Resume Rehab by Colleen

Un-un-employed

December 7, 2009 at 4:53 pm Leave a comment

The latest stats say that the unemployment rate went down last month. But what does that number really say? It does not account for people who aren’t collecting unemployment, those who have taken part-time jobs because they cannot find full-time professional work, or those that have pushed off entering the job market by staying in school.

Here’s a great little video from Mint.com that I found via Beyond Paycheck to Paycheck. I highly recommend reading this blog post which goes into some greater detail about the difference between being unemployed and underemployed and how the underemployed are not included in the peachy statistical analyses.

Entry filed under: Job Search, Rants, Workplace. Tags: beyond paycheck to paycheck, full time, job market, mint.com, part time, statistics, underemployed, unemployment, unemployment rate.