Is US Unemployment Still Awful? Despite some attempts to gloss over the current US unemployment rates as an improvement – at 9% instead of 10% – most experts do not feel we have anything to celebrate about yet. In fact, the way that the government accounts for employed and unemployed people makes the situation...
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Why Are You Having Trouble Getting Hired And What Can You Fix? There are a few things you cannot fix that could hinder your chances for getting a new job. You cannot, by yourself, fix the national unemployment rates. You also cannot fix the fact that getting a new job is much tougher, statistically,...
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The Percent of Americans Working vs. Non-Working Is Lowesst Since 1983 According to an analysis by USA Today, the percentage of working adults is the lowest since 1983. The rise in the work force, 30 years ago, was caused by the emergence of large numbers of women in the workforce. In 2010, about 45%...
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The Do’s and Don’t Do Too Much’s of Over 50 Jobs Hunts Hunting for a new job after age 50 is still a challenging and frustrating task for hundreds of thousands of Americans. In our society, a 55 year old is hardly old. And yet, older workers are having the hardest time bouncing back...
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Do You Need To Change Careers At Midlife ? This website has published some very popular articles on over 50 career changes. They cover topics like fast track career training or top jobs for midlife career changes. Many of these articles concentrated on jobs that could be picked up very quickly as many older...
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Does Your Resume Date You As An Older Worker? With all of the buzz about high unemployment rates for older workers, I think it is time to analyze the problems and attack them. One issue that many 50+ job seekers have is employing an outdated resume template so that the resume is not presenting...
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