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Local Job Market Dried Up? What To Do?

Posted by teenarose in unemployment on September 6, 2011

“How do I conduct a viable job search when the job market around me is dead or dying?” I relate to your situation, because your situation happened to me. Here’s a bit of back-drop: Growing up in upstate New York, I learned quickly that the local economy was supported in part by Canadian shoppers. Retail [...]

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CVS’s Minute [Healthcare] Clinic Could Help Unemployed

Posted by teenarose in unemployment on January 31, 2011

Few can argue that the population truly hit by the most recent recession has been the unemployed. To help offset medical costs, Walgreens Take Care Clinic announced free healthcare services to the unemployed in 2009. Although Walgreens is no longer offering free healthcare services, CVS has recently announced medical services — called the Minute Clinic [...]

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Making the Best of a Lay-off: The Graceful Exit

Posted by teenarose in layoff, unemployment on November 30, 2010

Getting laid off is a real punch in the gut. Even when you know the axe is going to fall, actually getting the news via the impersonal pink slip in the pay envelop or the personal, face-to-face good-bye, stinks. However, it’s common. In fact, in the contemporary workplace, it’s the norm. The days of putting [...]

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10 Ways to Tell It’s Time to Find Another Job

Posted by teenarose in featured, new post, unemployment on November 22, 2010

Getting axed, sacked, canned or fired hurts. It does nothing for your self-esteem and it doesn’t look great on your resume. You’re always better leaving your position on your own terms. But how can you tell when your job may be on the line? Here are 10 things to look for. 1. There’s a path [...]

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50 Reasons You Didn’t Get the Job

Posted by teenarose in featured, guest article, new post, unemployment on October 5, 2009

Because job candidates often convince themselves that they are “perfect” for the job, they are shocked when they don’t get an offer. There are all kinds of reasons why even a “perfect” candidate might not be selected. Of course, the obvious reason is they’re not as perfect as they think. Here are 50 possible reasons [...]

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Jobless = More Sex? Unemployment Should Have Perks Too.

Posted by teenarose in featured, new post, unemployment on January 20, 2009

“Counter the draining effects of job-search by having invigorating daytime sex with your significant other. Being unemployed should have perks too.” — Teena Rose There, I said it! When approached with a publishing opportunity recently, I couldn’t resist … for anyone in business, who can really? The piece was with the well-known New York Post. [...]

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Stay Put? Why Jobseekers Can`t Afford to be “On the Market” Right Now.

Posted by teenarose in recession, unemployment, video, work on November 7, 2008

“Be grateful I’m underpaid and under-worshiped, you say?” Ten years ago, I wrote about how the job market had yet again changed — just before the IT bubble burst. Jobseekers were in ample supply as online job boards such as Monster and CareerBuilder took hold and changed how jobseekers searched for jobs and how employers [...]

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