Career coach and author Jeff Cohen helps the jobless, or working people who are looking for a career change, learn how to transfer their skills to a recession-proof career in his new book, 'The Complete Idiot's Guide to Recession-Proof Careers.' Much of the 330-page book details industries and jobs that are growing, but the best parts are some of the early chapters on how to recession-proof yourself.
That to which you give attention, grows. If you’re having a terrible time with your job search, you’re the reason. Those who stop reading here are especially the ones who should continue. Do any of these phrases sound familiar?
• Craig’s Consulting laid off 150 consultants. Now the market is flooded.
• It’s hard to find a job when the economy is so terrible.
• No one is hiring me! I’ll never find a job!
If you’re uttering these types of phrases, stop it. Thought precedes action precedes results. Whether you’re aware of it or not, your actions support your thoughts. Negative statements such as these perpetuate themselves unconsciously with every ensuing decision. It becomes useless to improve your resume. You disqualify yourself from ads. Your efforts become less intense. Look at what's going wrong, and if you don't know what it is - and you probably don't or it wouldn't be happening - then find someone who can tell you.
Marketing has changed – permanently. The old, traditional marketing and PR methods still work, thought not entirely on their own. Enter Social Media. At first it seemed there was a stronger emphasis on ‘social’ instead of ‘media.’ But what we’ve come to learn is this – Social Media is a critical element in any company’s PR and marketing efforts. That it’s social tells us about the importance of the relationship in the business building process.
More people filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week than at any time since November, providing additional evidence that the economic recovery has stalled and turning up the reelection pressure on incumbents.
Forecasters had expected the number of new weekly jobless claims to drop last week. Instead, claims jumped by 12,000 to 500,000, the third straight weekly increase and the first time in nine months that the half-million mark has been hit.
