Still In a Recession?

The Recession of 2008 – 2010 is reportedly over

…according to the US Federal Government, but if your state or city seems stuck in the recession and can’t get out, here are some tips for finding a job and keeping it, even during a recession.

• How to Find a Job During a Recession
• Make Yourself Indispensable at Work, Even In a Recession
• Personal Qualities that Avoid Job Loss in a Recession
• Companies That Hire During a Recession – Recession Proof Careers
• Recession: How to Find Companies That Will Really Hire You
• Top 15 Recession Proof Jobs for College and High School Graduates
• College Towns are Often Recession-Proof

ADDITIONAL TIPS FOR LIVING IN A RECESSION

• Reduce Your Living Expenses Now – Beat the Recession!
• Survive the Recession – Cook Fast and Save Money With Ground Meat in Tasty Meals

Summer Jobs Search Now

January and February are the months to look for and secure Summer Jobs in America. Don’t wait much longer. March will bring the last round of interviewing and hiring for many local companies in your city and then the next opportunities will occur in mid-June as workers quit to go on vacation with their families or to take other jobs or similar reasons.

It’s a good bet to lock in an internship for summer or autumn semesters of the 3rd and 4th years of college as well or to find a full-time employer for after your May or June graduation.

Here are some resources to help with your searches, collected over the last five years among workforce professionals. These documents contain information I’ve used to help several thousand job seekers find Summer and Temporary Employment for over a decade.

• January! – Top 20 Hot Summer Jobs to Start Grabbing

• Best Summer Jobs: How to Find a Successful Internship

• Top 10 Summer Jobs for Adults and College Students

• Top 10 Best Summer Jobs For Teens in High School

Internships and Full-Time Work

How to Change an Internship Into Full-Time Employment and a Career 

• Working hard,
• Taking notes in an employment portfolio,
• Showing good appearance and manners,
• Being productive and cooperative,
• Showing initiative at the most appropriate times, and
• Becoming more visible as a good employee –

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These are behaviors that lead a student or adult intern from the internship to full-time employment – right?  Unfortunately, not always.

All these items can help make your internship experience good enough to lead to an off of a job that can be the foundation for a career offer, but this does not always the case. 

Some employers use government-subsidized interns during a few months each year and do not  hire them full-time after completion. Other internships turn out to be part-time temporary summer jobs.  However, America is home to employers that maintain well-developed, ongoing internship programs that do lead to full-time work. Access the link above for the list and some other good ideas.

Top 15 BEST Hot California Cities for Jobs and Travel

I received a question: “Where is a good place to move to have access to more jobs?”

In January 2011, California job listings gathered from all Internet sites comprised more than 530,000 listings.  These do not include the unadvertised or hidden job market.

Where are these jobs, since many Unemployed workers are shouting THERE ARE NO JOBS!?

There are more people looking for work in many cities of America than there are jobs – probably twice as many. But, jobs exist and you have to compete for them. You may even need to move to get one.  

THE TOP 15 CALIFORNIA CITIES WITH MANY JOBS are available at the link below. You will also find the high demand job listings included.  A few of the cities are experiencing increase job openings – like Mountain View, with a 167% increase.

Read the City Reviews and lists of well-paying Job Openings throughout the State of California, available even in a Recession via Top 15 Best Hot California Cities for Jobs, Relocation, and Travel Attractions.

Top 10 Best Things in Charm City – Pirates, Cakes and Song

The many Pirates of Baltimore easily outpace those of Disney World or the movie houses. PIRATES have a long history in Charm City, especially in Fells Point where many other attaction can fill an entire vacation.

Once Baltimore became partially civilized with a seaport, in came the sailors and clipper ships, privateers and pirates. All before the American Revolution.  It was an exciting time, recreated today for your enjoyment and history education.

One pirate crew lives in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor – the Vigilant Crew may kidnap you for fun!  Baltimore’s Fells Point historical district is home to another cvrew as well. They’re a lively bunch. They’ll dress and make you up to look just like them. They will teach you to walk, dance, and talk like a pirate and fire their water cannons.  You can even schedule an adults-only pirate bash.

via Top 10 Best Things to See in Charm City – Pirates, Cakes and Song.

A Mile Of Riverfront Parks in Columbus

The Scioto Mile Riverfront Complex

          Columbus’s Honorable Mayor Michael Coleman is developing the Downtown Riverfront and the abandoned areas of the downtown area and the Near East, West, North, and South Sides so fast that we cannot keep up with him. Every day we see something new. Weeds are gone and a whole new Gateway Development is standing where a vacant lot made a horrible eyesore previously.  Mr. Coleman is like Superman with the speed at which he does business in improving the community. He will relate the time and troubles it all consumes, but the results are awesome and still seem fast to most Columbusites…Columbusers…Buckeyes!

Please access the link above and read about 5 parks, a gathering of unique attractions ans a museum ship in the river that is researching the Cloaking Device in actuality – and it works!

All we need is a new Kahiki Supper Club and we’ll be set for life.

Famous Young’s Farm – Fall Fun Days

Are you looking for a fun, family-friendly and safe place to go for Fall Festivals, Halloween Alternatives, and Halloween Hauntings? Then you need to go toi Young’s Jersey Dairy Farm in Yellow Springs, Ohio. In the last 15 years it has expanding in to an entire recreation area with a number of activities and two restaurants, a Cheese Market where they sell their own cheeses; homemade ice creams – a different special flavor every week – and lots of community projects and events.

Young’s Jersey Dairy Farm in Historic Yellow Springs

Job Openings appear on the web site.

I’ve enjoyed the farm, Dairy Restaurant and Petting Zoo in the past, but now it has a driving range, giant slide, two great mini-golf courses, and many daytime activities (like a corn maze), some with a highlight on grandparents. For folks that like Halloween, nighttime weekend activities  include  Haunted Stories by Professionals and the Haunted Wagon Ride through the darkened, actor-filled corn field. The stories pre-scare the kids and the corn field will send them over the top! – Bu no one ever gets hurt.

How about Christmas? Young’s has a cut-your-own tree farm. And I forgot the great Buffet they have on Thanksgiving Day, all day!

Avoid Resume Gaps

How to Avoid Gaps In Your Resume

Until the IT Industry showed us that 1 year on an IT job was not a problem because people transfer so often, less than a 2-year term in a particular job was a red flag for a personality disorder in the diagnosis manual of the American Psychiatric Association. Not any longer!  Former “gaps” are often bridged with volunteer work and micro-business ownership.

Volunteer positions count as work on a resume and can be included either in the Professional Experience Volunteer Service sections.

Owning a small or micro- business such as a home-based venture can bridge periods of employment effectively.  One family I know sells Melaleuca health products more intensely during layoffs. Thus, it is a long-term business venture that shows determination, self-reliance, stamina, and success.

Use everything you do on your resume as long as it shows effort toward productivity in a legal activity.

Ohio Travel Attractions

Ohio Summer Festival Guide;

June, July, August, September

Click on the link above to find 25 different Summer Festivals across Ohio, with many in capital city Columbus.

Festivals will take you near the Football and Rock N’ Roll Halls of Fame in the northeast corner of the state.

The northwest quadrant of Ohio is filled with farm lands, new wind farms with their tall turbines along I-75, first man on the moon Neil Armstrong’s home and a space museum in Wapakoneta, and the famous City of Toledo and its Tony Packo restaurants.

The Queen City, Cincinnati, sits on the Beautiful Ohio River, as Marietta paddle boats ply the waters in the southeastern region, not far from Ohio University and its Osteopathic College in Athens. Native American villages, state parks, animal sanctuaries, living historical farms, and festivals fill the State.

Employee Theft & Computer Games [MAY 2010]

Grand Theft Auto 2, Crime, and Punishment

Some individuals steal simply because it can be done.  Business  and customer service in some convenience stores, coffee shop chains, and fast food outlets is lax – ludicrous!  Utensils and dishes and condiments fly out the doors.  You can walk right out with a china cup in your hand and no one says a thing.

Wholesale product is filched out back doors. Bakery products are overproduced (purposely?) and crew take it home. At department stores, clerks take home all the sample cosmetics.

Worse, at one cafe chain, I watched as a cashier sold items from a $1.00 menu — Every time customers paid in exact change, she just put the dollars in her pocket…