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• How to Lower the Cost of Food After a Job Layoff

  
  Frugal Simplicity — Authority: 135
  If you were recently laid off from work, you need to make cutbacks. Are you drawing unemployment benefits? If so, this weekly check is nice, but it likely does not even come close to what you were making before. That is why cutbacks are important. Luckily, you can take many steps. [...]
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• Significant Cutbacks That Can Help You Avoid Debt After a Job Layoff

  
  Frugal Simplicity — Authority: 135
  Were you recently laid off from work? If so, you may be in financial distress. Even those who collect unemployment benefits barely find themselves scraping by. If you are one of those individuals, you need to make significant cutbacks. What might those cutbacks entail?Sell your house. If you live in [...]
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• Adjusting to Re-employment Can Be Tough

  
  Jobacle.com Blog — Authority: 125
  Maintain the Positive Gains from Your LayOff A recent Wall Street Journal article by Dana Mattioli, When Returning to Work Is Harder Than It Seems , underscored an aspect of re-employment that you don’t hear discussed much. There are many positive, healthy gains that people report from their experiences ...
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• Podcast: Downsizing warning signs and how to avoid them

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 694
  Filed under: Career , Recession In this "Your Job Will Come" podcast, WalletPops Aaron Crowe talks with John Rice, CEO and founder of Management Leadership for Tomorrow about the warning signs of downsizing and how to avoid them. Among the tips are to find a "sponsor" on your first day of work who will promote ...
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• MSI Reportedly Slashing up to 20% of its Workforce

  
  ModCool — Authority: 159
  There have been a lot of layoffs this year, and it seems recently in particular weve been hearing about companies handing out pink slips. The tough times continue, and this time its MSI who plans on trimming its workforce , by up to 20 percent and no less than 10 percent, industry sources say. According to those who ...
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• October Mass Layoffs

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 502
  The latest Mass Layoffs news release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, http://bls.gov : In October, employers took 2,127 mass layoff actions involving 217,182 workers. Mass layoff events decreased by 434 and associated initial claims by 30,824 from September. Over the month, the number of manufacturing events, ...
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• Survivor’s guilt…again

  
  The Bean Blog — Authority: 129
  Working for big business has many advantages. More opportunity to move up the corporate ladder. Bigger salaries. Better benefits. Ability to relocate to another location in another part of the country or world. But there are several disadvantages too. Mainly layoffs. In a large company you are just one of ...
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• AOL CEO Armstrong Talks About New Branding Effort and the Investor Road Show! (Plus Internal Aol. Logo Video)

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 686
  After AOL CEO Tim Armstrong unveiled the newly punctuated AOL logo –big A, little o, little l, period–last night, he got on the horn with BoomTown to chitty-chat about the change in image and, more pertinently, how it’s going on the road show to sell investors on the soon-to-be independent company. First ...
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• Leadership Lessons from Ajax #19: Do You Live in the Past, Present or Future?

  
  Results vs. Activities — Authority: 117
  “Yesterday is history.  Tomorrow is a mystery.  And today?  Today is a gift.  That’s why we call it the present.” Babatunde Olatunji I’ve often been criticized as “speaking” to our seeing eye dog puppy in training as if he truly understands what I am telling him (I guess it is the ...
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• Week in review: Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie on apps, Al Gore at GreenBeat

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 155
  Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie: Apps don’t make your phone special — “It’s not the applications available on the various platforms that will be the differentiators, Ozzie said, ...
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• Copy Editor’s Lament (The Layoff Song) VIDEO!

  
  MusicForMedia: Creating music for a multimedia world — Authority: 116
  Here, finally, is the video to correspond with my song “Copy Editor’s Lament (The Layoff Song).”As you might or might not recall, I wrote and recorded the song to celebrate copy editors but also as a commentary on the travails of the news industry – newspapers in particular. The video was shot by Elie Gardner, ...
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• Home Away From Home

  
  Ambition is not a Dirty Word — Authority: 100
  Dear Debra : After being laid off, I started a small web design business. It’s great commuting to my office (my couch) in pajamas. I have paying clients. But some days it’s hard staying motivated, disciplined, and organized. –Solo in New York Get out of bed on the right foot . Even if you know you’ll be ...
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• After AP & BusinessWeek Layoffs, Some Articles of Faith

  
  Tech PR Nibbles* — Authority: 107
  Like a lot of people yesterday I sat slack-jawed as the impact of Bloomberg’s acquisition of BusinessWeek filtered through Twitter .  I’m still having trouble understanding how BusinessWeek is in better shape without many of the incredible talents who are now left to chart new courses. As the departures ...
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• State Unemployment Ticks Up In 29 States, Mass Layoff Events Pick Up Once Again

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 755
  BLS data confirms that the unemployment pictures is getting worse with 29 states reporting an increase in state joblessness levels. The states with the highest levels on unemployment levels were the usual suspects: Michigan (15.1%), Nevada (13%), Rhode Island (12.9%), California (12.5%), South Carolina (12.1%) and ...
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• Got MBA to Hammer Nails

  
  CAREEREALISM: Because EVERY Job is Temporary — Authority: 505
  By CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert , Joshua Waldman I recently had an interesting conversation with a small business owner, who I met via LinkedIn. I had put out some feelers to see if laid-off people would be willing to share their stories with me. Will Martin wrote me back with his story. It is a story of ...
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• Aptera Delays Vehicle

  
  socalTECH.com - Southern California High Tech News — Authority: 513
  Vista-based electric vehicle maker Aptera , on the heels of the departure of the firms co-founders, has officially pushed back deliver of the firms Aptera 2e vehicle, acknowledged the departure of co-founders Chris Anthony and Steve Fambro, and said it has laid of an unspecified number of staff. The firm said in a ...
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• Fight Hunger With SocialVibe’s Thanksgiving Feast

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  Thanksgiving is quickly approaching and while many of us envision a table overflowing with a delicious feast, unfortunately the dinner table won’t look the same for the one billion people around the world who suffer from hunger.  So, this holiday season SocialVibe is inviting you to help fight hunger and ...
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• AOL Layoff Package: You Stay, You Pay

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 686
  BoomTown has learned that AOL is offering those who “volunteer” to leave the company now a departure package that ranges from three to nine months of pay, compared to one to four months for employees laid off in the first quarter of next year. It’s a depressing rock-and-a-hard-place choice. An AOL spokesperson ...
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• Verizon sends rebadged Alltel employees packin’

  
  Gadgetsteria — Authority: 550
  Today is probably not the best day to find out you owe $2,500 in back taxes, receive a letter notifying you of your late rent payment, or even going out to spend money on a beer if you find yourself a new ex-Alltel/Verizon acquired employee. Though crying in your beer may be the only thing that makes you feel better. ...
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• Job Hunt: Openings at Firms with Lay Offs

  
  EveryJoe — Authority: 158
  This is going to sound counter-intuitive, but one of the best places to look for a job can actually be at a firm that just laid a bunch of people off . Depending on the reasons behind the lay offs, you might find that such companies are ready to do a round of hiring. Recently, an acquaintance of mine was laid off ...
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