I thought this video on the outlook of the U.S. Economy was pretty funny enjoy.

Source of this graph is from Yahoo.com

Here are some sites to help you on your job search.

Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH), 2008-09 Edition
This guide is the bible for job hunting telling you everything you need:
* the training and education needed
* earnings
* expected job prospects
* what workers do on the job
* working conditions

The more liberal they are… Use your own judgment. About is owned and operated by a liberal media outlet.

Do some research build your career.

A bird in da hand is two in da bush!!!! Network. Social networking is huge.

The fastest growing bush on da planet. You can always hope you don’t loose your job or network for friends on this behemoth of a site so to take #1 in social networking sites.

Network… Network Network

A huge amount of jobs every year are from who you know not what you know.

Construction and Manufacturing downturns are mainly to blame due to the housing bubble bursting. In Nevada-The MGM Mirage and Dubai World are in a battle over the new construction of the City Center, a huge project 8.6 Billion dollars talk about putting more jobs on the street. Hopefully this will work out for all parties.

FAC is payable effective February 22, 2009. Therefore, the week-ending February 28, 2009 is the first week your unemployment payment will reflect the $25 FAC. Payment of FAC will continue through the week ending July 3, 2010 as long as your benefit year was established prior to January 1, 2010 and you continue to be eligible for unemployment benefits.

FAC benefits are subject to federal and state taxes. If you are paid FAC to which you were not entitled, an overpayment will be established.

An individual may not receive a FAC supplement if they are ineligible for unemployment benefits.

YOUR FAC PAYMENT WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE INCLUDED WITH YOUR REGULAR PAYMENT AND IDENTIFIED SEPARATELY ON THE PAYMENT NOTICE.

An apprenticeship combines on-the-job and classroom training. This allows you as the apprentice to actually earn while you learn. As an apprentice, you will work year-round for electrical contractors, and attend classroom sessions during the academic year. As you learn by doing, you are paid directly by the contractor with which you are employed by. While progressing through the training, you receive guaranteed promotion and pay raises.

Unions have been around for a while now, they where the predecessor to many government agencies like OSHA, NIOSH, and the EPA. The unions provided a fair wage while promoting safety back when there was no government agencies overseeing safety. Before unions the large corporations in the early 1900’s would often provide little or no safety to their workers while the “big cheeses” of these corporations got richer. Unions provided a voice for many of these underpaid workers who worked in very unsafe environments that often sacrificed safety for profits.

With the California budget crisis 20,000 State workers are going to lose their jobs, Now that the .gov are contributing to the weekly unemployment numbers when will this sinkhole of the credit crunch recession ever end? Will it suck us all into the abyss and set us back to the stone age when we where trading with seashells and fish. Hopefully NOT! with the new stimulus package signed into law the 3/4 of a trillion dollar spending bill will start flowing into the area’s it needs to be so that at least it slows the job loses and helps lead the economy to a healthy recovery.

GM also announced it was laying off 47,000 employees of its global work force to combat its slowing sales numbers.

More bad news in the State of Unemployment sector, Recent layoff announcements over the last several weeks from large companies:

45,000 more jobs lost!

Although not is a gloom and doom, Keep your head up and hit the pavement. One of the best ways to job search is networking. Get out there and let it be known you are looking, Social Networking sites like FaceBook.com and linkedin.com offer great ways to renew old contacts. Get in touch with old classmates and co-workers on these sites and network.