Category Archives: Job Search

Surviving Unemployment: Free is the key.

Free is the key or what your public library can offer you.  Free events keep you sane and your budget on track.  After you found out you were laid off, one of the first things you did was look at your budget with a hatchet.  Anything not vitally necessary was the first to go.  Next, […]

Surviving Unemployment: Be a people person.

Last week I introduced my upcoming series of blogs about coping with your job loss. This week I will tell you how being a people person will help you endure the wait until you land your next job. I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV, therefore I cannot give you […]

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 […]

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 […]