Stories/Programs

Category: Unemployment

  1. Looking for and Landing a Job in Tough Economic Times

    Celeste Quinn and listeners talk with Richard Nelson Bolles, author of the classic What Color Is Your Parachute? A Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers, and The Job-Hunter's Survival Guide: How to Find Hope and Rearding Work, Even When "There Are No Jobs." (Story air date: Wednesday, August 28, 2009)
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    Tags: Unemployment

  2. Tracking New Directions for Displaced Workers

    In central Illinois, many employers large and small have downsized or closed altogether, forcing thousands of laid-off workers to consider new options. In our latest report as part of our outreach project “WILL Connect: The Economy”, AM 580’s Jeff Bossert looks at the retraining of workers. Ingenuity and government-funded training are giving many of them a jump on a new career, or a better shot at an old one.
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    Tags: Education, Unemployment

  3. Tracking New Directions for Displaced Workers

    In central Illinois, many employers large and small have downsized or closed altogether, forcing thousands of laid-off workers to consider new options. Jeff Bossert looks at the retraining of workers. Ingenuity and government-funded training are giving many of them a jump on a new career, or a better shot at an old one. (Story air date: Thursday, August 27, 2009)
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    Tags: Unemployment

  4. Parkland College’s Workforce Development Services

    David Inge and listeners talk with Minor W. Jackson, Executive Director of Workforce Development at Parkland College. (Story air date: Friday August 14, 2009)
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    Tags: Education, Unemployment

  5. How to Emotionally Survive the Loss of a Job

    David Inge and listeners talk to Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D., Author of The Worry Cure: Seven Steps to Stop Worry from Stopping You, about how the loss of job is both a grieving process and an opportunity. (Air date: Wednesday, August 12, 2009)
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    Tags: Unemployment