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How to Stay Motivated While Job Hunting During the Holidays This Year

Success

The COVID-19 pandemic left millions of Americans jobless, and Business Insider’s list of major companies that have announced job cuts suggests another round of layoffs is underway. For example, a degree in accounting (aka your “financial acumen”) makes you a valuable asset to any company’s finance department. See chaos as a ladder.

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Two in five people are working extra hours as cost-of-living crisis bites

Workplace Insight

Faced with declining real incomes and mounting expenses, almost half (46 percent) of respondents have taken on additional hours at work, one in five (19 percent) now has a second job for extra income, and one in three (34 percent) has been actively job hunting for a higher salaried role.

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My Boss Has Been Fired. Now what?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Ultimately, I don’t know enough of your situation (finances, single/married, kids, unemployment percentage wherever you live, your age, your education/skill set) to give you definitive advice. You can actually do and say all that AS LONG AS you don’t say it with too much desperation, emotion, stress, and general freaking out-ness.