TheJobBored

Here’s an appropriate post for a Monday.
BusinessWeek has a short article about how some companies, in the name of worker and server sanity, are encouraging workers to hold off sending emails over the weekend.
I think we can all relate to coming fresh into the office, only to be deluged by a mountain of emails that […]

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“Yeah, I’m trying to lure these kids into my booth. But kids are very wary of being lured these days. Thank you, Dateline.”
“All of these jobs suck. I would rather live jobless, on a beach somewhere, off the money from a large inheritance… than to have to work in any one of this crapholes.”
“Justin is […]

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You’ve heard the phrase about falling in love, “It happens when you’re not looking for it.”
An important thing to understand about job search networking is, you don’t just network when you need a job.
A lot of you who read this blog are in the middle of the job search, or are at least thinking about […]

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A resume is a marketing document… a personal advertisement… it’s not a “form” or list of things you’ve done.
There. I’ve told you everything you need to know. You don’t need to read the rest of this post.
Unless you want to.
Cause here’s the thing. This is what people don’t get about writing a resume. This is […]

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According to the Divine Caroline, the simple excuse of “I’m not feeling well” is not getting as much traction as a valid missed-work excuse anymore.
She thinks that the issue is that the notion of work and workplace is “becoming abstracted, allowing for the possibility of video-conferencing and telecommuting, there is often nothing wrong with working […]

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Apparently, people are taking to sites like craigslist and eBay not just to find original Voltron toys from the 80s… but simply to make ends meet (h/t SavvySugar).
Americans unload prized belongings to make ends meet
At Craigslist, which has become a kind of online flea market for the world, the number of for-sale listings has soared […]

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There’s a series of things “they” always tell us to do: payoff your debt, never carry a credit card balance, fully fund your 401k and IRA every year…
One of the things “they” also mention is a rainy day emergency fund. How many of us out there are disciplined enough to have one of these? And […]

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This is not an Ask Brian question, exactly, but a reader sharing his experience:
I’ve been reading your blog for a couple of months now, and you have made the fair point that the best way to get hired is to find a way to solve the employer’s problems. Don’t just fill their need; suggest that […]

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Man, was I busy last week! That’s why I grabbed the quick 4-day vacation last month when the opportunity came up. I knew this week was coming.
Even though I’ve turned over the day to day operations at ResumeWriters.com to professional management, in the end, I’m still the bossman, and occasionally that means I have to […]

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As opposed to last week’s
The latest weekly data show first-time claims for state unemployment benefits jumping 10% to return to the 380,000 level.  That’s an uncomfortably high number. Tomorrow is the monthly report. Expected to be down around 75k jobs.

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