From the blog Laid Off in NYC, a post about taking a job out of desperation and then regretting it. The Silent Soul-Crusher: UNDERemployment I got a job back in June and since then, kind of fell off the blogging wagon. I thought, hey I’m employed now, it’s all good. Hah! Little did I know [...]

Another entry from Reddit’s Ask Me Anything feature. I’ve been fired from 30 different companies and I’m not yet 25 Question: How do you get hired over and over again? Answer: I used to list only the most recent three and lie about the dates in which I was employed. Now, I site my side [...]

Yesterday we referenced a Floyd Norris column in the New York Times called “Why So Glum? Numbers Point to a Recovery,” which discussed the persistence of gloom in the air despite an improving economic outlook. The American economy appears to be in a cyclical recovery that is gaining strength. Firms have begun to hire and [...]

The head of a management consulting firm writes on his Harvard Business Review blog that companies sometimes lay off relative underperformers simply because nobody understands exactly what they do. When the wrong person is fired, it hurts everyone involved — the person and his or her company. There’s a better way to solve this problem [...]

Sounds like a piece of can-do advice from a job recruiter, but we mean it literally. Now you can print your resume on your tee-shirt. From damnIneedAjob.com: The shirt costs $25 (plus $3 shipping). Add three bucks if outside the continental United States. Upon submission of this form you will be directed to PayPals secure [...]

From the LearnVest blog: Making the Most of a Thin Resume. When you’re short on experience, play up your strengths. The Problem: Recession or not, you’re job hunting. Trouble is, aside from some internships and a few part-time gigs, the work experience section of your resume is, well, thin. You know that you could nail [...]

Out of work with a lot of extra time on your hands? Check out the web site Daily Routines to learn how famous artists, philosophers, scientists, and statesmen organized their days for optimal productivity. For instance: Winston Churchill – awake at 7:30 am, breakfast in bed with mail and newspapers. Bath at 11, garden walk, [...]

From Pink Slips are the New Black, “the blog for unemployed people by unemployed people,” comes this post about a strange job-hunting experience that ended in an ugly case of astrological employment discrimination. A Job Interview that Made Me Go Hmmm… I went through the most bizarre experience this week. I applied for a job [...]

A chart from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: Message: Stay in school! (If you can afford it.)

“I think recruiters are mostly people who couldn’t get real jobs doing valuable stuff like marketing, financing, and waxing stripper poles.” From the blog Acute Unemployment Syndrome, a post called Recruiters gone wild. The writer is an unemployed MBA. For those of you keeping score at home, I have now been on 10 job interviews [...]