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unemployment

Fighting the end of unemployment benefits

December 5, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Lifeline for America? This post is rhetorical.  It is filled with questions that have no good answers.    The truth is there re no good answers. Unemployment benefits are about to run for a whole bunch of people, and they are scared to death about it.  No one seems to know what to [...]

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The REAL truth behind why there are no jobs

November 18, 2010

Image by Leonard John Matthews via Flickr CEOs are taking a wait and see attitude  and drinking more beer as well, apparently.  Here is one possible explanation about why we aren’t seeing job growth return as fast as most people would like.    I think the messaging is funny, but the underlying themes may have some [...]

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HR people are the smartest people in the room

November 8, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Be smarter than your competition Back in the stone age when I actually used to have a weekly newspaper subscription, I made it a point to read the Help Wanted ads every week.   I didn’t do this because I was engaged in a never ending job search.  I did it because it [...]

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