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No Luck on the Job Boards? You’re Not Alone

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) took a look at the impact of internet job boards on the employment world and came to conclude what so many job seekers are finding out on the front lines. Real life results aren’t living up to the promise.


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Changing Careers in a Recession

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. In addition, an often reflexive response to the news of a job loss, or an impending one, is to immediately seek new employment at competing firms within the same industry.

On the surface, these strategies have merit. In the former, we hold on as long as possible, hoping that either we’ll keep our current situation as long as possible, or maybe we’ll even out last the downturn. It seems to make sense to stay in the same career and in the same industry—after all, that’s where our skills are concentrated, and where we have the greatest income potential. But do these represent the best strategies?


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Useless Job Hunting Methods

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 Hunt:
5 Methods That Waste Your Time. In the article, Caroline M.L. Potter zeros in on five common job hunting strategies which are either outdated, completely ineffective or even counterproductive.


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Strategy #2 to Survive a Down Economy: Network OUTSIDE Your Career Orbit

By Kevin M

In 10 Ways To Survive in a Down Economy (published on Christianpf.com June 1) we listed ten strategies to help you deal with the bad economy. Last week we took a closer look at Strategy #1, now we’ll outline Strategy #2:

2. Move outside your comfort zone. Network outside your career orbit; you never know where the next opportunity may come from, or who might assist you in getting there. Pigeonholing yourself into a single job or industry may prove to be a strategic miscalculation in the future.


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