Unemployment Articles

1). Unemployment Blues: Are We Pre-Programmed To Be Productive? By : Virginia Bola, PsyD
Toiling away at our daily grind, we dream of running away to Hawaii or the South Pacific where we can lie on the beach and do absolutely nothing. Some of us are lucky enough to take a vacation there and temporarily cut ourselves off from the world of responsibilities and demands and worries. We breathe easier, sleep deeper, eat more heartily. It is truly paradise.
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2). Unemployment Blues: Reframing The Pain By : Virginia Bola
In addition to the anger and fear generated by job loss, there is the total emotional devastation of being figuratively thrown on a pile of human debris.
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3). Employment Interviewing: Ask For The Job By : Virginia Bola
During any interview, it is important to display unabashed enthusiasm for this position, with this company, at this time.
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4). Fired Before You’re Hired: Five Ways to Ruin Any Interview By : Gwendolyn A. Lee
Arrive on time. Dress well. Write a thank-you note. Don’t lie on the application. You have the job-hunting basics down, but the gods of employment have plagued your people with a drought. Whether you’re interviewing after a layoff, seeking a change of employment or documenting your futile interviewing plight to milk yet another unemployment check, be aware of these five deadly interviewing sins.
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5). Heart condition Blessed me into a lucrative Home Based Business By : Frank Zavorski
Last spring I was diagnosed with a heart disease which would eventually affect my employment. I found a business in January but was slowed down due to my heart. I received a pacemaker/ defibulator last month. After a week to recover I started to work the business. Never in my life have I experienced so many people encouraging me to succeed, all across the country.
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6). Unemployment Blues: Mind Over Mood By : Virginia Bola
Unemployment plays havoc with our emotional system. We take a number of hits all at once: loss of occupational identity, economic pressure, family anxiety, and the humiliation of job search.
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7). Overwhelmed and Overworked: The Myth Of American Productivity By : Virginia Bola
In a world where employees are tethered to their workplaces virtually around the clock, by laptops, cell phones, and blackberries, the traditional balance of home and work has crumbled.
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8). Job Interviews: Prepare Questions In Advance By : Virginia Bola, PsyD
An interview almost invariably closes with the potential employer asking if you have any questions. Often an applicant will ask for clarification on benefits -insurance, vacation time, etc. While these are obviously important for you to know, they plant a seed in the interviewer's mind that maybe you are more interested in what the job can do for you than in how you can help the employer.
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9). Seven Proposals To Cure Unemployment Cycles By : Virginia Bola
Here are seven proposals to permanently address the "Unemployment Problem."
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10). Employment Under The Microscope By : Virginia Bola
A certain amount of oversight is involved in almost any job. The more important, the more highly skilled, the more successful the position, the lower the degree of oversight.
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11). Unemployment Blues: Maintaining Emotional Balance By : Virginia Bola
Some kind of emotional balance is necessary if we are to stay healthy, maintain our relationships, and be able to effectively function in job search.
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12). Job Interviews: Make An Application Cheat Sheet By : Virginia Bola, PsyD
It is so easy to sit down to complete an application and suddenly your mind blanks. You can't remember dates or names or telephone numbers. If you have a varied work history, you can't recall which job came first. If you have worked for the same employer for years, you forget when your duties changed or when you received a promotion. Do your research on work-related paperwork at home and make up a list of everything you might need.
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13). Genuine Help Vs. Exploitation By : Virginia Bola, PsyD
I had a recent exchange of e-mails with someone who wrote: "39 dollars for a book that proclaims itself to be a way out of depression and feelings of worthlessness for unemployed people? Tell me: what does a PsyD know about unemployment and low-self-worth? This price tag is atrocious. You are victimizing the unemployed, the societal outsider, and I do not appreciate it.
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14). The Importance of How You Spend Your Time Between Jobs - Various Options and Strategies You Should Think Of By : Shaun Stevens
With resume gaps now the norm, workers should pay attention to how they spend their time between jobs. The reason is simple: Employers want to know how job candidates spent their time when they were out of work. Learning? Traveling? Moping? Being productive or non productive ? Planning for the future and doing things or just sitting around as if you were putting in time in a prison cell ? Unless you project the image of a can-do job seeker, you're likely to have a tough time bouncing back from periods of unemployment.
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15). Interviewing Skills: Presentation of Your Work History By : Virginia Bola, PsyD
Your work history becomes a key focus in a job interview, usually right after the requisite pleasantries of whether you had difficulty finding your way, comments about the traffic and weather, and an offer of coffee or water. As you settle back in your chair, trying to look a lot more relaxed than you feel, the interviewer picks up your resume or application and starts to ask for details about your prior experience.
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16). Unemployment Blues: The Mixed Emotions Of Finding A Job By : Virginia Bola
Don’t be surprised or upset if you don’t experience an unalloyed sense of joy and optimism when you finally obtain the job you have been seeking for so long.
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17). Unemployment Blues: Life Changing Events By : Virginia Bola, PsyD
If we are unlucky enough to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, we experience a personal tsunami - a misfortune of devastating proportions that sweeps away our routine lifestyle and forever changes the world we know. Yet despite the frequency of such events - the tidal waves of Asia, the hurricanes of the Gulf Coast, the loss of life in the Middle East, the wildfires and mudslides of California - most of us are only indirectly affected.
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18). Interviewing Skills: How To Present Your Work History By : Virginia Bola
It may take you some time and self-exploration to identify it, but there are always some aspects of your work history that carry a positive spin.
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19). Unemployment Blues: Talk To Yourself By : Virginia Bola, PsyD
There is always a debate about whether daily affirmations work - the kind of uplifting statements you repeat to yourself in the mirror each morning. I find a more effective way to improve your mood and self-esteem is to create your own positive scripts for regular re-reading and study. On those days when you're really down on yourself and think that.
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20). Unemployment Blues? . . . Dig Yourself Out With A Proven Strategy! By : Paul Megan
Studies have shown that only about 5 to 10 percent of all new jobs are posted in classified ads or on the internet.
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21). Job Layoffs: Are We The Problem? By : Virginia Bola, PsyD
You know, we all talk a good game about keeping job positions in America and stemming the tide of illegal immigrants who pour through our borders at an alarming rate. But are we really willing to change our lifestyle, to put our money where our mouth is? We love bargains so we buy the lowest priced goods from clothes, to electronics, to household furnishings.
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22). Unemployment Blues: Take Back Control! By : Virginia Bola
One of the most emotionally crippling aspects of unemployment is the sense of powerlessness it engenders. We feel that we have no control over our situation, our lives, our future.
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23). Tired of Living PayCheck to PayCheck? By : Naomi Richardson
Tired of living paycheck to paycheck, was the simple but profound question that got this divorced and single mother on the road to financial freedom. This opportunity is available to anyone who wants to save money or make money. Do you fit either or both categories?
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