Holiday job search is unlikely to be jolly
Sarah McCann has a tough choice to make.
The manager of Silver Mountain jewelry store at Polaris Fashion Place mall has three holiday jobs to fill and, because of the state's high unemployment rate, a mountain of applications. And they're among the
ExecuNet hones networking skills
Seventy-three percent of executives use networking to locate the best opportunities, according to an ExecuNet annual intelligence report.
Whether those opportunities are meeting potentially valuable hires for their own organization or finding a new
Seasonal jobs harder to come by locally
After nine months of job hunting, LeAnne Weaver landed two for the holidays: one at Target on Bayou Boulevard and one at the Hickory Farms kiosk at Cordova Mall.
Weaver, 35, of Pensacola operates a remodeling company with her husband and was forced
Inside the 'jobless recovery'
...a computer with Internet access and so I can spend all day searching Craigslist and checking e-mails from various job search listservs. Yet I have applied, unsuccessfully, for nearly 50 jobs so far -- not even reaching the interview stage in most of them. I...
