These days there are several ways to catch the attention of hiring companies. Of course, these days everyone is competing against everyone and their mother, brother, cousin, etc. Besides trying the CareerBuilder no-no’s, because CareerBuilder provides such great job advice, such as neon colored and scented resumes or showing up like a raging maniac at [...]

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Continue reading about #120 Regretting Creating the Video Resume That Went Viral

supl on July 9th, 2009

A layoff should never stop a social butterfly from hanging up his or her wings when it comes to entertaining guests at home. Just because people have lost their jobs doesn’t mean they have to give up hosting drunkfests at their places. You know, the ones that are notorious for the wrong people hooking up [...]

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Continue reading about #119 Entertaining on a Budget

supl on July 8th, 2009

Most unemployed people would agree that it would be pretty difficult for them to conceptualize unemployed life without a television. Even more mind boggling would be to live without a remote control. The TV is a magical device, but without the remote control there’d be no way to change the channels from their entirely-too-familiar couch [...]

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Continue reading about #118 Finally Finding the Remote Control

supl on July 7th, 2009

Let’s be honest for a moment, for a lot of the jobless people out there, being unemployed is kind of like being back in college again – except for pretending to study has been replaced by pretending to look for a job. With the majority of their unemployment check budget being set aside for having [...]

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Continue reading about #117 Charles Shaw Wine

It’s quite obvious that, for the unemployed, there’s almost nothing better than coming back from a great long weekend (the only time the unemployed can spend substantial time with their employed friends) to find out their unemployment insurance has been renewed. After their initial unemployment benefits ran out, the unemployed panicked, wondering if they were [...]

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Continue reading about #116 Getting Their Unemployment Insurance Renewed

Ever have one of those moments when the only things in the cupboard are pasta, beans, rice and whatever other carbohydrate-y fillers that don’t exactly scream excitement or roughage? Or perhaps after a summer about dreaming about guacamole and getting tired of eating that fake, non-perishable green stuff sold at gas stations, avocados were finally [...]

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Continue reading about #115 Buying Chips to Gain Access to the Salsa Bar

supl on July 2nd, 2009

Everybody loves a good story – even more so, everybody loves to tell a great story. “In this economy” most people have a story to tell, but most of them fall under the expected: the company wasn’t doing so good, cuts were made across the board, or entire industries were shut down. It’s not to [...]

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Continue reading about #114 Bragging About How They Got Let Go

Unemployed people, for the most part, are social beings who yearn to be in the company of other people. After months spent in isolation, the unemployed realize they need to have some human interaction that does not involve their kids or their dressed up pets. More and more, their laid off friends are finding new [...]

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Continue reading about #113 Convincing Friends to Hurt Themselves on the Job for Workers Comp