finance. If you have an amazing track record in your field of work, you’ll have a job. And if you need to change jobs, or adjust what you’re doing,...

What will stimulate spending? Advertisin...

In the big push to boost the economy, says a veteran marketer, the government left out a key ingredient. by Bob Pittman, Fortune contributor NEW YORK (Fortune) — The government’s stimulus plan won’t work as planned if we don’t get consumers spending again. But in the nearly $800 billion package, there is one thing missing that would surely help accomplish...

Best jobs for the young and restless

You’ve been in the job long enough to know what you want: more pay, more upside and more control over where you’re going.   By Jennifer Merritt, Carolyn Bigda and Donna Rosato March 22 2007: 8:20 AM EDT NEW YORK (Money Magazine) — Switching fields may seem taboo, but it’s quite doable, especially now when labor markets are tight. Almost half of the 164...

Why Social Media?

I know, I know, people are talking Social Media and asking questions about it, but what is it really? In the past seven years social media has overtaken our lives, it used to be only a few friends who where computer savvy who belonged to any social site. It wasn’t representative of the majority nor was it main stream; you could use simple HTML code to update your MySpace page or...

Media and The Job Market

It is no great secret that the first thing to go when companies start to tighten their belts and look deep into their pockets is the advertising budget. Companies need to save jobs, promote employee morale and find the best solution to their current budget crisis. To do this they need to cut the areas that affect the bottom line immediately and one of the places to stop the outpouring...

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