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Prolonged Unemployment: Reconnecting With The Labor Market If you have been unemployed for an extended period of time, you know that potential employers are going to look at your long period of unemployment with a jaundiced eye. Unemployment: Become Your Own Job Coach Try reframing your perspective and instead of looking at yourself as an unemployed applicant, think of yourself as a professional job coach. Your mission is to assist someone in finding work. Luckily, you have only one client to devote your time and effort to: YOU. Unemployment: The First 48 Hours In homicide parlance, the first 48 hours of an investigation are crucial. Similarly, there are many aspects of unemployment and job search that need to be addressed as quickly as possible. Unemployment Blues: The Mixed Emotions Of Finding A Job Don't be surprised or upset if you don't experience an unalloyed sense of joy and optimism when you finally obtain the job you have been seeking for so long. Unemployment Blues: Staying Afloat The unemployment checks are running out and there is no potential income in sight. Here are five tips to keep you afloat. Unemployment Blues: Mourning Your Job Loss To lose a job, for any reason, is to lose something of value. Even work we didn't particularly like gave us some type of identity, money, sometimes prestige and power. Unemployment Blues: Staying Active Unemployment is depressing: financial pressures stress you out, looking for work is humiliating, and your fragile self-confidence reels under the blows of indifference and rejection. Job Seeking Secrets: Time Management The rigors of job search are magnified by the turmoil we experience: lack of self-confidence, humiliation, financial pressure, and the undercurrent of emotions that color all we do -- fear, anger, depression, anxiety, loss. Unemployment Blues: Self-Preservation Looking for work can be difficult, frustrating, anxiety-provoking, and demeaning. Job Seeking Secrets: Personal Contacts = Successful Networking The premise of networking is that most people find a job through someone they know. It may be a direct referral or, more likely, indirectly hearing about an opening that seems suitable. Job Search Secrets: Living Outside Your Comfort Zone While it is worthwhile to try new techniques before dismissing them out of hand, the best job search strategies in the world only work if they fit your individual style. Unemployment Blues: The Ripple Effect Of Fear Unemployment carries a lot of emotional baggage for most of us and fear is a major component.If not quickly contained, it can wrest control of our lives. Unemployment Blues: Take Back Control! One of the most emotionally crippling aspects of unemployment is the sense of powerlessness it engenders. We feel that we have no control over our situation, our lives, our future. Job Search Secrets: Make An Organizer Creating a central organizer for our activities can help assure that we have a clear understanding of where we've been and what we've done, and provides a private resource chart for on-going contacts and re-contacts. Employment Interviewing: Ask For The Job During any interview, it is important to display unabashed enthusiasm for this position, with this company, at this time. Job Seeker Secrets: Recycle Your Job Search If you have been out of work for quite a while, you have undoubtedly pursued a standard job search campaign: the unemployment office, newspaper classifieds, job fairs, online resources, agencies, networking, and cold calling. Overwhelmed and Overworked: The Myth Of American Productivity In a world where employees are tethered to their workplaces virtually around the clock, by laptops, cell phones, and blackberries, the traditional balance of home and work has crumbled. Unemployment Blues: Mind Over Mood Unemployment plays havoc with our emotional system. We take a number of hits all at once: loss of occupational identity, economic pressure, family anxiety, and the humiliation of job search. Job Interviewing: Taking Care Of Yourself Looking for work is generally a miserable undertaking. No matter how much education and experience you have, you are in a powerless and vulnerable position. Job Seeking Secrets: Organize Your Attack A systematic approach to job search can help you focus on your goal, avoid wasting the energy you need to conserve for interviews and employer contacts, and lower your stress level. Unemployment Blues: Reframing The Pain In addition to the anger and fear generated by job loss, there is the total emotional devastation of being figuratively thrown on a pile of human debris. Unemployment Blues: Jobs and Immigration What are those positions we keep hearing about that Americans refuse to take such that they must be filled by illegal immigrants? Employment Issues: The Night Worker In the process of musing about our perennially awake world for my Social Psych blog, I started to think about our present work world and how its 24 hour operations have changed the lives of millions of workers. The Perils Of Unemployment: Losing Ourselves The scourge of unemployment is what it does to our minds, our confidence, and our belief in our own self-worth. Employment Under The Microscope A certain amount of oversight is involved in almost any job. The more important, the more highly skilled, the more successful the position, the lower the degree of oversight. Job Search Secrets: Containing Anxiety Although anxiety can unnerve you and make you feel paralyzed, consider its ability to energize you. Job Search: Knock Out The Competition When it comes to financial survival, to regaining independence and self-worth, competition can be crippling. Job Search: Accepting Judgment Applying for work sets us up to judged but we need to remind ourselves that only a small discrete portion of who we are is being examined. Unemployment Support: A Job Search Diary Start a job search diary right now. Even if you have been unemployed for some time, start one anyway because a late start is better than never doing it at all. Unemployment Blues: Assessing Personal Value The world may not seem to need you when you're out of work but it is important that you know your own worth and stop buying into a sense of incompetency and despair. Unemployment Blues: Dump Those Tapes We are hard on ourselves because we have a deep, subconscious, lifelong belief that we don't quite measure up. Careers: Are We Pre-Programmed To Be Productive? To feel productive seems to be an inherent human need. We feel good about ourselves when we are contributing -- to our own independence, to our family, to our community. Unemployment Blues: Maintaining Emotional Balance Some kind of emotional balance is necessary if we are to stay healthy, maintain our relationships, and be able to effectively function in job search. Interviewing Skills: How To Present Your Work History It may take you some time and self-exploration to identify it, but there are always some aspects of your work history that carry a positive spin. Unemployment Blues: Emotional Damage Control Acknowledging the pressures and emotional swings of unemployment and job search will help you look at the situation more objectively and allow you to continue to function in other important areas of your life, those not connected with work or income. Unemployment: Creating A Sense Of Security Your only job security lies in self-security. Knowledge and appreciation of your value as a worker: your skills, your competence, your personal qualities, can build the sense of security you crave. Unemployment Blues: Life Changing Events If we are unlucky enough to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, we experience a personal tsunami - a misfortune of devastating proportions that sweeps away our routine lifestyle and forever changes the world we know. Help vs. Exploitation: Is There A Difference? Is there something inherently exploitative about selling a product or a service to individuals who are in a place of great need and few resources? Seven Proposals To Cure Unemployment Cycles Here are seven proposals to permanently address the "Unemployment Problem." Unemployment Blues: The Value of Temporary Work Working for a temporary agency has some drawbacks but also a number of positive aspects.

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