Best Unemployment Articles

Try reframing your perspective and instead of looking at yourself as an unemployed applicant, think of yourself as a professional job coach. Your mission is to assist someone in finding work. Luckily, you have only one client to devote your time and effort to: YOU.

We are hard on ourselves because we have a deep, subconscious, lifelong belief that we don't quite measure up.

If you have been unemployed for an extended period of time, you know that potential employers are going to look at your long period of unemployment with a jaundiced eye.

Studies have shown that only about 5 to 10 percent of all new jobs are posted in classified ads or on the internet.

Acknowledging the pressures and emotional swings of unemployment and job search will help you look at the situation more objectively and allow you to continue to function in other important areas of your life, those not connected with work or income.

The world may not seem to need you when you're out of work but it is important that you know your own worth and stop buying into a sense of incompetency and despair.

Sarcastic humor, yes it is the healer of our soul. A cup of reality mixed in with some slap-my-face humor put in the form of two poems. Laughing our way to the grave, now there's a plan.

Recovering from this traumatic event is contingent upon how quickly you can get past it and get on with the rest of your life. Having a plan of action can both heal the hurt and resolve some immediate issues.

What are those positions we keep hearing about that Americans refuse to take such that they must be filled by illegal immigrants?

Unemployment is depressing: financial pressures stress you out, looking for work is humiliating, and your fragile self-confidence reels under the blows of indifference and rejection.