Three recruiters contacted me last Thursday, all within about an hour of each other. The stars must have aligned just so, creating a world where my resume springs to the top of every job board search for “digital marketing professional.” Does this signal the end of the famine, or the beginning of the famine? I’ll [...]
Category Archives: Resumes
Open letter to Conan O’Brien offering job search help
Friday, January 15, 2010
Norm Elrod
Jackson Heights, NY
joblessandless[at]gmail[dot]com
January 15, 2010
Conan O’Brien
Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien
100 Universal City Plaza
Building 2220
4th floor
Universal City, CA 91608
Dear Conan:
I’m so sorry to learn of your recent job troubles. Employers can be such a pain sometimes. I know from experience, having been laid off four times in the last decade, most recently in October 2008. [...]
Onward with the unemployment… my one-year anniversary
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Here I am riding another bus, trying do some work and trying not to get motion sickness. Working on the computer while traveling is a much better idea in theory than in practice. The bus ride gives me a solid block of time to concentrate and tick things off my list, or dive into a [...]
The recession is over, but high unemployment remains
Friday, September 18, 2009
The Great Recession is over. At least that’s what everyone keeps telling me. The S&P 500 gained 15.2% from April to June for its best quarter since the fourth quarter of 1998. Retail sales rose 2.7% in August. Existing home sales rose 7.2% in July from a year earlier, to a two-year high. Happy days [...]
Start crying, but keep trying
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Unemployment figures may be bad, but there are also job search opportunities. In this article, an unemployed blogger gives tips from his experience.