Graduated and unemployed

February 22, 2013 by  
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With your college, university or vocational diploma in hand, you are ready to enter the labor market. Or so you think. Because in the year 2012, the jobs are not there for the taking. What can you do when you graduate and are unemployed? Under your reading skills, work experience ... Continue Reading

What Does Redundancy Mean?

April 24, 2012 by  
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The concept of redundancy is absolutely the opposite of information. While the information means variety, novelty, redundancy means absence of variety or simply repetition. It is an unnecessary repetition of some word or idea in the sentence. The word redundancy is obtained from redundant. The word redundant has a Latin origin and ... Continue Reading

How to do if you resigned but want to stay

April 23, 2012 by  
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The answer to most of your questions depends upon your employer and their policies. You should probably review your employ handbook (hopefully you were provided with one), but if you can’t find the answer there you should probably approach your HR department. If you are on good terms with your ... Continue Reading

Layoffs Can Be Considered As The best Career Move Ever

February 6, 2012 by  
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When the majority of people think of getting laid off, thoughts of anxiety, stress as well as uncertainty frequently reach their minds.  Being laid off might make a person reduce confidence in themselves and in their capacity to recover from being given the business boot from work, however, being laid ... Continue Reading

10 Hot Tips On How To Cope With The Prospect Of Redundancy

June 23, 2011 by  
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The situation used to be that people could end up with a real job with expect to remain there for so long as the businesses wished. That’s no longer my protective case coupled with we should always logically imagine 3 or perhaps even 4 job changes through each of our ... Continue Reading

What makes a person elgible for unemployment?

June 11, 2011 by  
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What makes a person elgible for unemployment benefits? How does unemployment work? The amount of time it takes to be eligible for unemployment benefits varies. In Washington, it takes 20 weeks. The amount depends on how much you make during your best 2 quarters in the previous year. The ... Continue Reading

Tips on returning to work after raising children

May 22, 2011 by  
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Raising children is a big task and the exact implications of this fact will only strike you once you start raising your own kids. Tending to a baby’s needs and slowly making him or her competent to meet the demands of the outside world is a stressful ... Continue Reading

Lost Your Job? How to Navigate Through A New Job Market

December 14, 2010 by  
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Getting fired, downsized, or whatever you’d like to call it, can leave you feeling frantic and helpless. When you’re out of work, you are very much focused on yourself. This is only natural. As such, you may find little consolation in knowing that there are many others who are in ... Continue Reading

If You Are In Sales And You Lost Your Job Tomorrow

October 6, 2010 by  
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Preparing for The Unthinkable. If You Lost Your Job Today – Are You Ready For It? Pick up a newspaper and read the business section, watch the business news on TV, or read any of the thousands of business blogs out there on the www and they are all saying the ... Continue Reading

The Three Different Types of Unemployment

September 27, 2010 by  
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It is important to know what these types of unemployment are so the true rate can accurately be gauged. Frictional There is a specific value assigned to those in the work force who are between jobs. This is considered a short-term transition of less than four weeks. This could be a voluntary ... Continue Reading