Older Workers Face New Challenges in Tough Job Market | PBS NewsHour

Suck cess is not success

Recovery?

In some places every other family suffers job loss. This seems to be the real tipping point on the path to every family in a neighborhood suffering. We started tolerating this inequality under Reagan. A generation now grown knows no other way to survive except to hope that spme of the value they produce will tridkle down from the advantaged people. Less and less does as time passes. Less and less will.

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"A recent survey for the policy institute found that one in four families had been hit by a job loss during the past year and 44 percent had suffered either the loss of a job or a reduction in wages or hours worked. Economic insecurity has spread like a debilitating virus through scores of millions of American families. What kind of recovery are we talking about if blue-collar workers, and men and women without college degrees, and large percentages of ethnic minorities and the young and the poor are not part of it? And how can any recovery be sustained if economic insecurity is a permanent feature of even middle-class life?"
- Op-Ed Columnist - A Recovery for Some - NYTimes.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

Six Online Resume Tools Reviewed by Webware

Job hunting is a stressfull way of life in the current economy. Cnet's Webware introduces six tools that relieve some of that stress by making it easier to build and make available resumes.

in reference to: Get that job: Six online resume tools | Webware - CNET (view on Google Sidewiki)

Job Hunting Still Comes Down to Who You Know

Job Hunting Still Comes Down to Who You Know:

Unsurprisingly, more than one-quarter (28 percent) of workers and one-third (33 percent) of managers surveyed had secured their jobs through networking. Among workers who earned $75,000 to $100,000 per year, an even higher amount, two-fifths (39 percent), had found their current job through networking.

Supporting the old adage that who you know often determines where you go, nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of managers said their company looked internally for job candidates before considering applicants from the outside, according to a survey released by Hudson, a staffing company, on Feb. 21.

Yet, the survey makes it clear that this is far more than nepotism at play. Managers considered current employees as the best source of qualified talent, followed by employee and personal references.

Forty percent of managers said that internal promotions were the best way to fill an opening, 24 percent felt that employee referrals were the best, and 20 percent preferred personal recommendations.

"E-mail and the Internet make replying to an online job posting easier than ever, but in this situation, easy does not necessarily mean effective."

Unsurprisingly, more than one-quarter (28 percent) of workers and one-third (33 percent) of managers surveyed had secured their jobs through networking. Among workers who earned $75,000 to $100,000 per year, an even higher amount, two-fifths (39 percent), had found their current job through networking.

"E-mail and the Internet make replying to an online job posting easier than ever, but in this situation, easy does not necessarily mean effective," said Steve Wolfe, senior vice president, Hudson North America. "Consequently, developing and maintaining a strong network of professional as well as personal contacts can mean the difference between landing an interview and getting lost in the crowd."