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Surviving Unemployment: When one door closes, another opens.
When one door closes, another one opens. Or so the saying goes. If you are like many job searchers, you are thinking that if you had one dollar for every time you heard that, you wouldn’t have to look for another job. Waiting for the other door to open is a slow process requiring much […]
Declare your freedom from your past job.
It’s the 4th of July weekend. And we are celebrating our independence as a country from another country that was interfering with the path we wanted to follow. We needed to rid ourselves of the ties that were holding us back in order to be free to pursue our goals. It was a difficult fight […]
Eight Job Search Tips for the Dog Days of Summer
While others are enjoying the lazy, hazy days of summer thinking that no one gets hired in the summer, nothing could be further from the truth. It may take more patience but if you remember the story of the tortoise and the hare, you know that the one who continued on even though progress was […]
The Summer Job Search Myth Busted
The Summer Job Search Myth Busted The lazy hazy days of summer will soon be upon us. Bringing with it thoughts of relaxing, swimming, picnicking, gardening and vacationing. To job search or not to job search is the question on the minds of many unemployed. Deciding between working on a tan and working on finding […]
Tis the season to be jolly or so the song says. But how can you be jolly while you are job searching. Not that the holidays are always enjoyable by our colleagues that trot off to the office everyday. It’s just that being unemployed has different and additional challenges. The toll of the process has […]
