March 2010
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Meetup Alert: Book Launch Party @ the Brooklyn... →
Join the Gainfully Unemployed meetup at 7p tonight if you’re around and up for a little social interaction.
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How is The Unemployed Life? →
Unemployment sucks. MAJORLY SUCKS. It seems like no matter how hard I try to find a job, everyone denies me. I havent had a job since January and I really dont want to wait till the summer. All of the high school bitches will prolly get it over me, since it seems like they have more priority…
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“In this way, being unemployed is a lot like being depressed. You know how there...”
– Dominique Browning, “What I Lost When I Lost My Job” (via madd2thee)
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Gotta Get... Gotta Get Techie.
There won’t be many 405ers who need to read this (except those who are tech-savvy and want to help a “computer illiterate”), because this post is dedicated solely to the one person who can get onto the Internet to read The 405 Club online but still isn’t “on the computer.” Or, perhaps this post is of interest to a 405er who knows someone out there who still isn’t “on the computer” at all—and...
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405clubmusic:
R.Kelly “The World’s...
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My Favorite Interview Questions.
Prior to losing my 13 year tenure with my previous employer, I was occasionally asked by HR to interview candidates for positions ranging from Demand Planning, to Logistics Manager. Although I never thought of taking on the task of interviewing prospective candidates, I thought about my own experiences and came up with several questions. Needless to say, HR was impressed with some of the questions...
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Unemployed in a Tough Economy. →
By: Hallie Crawford
Being laid off in any economy is hard. However, being laid off during a recession brings on new challenges. For example, there is more competition for the jobs that are available, only certain industries are hiring, and pay is often decreased for the jobs that are available.
What do you do if you are unemployed in a tough economy? First of all don’t panic! There are jobs out...
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New College Graduates To Be Cryogenically Frozen... →
via nscaletti:
“The bill, expected to swiftly pass in both houses, would facilitate the subzero preservation of any graduate of a two- or four-year educational institution. Sponsors of the initiative said that with the national unemployment rate at just under 10 percent, it only made sense for young job-seekers to temporarily enter a state of supercooled stasis.”
Sometimes the Onion knows JUST...
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8 Creative Uses For Your Mobile Device.
(Ed. Note) It’s no secret that the unemployed like to or have to save money where they can. As such an important component of our lifestyle it was only right to team up with FrugalNYC, a premier resource for frugal city living, as we present Frugal Fridays! Enjoy.
Whether you have an iPhone, Blackberry or just a simple cell phone, you are probably not using your mobile gadget to its full...
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“To you, my fun-employed friend, I encourage you to sit for only a few minutes...”
– -Jason Mraz (via mrazinator)
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Diary Of A Layoff: 13 Months And (No Longer)...
Last month, on my blog, I posted an entry outlining every job I’ve been paid for over the past three decades. I’ve got another to add to the long list: mystery shopper. After enduring a grueling online competency exam, I was approved to be one of those dudes checking up on you to see how well you’re doing your job. In the past week, I visited five retailers to inquire about specific...
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Are You Ready for Your Close-Up?
We recently posted an open casting call to all 405ers for “The Apprentice” and since we received such a great response the casting world has tapped back into our plentiful well of talent for a new position. While this is an on-air position, there is a possibility that this opportunity could turn into something full-time. Compared to “The Apprentice” casting, the criteria...
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5 Tips To Go Temp to Perm.
Up to this point I have done my best to give pointers as well as entertain those who are working hard to find employment. Now that I have entered a new era of my life I have found that many people have an issue to adapting to their new schedules. I am aware that there are several people who have ended up losing their jobs because they could not adapt. In addition, many individuals who have ...
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Ask and Ye Shall Receive.
(Ed. Note) We are excited to introduce Lesley Pink, an editor and writer who has worked in marketing, financial journalism, and immigration law. She wishes she could swim for a living, but for now you can find her here in her new “Single White Unemployed Female” column. Enjoy.
I don’t like to ask for help. Ever.
I like to think of myself as self-sufficient, responsible and in...
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C’mon Guys, Don't Tell Me That!
You could have fooled me. Every now and then, I catch snippets on the radio while driving or exercising in the gym, about surveys of hiring managers and their feedback in how to succeed on an interview. Because I am a career counselor, I always perk up and listen closely when I hear something about employment and job search. I’ve heard that employers like when job candidates pause before...
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Meetup Alerts: MET Tuesday, Job Fair Wednesday. →
Click above for meetup information on both.
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Last Day to Enter the @Lyndadotcom Giveaway! →
Go here to enter now!
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Donald Trump Wants To Put You Back To Work.
“The Apprentice” Open Casting Call
NBC’s “The Apprentice” is looking for people who have been affected by the decline in the job market. Whether you are recently laid-off, long-term unemployed, a graduate with a daunting job search ahead of you or simply someone who took a job that is just allowing you to survive this downturn, we encourage you to apply.
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Unemployment: New Claims Down Slightly →
March is shaping up to have a more stable employment environment than February, but not as good as January (yet). That’s the safe conclusion to draw from this week’s Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report. New claims dropped to 457,000. Last week’s number was unrevised. That’s still more…
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Nightmare Again: Part IV of IV - The Conclusion.
This has been an unusual series of nightmares. Unlike the previous set of strange dreams, I seem to have done quite a bit of time traveling. To conclude this saga, we will visit 1973. 1973 was an unusual year for me and I have taken quite a bit from my personal history to conclude the Nightmare series. I was enrolled in a psychology course at that time and I preferred doing much of my work in...
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Anonymous asked: I've recently discovered that I want a complete 180 and switch careers while unemployed..I am planning on returning this summer to community college to knock some pre req science courses out of the way to move on to a university Dietetics prgm...I want to only go for a part-time job so that I may go to school part-time as well. And while I feel I have resolved this part. Everything else seems...
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On the Bright Side.
(Ed. Note) We are excited to introduce Lesley Pink, an editor and writer who has worked in marketing, financial journalism, and immigration law. She wishes she could swim for a living, but for now you can find her here in her new “Single White Unemployed Female” column. Enjoy.
Yes, there are many, many negatives when it comes to unemployment. There’s a missing paycheck, non-existent...
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Puttin' on the Green for Green Careers.
What better time to talk about green careers than for St. Patrick’s Day?
Green fields are not the meadows and pastures we think about in summertime in never, never land. They are actually a new group of occupations continually developing throughout the nation and world that have fostered concentration on the environment and ecologically friendly fields of work dedicated to preserving the earth’s...
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Sunday Blog Brunch: AfterPinkSlip.com.
Before we chat about the blog, what will you be having for brunch?
* JD on the rocks !!!
1. When were you laid off and what did you do? Or are you employed/self-employed? If so, what do you do now?
* I went out of the country in June 08 for a job. It was completed in Nov 09 and when I got back, there is no job. I have been looking since. Its tough tough times !! My...
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Poverty's Ravages.
by 405 Club member Stacy V. Soto It’s a day to day existence And I’m just getting by, In moments when it seems too much I drop my head, I cry Survival, a strategy I dance, I juggle; it’s beg, borrow, steal Life becomes a nightmare, Sadistic and surreal I try to hold my head up And burdens pile atop, A never-ending endurance test, If only it would stop… There...
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7 Habits to Boost Your Savings.
(Ed. Note) It’s no secret that the unemployed like to or have to save money where they can. As such an important component of our lifestyle it was only right to team up with FrugalNYC, a premier resource for frugal city living, as we present Frugal Fridays! Enjoy.
The savings rate for US households has steadily gone up in the last couple of years. One benefit to the Great Recession is that...
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Music Monday Mixtape →
Hey 405ers!
Good news — We have compiled all of our #MusicMonday posts in one place for your listening pleasure. It’s a known fact, music inspires and at a time like this we’re all in need of a little inspiration. Just jump over to http://www.405clubmusic.tumblr.com or click on the itunes icon up in our header.
Once you’re there you have the option of playing each song...
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Unemployment: New Claims Down Slightly →
We see some slight improvement in the weekly unemployment indicator. I would have liked to have seen a bigger move, as we have entered a period with no obvious short term trend. This week’s Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report has been released. New claims dropped to 462,000. Last week’s…
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WatchLemonade
Feature Film | 35:57
After a 37 year-old copywriter is laid off from a large ad-agency in 2008, he starts a blog for other unemployed ad professionals. Once the site launched, he decided to create a promotional video featuring the faces and stories of other laid-off execs.
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SWUF: The Trickle Down Effect.
Ed. Note) We are excited to introduce Lesley Pink, an editor and writer who has worked in marketing, financial journalism, and immigration law. She wishes she could swim for a living, but for now you can find her here in her new “Single White Unemployed Female” column. Enjoy.
My bank account isn’t the only thing taking a hit during my first experience with unemployment. My...
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Nightmare Again: Part III of IV.
Time for some truth. I believe that most nightmares are caused by events that occurred during our waking hours. Situations such as job loss and long term unemployment create mental wounds, and for many of us, those wounds are manifested in nightmares. Sometimes nightmares are a collage of unresolved items that happened during our waking hours. After I wrote Part 3 of Nightmare….Again, I...
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"Why Won't They Pay Me A Living Wage?"
Some employers especially those in the suburbs are set in their ways and unwilling to budge when it comes to salary offered. For older persons, this could be deadly as well as for local economy.
These are the pet peeves of some of my customers who, at one time, had fast-paced, glamor-type jobs in media in the Big City and now that they have found themselves in the suburbs, older and on their own,...
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Sunday Blog Brunch: Unemployed & Over 50.
(Ed.Note) Welcome to our journey into the world of recession blogs! The 405 Club wants to get personal via a handful of questions with our favorite fellow bloggers who are documenting the recession and unemployment firsthand.
Today we have the pleasure of sitting with the man behind Unemployed & Over 50.
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Before we chat about the blog, what will you be having for...
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5 Tax and Money Savings Tips
Tax time is almost here. If you are getting a refund, you should have filed already! If you are going to be paying taxes because you did not withhold enough, here are some tips to minimize that payment. Even if you cannot use all these tips for this tax season, they will come in handy for next year’s tax season.
Give Giving really can be rewarding. Not only do you feel good about...
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Nightmare Again: Part 2.
Time to turn back the clock. The Time: November 2009! The place: Somewhere in Suburban New York. Although I did not have a job offer yet, things were looking promising. I had just completed four interviews. I also had jury duty, and I wondered if there would be a conflict between interview time and jury duty. Somehow I managed to make my way through, but there were some moments that I was...
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Crazy Nut Job: Unemployment: New Claims Down →
This was a bit of critical news that worked out as needed. The Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report has been released. Last week I stated that we would need one more bad data point before admitting that another trend up in new claims was happening. This was largely because of the…
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-By crazynutjob.
Read all of crazynutjob’s unemployment report recaps here.
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SWUF: Downsized Versus Dumped.
(Ed. Note) We are excited to introduce Lesley Pink, an editor and writer who has worked in marketing, financial journalism, and immigration law. She wishes she could swim for a living, but for now you can find her here in her new “Single White Unemployed Female” column. Enjoy.
I’ve been wading through a lot of emotions since I was downsized earlier this year. And I realized that I lot of...
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Write Your Own Ad: What Would You Say About You?
Job search is about trying to decipher and analyze what employers are looking for and then attempting to convince them we can fill it. You take your cues from advertisements for (sometimes alleged) job openings, company research on the blind without an ad, which is bold and creative, or hearsay through a grapevine connected to somebody out there. You repeatedly pour over advertisements and try to...
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No Job Nomad: Goodbye New York, Hello Everywhere...
Stuff White People Like:
#26: Manhattan
#70: Difficult breakups
#82: Hating Corporations
#120: Taking a year off (in conjunction with #19: traveling)
Hi, my name is Kelsy and I’m a cliché. I’m unemployed, traveling, and blowing all of my money on #115 from “Stuff White People Like:” learning a new language (or at least that’s what I tell everyone who doesn’t see the logic in quitting my job...
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Meetup Alert: Reinventing Your Career. →
Reinventing Your Career: Marketing yourself in changing times - A meetup with our partners, Gainfully Unemployed (New York, NY).
Where: Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL), Conference Room 018
When: Today, March 2, 2010 6:00 PM EST
A change in the economy, your company, your personal finances, your family, even your health—any of these factors can require you to rethink your...
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Online Training Library Offers Free Training...
Members of The 405 Club Learn for FREE with Lynda.com. New York, March 1, 2010 — Effective immediately, unemployed professionals who are members of The 405 Club, The Official (Un)Employment Support Network in New York and beyond, will have access to more than 45,000 training videos at Lynda.com, which offers tutorials that help users learn, master, and apply digital tools and techniques.
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