The longer unemployment stays high, which is currently at 8.1%, the more pressure is on both jobseekers and employers. From a jobseeker's standpoint, most cannot weather the storm of 6 months or more of unemployment, which means they will eventfully become less hopeful. When that happens it means job seekers are more likely to say "Can somebody anybody give me job?" That mentality is simply bad for business. Why? Quite simply after going through months [and for some years] of thrashing in the job market if/when jobseekers do become employed, they are more fearful of losing their job for any and everything, which means performance suffers. This is precisely why, the private should not sit around idle waiting on election results and political climate changes but instead realize how sitting on the sidelines in contributing to the very thing employers fear most - a bad hire. Now is just as good of a time as any to put some action behind hiring needs through posting job vacancies. Plus, it's a supply/demand thing which means discounted salaries [discounts are good, exploitation is bad] for hiring now versus waiting until the next economic upswing.

Apparently job seekers are still having a hard time with find a job; needless to say since the unemployment rate is still above 8%. In those difficult times "who you know" can be a big time help. If you don't have a lot of friends and resort to finding a job online, you might want to at least keep up with the challenges of doing so today. Just because job postings are up doesn't mean you should shoot off your resume to every Tom, DIck and Harry.

pretty much everywhere you look today there is talk about the increase in jobs and hiring. So why is unemployment still high? Go figure. Not only is unemployment still high it is virtually unchanged. In the USA, as a whole, 227,000 new jobs apparently wasn't enough to move the unemployment rate from 8.3% not even .1% come on...Some states like New York and New Jersey are seeing declines in unemployment. Take the 139,400 jobs added last year in New York, which was enough to drive down unemployment to 8.2%. Let us not forget about the 13,300 jobs added last month in New Jersey, which almost erased the 18,700 jobs the state lost for the whole year of 2010. Finding a job in the northeast sure has gotten a lot easier but here again, if some states are seeing major gains like New York and New Jersey then why is the national unemployment rate refusing to move south? The first thought is that maybe so many other states are doing so bad that increases in jobs and hiring in only a few states doesn't make a dent in the big unemployment picture. Makes one kind of wonder who stands to gain by unemployment rate remaining high? Uhhh oh, who said that? It wasn't me...

The American Dream is dead and you can thank the unsuspected villain -- student loans. How do you look a new graduate in the eye and say here take this low wage $15 per hour job to pay off $80,000, $90,000 or worse $100,000+ in student loans. Basically, student loans have turned professionals (recently graduates) into indentured servants. So who's to blame? You know who...the other guy. It's always the other guy. The GOP blames the Dems for financing students that don't stand a chance. Meanwhile, the Dems blame the GOP for holding jobs over the heads of students with six figure student loans. So who's telling the truth...well the truth of the matter is that there's a little truth to both positions. At the same time, how is it that bright intelligent new graduates are walking around with "will work for food" signs while Big Corp execs get golden parachutes for running the housing market in the ground? Gee let's ask Bank of America (purchaser of CountryWide Mortgage), maybe they know something. Book em' Danno!