{"id":2032,"date":"2011-09-02T13:06:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T18:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.strategicsearch.com\/interview-preparation-blog\/?p=409"},"modified":"2011-09-02T13:06:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T18:06:44","slug":"zero-jobs-created-in-august-seo-remains-an-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/zero-jobs-created-in-august-seo-remains-an-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"ZERO JOBS CREATED IN AUGUST: SEO Remains An Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The U.S. economy failed to add jobs for the first time in almost a year<\/strong>, holding the unemployment rate constant at 9.1% and sending policymakers scrambling for answers to this dreadful labor market! Nonfarm payrolls were unchanged last month &#8212; <strong>the worst result since a small decline in Sept. 2010 <\/strong>&#8212; as IT (LOSS OF 48,000 JOBS), the government sector (LOSS OF 17,000 JOBS) and manufacturing (LOSS OF 3,000 JOBS) were all culprits! Fortunately <strong>SEO<\/strong> (Search Engine Optimization) continues to provide answers.<\/p>\n<p>SEO is the field focused on ranking websites and online marketing efforts higher with search engines such as Google, Bing and Ask. It continues to provide a lot of jobs and job strategies during these terrible employment times. <\/p>\n<p>Over the last two years I have researched applying SEO to job-hunting in hopes of uncovering a differential advantage for my candidates. For example, on Saturday, August 20TH I hosted a symposium on this topic. Please go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/62192465@N08\/sets\/72157627507762486\/\">http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/62192465@N08\/sets\/72157627507762486\/<\/a> to view some photos from this unique event. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. economy failed to add jobs for the first time in almost a year, holding the unemployment rate constant at 9.1% and sending policymakers scrambling for answers to this dreadful labor market! Nonfarm payrolls were unchanged last month &#8212; the worst result since a small decline in Sept. 2010 &#8212; as IT (LOSS OF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,49,50,52],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-2032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicago-engineering-jobs","category-chicago-jobs","category-chicago-technical-jobs","category-interview-preparation","tag-interview-preparation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}