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Bureau of Labor Statistics: "There are 6.3 job hunters for every available job"

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

Noting that the BLS has found 6.3 job hunters per job, an employment advice column includes the following text and then the 10 most common mistakes in a job interview:

"The competition is tough enough without giving potential employers reasons not to hire you," says Tim Schoonover, chairman of outplacement and leadership-development firm OI Partners.

Here are the most common errors career coaches at OI Partners see -- and how to fix them.

IPBiz notes that presenting false credentials, as happened in the Than case in California, is not on the list.

On the general subject of unemployment is the lead story (titled "Out of Work") on CBS Sunday Morning on 6 Dec. 09.
Excerpts:

More than 15 million Americans are still out of work. Unemployment is 10%.

A tagline was: Involuntary dwellers in a disorientating world: America's unemployed.

Michael McGlaughlin, a person giving the bad news to some of their firing, was interviewed. "I can still remember mostly every person I have laid off." Quinn Agnew, a human resources person, also had to lay off people, but her position was eliminated (news given to her over the phone). She observed: "You have to have a lot of tenacity." KNJM radio (owned by ClearChannel) makes time for job pitches during an afternoon show: Radio Resume.

What?s a Radio Resume? It?s a 30 second spot (5 second intro & 25 second pitch). About 3-4 sentences. It closes with a request to see your resume on the station?s web site, where all of the Radio Resume participants? resumes (past and present) are hosted.

See also

Who gets fired first, older or younger people?

http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2009/08/who-is-rick-clark.html

Full post as published by IPBiz on December 06, 2009 (boomark / email).