Our fears have been realized and jobs are being lost and not created(except for the Federal Government which claims would be creating jobs), the rest the thousands of job hunters who cannot get a job are left out on a limb. Try to use the full spectrum of job searching, online, social networks, job hunt networks and don;t forget the traditional go out an get it approach.
Jobs are out there, just that you cannot be to picky due to the scarcity, for one opening has several hundred available applicants. Make yourself stand out from the rest and use your failures as motivating factor. Update your resume and take out all add-on’s(entries that have been quite blown up), so you get an honest resume they can trust. Some of these firms really do check ups so when they do, you get the facts nothing more nothing less. You might also want to change the photo(you might still have the one straight from graduation), they might be small changes but they make big changes.
It’s summer time once again in a couple of months. This is the reason why summer jobs become more appealing than ever before, may it be to students or to established workers. I guess the fact that you could earn extra by getting yourself a summer job is enough motivation to get you going during the hot months.
I’ve read about an interesting article on summer jobs at Yahoo! Hot Jobs
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/career-articles-how_to_land_a_good_summer_job-334
and I thought of sharing the good news with you. The article says that the outlook for summer jobs this year is good. However, the outlook in the last couple of years was better. I agree it has something to do with the slowing economy this year. But then again, for those who would get lucky, what is supposedly a temporary employment could turn into a full-time work. How’s that?