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Break through the post-interview silence
One of the most frustrating experiences job seekers say they run into is trying to follow up with potential employers after an interview.

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Organize your job search
One of the major barriers for job seekers is their own disorganization. To become effective in a job hunt, one must become disciplined and structured.

Protect your image: How to maintain an online profile, and your professionalism
Online profiles might help you get dates, but could they keep you from getting a job?

Rhode Island employment news

Jobless rate can often be far from the real number

State and federal officials use a complicated method to arrive at the figure, which often is later adjusted

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Building trade braces for another bad year

Up to 70 pipefitters from Rhode Island are planning to go to Canada for a job that will last three months

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Economists say R.I. not poised for swift recovery

Where Rhode Islanders work has changed dramatically in the last decade.

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Economists say R.I. not poised for swift recovery

Where Rhode Islanders work has changed dramatically in the last decade,

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National employment news

Two-track economy: 9.7% unemployment, $200K cars
Updated 7:00 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- For the super-rich and everyone else, the economic recovery is taking place in two very different gears....

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Stocks end mixed after price, jobs reports
Updated 7:00 p.m.

NEW YORK -- Major stock indexes ended mixed Thursday on more evidence that the economy is regaining strength at a slow pace....

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Résumés

On a résumé, learn to sell yourself
An applicant used to be competing with about 250 résumés, now it's 1,000, says the president of a Web service that helps job seekers.

Reinvent yourself: Find new uses for old job skills
The key, says George Lowe, who "graduated" from Ford in May 2000 when he took an early retirement deal, was finding new uses for the skills he had learned as a Ford manager. "I was thinking about what I wanted to do next well before the time came to depart Ford."

The other you: What's on your 'invisible' résumé?
Having an up-to-date résumé is a must. But there's another kind of résumé you might find extremely useful: the "invisible" résumé.

To get ahead, people will put just about anything on their résumé
David Edmondson, chief executive officer at RadioShack for less than a year, resigned in shame recently after a newspaper revealed he had lied on his résumé about having two college degrees when in fact he had none.