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Category: Mature WorkersBy Kate Lorenz on Mar 17, 2010 in Featured, Job Surveys, Mature Workers | 2 Comments
Who invented the standard nine-to-five workday? He or she must have been a morning person because if I were setting the workday hours, I’d push it to start at 10 a.m. at the earliest. Why?
While I’d love to be the type of person who just jumps out of bed alert and perky every day, it [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Mar 5, 2010 in Featured, Mature Workers, Resume, Video | 1 Comment
When a house has been on the market for an extended time without an offer or even a showing, homeowners often get help staging their property and even make over important rooms, like kitchens and bathrooms. When it comes to your job search, perhaps you should use this approach with your resume.
With electronic job applications and [...]
By anthony balderrama on Feb 18, 2010 in Featured, Mature Workers, Work | 2 Comments
The standard workplace looks very different than it did a few generations ago. Technology alone has revolutionized the way most organizations function. Look beyond the contemporary furniture and laptops to see another difference: your boss. Gone is the image of your manager or boss as a curmudgeon with an ill-fitting short-sleeved, button-up, yellowing shirt with [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Feb 5, 2010 in Employment, Employment Trends, Featured, Mature Workers, News, Unemployment | 6 Comments
The BLS released January’s jobs report this morning, and while it wasn’t complete cause for celebration, it was encouraging. The unemployment rate fell from 10.0 to 9.7 percent in January, and nonfarm payroll employment was essentially unchanged, down -20,000 compared to -779,000 in January 2009.
Here are the highlights:
The number of unemployed persons decreased to 14.8 million
Employment [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Jan 29, 2010 in Featured, Job Search, Mature Workers, Unemployment | 23 Comments
Although there are signs the economy is healing, there are still 15.3 million unemployed workers in America according to the most recent BLS data. Among those unemployed, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) continued to trend up, reaching 6.1 million in December 2009. That means 4-in-10 unemployed workers have been jobless for [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Jan 27, 2010 in Career Advice, Featured, Job Search, Mature Workers, Video | 14 Comments
When you really want to — need to — work, is there anything worse than being unemployed? How about being long-term unemployed?
The number of long-term unemployed people (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) grew to 6.1 million in December 2009, according to the most recent BLS data. That means that four-in-ten unemployed workers were jobless for [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Jan 8, 2010 in Employment Trends, Featured, Mature Workers, News, Unemployment | 11 Comments
The BLS released the last unemployment numbers of the year this morning and overall job loss numbers declined by -85,000 in the last month of 2009. Among the largest industries, construction, manufacturing and retail lost jobs, while health care and temporary help services added jobs.
In December, both the number of unemployed persons, at 15.3 million, and the [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Jan 4, 2010 in Career Advice, Featured, Guest posts, Job Search, Mature Workers, Networking | 2 Comments
It’s a new year – a new decade even — and now is the time we can start anew. Well, many of us spent 2009 trying to start fresh in a new job to no avail. Perhaps it’s time to change up some of your job search tactics.
Our guest blogger today will help you do just that. Joe Turner, the [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Dec 21, 2009 in Career Advice, Featured, Mature Workers, Video | 0 Comments
With 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Great Recession and everything in between, many of us are saying “good riddance” to what Time magazine referred to as the “Decade from Hell”. As 2009 winds down many people are ready for a fresh start in a new decade.
One new beginning many Americans are are hoping to have are in their [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Dec 18, 2009 in Books, Featured, Guest posts, Job Search, Mature Workers | 13 Comments
Is your job search showing no signs of life? Are its vital signs weak?
Today we have a guest post from Duncan Mathison, who is the co-author of the book “Unlock the Hidden Job Market: 6 Steps to a Successful Search When Times Are Tough” with Martha I. Finney (FT Press, 2009). You can check out their Web site [...]
