Being Unemployed Sucks

Using Twitter to find a job

Unemployed. Broke. Health Insurance??

Top Job Search Engines

Google Voice Giveaway

Quotes on Unemployment

Infographics Bonanza

Tax Time for Everyone (Even the Unemployed)

25 Most Difficult Interview Questions

Tuition Free Colleges

How to answer: What are your weaknesses?

Unemployment Benefit Tax Break

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5 Things to do when you’re Unemployed by Penelope Trunk

10 Things to do when you’re Unemployed by Karen Burns via USNews.com

Ten Ways to Kill Time When You’re Unemployed

Top 10 Things to do After a Layoff by Sarah Max for USAToday

Six Things to do as an Unemployed Grad by Hilary Moss via FiLife

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8 Free Things You Can Do When You Are Unemployed

by Srinivas Rao (via Brazen Careerist)

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Unemployed (or Preparing to Be)? These Sites Could Be Your Best Friends

by PC World

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At her Harvard University commencement speech, “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling offers some powerful, heartening advice to dreamers and overachievers, including one hard-won lesson that she deems “worth more than any qualification I ever earned.”

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo (via TED.com)

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140 Employers that post jobs on Twitter (by The Undercover Recruiter)

Top 50 Companies Recruiting on Twitter (by Job-Hunt.Org)

Need a Job? Follow These People on Twitter (by Resume Bear)

A New Job is just a Tweet Away by The Wall Street Journal

Where to find your job on Twitter (by Career Rocketeer)

Twitter Could Become the Unemployed’s Best Friend (by Bits – New York Times Blog)

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If you’ve been unemployed for a while you may be getting desperate with the lack of jobs out there…instead of giving up there’s the option for applying for jobs you are overqualified for. How to deal with this and reassure your possible employer through this HotJobs article:

1. Re-read the job description.
2. Fine-tune your resume.
3. Don’t lie about your history.
4. Check your sense of entitlement at the door.
5. Clearly explain why the job will be good for you.
6. Make circumstantial evidence work for you.

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