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With unemployment at a 23-year high, job seekers need to expand the ways in which they search, say career and workplace experts. These days setting up and maintaining an online presence is often critical to finding work. But for an accomplished professional, it might seem daunting to build up a social-networking presence from scratch. Here's how to do it:

When unemployment is high, job-seekers may need to go where the jobs are, "to make ends meet, to get on with their lives," says John Challenger, CEO of outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

I think it`s pretty undeniable that nepotism pays, but don`t worry if your daddy`s not a big executive. You`re in luck because you can create your own nepotism. You don`t need a blood relationship for someone in power to take an interest in you and put you on the fast-track. Here are ideas that can give you the same advantages as those born with great connections.

The original, Post-World War II GI Bill has been both idealized as evidence of America as land of opportunity, and criticized for primarily benefiting white men while perpetuating racial and gender discrimination. So write Glenn C. Altschuler, a professor of American studies and dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at Cornell University, and Stuart M. Blumin, professor emeritus of American history at Cornell, in their new book, The GI Bill: A New Deal For Veterans (Oxford). Altschuler and Blumin argue, instead, for a need to "gain a more dispassionate understanding of the bill's role in the shaping of postwar America" -- even up to the present day, as then-President Bush cited the legacy of the original GI Bill in the 2008 signing of a new, Post-9/11 GI Bill.

For learning to occur, younger students in particular often need to experience learning in a way that is meaningful to them. Teaching about careers to these students can be challenging especially since the concept of a career represents an aspect of human development which is far off in the future and associated with something that is "adult-like." The idea of a vocation or career represents a certain level of abstractness that students may not be developmentally ready for. Teaching middle and high school students about careers through activities and games may serve as the perfect conduit as students naturally like to learn while being active and engaged.

Because so many people in their teens and early 20s are in this constant whir of socializing-accessible to each other every minute of the day via cellphone, instant messaging and social-networking Web sites-there are a host of new questions that need to be addressed in schools, in the workplace and at home. Chief among them: How much work can "hyper-socializing" students or employees really accomplish if they are holding multiple conversations with friends via text-messaging, or are obsessively checking Facebook?

About Common Craft - Who We Are (And What We Do) We Make Videos Our videos may surprise you. They're short and simple. They use paper cut-outs. They cover subjects "in Plain English." But lurking under the simple surface are lessons that have been crafted with great care. Despite our fun and lighthearted style, we take explanation seriously. "We" Who? Common Craft is a small company owned by Lee and Sachi LeFever in Seattle, Washington, USA. The company was founded by Lee in 2003 as an online community consulting company. We started making videos in 2007 with our first video: RSS in Plain English. Since then, we've published two kinds of videos: 1.Educational Videos - Videos we create to sell on this website (our current focus) 2.Custom Videos - Videos we were hired to create by companies like Google, Ford and LinkedIn. Combined, we've created over 30 videos that have been viewed over 10 million times online. Our current focus is building a library of educational videos that help educators save time. If you're in need of a custom video, please contact us or visit our Explainer Network to find talented producers.

Last month, Brandi Greygor did the unthinkable for an entrepreneur just starting out: She took a weeklong vacation. "I needed one because I ran myself into the ground," says Ms. Greygor, a 35-year-old mother of two who also works part-time for a consulting firm from her home in Union, Ky.

How do you get kids ready to become entrepreneurs? Journal Report Read the complete Small Business report. The classic answer, of course, is the lemonade stand: Encourage your kids to start a homespun business instead of just bugging you for money. But entrepreneurs and educators say the real solution goes much deeper than that. There are crucial psychological traits an entrepreneur needs to succeed, they say, and parents should help kids develop them at every opportunity. Here's a look at those attributes-and how to foster them.

Traditionally, in a mentoring relationship, a senior-level person provides guidance, support, and information for a younger person just beginning in a career. However, with rapid changes in the workplace, people living and working longer, and several career/job movements and shifts being the norm, an up-dated perspective of mentoring and learning is needed.

We need never take offense at an insult. Offense exists not in the insult but in our reaction to it, and our reactions are completely within our control. It is unreasonable to expect a boor to be anything but a boor; if we take offense at his bad behaviour, we have only ourselves to blame.

Astrology can tell you which part of your life you need to focus on at any given point in time. Dashas and antardashas of your horoscope can give timeline of when a bad period will end and a good period will start and auspicious times to start new ventures. Have a query around when you will get married?

Guidance and counseling are very important for students. They have a huge role in bringing out the best in the students as well as professionals. Good conduct is coveted, but sometimes young minds surely need a correct guidance to polish their personality. Through counseling, students are given advice on how to manage and deal with the situations and how to make the correct decisions.

Marriage getting delayed need not cause worry. Online expert astrologer can easily check the chart to see whether it is a temporary phase with a positive result or whether it is a more permanent possibility of no marriage. Remedies through gemstone therapy, chanting of appropriate navagraha stotras and removing manglik dosha severity can be done regularly until the correct timing for marriage naturally occurs in the marriage chart. Let us look at the causes for delayed marriage

Recruitment can be a costly and time taking process, and for employers, it is often frustrating to identify the right candidate quickly. There are various recruitment strategies adopted to find attractive and effective candidates who can best suit the needs of a job.

When you are researching the jobs, you would often surely find something about aptitude listed among the requirements. For example, you may read that in order to work in any particular field you need to have an aptitude for science. Other occupations require having an aptitude for math, performing arts or visual arts, verbal or spatial abilities, or manual dexterity or motor coordination. So, what is meant by aptitude?

Facing an interview is a concern part for applicant .To have a solution to the concerns you just need to have a guidelines or tips that will work around.Here,are some benefits of tips that will help at the applying part to employment.Making you a right applicant.