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		<title>Make It Happen For Women:  The Diary of a Job Searching Woman:  May 12, 2010:  I&#8217;m helping a friend with her job search.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 15:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Brackett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Make It Happen For Women:  The Diary of a Job Searching Woman: May 12, 2010:  I'm helping a friend with her job search.

I made Sue a deal. I would help her with her job search and she would blog about everything she was going through, including her job search activity.  Sue agreed to this quickly, but added that I would have to agree not to censor her blog.  For people that really know me, they realize that this is a huge request.  Make It Happen For Women is my brain child.  I am the founder and I want the blog to be inspirational and informative and of course, I know what's best.  Sue of course, laughed when I explained this to her as if she didn't already know.

Sue and I are both type A personalities and we both are very passionate about our beliefs, so when Sue said to me, Take it or leave it".  I laughed and said.  "I think I am in the better bargaining position."  We both laughed and in the end, I knew she would offer a great deal of information to the women that read our blog.

Sue and I have known each other for about 15 years.  She is divorced, 56 years old, and has 3 children, the youngest of which is still in college and two older sons.  Sue is a sales manager and has had some terrific success.  The job market has been hit hard in California.  Sue lives in the Sacramento area, where I lived for over 20 years.

Sue's company was acquired.  The sales manager from the acquiring company took the Director job and Sue was laid off.  She had been there for 6 years and was heartbroken.  She is very dedicated and has some wonderful accomplishments for her resume.  Sue can't believe that she has been unemployed for 8 months.  She felt by now, someone would have "grabbed" her right up since she is so accomplished.

Doing a job search in this market can be very challenging....so hold on to your hats....
Sue will take over from here.

Take Care,
Vicki
Founder
Make It Happen For Women
<a href="http://www.makeithappenforwomen.com">http://www.makeithappenforwomen.com</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Make It Happen For Women: The Diary of a Job Searching Woman: Oct 27: Re-writing my resume.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JobSearchingWoman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Make It Happen For Women:  The Diary of a Job Searching Woman:  Oct 27:  Rewriting my resume.

Obviously something is wrong.  No one is calling.  It has to be my resume.  I stayed up last night to work on the resume.  I wasn't really sure what to do. I picked up a book at the bookstore on resumes and tried a new format.  I need to showcase what I have done in the past so I can get the phone to ring!

I'm sick of spending time on the job boards which is every night now.  There seems to be a lot of jobs out there that I am qualified for.  No one is calling! I've been grabbing about 30 minutes on the computer before I go to work to apply for more jobs.  Yesterday, I spent my lunch hour applying for jobs, but that was with my old resume.  I'm going to re-post my new resume on some of the job boards and hopefully someone will call me.

This single working mom thing is tougher than I thought.  But I'm a lot better than I was when I was married.  I was surfing last night on the internet when I couldn't sleep and found an excerpt of a book on SingleMindedWomen.com.  It really hit home.  It was talking about what happens after a divorce and how it can pull the rug from right underneath you.  Boy, I feel that way now.  Alone...I mean really alone, but somehow better.

Now, if I can only find a new job, things would be a lot more calmer.  I'm tough.  I will just keep plugging away.  I'm good at what I do.  Something will turn up.

But...will it be enough money?  Can't think about that now.]]></description>
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		<title>Make It Happen For Women: The Diary of a Job Searching Woman: Oct 23: Networking, Resumes, Job Search</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JobSearchingWoman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Make It Happen For Women:  The Diary of a Job Searching Woman:  Oct 23:  Networking, Resumes and Job Search.

I can't sleep.  I have versions of my resume swimming around in my head.

Things are worse at work.  The meeting we have all been dreading was late yesterday.  They will be making cuts in the next three months.  I'm supposed to come up with a game plan to lay off 20% of my team.  I don't know where to start.  I'm effecting people's lives and the lives of their families.  Yet, I have a business to run.  I have to have my new plan on my bosses desk by Monday morning.  So much for working on my job search this weekend.  But I am making a commitment to work at least 4 hours over the weekend sending out resumes to jobs I have seen on the job boards.

I don't know what to think about my job.  I asked my boss if my job was safe in the cuts.  He told me not to worry that they really needed me right now.  I went home last night and looked at my bills and savings account and I couldn't last long without a job.  No way!  Being a single working mom is tougher than I ever thought it would be when I got my divorce.

Finding it hard to juggle doing a job search with all the issues at work.

I did have several friends pass my resume onto some recruiters...but nothing yet.

I have to stay positive.  Just not sure how I can do everything I need to do.]]></description>
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