By Jason Alba As a job seeker you know the most common question people who know your situation ask you: "How's your job search going?" The most common reply I hear is "fine" or "it's going OK." But what we really mean to say is, "It is not going well at all because I STILL DON'T HAVE A JOB!"

I came across Emurse long before it became an AOL service and was impressed with it from Day One. Emurse is a simple concept with an easy purpose. Mix the letters of e-m-u-r-s-e up and you get "resume." Quite simply, it is your online resume. Here are 10 things you should know about having your resume online...

A lot of what I've written about in the past has been for professionals and executives, but I had an experience recently that made me think about a blue collar job search, and what the differences are. This is pretty interesting because most of the job search blogs I follow seem to be written for a white collar...

About a month into my job search I found myself sitting across the table from my church leader. My wife was with me and we were asked to meet with him because he was concerned about my unemployment. We had put this meeting off for weeks because we didn't think we'd be out of work very long. By the time we met...

Apparently the recession is over, but it doesn't feel like it. People and companies are still hesitant to spend money as we are slow crawling out from under this heavy burden we've had for the last couple of years. The impact at the personal, family level has been severe. Everyone I know knows someone who has...

I know you are working hard to keep your job. You have been told, as have I, that there are certain things we can do to keep our jobs safe. Perhaps we believed that a better degree, more experience, lots of hard work, even working extra hours would be the things that help us maintain some amount of job security....

A few weeks ago I wrote a post titled WRONG QUESTION: "Do you know a recruiter who specializes in..." I have heard this question since I started my company, almost four years ago, and it really bugs me. It *might* be a good question to ask IF you know what to do when you make contact with the recruiter, but...

We all know people who have been job hunting for more than a year; some have been out of work for two years. As these job searches stretch on people repeatedly wonder, "what are my options?" Here are a few:

Mohammed Al-Taee just asked me a really intriguing question via Twitter. He tweets: Give me one task a job seeker can do once a month. I think we can all list tasks a job seekers can do once a day and once a week, but once a month? It's almost too restrictive - if you are a job seeker you shouldn't be doing...