If you’re out of work, you might find it hard to conjure up sympathy for someone who has actually landed a job in Hollywood. On the other hand, ever see the movie Swimming With Sharks, about an assistant to a Hollywood bigwig who is also the world’s biggest SOB? But there’s even a lower life [...]

Out of work with a lot of extra time on your hands? Check out the web site Daily Routines to learn how famous artists, philosophers, scientists, and statesmen organized their days for optimal productivity. For instance: Winston Churchill – awake at 7:30 am, breakfast in bed with mail and newspapers. Bath at 11, garden walk, [...]

Focus, a business research company, has created a big chart of what it says are the best jobs in America. These were selected based on ratings from 35,000 workers. The top 50 were ranked based on current employment; long-term growth, pay and security; projected openings; and quality of life factors. A preview: Best job overall [...]

From Pink Slips are the New Black, “the blog for unemployed people by unemployed people,” comes this post about a strange job-hunting experience that ended in an ugly case of astrological employment discrimination. A Job Interview that Made Me Go Hmmm… I went through the most bizarre experience this week. I applied for a job [...]

Perhaps you didn’t know that the month of February included Personal Brand Week, launched by professional services and auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. Personal Brand Week was created to help students develop their personal brand as a way to find employment. This e-book guides you through the entire week. From the introduction: In today’s competitive environment, students [...]

A chart from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: Message: Stay in school! (If you can afford it.)

Our friend the Evil HR Lady answers a question from a worker who was written up for doodling during a meeting. Question from user: I am in a bind. I don’t really know what to do. Previously, the HR lady in my fairly small office was nice to me, always smiling at me and saying [...]

…let’s start the new week with a pair of Ridiculous Job Posts. Professional Psychic Tarot Readers Professional Psychic Tarot Readers PROS ONLY (worldwide) Date: 2009-12 Professional Psychic & Tarot Readers PROS ONLY. Upscale and Ethical Network seeks professional readers. This is a professional network – not a 900 line nor PRN. Clients are given the [...]

“I think recruiters are mostly people who couldn’t get real jobs doing valuable stuff like marketing, financing, and waxing stripper poles.” From the blog Acute Unemployment Syndrome, a post called Recruiters gone wild. The writer is an unemployed MBA. For those of you keeping score at home, I have now been on 10 job interviews [...]

Another session with the Evil HR Lady finds her engaged in some straight talk with a job seeker in sales who is well-connected but has two DUIs on his record. Will my high level connections overcome a DUI? I have a friend pretty high up at a major company (in sales) who had recently talked [...]