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So after all the hemming (himming?) and hawing, I guess we’re getting a stimulus package. The whole idea behind this thing is to create jobs… stem the flow of job losses… prevent a new great depression… give everyone a pony… take your pick.
Is there useful news here for job seekers? Are there specific jobs/industries that [...]

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(No, not that Jobs…)
I’ll let Marketwatch sum it up:
Nonfarm payrolls contract by 533,000 in November, the worst monthly job loss in 34 years. Since recession began 11 months ago, 1.9 million jobs have been lost, pushing jobless rate to highest level since 1993.
Now, I want to temper this news with something a little more hopeful. [...]

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(No, not that Jobs…)
You might have seen the headlines this morning. The jobs report pretty much confirms the badness we’ve been feeling. The jobless rate is at a 14 year high.
But charts are worth a thousand words, so here’s a handy chart of the jobs reports from the last 12 months:

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As I promised last week, it’s time to take a step back and assess where we’re at.
You may have noticed that things have been crazy and scary in our economy recently. The good news is that hopefully Hank, over there to the right, might finally have landed on a mixture of fixes that will keep [...]

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(No, not that Jobs…)
It seems the banking and housing crises might be nearing the end of their panic throes.
…aaand we are beginning to enter the downswing in the hiring market. The job market seems to be lagging the other problems we’ve been seeing in the economy, but a downturn in hiring could be a leading [...]

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digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/educational/8_Sure_Signs_Layoffs_Are_Coming’;Up here in Michigan, the summer of our discontent seems to go on and on and on. It’s well known that this region has been struggling with with what experts like to euphemistically call an “economic transition” for several generations now. But this year, with the US automotive industry teetering literally on the [...]

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I wanted to post this story, and then I found this picture that tied together both of today’s informational posts.
I’ll just quote from the first line of the story:
When even lawyers are nervous about losing their jobs, you know things are getting rough.
Lawyers In The Lurch (Businessweek)
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I’ve mentioned before that I’m a veteran of the “startup company” environment.
Getting a job at a startup can be a hell of a boost for your career… if you survive it. You can learn more in 1 year at a startup than you can in most other work environments. The ad-hoc nature of the startup [...]

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In every recession, there are certain things that boom.
And almost every recession leads to a boom in Business School students.
It’s a strategy that makes sense. You can only bang your head against the wall so many times before you decide to try something else. And sometimes that “something else” means hunkering down and waiting until [...]

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Here’s a different philosophical take. From the make lemons from lemonade department…
A bad job market might mean you’re not going to get your dream job for a while. But maybe you should take this time as an opportunity to figure out where you want to see yourself when the bad times end.
The storm will pass. [...]

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