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Recession-Proof Your Career – Make Your Skills Transferable
Today we are completing our series on How to Recession-Proof Your Career. Our final tip is for you to “Make Your Skills Transferable”.
The US unemployment rate is at its highest level since 1997. The Labor Department reported that 240,000 jobs had been cut in October, the 10th month of job losses in a row.
In [...]
Recession-Proof Your Career – Tip #2: Work Smarter
Our Recession-Proofing series continues today, with Tip #2: Working Smarter. Working smarter, not harder is the new mantra. We have all heard the endless statistics about how we spend our time and where it is wasted – each and every day.
Here are some examples:
Email is a dangerous distraction. According to a British study, it takes [...]
Recession Proof Your Career – Make Your Value Visible
Making your value visible is critical to your long-term success. Today, in our first post in the series on How to Recession Proof Your Career, we highlight some preventative measures you can take to “Make Your Value Visible”.
For weeks we have been highlighting that the credit crisis is impacting everyone in some very tangible ways. Many [...]
New Series: Recession Proof Your Career
We’re doing something new here on The Employee Factor blog this month. In our own version of a “blog swap” – call it a blog swap with a twist – we’ve partnered with a compelling and respected career blog, The Big Time (presented by Spherion), to address a timely and important topic for today’s workers. [...]
Life as a Temporary Employee…
According to The American Staffing Association, temporary and contract staffing agencies employed 2.96 million people each day and 11.4 million individuals over the course of 2007.
We all know of someone who has had a temporary job. And I am sure that we have all heard one horror story or another about a bad boss, a [...]
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