(WXYZ.com) — Some would say thattechnology has taken away from the personal touch. But it has given job seekers more one-on-one contact with prospective employers.  GoldMail is a social media tool that allows you to create a video resume.  You could say that it puts a face with a name. “We have an area where […]

Working through the post-crash stupor, schools put new emphasis on job placement.

(AJC) — By the time she came to a Goodwill job fair in Duluth last week, Laura Martinez had been unemployed six days.  Her wide smile belied her concern about how, as a single mother, she would provide for her 5-year-old son.  “It’s pretty scary,” said the 24-year-old former marketing director for a property management […]

(CNN) — Carl Fields flips through hundreds of job applications he’s filled out during the last 20 months of unemployment.  “I feel that I am going to get a job,” he says. “I just feel it in my bones and my spirit that I am going to get a job. … It’s just a matter […]