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This week’s BusinessWeek has the first solid statistics I’ve seen that prove that health care is the new plastics. (The Graduate reference) By that I mean, health care is finally fulfilling its promise as THE growth industry of the next 50 years.
For about 15 years now, prognosticators have sworn up and down that, for population […]

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For those of you that are hip to RSS and RSS feeds (all the people that have subscribed to this feed are clearly hip) you should be aware that almost every major job board now allows you to sign up for job search RSS feeds.
Input the criteria you’re looking for (city, state, industry, keywords, etc.) […]

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You of course know the phrase about the grass being greener on the other side of the fence.
Sometimes, though, the grass is plenty green on THIS side.
I thought of that this weekend when perusing some job search survey data. I’ve posted before about playing the odds in your job search. And you have to figure […]

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Whew. Last Friday’s economic news was bad. A friend emailed me and said, “Damn. Look at this list! These are the headlines just from the last 24 hours!:

Alarms of recession ring almost everywhere; Dow down 3% for week
Americans poorer than a year ago - Fed reports household net worth down 3.6% in fourth quarter
More jobs […]

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I remember when craigslist was just a coastal thing. Earlier in the decade when I lived in NYC, I got ALL of my apartments on craigslist. But when I would tell people back home about it, they didn’t know what I was talking about.
Now, everyone probably knows someone who’s sold a guitar, found a roommate […]

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Back in January I pointed out some data that seemed to suggest where in the country the job market was still holding up.
In this weekend’s New York Times, there was the usual hand wringing article suggesting that maybe the job market has turned nasty.
But right next to the article (if you follow the link, scroll […]

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Dee has been a regular reader and regular commenter here for the last few months. She left a comment recently saying she had just gotten a job. So I wrote her and asked her to tell us how she did it… what worked; what didn’t; what she learned. So, in her own words, this is […]

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My post yesterday about why you’re interviewing and interviewing but not landing a job generated this incredulous email:
“Your first point is ‘What was the employer looking for?’ Well how am I supposed to know that? If I knew that I would have gotten the job!”
To which, I have to answer equally incredulously: What?!
My post yesterday […]

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It looks like the tough times are spreading to the retail sector as we started to fear last week.
First there was the bad news from Best Buy.
Now there is widespread expectation that the major retails will be reporting sluggish sales this week.
As always, I’m not an economist. But part of what I want to do […]

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If you have just found this post, you should know I have a follow up Part 2 post on this same topic here.
I told you last week that a lot of my Ask Brian emails have been reduced to a variation on the same theme: I can’t land a job. What am I doing wrong?
To […]

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