Articles of Interest

As you contact potential employers, make sure that you learn as much as you can about their company. Many companies are emphasizing protecting the environment in their corporate culture. If you find that is important to companies you are pursuing, then you should perform a self analysis to determine the aspects of your personality and specific items in your background and experience that are "green". Then work those into your resume as an achievement and bring them up during any meeting that you have with decision makers in those companies. A recent Forbes article about "Green Jobs" may be of interest.

In my book, Job Finding Formula, I mention that last December I found myself suddenly and unexpectedly out of work. What I did not say in the book was that I was 59 years old at the time. I used a technique that is included in the book and had a new job within one week. If you are also an older worker looking for a job you should read this Forbes advice for older job seekers .

This Reuters article on Unemployment payment extension is good news. However, do not let the extension cause you to reduce your efforts to find a job. Stay motivated to action. Read books and articles that inspire positive thinking. Look for new quotations, bible verses, and slogans that make you feel good. Go back and read the November 8th post to this blog. And as Winston Churchill said, "Never, never, never, never, never, never, never..........................give up!"

MSNBC takes a look to the future as they report on President-elect Obama's message in the weekly Democratic radio and video address. While the headline and subtitle of the article may sound negative, the body of the message lays out a positive vision for the future. There are two things to keep in mind when reading about the types of jobs the new administration is seeking to create. First, even if your experience is not in the types of industries mentioned, the skills that you do have are probably transferable to those jobs. Next, even if you do not end up working in those industries, the creation of new jobs done in the proper way will pump money into the economy that will ripple through other businesses and cause them to create more jobs as well.

Michael Britner
Job Finding Master