Networking can solve job puzzle
Making the right connections takes some time and hard work but payoffs can be huge
There's an easy way to look for work ? and a hard way.
"Many people do the easy thing," says Lisa Trudel, a career assessment consultant with the Office Workers
When Unemployed, Never Stop Networking
He volunteers at the nonprofit 40Plus of Greater Washington to keep his job-hunting skills and training talents sharp. He goes to think tank discussions on Afghanistan. And he has started working on friends' Web sites to build his Web development
Schedule
At Oxford, Miss.
Friday
Game 1: Western Kentucky 11, Missouri 5
Game 2: Mississippi 8, Monmouth (N.J.) 1
Today
Game 3: Missouri (34-26) vs. Monmouth (32-23), 1 p.m.
Game 4: Western Kentucky (40-18) vs. Mississippi (40-17), 5 p.m.
Sunday
Game 5: Game 3
Women's College World Series lineup
At Oklahoma City
Double Elimination
Thursday's results
Game 1: Washington 3, Georgia 1
Game 2: Arizona State 7, Missouri 3
Game 3: Michigan 6, Alabama 1
Game 4: Florida 3, Arizona 0
Friday's games
Game 5: Washington 1, Arizona State 0 (8 innings)
Game 6
Savvy food shopper
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Learning curve -- Published June 1, 2009
» Preventing sexual harassment: free online training program for employees of businesses with 50 or fewer employees, offered by the state Employment Development Department. Information: (888) 861-4410 or www.newmedialearning.com.
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Romance novels thriving in tough times
NEW YORK - With an out-of-work husband and two children to support, Christine Mead needs a cheap -- and uplifting -- break from life.
So lately she's been escaping into sweet and heartening stories of love and passion, where heroines overcome
State partners with online job search service Monster.com
MARION - Ohio Job and Family Services has entered into an agreement with a private online job matching company with the aim of better serving employers and employment seekers.
The lone state in the nation to have such a partnership with Monster.com,
The troubled hunt
Statistics. Statewide, the unemployment rate is 7.5 percent.
Every morning outside the downtown Bridgeport offices of The Workplace, a line of people forms seeking jobs and different kinds of help to find jobs.
The agency, funded federally, by the
