http://www.primecb.com Jobs Careers for Experienced Workers, Baby Boomers, Retirees Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:36:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Rachel Zupek, PrimeCB.com writer While some people take their time choosing a job or career based on their passions or goals, others just want to know where they can get a job and when. During the economic downturn, it was difficult to be picky, but now that things are looking ... http://www.primecb.com/which-30-jobs-will-add-the-most-workers-in-the-next-decade/ The BLS released January’s jobs report this morning, and while it wasn’t complete cause for celebration, it was encouraging. The unemployment rate fell from 10.0 to 9.7 percent in January, and nonfarm payroll employment was essentially unchanged, down -20,000 compared to -779,000 in January 2009. Here are the highlights: The number of unemployed ... http://www.primecb.com/january-job-numbers-redux/ Although there are signs the economy is healing, there are still 15.3 million unemployed workers in America according to the most recent BLS data. Among those unemployed, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) continued to trend up, reaching 6.1 million in December 2009. That ... http://www.primecb.com/tips-for-the-long-term-unemployed/ Although there are signs the economy is healing, there are still 15.3 million unemployed workers in America according to the most recent BLS data. Among those unemployed, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) continued to trend up, reaching 6.1 million in December 2009. That ... http://www.primecb.com/tips-for-the-long-term-unemployed-2/ When you really want to — need to — work, is there anything worse than being unemployed? How about being long-term unemployed. The number of long-term unemployed  people (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) grew to 6.1 million in December 2009, according to the most recent BLS data. That means that four-in-ten ... http://www.primecb.com/handling-job-search-desperation-3/ When you really want to — need to — work, is there anything worse than being unemployed? How about being long-term unemployed. The number of long-term unemployed  people (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) grew to 6.1 million in December 2009, according to the most recent BLS data. That means that four-in-ten ... http://www.primecb.com/handling-job-search-desperation-2/ When you really want to — need to — work, is there anything worse than being unemployed? How about being long-term unemployed. The number of long-term unemployed  people (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) grew to 6.1 million in December 2009, according to the most recent BLS data. That means that four-in-ten ... http://www.primecb.com/handling-job-search-desperation/ How many times a day do you say to yourself, “I like what I do, but not where I work?” Or the opposite, “I like where I work, but not what I do?” The current economy has kept many employees stationed for the past couple of years, not because they love ... http://www.primecb.com/10-signs-its-time-to-quit/ By Rachel Zupek, PrimeCB.com writer You don't understand. You updated your résumé, you're applying to jobs every day, you've cleaned up your digital dirt and you network every day. Yet here you still are on the unemployment list. What is wrong with employers? Unfortunately, many job seekers don't stop to consider ... http://www.primecb.com/not-getting-hired-10-reasons-why/ By Rachel Zupek, PrimeCB.com writer Every so often, you meet someone with a job title that makes you go, "Huh?" Either it's too technical to understand, too hard to describe or in some cases, people just may not have heard of it. But, why would someone not have heard about a ... http://www.primecb.com/10-careers-that-didnt-exist-10-years-ago/