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Job-Hunting During a Recession Articles for Job-Seekers, Workers, Students
Free and empowering articles filled with concrete suggestions for job-seekers job-hunting during an economic recession and weak job market.
Check out these useful articles to help turnaround and empower your job-search:
- Attacking the Job Market and Workplace Proactively in Tough Times: A Roundup of Expert Advice, compiled by Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
- Developing Your Job/Career/Life Survival Plan: Preparing for the Possibility of Losing Your Job in Weak Economic Times, by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
- Don't Let Fear Scare You Out of a New Job,
by Debra Wheatman.
- Do's and Don'ts of Keeping Your Job (In Good Times -- and Bad), by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
- 4 Ways Job-seekers Can "Skill Up" In a Post-Recession Economy, by Stephen Hinton.
- Getting a Job in a Down -- But Stimulated -- Economy, by Maureen Crawford Hentz.
- In a Down Economy, Maybe Career Reinvention is in the Cards, by Randi S. Bussin.
- Job-Hunting in a Weak Job Market: 5 Strategies for Staying Upbeat (and Improving Your Chances of Success), by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
- Job-Search Advice for College Seniors and Recent College Grads: Job-Hunting in Times of Uncertainty, by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
- Job-Search Lessons Learned in a Year of Economic Meltdown, by Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
- Layoffs Coming? Take Action Now to Lay Foundation for Your Future, by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
- The Pros and Cons of Taking a Survival Job. What Should You Do?, by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
- Recession Job-Search Do's and Don'ts, by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
- Seven Strategies to Recession-Proof Your Career: Build Your Future Regardless of Health of the Economy, by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
- Silver Linings in a Financial Meltdown: How Workers and Job-Seekers Can Make the Best of a Bad Economy, by Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
- Speak Up: 8 Ways to Be a Change Agent in a Jobs Crisis, by Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
- Strategies for Staying Upbeat During a Long Job-Search, by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
- Trying to Make Sense of the Job Market and Employment Outlooks, by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
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