job hunting

Ms. Opinionated: All the Advice You Asked For, and Some You Didn't

Ms. Opinionated post by Megan Carpentier on January 16, 2013 - 1:34pm; tagged advice, job hunting, jobs, ms opinionated, unemployment.

Welcome to the latest installment of Ms. Opinionated, in which readers have questions about the pesky day-to-day choices we all face, and I give advice about how to make ones that (hopefully) best reflect our shared commitment to feminist values—as well as advice on what to do when they don't. This week: If you can't enjoy "funemployment," how do you stay focused?

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The Young and The Feckless: Nothin' but Net(working)

Social Commentary post by J Maureen Henderson on May 24, 2010 - 11:14am; tagged college, corporate America, generation y, Good Morning America, internships, job hunting, jobs, millennials, networking, networks, social media, students, The Young and The Feckless, Twitter, unemployed, unemployment, Wall Street Journal, youth.

It should come as no surprise to anyone who's been on the job search in the last two or three years that networking is now being held up as the be all and end all of job hunting strategies. Normally, I simply skim this ubiquitous and rather facile advice (it's on par with Cosmo beauty tips when it comes to regurgitating the same ol' same ol'), but this piece from the Wall Street Journal was effectively the straw that broke the camel's back. I think it was the use of voila. It's a recession, lady. There ain't a whole lotta voila-ing going on, ya dig?