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Unemployment Survival Guide

Month: February, 2010

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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

More Things to do when you’re Unemployed

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 [...]

Free Things you can do when you’re Unemployed

8 Free Things You Can Do When You Are Unemployed by Srinivas Rao (via Brazen Careerist)

Web Apps for the Unemployed

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

J.K. Rowling’s Advice for Dreamers

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)

Job Recruiting on Twitter

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 [...]

6 Ways to Ditch the Overqualified Label

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 [...]