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ShareAmericans’ Online Search Behavior Points to Significant Increase in Personal Financial Turmoil.

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ShareI originally published this post series more than a year ago, when this blog was very young. It occurred to me that these post have even more relevance today. Click through to read the entire series.
How To Save Your Job

“The Weatherman Technique”
“The Lifeboat Technique“
“The Late Surge Technique“
“The Ninja Technique“
“The Zen Technique“

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Sharedigg_url = ‘http://digg.com/educational/Who_Survives_Layoffs’;Layoffs are coming fast and furious. The employees of Citigroup got absolutely clobbered today.
Who survives when jobs are on the chopping block? Let me use a car salesman(person) analogy here.
Let’s imagine you are the owner of a car dealership. A recession is in full swing. No one is buying cars. (And let’s leave [...]

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ShareAs 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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ShareWe’ve spoken in the past about strategies you can employ to anticipate and avoid layoffs.
But what happens if you survive a round of layoffs? What should you do if you look around and you’re one of the last men standing?
Here are some quick tips:
Figure Out The Company Game Plan, and Get On Board
If you’ve just [...]

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ShareDear Banks:
Stop failing. Or, at least, stop failing all at once. We at ResumeWriters.com legitimately cannot handle all the people you are sending our way. Or, at least, we can’t handle them all at once.
Worst case scenario: if you keep flooding us with people-in-need-of-resumes, I might not get back to blogging for a while.
So, stop [...]

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ShareOn the road, unfortunately, so this will be my first attempt to put a post up entirely from my iPhone.
We’ll see if the picture actually formats correctly…
Anyway, today’s Wall Street events reminded me to remind you of some sound advice I gave a long time ago:
The stock market can give you early warning that your [...]

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Sharedigg_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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ShareI 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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SharePresident Bush signed a war funding bill today that included an extension of unemployment benefits.
The extension covers workers who use or have used all their unemployment benefits between November 2006 and March 2009. So, if you’ve already used your benefits, you might need to re-apply.
The part I find interesting is that this could actually be [...]

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