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Thursday, September 25, 2008
Job hunting? Here’s some help.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
More than any other reason, more than “I’ve got a brother here…” or “I went to college here…” or even “There was this girl…”, newcomers seem to wind up here for a job.
Pretty scary now that our national unemployment rate is about 6.1 percent. “Unemployment claims spike in Georgia,” a Sept. 11 story by AJC reporter Michael Kanell, said 59,090 people filed first-time claims for unemployment insurance in August, up 72 percent from the same month a year earlier, he wrote.
And then there was this quote: “The advantage that Georgia had — compared to the national averages — has evaporated,” said Emily Sanders, president of Sanders Financial Management in Norcross. “And the trend line is pointing in a negative direction.”
Yikes.
It’s not the 25 percent unemployment rate of the Great Depression, but it’s not happy news.
So you’re here, maybe for family, school, love or a job that you used to have, and now you need another. Here are a few resources that might help you on the hunt.
AJCjobs: Seems like a plug for my company — job preservation, even — but just like everyone else, the first place I look for a job is the classified ads.
Craigslist: Yup, we all look at these classifieds, too.
Georgia Department of Labor: It’s got a job database, a guide to lay-off survival and unemployment benefit information.
The Georgia 100: This isn’t a list of the top employers, but rather a ranking meant to help investors. (Here’s how the rankings are decided.) For the job hunter, it’s a look at what companies do and what shape their finances are in. Something to help you sleep at night, or maybe make you look in another direction.
Did you come here for a job? Is it working out as you hoped? What other resources do you use for a job hunt in Georgia?
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