http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:17:27 -0700 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:48:47 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Bipolar-interviewinghow-to-use-the-hottest-trend-in-job-hunting-today?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner October was so successful as Mental Health Month that Congress may declare a Mental Health Quarter for Q4 2009, in honor of all the fallen who lost their minds trying to understand the health care reform bill, and all the rest of us ignoring the e... Humor Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:48:47 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Bipolar-interviewinghow-to-use-the-hottest-trend-in-job-hunting-today?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Jobs-booze-unemployment-and-coffee-truth-is-both-stranger-and-funnier-than-fiction?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner Some recruiters think a gap in the resume means it's reasonable to speculate that the candidate is "drinking, on drugs, or in prison" (comment by a local senior recruiter to a job search group a couple of years ago). Research do... Humor Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:33:43 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Jobs-booze-unemployment-and-coffee-truth-is-both-stranger-and-funnier-than-fiction?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Local-recruiters-report-uptick-in-jobs-activities-although-state-numbers-are-still-down?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner Anecdotal evidence can be as misleading as statistical evidence. With a choice between good news and bad news, why not go with good news? Informal conversations with recruiters and observations at local job search groups suggest that job posti... Education and Employment Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:22:08 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Local-recruiters-report-uptick-in-jobs-activities-although-state-numbers-are-still-down?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Mental-Health-Monthmore-about-the-coffee-disorders-that-unemployment-cures?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner As previously reported by a crack team of medical professionals researching the relationship of an IT career to mental health issues in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual for IT Disorders,, coffee is a key issue in certain kinds of disordered thinking... Humor Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:01:55 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Mental-Health-Monthmore-about-the-coffee-disorders-that-unemployment-cures?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m11d3-Fate-of-unemployment-benefits-extensionon-vote-may-cost-incumbents-regardless-of-party?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner The vote to deny unemployment benefit extensions features the usual group of suspects on both sides of the aisle--but how they're identified got my attention. Here's a quick list of things that made me think, without necessarily convincing... Communications Gaps Economies and Systems Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:39:40 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m11d3-Fate-of-unemployment-benefits-extensionon-vote-may-cost-incumbents-regardless-of-party?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m11d2-Imagining-new-careers-and-jobs-based-on-new-technologies-example-of-nanotechnologys-possibilities?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner The previous article discussed how imagining the effect of new, disruptive technologies could add careers and jobs that aren't currently present in the economy. Transparent transistors may make solar panels better and cheaper--and enable entir... Education and Employment Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:20:37 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m11d2-Imagining-new-careers-and-jobs-based-on-new-technologies-example-of-nanotechnologys-possibilities?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m11d2-Imagining-tomorrows-jobs-from-todays-news-in-solar-energy?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner Inventing the future job means dreaming from the edges of what's possible today. This column introduces an example of how to connect a new development in renewable energy resources to jobs that reflect Portland's creative culture. Ren... Education and Employment Economies and Systems Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:01:26 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m11d2-Imagining-tomorrows-jobs-from-todays-news-in-solar-energy?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m10d30-Two-recessions-the-economys-and-ours?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner "If all the economists were laid end-to-end, they would point in all directions." The daily news feeds all week have been proving the adage. As questions rise about how we count the value of what we make, the unemployed continue to rewri... Economies and Systems Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:22:02 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m10d30-Two-recessions-the-economys-and-ours?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m10d27-Unemployment-benefit-calculator-helps-loan-modification-estimates-for-mortgage-holders?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner The report turned out by the tool enables your mortgage company to useunemployment benefits for loan modification qualification. (Susan Tait)New urgency about keeping people in their homes drove the US Department of Labor to create a tool that enable... Money Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:01:19 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m10d27-Unemployment-benefit-calculator-helps-loan-modification-estimates-for-mortgage-holders?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m10d20-What-does-the-international-news-coverage-of-US-unemployment-say?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner Sometimes you have to get out of the box to see inside the box. Is it possible that the news from Ghana (Ghana!) can tell us something our mainstream media will not? Where are the news reporters on this? Oh, right...newsrooms are too expensive to run... Economies and Systems Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:27:02 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m10d20-What-does-the-international-news-coverage-of-US-unemployment-say?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m10d20-If-so-many-companies-are-laying-off-where-do-I-find-a-job?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner Whither the job? (Susan Tait)A layoff doesn't mean no job. It means job chain instability, and one of two forms of housecleaning. Either form can help you, if you can tolerate a sick environment: many corporations are not a healthy place to be.Your t... Problem Solving Find Jobs Now Economies and Systems Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:56:55 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m10d20-If-so-many-companies-are-laying-off-where-do-I-find-a-job?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m10d20-Can-retraining-work-if-you-cant-predict-the-future-of-your-chosen-career?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner The previous article suggested a few questions to ask when estimating how your career will change and what tools you might need to change with it. That doesn't seem to work at the level of predicting entire job families and industries, as even... Education and Employment Problem Solving Economies and Systems Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:47:56 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m10d20-Can-retraining-work-if-you-cant-predict-the-future-of-your-chosen-career?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m11d20-Gartner-Group-reverses-on-value-of-social-networking-at-work-boon-for-the-unemployed?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner Gartner Group argued that employees using social networking increased corporate risk for identity theft and fraud. Does yesterday's reversal, "Embrace social networking," mean the risk wasn't there, or that resistance was fu... Communications Gaps Problem Solving Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:04:21 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m10d19-Gartner-Group-reverses-on-value-of-social-networking-at-work-boon-for-the-unemployed?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m10d19-Using-unemployment-period-to-see-the-future-of-your-industry-with-you-in-it?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner You've been looking for a job--hard. You've been applying for jobs that you barely qualify for, adding to the volume of resumes that tired recruiters, the ones still working, have to sort through. You're calculating how many weeks on u... Education and Employment Problem Solving Economies and Systems Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:46:57 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m10d19-Using-unemployment-period-to-see-the-future-of-your-industry-with-you-in-it?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m10d13-Oregon-unemployment-rate-drops-but-businesses-arent-hiring?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner Street sign in southeast. (Susan Tait) The "overqualified" challenge continues as available jobs don't readily line up with available labor. The rate dropped by half a percentage in Oregon, but those people aren't working. They're in ... Friends and Work Spirituality at Work Entrepreneurship Economies and Systems Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:48:41 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m10d13-Oregon-unemployment-rate-drops-but-businesses-arent-hiring?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m10d8-Personal-outsourcing-is-the-newest-trend-in-managing-global-recession?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner The world's your onion. Don't let it make you cry. (Susan Tait)Humor goes where reporting dares not follow. We interrupt the coffee disorder series with news that may make the research completely irrelevant!Every business and market re... Humor Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:12:35 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m10d8-Personal-outsourcing-is-the-newest-trend-in-managing-global-recession?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m10d6-Doing-information-interviews-for-other-people-hot-new-trend-or-corporate-Trojan-Horse?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner Talking shop overcoffee can haveunexpected implica-tions. (Susan Tait)There's nothing new about outreach from professional organizations to local corporations to create a symbiotic relationship: research on best practices, and a well-informed workfor... Communications Gaps Education and Employment Marketing Yourself Abusive Practices Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:44:12 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m10d6-Doing-information-interviews-for-other-people-hot-new-trend-or-corporate-Trojan-Horse?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m10d5-Unemployment-from-a-classical-Chinese-point-of-view-the-value-of-experience-and-education?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner China's mountain men were highly literate, educated, unemployed people.(Susan Tait)Unemployment  in classical Chinese culture tended to be among literate people. Farmers and merchants fed, clothed, and furnished themselves and each other. The we... Spirituality at Work Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:22:07 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m10d5-Unemployment-from-a-classical-Chinese-point-of-view-the-value-of-experience-and-education?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m10d1-Portland-demographics-and-age-discrimination-challenges-for-the-unemployed?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner  About two million people live in the Portland Metropolitan Statistical Area (Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton) and an estimated 576,000 live in the city itself. Are there demographic patterns that confirm or refute  suspected age discriminatio... Economies and Systems Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:36:23 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m10d1-Portland-demographics-and-age-discrimination-challenges-for-the-unemployed?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m10d1-Mental-Health-Monthunemployment-relieves-coffee-disorders-and-other-nervous-ailments?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner This work is dedicated to Franz Kafka, (Steve S. andSusan Tait)Employment may be dangerous to your health, say the anonymous, irreverent, and innumerable authors of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual for IT Disorders, which considers finding... Humor Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:25:32 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3773-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner~y2009m10d1-Mental-Health-Monthunemployment-relieves-coffee-disorders-and-other-nervous-ailments?cid=exrss-Portland-Unemployment-Examiner