The Unemploymentality

Please Fire Me

Tania Khadder — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:42:23 +0000

When unemployment gets you down, read this website. Back at work finally? Submit a post.

Michael Spafferty makes Gawker’s list of top 5 video resumes. Sorta.

John Henion — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:38:03 +0000

It's official. Gawker likes us. Today Gawker included Michael Spafferty's video resume as one of its top 5 examples of how NOT to land a job: The video resume. Thanks Gawker. Dreams do come true.

Happy Valentines Day

John Henion — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:22:08 +0000

From all of us to all of you – Happy Valentines day

Getting through to the EDD: Call for Vietnamese number

John Henion — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:00:10 +0000

Still having trouble getting through to the EDD? We've already mentioned this strategy in our 'mas popular' post tips and tricks, but if it hasn't sunk it yet, check out Rudy's video blog below on how calling the Vietnamese hotline got him his checks. Besides, although he doesn't actually give us a shout-out in his video, i'm pretty sure he learned about this trick via this site because he lists 'unemploymentality' as one of his video tags. Thanks Rudy, right back atcha!

TwitJobSearch: A New Way to Find Jobs?

Tania Khadder — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:00:31 +0000

Twitter has teamed up with TweetDeck to offer a custom desktop job search tool. For those of you who can’t imagine finding a job on the social networking service, check this out: 340,000 jobs have allegedly been posted on the site so far. The new feature is supposed to make it easier for those [...]

One American Dream

John Henion — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:12:06 +0000

“One American Dream?” is a documentary exploring the American Dreams of the youth generation. As a feature length documentary, “One American Dream?” will follow my journey as I travel around the country in search of how the vision of success has changed and what the American Dreams of today’s youth are. Following in the footsteps of previous generations I will travel on the train and bus talking to people the mainstream media often over look. This will give a voice to many different people who all have a story and a dream to tell.

Can Rain Hurt Your Interview? Freakonomics Blog Says “Maybe”

Tania Khadder — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:01:25 +0000

Forget economic forecasts. It’s the weather forecast you should really be watching! Well… sort of. According to two smart dudes from the University of Toronto, medical school applicants who interview on a rainy day fare ever-so-slightly worse than their sunny day counterparts (their scores were one percent lower). I don’t know if these findings are statistically significant [...]

Oh EDD, how you make people hate thee

John Henion — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:01:15 +0000

A California EDD computer glitch might mean 111,000 unemployed might not get unemployment checks until after christmas.

New Get Rich Quick Tip: Win $100k in cash & Prizes at Nikon Festival

John Henion — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:50:52 +0000

The Nikon Festival is looking for people to submit 240 second-long videos about their lives. Do it with a little style, and you could be winning a $100k prize! The kitty for second prize isn't so bad either, $25k. Either way, that adds up to a whole lot of unemployment checks, my friend. Consider unemployment!

Sparrow Songs Project: a short, intimate documentary about unemployment

John Henion — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:59:55 +0000

I was contacted recently by one of the creators of the following documentary about unemployment so I had a look. I really think it's worth your time. An excellent little mediation on the 'condition' of being unemployed. The film is part of a 12 month project called Sparrow Songs, where the two filmmakers will create and release a new documentary on vimeo for twelve months.