This is more or less a newsletter for job seekers like myself. I try to find good job search strategies, bad job search strategies, pure BS and job related articles every week. So far I’ve never run short. Please pass this around. I’m not doing this for any reason other than the desire to help and communicate with other job seekers. If you have any good links or stories, especially stories please comment. If you want the story private, just put that in the comment and I will trash it and not let it post.
A good post for older workers, or any workers.
The Non-Scary, Realistic Guide to Changing Careers When You’re Older
Surprisingly negative impact of technology on recruiting?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/surprising-negative-impact-technology-recruiting-scott-love?trk=hp-feed-article-title-comment
When you use the technology to reject people rather than expedite engaging them, there’s going to be a negative impact. Of course the real problem is the tendency to reject rather than engage in the first place.
If you haven’t walked in their shoes or sat on their side of the table, how can you know how to engage?
If you can’t ask the questions of yourself, how can you expect anyone else to answer.
13 illegal questions.
http://internsover40.blogspot.com/2010/06/13-illegal-interview-questionsdo-you.html
Watch out for these.
Ten questions you should ask a recruiter.
It looks like he didn’t finish the post before adding the question to avoid.
The US economy is short 6.5 million jobs.
The U.S. Economy Is Still Missing 6.4 Million Jobs
It’s more than that. we’ve lost a lot of productivity and wealth creation in the last ten years.
It’s all too easy to find your career in the hands of shortsighted individuals who only think in the short term.
http://40pluscareerguru.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-frightening-career-vulnerability-of.html
Five ways to turn rejection into opportunity.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brett-berhoff/5-ways-to-turn-rejection-into-opportunity_b_9237704.html
The problem is that service jobs don’t actually make or sell anything.
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-02-25/cut-health-costs-or-help-workers-you-can-t-do-both
In the end, regardless of what people think, there are limits and once they are reached, it’s not going to be pretty.
And to round out the week, a Job interview video. The common tropes and making fun of them are all there.
The Job Stuff Series.
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https://theartsmechanical.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/job-stuff-24/
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