Tag Archives: unemployment

Plan Your Job Search Like A Wedding

By Mark Stelzner | Published: June 22, 2009
Having just returned from the marriage of my younger brother to his new bride, all the lovely details of planning and executing a wedding are fresh in my mind. And since we’ve all heard the comparison of job hunting to dating, why not take it to the next level and plan your job search like [...]
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How JobAngels (And You) Have Changed My Life

By Mark Stelzner | Published: February 9, 2009
[NOTE - The demographics in this post were updated on June 5, 2009] This is the longest time between posts in the history of our little blog. If you’re thinking, “This is an outrage!”, I agree completely. So who is to blame for this travesty, this lapse in judgment, this abandonment of an HR community [...]
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How to Scare Over 500,000 Employees in One Day

By Mark Stelzner | Published: September 15, 2008
The numbers keep adding up and the impact on the global workforce could be staggering.  A litany of venerable and long-standing institutions have fallen victim to the current state of our nation’s increasingly fragile economic reality.  Let’s look at today’s potential body count: Lehman Brothers – 26,000 global employees; files for bankruptcy. AIG – 116,000 global [...]
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