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Besides some projects here and there....I have barely worked in the last year. In the past, I have had the 'wonderful opportunity' to work in some places that no one would ever want to work (unless you were totally nuts). In the past, I would politely say no to opportunities like… Read More »
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A few years ago the phrase "war for talent" was all the rage in discussions of hiring trends. The thinking was that as aging boomers started to move out of the workforce, there would be a fight to capture the young people rushing in to take their places.
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Consultants gave advice about how to court younger workers who craved different things than their boomer predecessors, and authors and bloggers wrote volumes about demystifying this new breed of worker. (Here’s a post I wrote about this for the New York Times back in 2007.)
Then the economy fell apart and talk of firing replaced talk of hiring. But it's possible that all that talent war talk is coming back. Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (31) | Blog
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I recently made a very hard decision to live abroad and teach in South Korea. With the US economy starting its collapse in December 2007, I was encountering the closed doors well before many in the present are now facing. I researched this option carefully and prepared myself…
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Sometimes one gets the opinion that the powers that be in the economy would be happy if all the grey-haired ghosts who are back in the job market because of downsizing would simply find some way to vanish altogether. Read More »
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<p>With each monthly unemployment report from the government, we're seeing lots of gloomy news about the job market and rising layoffs. The situation lends itself well to depression and cocooning on the coach until the mood passes -- but we must resist!</p> <p>Now is the... Read More »
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<p><img alt="Getty Images" title="Getty Images" src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/shine/work/sad_santa_57639661.jpg" align="right" width="250" height="310">You know things are bad when a mall Santa loses his job for no good reason.</p><br> <p>The <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/21/AR2008102102621.html?g=1"> Washington Post reports</a> today that Michael Graham, who has played Santa at Tysons Corner Center for 18 years, has not been invited back this year. However, he reportedly has a contract through 2012.</p><br> <p>The news comes amid many reports of impending layoffs because of the economic recession and credit crisis. Many companies are also scaling back or canceling their holiday parties this year. Read More »
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Adios, third quarter! I can
only hope that our country's economic (not to mention political)
situation improves in the fourth quarter.
The current financial mess has many of us anxious about job prospects. Unemployment is on the rise, and layoff reports are increasingly in the news.
In...
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Pessimism is on the rise among U.S. job-seekers. And with the continual rise in unemployment this year, you can't really blame them.
According to a Yahoo! HotJobs survey last month, 53% of workers believed the job market would get worse in the next six months. In addition, 28% said...
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There are lots of ways to making sure you stay employed, besides making sure you do a good job. One of the best is to make sure you gain favor with your boss.
"I'm not talking about a brown-noser, but someone the boss likes and who's doing a good job," says Stephen Viscusi, author of Bulletproof Your Job. "Bosses find legal excuses to let go someone they really don't like, nine times out of 10." Read More »
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