Using Employment Resources In Your Job Search

February 22, 2010

Needless to say, putting this website and blog together has been an enormous effort – a learning experience in more ways than one that I will never forget.  I’ve actually enjoyed every ounce of blood, sweat and tears I’ve poured into it.  Doing something on your own, for some reason, always weighs heavier as an [...]

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Networking My Way Into Empty Promises

February 11, 2010

The job landscape has fundamentally changed forever.  Yes, there are some significant signs of improvement but how reliable are they and how long will it take to fully recover…to return to where we were say 5-7 years ago?
How about never.
Millions of Americans will go back to work, and millions more will not.  The millions that [...]

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Blogging In Your Job-Search

February 8, 2010

Blogging won’t necessarily land you a job, but it will get seen by those who can…
Over the course of the last year, I’ve spoken to many groups and have listened to scores of people…bottom line?  What’s the point or value of blogging?  Where’s the money, the interview or the connection?  What’s in the blogosphere for [...]

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Trying to Stay Positive in a World of Unemployed Negativity

January 26, 2010

Okay, so it’s a spankin’ New Year and I’ve been told to brighten up the blog…don’t be so negative and try to be more positive when I write.  Come up with what’s good to share.
Where?
I’m trying, really!  This story just posted today.  Is the Media hiding the silver lining from us?  Am I simply not [...]

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Finding Ways To Surpass The Unemployed Competition

January 25, 2010

Every workshop and job support group I attend, I am constantly reminded that it’s all about reinvention and differentiation.  The vast and desperate task of finding a job today is no longer keeping up with the next guy; it’s how to surpass him.  Looking for work has become an exhausting exercise in Track & Field [...]

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Welcome to The Unemployed World of Conan O’Brien

January 18, 2010

Will TMZ stalk Conan O’Brien to find out in which EDD office he attempts to file for unemployment insurance benefits?  Will Conan O’Brien jump over to FOX as David Letterman did to CBS when he was passed over for The Tonight Show prior to Mr. Leno?  Will Jimmy Kimmel and/or the Prime-Time Band still have [...]

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Reflecting on One Year of Unemployment: Hope for The Future

January 12, 2010

In a world that has evolved into an instantaneously accessible force, gaining speed by the second, people are getting used to that.  With the flip of a switch, a click of a mouse we can tap into anything and everything…right now, this instant.  We live in the immediacy.
So why is it, if we have the [...]

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The Network That Stays Together Works Together

January 6, 2010

Well, I’m here to report that the system does work…if you give it an enormous amount of time.  Hopefully by now we are fully ensconced and involved with working the system as broken as the job-search system is.  The critical factor here is to continue working it and never give up.  Put those feelers out, follow-up [...]

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Amen To 2010: Attaining Successes By Learning From Our Struggles

January 4, 2010

Happy New Year all!  Let’s, again, strive to emphasize the Happy & New part!
So, did any of you take some time during the holidays to reflect upon and take inventory on what has passed and what is in store for this New Year?  Sure, we all want to completely and quickly forget the past twelve [...]

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Gladly Saying Goodbye to an Unemployed 2009

December 21, 2009

Kiss this year goodbye and point me toward tomorrow.  I can honestly say there is no part of 2009 I want to remember…sayonara!
Having said that, I am convinced this time I will come out a better and brighter human being having gone through what was the worst year of my life.  I guess you can [...]

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