Links

Media

Unemployed in Iowa on Iowa Journal, IPTV, 11-Feb-10
YPLive with Mike Banasiak on Mac’s World Live, 5-Jan-10
The 405 Club Sunday Blog Brunch with Unemployed in Des Moines
Turnaround for Job Market?, CBS Evening News, 4-Dec-09
Special report: Scenes from Iowa’s recession, The Des Moines Register, 23-Nov-09

Presentations

LinkedIn – Advanced Techniques to use in Your Job Search
Telephone Interview, 17-Dec-09 presented by Rod Spoelstra at Smokey Row
How to use Twitter in your job search, 3-Dec-09 presented by Suzanne Hull at Smokey Row
How to use LinkedIn in your job search, 19-Nov-09 presented by Suzanne Hull at Smokey Row

My Favorite Job Search Sites

Indeed
Search engine for jobs, allowing job seekers to find jobs posted on thousands of company career sites and job boards

Careershift
CareerShift lets you search and store every job listing on all job boards and contact information inside millions of companies, and provides links to research further, in-depth information about those contacts within companies

Careerbuilder
Owned by Gannett Co, Inc., Tribune Company, The McClatchy Company, and Microsoft Corp., CareerBuilder offers a vast online and print network to help job seekers connect with employers. CareerBuilder.com powers the career sites for more than 9,000 Web sites, including 140 newspapers and broadband portals such as MSN and AOL.

Iowa Workforce Development
Iowa Workforce Development contributes to the economic security of Iowa’s workers, businesses and communities through a comprehensive statewide system of employment services, education and regulation of health, safety and employment laws

My Favorite Money-Saving Sites

RetailMeNot.com
RetailMeNot.com is the easy way to find online coupon codes. Enter these codes at the checkout page of participating merchants for instant discounts.

SlickDeals.net
Slickdeals.net is a free, user-driven deal sharing site with a mission to provide consumers an avenue to collaborate and share information in order to make the best shopping decisions. Slickdeals achieves this by providing its users a forum for communication and various shopping tools.

Restaurant.com
Enter your zip code to find restaurants in your area who are offering discounted gift certificates.  For instance, you can buy a $25 gift certificate to your favorite restaurant for $10 – sometimes for as little as $3!

Des Moines Frugal
This is your guide to saving money in Des Moines. Share your tips to help others in the community give their checking accounts a break.

My Favorite Blogs

desmoinesisnotboring.com
Career Rocketeer
Iowa Girl Eats
The Wise Job Search
The Brazen Careerist
Living Downtown Des Moines
Shawn ClarkWilt

The Discarded

The Discarded hopes to put a face to every worker who has been affected by this recession through a visual archive of old business cards of the unemployed. We want to humanize and memorialize this significant point in history by showing that unemployment is not just a number.  Please visit this site and submit your old business card to become a part of this amazing project.

Take the Course! – Featured on Oprah.com

Are you stuck in a job you hate? Feel like you just don’t have enough to give to your professional life and your personal life? You’re not alone. Career coach Marcus Buckingham met with a group of women just like you to help them figure out how to reignite the passion in their careers. Now it’s your turn! Take Marcus’s step-by-step workshop and use his lessons to change your life.