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Economy is looking up…report from the ground.

The big, big ship is starting to turn.  After months of hopeful fits and starts, from this ground-eye perspective, the job market is starting to open up…just a bit.  Anecdotal info:

Indicator 1:

One woman I know well, has been looking for work for 2 years.  She was transitioning from eduction to business…a [...]

Need some start up funds to get your idea off the ground?

Procrastinators rejoice — it’s not too late to enter the $5,000 Launch Pad contest!  Civic Ventures has extended their deadline on  the Launch Pad Contest.  The mission is to find five people over the age of 45 who may need a bit of a financial boost and support structure to their business idea.  If [...]

Tech jobs being posted

I have had an informal Google group running for a couple of years, but really have paid no attention to it.  Over the past month a technical recruiter has been posting many technical openings all across the US.  He is looking for people with skills ranging from Ruby on Rails, to PeopleSoft, to [...]

Need your stories, asap

Hi all — I have a request from a major US newspaper.  A top columnist is looking to interview folks who are at or near retirement about the challenges of looking for a job in this economy, even a part time job.  He’s particularly interested in chatting with folks who had retired but [...]

2 job opportunities

A couple of very good job openings have crossed my desk from establishd recruiters.  Times are just so tough, that I wanted to pass the descriptions along to you.  If you think you might qualify for either of them, or know someone who fits these specs perfectly, let me know at wspiegel@genplususa.com and I’ll be happy [...]

Cities where the odds of finding a job are a bit….better? Maybe?

CNN Money’s Fortune has a great columnist, Anne Fisher.  In answering questions, she finds ways to pass along some great tidbits of helpful advice.  Today’s column was a winner.    A reader asked about the pros and cons of moving to find work in a different city.  Her response was good and even-handed, but [...]

Excellent job opp

It is certainly tough out there and jobs are few and far between.  So here is some good news!  One of my business colleagues has an opening for a top sales exec based in California:  Senior Sales Executive for Fast-Growth Hi-Tech ERP Sales Company.

If you think you might fit the bill, email [...]

Micro-careers

I subscribe to the newsletter put out by Weddle’s (a career consulting, research, and publishing firm), and today, a very good article caught my eye.  This one is all about micro-careers.  I’ve referred to the shiftin the past as “career-chunking”, but I like the term “micro-career” very much.  The concept is simple — we will have [...]

Doom and gloom for the older worker?

Yesterday, about half a dozen readers sent me an article from the LA Times on how the job market is especially tough for the older worker. Receiving an enormous amount of emails over the past several years from over 50 jobseekers at their wits’ end over trying to find a job…well, it wasn’t [...]

How high will unemployment go? 8.5% breaks 26 year record

The fact that I’m old enough to remember watching my friends lose homes in the mid-eighties is scary enough.  But I wasn’t old enough then to understand global economic impact as I do now.  There are currently about 25 million Americans out of work and looking for work.  That is almost the population [...]