January 2012
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Study: What happens to the young and unemployed... →
A University of Oxford study is following unemployed youth in India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal to find out if young people in periods of extended unemployment are more likely to join protest movements or even more radical groups.
What is your experience with unemployment? Has the crappy job market inspired you to join up with the Occupy movement, or other protest groups?
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NIH OITE Careers Blog | Writing a Cold E-mail →
The NIH OITE has a great post about writing a “cold e-mail” to expand your network. It’s just like making a “cold call,” but with less chance of rejection.
If you’ve ever read about someone who has a great job and thought, “Man, I want to do that!”, this post gives you pointers on contact someone you’ve never met and asking them about their...
December 2011
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Resolution: Find a Better Job, Write a Better... →
usagov:
Will you be looking for a new job in 2012? Whether you’re unemployed or just looking for a better job, many Americans will be job hunting in 2012.
Your resume may be the key element that makes you stand out in a sea of applicants.
A great resume:
Grabs the attention of employers and recruiters
Sells your skills and accomplishments
Shows why you’re a match for a position
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October 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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Mint.com | What to look for in a second job →
I know what you’re thinking. “A second job? I still need to find/am barely holding onto my first.”
But these are good tips, even if you’re hunting for full-time work and need something in the meantime.
April 2011
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GOOD Project: Design Your Dream Job and We'll Help... →
GOOD and Echoing Green want to know:
What do you love doing so much that you’d do it for free? That should be your job. Tell us in 150 words or fewer what the work is, why you love it so much, and how it helps you or the world or both.
One lucky winner will get an hour with Echoing Green’s Lara Galinsky, a career coach who has helped many young, socially conscious workers find...
Study suggests connection between unemployment,... →
“Scientists analyzed existing research covering 20 million people in 15 countries over the last 40 years. […] They found that unemployment increases the risk of premature death by 63 percent. That held true in different countries, regardless of the social safety net available after job loss. The researchers also found that poor health prior to unemployment did not play a...
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March 2011
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ABC News | 90% of Newly-Created Jobs Go to Men →
Eeek. Viewing unemployment stats from a gender perspective is apparently pretty scary. From the article:
Of the 1.3 million jobs created in the last 12 months, some 90 percent have gone to men, according to a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Of course, men have lost more jobs than women during the current recession (4.9 million vs. 2.5 million, respectively), but the article points...
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“[…] the mental health of people with badly paid, poorly supported or...”
– From the March 14, 2011 HealthFinder.gov article “Bad Job May Be Worse for Mental Health Than No Job at All.” So that’s good news… kinda? Right?
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Wisebread | How to Avoid Getting Hired →
The internet is chock full of job search advice. Here’s the opposite of that!
February 2011
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“The average U.S. unemployment spell now lasts nearly 37 weeks. The longer a...”
– Laid Off And Left Out In Wisconsin (via robot-heart-politics)
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“To think that we are here tonight, debating this issue, for the American people,...”
– US Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA), lamenting the fact that the US House of Representatives seems to have forgotten why they were brought to DC (fix the economy, stupid). Instead they’ve been focusing on the abortion debate and other means to restrict women’s access to health care.
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Forbes: 5 Reasons Why Your Online Presence Will... →
Interesting food for thought for the job-seekers out there:
In order to get a job, you have to be creative, attract jobs to your website, and network constantly. Applying to job postings, in newspapers and online, won’t get you anywhere and is becoming completely ineffective.
I wouldn’t agree that applying to job postings is “completely ineffective,” but I do think that...
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WatchRachel Maddow on the new Republican-Controlled House: Apparently, they’ve scheduled a week off for themselves after every two weeks of work. Sounds like a great deal to me!
“We support repeal of laws that impede the ability of any person to find...”
– Libertarian Party on Jobs - Party Platform (via savagemike: krona: robot-heart-politics)
How does a minimum wage impede my ability to find work? And even if it did, why would I work for less than the current minimum wage? That’s not work, that’s basically slavery. Oh and way to go on repealing...
January 2011
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Wall Street Journal Careers: Employers see demand... →
The Wall Street Journal reports that employers forsee an increased need for multi-lingual employees in the next 10 years. Based on results of a recent study,
“Demand for U.S. workers who speak foreign languages—especially Spanish and Chinese—should continue to grow over the next decade, but very few workers plan to study them.”
Personally, I know that my Spanish-speaking ability has helped...
GOOD: Justin Bieber Will Be a Man Before America's... →
Via GOOD:
According to new data from the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project, even if America added 208,000 jobs a month starting now, our job market still wouldn’t look as it did pre-recession until 2022, more than a decade from now.
NPR: Single, Self-Employed And Without Insurance?... →
“The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it but...”
– John Ruskin
Keep at it, folks!
Today I officially rejoin the World of the...
There where times when I thought this day would NEVER come, but here it is, exactly 7 months after I joined the ranks of the unemployed.
I hope that this personal success is an inspiration to others who are out there searching for work…
December 2010
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“[…] Unemployment presents a “real and frightening mental health...”
– BBC News, reporting on a British study which found that unemployment causes an increased incidence of mental health problems for young adults.
How Your Weight May Affect Your Paycheck →
That’s Fit reported this week that overweight men and thin women have the biggest paychecks, according to a study of 20,000 German and US salaries.
Here are the highlights of the research:
Women who weigh 25 pounds more than the group norm make $14,000 less than their average-size colleagues.
Women who weigh 25 pounds less than the group norm make $16,000 more than their average-sized...
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Gawker: The 10 Most Depressing Jobs in America
As a convenient follow-up to my last post, Gawker posted a list of The 10 Most Depressing Jobs in America today, as calculated by Health magazine. Here they are:
Nursing Home and Child Care Workers: Yes, it sucks to be around death all the time and also annoying sick kids and their horrible parents.
Food Service Worker: Spend all day being cussed at by customers and go home smelling like...
MintBlog: The Secrets Behind The Ten Happiest Jobs
MintBlog reports the results from a 2007 job satisfaction study from the University of Chicago: Apparently the top ten jobs - rated by satisfaction of work - “are all relatively low paying, with long hours and plenty of stress.”
I’m sure you’re curious, so here’s the list:
1. Clergy: salary $35,470 – $56,361
2. Firefighters: $28,486 – $52,139
3. Travel agents:...
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U.S. life expectancy slipped as recession took... →
MSNBC reports today that overall U.S. life expectancy fell in 2008 - the first full year of the current job-killing recession. From the article:
Overall life expectancy fell to 77.8 years, down slightly from 77.9 in 2007, the year that the recession began, and below a record high of 78.1 years in 2006. In a country like the U.S., the drop is small but ominous, public health experts said.
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