Job Seekers, Be Creative and Flexible In 2012, creativity and adaptability will be key to landing and keeping a job for many workers, as staff levels remain lean and employees are expected to respond to a wide variety of demands, experts say. Economists don’t expect loads of job growth, but there could be opportunities in [...]

Can’t find a job in LA? You might to look in another country… Making a Play for Video Gamers It took Abdulrahman al-Zanki, then 14, a few weeks to develop his first game, Yellow Taxi, and upload it to Apple iTunes in 2010, learning from written instructions between school hours and homework. Since then, the [...]

We all need to be developing our talents, expanding our repertoire and acceptance that things won’t be going back to the old ‘normal’. Look for the opportunity and build toward new horizons. It’s the Economy: The Dwindling Power of a College Degree The 2012 presidential election can be seen as offering a choice between two [...]

Good News About Hiring Trends for 2012! Time to Re-Energize Your Job Search Activities Large employers plan to increase their hiring of college graduates finishing their degrees in the 2011-12 academic year. The trend continues an uptick that began last year after hiring declined during the recession and the early part of the recovery, according [...]

Writing jobs are out there. Know your social media and you too can be a ninja or a professional. Employers are liking and hiring social media workers Corporate America is on a hiring binge for people to manage a company’s presence on Facebook, Twitter and similar sites. Once given such titles as social media wizards, [...]

It’s no secret that millions of Americans are looking for work, from recent graduates to downsized late-career employees who aren’t ready to retire. Far fewer are aware of how Uncle Sam’s tax code can be used to blunt the cost of a job search—especially one that may go on for longer than in the past. [...]

How Happy Are You at Work? One of the first things I hear from clients, and others, about what they want from work is more meaning and creativity; this article echoes this. How we think about our contribution at work has everything to do with our happiness at work. LABOR DAY is meant to be [...]

I’m Mad As Hell and I’m Not Going to Take It Anymore! As I read the newspapers last weekend I got really angry (remember the all important flick Network?). I didn’t read anything about the under employment or unemployment of thousands of people like you – smart, creative, talented in innumerable ways, yet unable to [...]

You don’t have to jump in to your own enterprise without a safety net. Just as the panelists at our June event discussed, taking a risk to live your passion is necessary but you can mitigate that risk, as you’ll read below. Older Americans Fuel Entrepreneurial Boom Faced with bruised nest eggs and high unemployment [...]

For those of you in post production services who have been struggling to find work…it’s not your imagination. This work is just harder to find. Top 10 Dying Industries The U.S. economy is recovering from a severe recession, but some industries are unlikely to ever fully bounce back. A new analysis by research firm IBIS [...]