Careers: Unemployment Blues: Getting Active

Unemployment Blues: Getting Active

Written by Virginia Bola, PsyD

Unemployment is depressing: financial pressures stress you out, looking for work is humiliating, and your fragile self-confidence reels under repparttar

blows of indifference and rejection.

It becomes harder to get up in repparttar 107126 morning, to take care of yourself, to be supportive and loving to those around you, to swing energetically into job search activities.

Here are 7 tips on beating those I-want-to-get-a-job-but-nobody-wants-me blues.

1. Create a schedule for your week: 5 hours per day (maximum) of looking for work, 2 hours per day (minimum) of relaxing, having fun with others, and appreciating yourself. 2. Act as if you are still working: get up at your usual time, shower, have your regular breakfast – it will maintain your sense of sense and provide repparttar 107127 familiarity of routine and structure in a world in which you are feeling increasingly alienated. 3. Get out of repparttar 107128 house. Employers don’t make house calls so circulate. Surfing repparttar 107129 net for job leads may make you feel as if you are accomplishing something but is often only a means of escape. By all means, post your resume anywhere you can, but then hit repparttar 107130 road. 4. Actively nurture your relationships. Avoid letting your misery and self-reproach poison your interactions with those who love you and want to help. Recognize that your loved ones may also be in distress and take repparttar 107131 time to go somewhere and do something with family and friends.

JobSniper Rated #1 Job Meta-Search Engine

Written by JobSniper.com Staff

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Tucson, AZ – September 20, 2004

JobSniper.com has been rated repparttar Internet’s number one meta- job search engine by an independent human resources and web technology development and services organization for repparttar 107125 second time in as many months. *Insala Research-June 2004

What is a Meta-Job Search Tool FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Tucson, AZ – September 20, 2004

JobSniper.com has been rated repparttar 107126 Internet’s number one meta- job search engine by an independent human resources and web technology development and services organization for repparttar 107127 second time in as many months. *Insala Research-June 2004

What is a Meta-Job Search Tool A Meta- Job Search tool allows a jobseeker to enter their job search criteria into a single interface and run one search that goes through many websites at one time and returns jobs found in one centralized search. This saves repparttar 107128 individual from having to visit many different sites to find jobs opportunities.

The Test The research team’s goal was to study repparttar 107129 most popular meta- job search tools to determine if they offer repparttar 107130 job seeker value in sourcing jobs on repparttar 107131 Internet.

Overall, JobSniper returned approximately repparttar 107132 same number of job matches (946) as repparttar 107133 search through each job board directly (744). JobSniper actually returned a larger number because two of repparttar 107134 career sites tested returned results very narrow geographic results when queried directly.

Of repparttar 107135 jobs JobSniper found, 39% of repparttar 107136 jobs found through JobSniper were accurate matches. Incredibly, JobSniper achieved a slightly higher accuracy rating than repparttar 107137 job boards themselves which yielded 38% of repparttar 107138 jobs to be accurate matches.

Bottom line, running repparttar 107139 same searches through repparttar 107140 majority of repparttar 107141 job boards directly did not produce any better job matches.

Job seekers can confidently run one quick search through JobSniper and be assured it will return repparttar 107142 same job matches or better than if they visited each job board and ran repparttar 107143 same search.

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