Strategies for revving up your job search
Manhattan-based career adviser Vicky Oliver recommends that job seekers update their images. Credit: iStock
Nobody needs to tell the unemployed or underemployed how tough Long Island’s job market is. The unemployment rate here is a stratospheric 8 percent, even though the recession officially ended more than three years ago.
So having more efficient job-search tools is more crucial that ever, says Vicky Oliver, a Manhattan-based career adviser and author of "The Millionaire's Handbook.”
“If you're unemployed or underemployed, you can counteract modest job improvement in the job market by making a major improvement in yourself and your tactics,” Oliver says. “It is possible to land a job by Thanksgiving if you get energized with this handful of proactive strategies.”
Following are her five strategies:
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