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The Quick & Dirty Guide To Getting Your First Job Is Now Available

Huge numbers of people are out of work, but many people are still finding their first job even during tough times. This guide explains how to write a winning resume and cover letter, how to prep for a job interview, how to get jobs online, how to get a federal government job, what not to [...]

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How To Beat The No Job Blues

The market for jobs is bad and getting worse. As this is written the official unemployment rate is 10 percent and 15.4 million people have lost their jobs November 2009. The real numbers — which include the underemployed and discouraged workers — are much larger.
These are lousy numbers and lousy times for many people. The [...]

17Dec2009 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued

How To Get The Best Jobs Online

The Internet is awash with job sites, many claiming to have millions of jobs, or the best local jobs or the jobs you really want in a given field or profession.
There is some truth to these claims. The Internet has made the process of finding a job very much faster and easier than in the [...]

1Jun2009 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued

Work & Wages — Are You keeping Up?

If you’ve been getting more money each year and maybe a bonus here and there you might think you’re doing pretty well. After all, part of the American dream is to get better at what you do and therefore earn more money as a result.
Unfortunately, you’re likely to notice that even with a bigger number [...]

24Apr2009 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued

10 Consumer Questions To Ask Every Empoyment Agency

What should you expect from an employment agency?
It’s not an easy question because employment agencies offer a variety of services to a variety of job seekers and a range of businesses. Some agencies specialize in entry-level positions or in given professions. Others are generalists.
Also, of course, there is the question of whether or not you [...]

17Apr2009 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued

How Many People Are Really Unemployed? What’s The True Percentage?

Every month the headlines include the latest unemployment figures. Unfortunately, the headlines and what actually is happening are often not the same.
To understand what’s going on you first have to grab your very own copy of the monthly federal report issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. You can always get the most-recent release because [...]

4Apr2009 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued

How To Get More Hours On The Job

There’s no doubt about it, Americans are working less — not just in terms of steeper unemployment levels but also in the sense of overtime.
Can you do something to get more hours at work? For a lot of folks, the answer is going to be yes. Here’s how:
By The Numbers
Figures from the Bureau of Labor [...]

16Mar2009 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued

Work & Foreclosures: Losing Jobs Means Losing Homes

Until the past few years foreclosures were rare. In fact, the Mortgage Bankers Association reports that in March 2005 just .44 percent of all loans were in the foreclosure process, a figure which grew almost seven-fold to 2.97 percent as of December 2008.
For 2008, reports RealtyTrac.com, 2,330,483 U.S. properties received one or more foreclosure notices, [...]

2Mar2009 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued

How To Write Your First Resume (With Sample)

No resume is easier to write than the first one — and no resume is harder to write than that first specimen.
A first resume is easy to write because there’s very little to note. You don’t yet have a work history, or much of a work history.
On the other hand, a resume can be enormously [...]

2Mar2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued

16 Ways To Lose Your Job

The city of St. Paul, MN has an interesting guide for employees. Entitled Once You Have A Job…Tips for Success, it includes things to do and not to do while at work.
One of the more interesting sections concerns various ways to get fired. It’s an interesting list, mostly common-sense and certainly not inclusive, but you [...]

2Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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