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By Kevin M You may be employed at the moment; in fact you may even be well-employed. But look at many others around you and what do you see? With millions unemployed, millions more under-employed, and hundreds of thousands of jobs being outsourced to lower wage countries, what does the future of employment hold? [...] STRATEGY #10 TO SURVIVE A DOWN ECONOMY By Kevin M When careers and money become questionable foundations in our lives, what’s left? It’s often only in bad economies that we even entertain the question. In 10 Ways To Survive a Down Economy (published on Christianpf.com June 1) we listed ten strategies to help us deal with the [...] STRATEGY #5 TO SURVIVE A DOWN ECONOMY By Kevin M In the dreary job market of the moment, people are having difficulty with two major areas in particular: keeping a steady income flow and increasing that flow. The increasing level of unemployment is not only eliminating jobs, but it’s also putting a lid on raises [...] By Kevin M Now might not be the best time to make a job or career change, but does that mean you have to sit where you’re at and just tough it out until better times come along and open up the doors of opportunity? Well, don’t go quitting your job, but there’s plenty you [...] STRATEGY #6 TO SURVIVE A DOWN ECONOMY By Kevin M If there’s ever been a time to adopt flexibility as a strategy, it’s now. The certainty we knew only a few short years ago is currently failing us, and our progress and even our survival may rest on our willingness to adapt to change and [...] By Kevin M Right now I know a substantial number of people who are looking for a job, but can’t think of a single one who’s found a job through the major internet job boards. Perhaps this has been your experience as well. Earlier this summer, a CNN articleThe Hidden Job Market (Jessica Dickler, June 10) [...] STRATEGY #4 TO SURVIVE A DOWN ECONOMY By Kevin M When ever the economy turns sour, there’s a general tendency to stay on current jobs as long as possible, under the belief that it’s better to stay where we’re established than to go to another company where we’ll be the new/low man on the totem pole. [...] By Kevin M With the economy in retreat, and job losses mounting, many are finding that their ability to rely on their employers is rapidly turning into quicksand. But if you can’t rely on your company for your career, who can you rely on? How about your coworkers? We all need people who will speak [...] By Kevin M Maybe you or someone you know isn’t having much success in finding employment, and while the poor state of both the economy and the job market are primarily to blame, use of ineffective search methods may be contributing to the frustration. Yahoo! HotJobs ran an article on Monday, Deceptive Targets in the Job [...] |
 
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Lending a Hand to the Economys Victims
By Kevin M
A family living in a McMansion loses their home to foreclosure. An overbearing manager earning a six figure salary loses his job in a department shut down. The (former) most prosperous family in the neighborhood is forced to close down their business for lack of sales; there’s a for sale sign [...]