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Another cash-preservation option is to find an interim job to bring in some cash and to help you stave off the unemployment blues. Career coach Garfinkle agrees, but advises caution. "If it's just a transition job, an 'I need income' job, that's fine. But if your expectations are that you're just going to take the first thing that comes along and it's going to turn into your dream job, you're likely to be disappointed," he says. So, he says, call a stopgap a stopgap and keep looking for your next big gig.

Be stingy with your resume. It may seem counterintuitive, but don't pull an all-nighter plastering your resume on every online job board, says Richardson. While that sounds self-serving coming from a recruiter, randomly sending your resume and responding to blind ads is likely to get it placed in the HR databases of companies for which you might want to work. When that happens, even if an employment professional has contacts at that company or is trying to fill your dream job there, he or she can't represent you because you've already made contact with that company. "Even if I wanted to, I couldn't. That's how the recruiter/company relationship works," he says.

Richardson admits that job boards can help you monitor who's hiring and what positions are available, but if you're looking for a professional or managerial spot, spread your resume around at the employment-professional level and let several agencies or recruiters do your legwork for you.

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Posted By: Floretta @ 10/23/2008 12:08:08 PM

23, college educated, living in LA and can't find a job? Puh-leeze, try 56, also college educated (translation: OVERqualified for $9 an hour jobs, both of them) and living in a small town with no transportation.
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Posted By: melpol @ 10/13/2008 8:00:52 AM

The big secret is out. Politicians and the media were hiding the fact that American households have a net worth of over 56 trillion dollars. That is more than half the household wealth of the world. Those statistics come from the Federal reserve Flow of Funds Summary Statistics Second Quarter 2008. If there was a way to get the hoarders of those bucks to go on a long shopping spree the recession in the U.S. would quickly end. But our politicians fear talking to those idle saving account owners and their potential to stimulate our economy, they would rather increase the national debt than anger millions of cheap voters. Consumer spending determines the health of the economy not inflationary government handouts. Until some miserly Americans start digging into their over loaded bank accounts and start spending money our recession will continue indefinitely.
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Posted By: emmarcee @ 10/11/2008 6:35:12 AM

Who played the financial markets to crash down for Obama's favor? THE TIMING WAS VERY CRITICAL. Right when Mccain was in the lead. How many "international " investors were involved? who is bent to make Barack Husein Obama the POTUS? fIRST THEY PLAYED THE energy crisis. WE beat them. Then they withdrew their holdings and support for our fianancial system. "AMERICA had it coming". WE entertained all these back stabbers who were more than ready to pull the money away from wall street market. All so legally. Govt had to step in to stop the short sale of uSA. YOu liberals who play with antiamerican terrorist coutries, we will let you know you also hold the other end of this stick.