{"id":410,"date":"2011-08-05T16:03:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T21:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.strategicsearch.com\/interview-preparation-blog\/?p=402"},"modified":"2011-08-05T16:03:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T21:03:12","slug":"unemployment-slides-to-9-1-but-gloom-still-presists-safe-haven-in-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/unemployment-slides-to-9-1-but-gloom-still-presists-safe-haven-in-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"UNEMPLOYMENT SLIDES TO 9.1%, BUT GLOOM STILL PRESISTS: Safe Haven In SEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite an down tick in <strong>unemployment to 9.1%<\/strong>, bad news still permeates the jobs landscape. International markets are shaky, growth is slowing in Europe, fears continue for a double dip recession and the Dow fell in recent trading after plummeting over 512 on Thursday. Job seekers are frightened. Fortunately, hope is available from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Search_engine_optimization\">SEO (Search Engine Optimization)<\/a>!<\/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. In the process I have built up the largest SEO group in the Chicago area with over 530 members. (Please go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/chicago-seo\/\">http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/chicago-seo\/<\/a> to learn more).<\/p>\n<p><strong>To spotlight my findings<\/strong>, I have arranged two experts for a <strong>special symposium on Saturday, August 20th starting at 10 a.m. at TechNexus at 200 S. Wacker <\/strong>including:<br \/>\n1.\tNicole Bodem, Director of Search Marketing at Bernard Hodes. Please go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrsearchmarketing.com\/\">http:\/\/www.hrsearchmarketing.com\/<\/a> learn more about Nicole.<br \/>\n2.\tGordon Dymowski. Please go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gordondymowski.com\/\">http:\/\/www.gordondymowski.com\/<\/a> to learn more about Mr. Dymowski.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite an down tick in unemployment to 9.1%, bad news still permeates the jobs landscape. International markets are shaky, growth is slowing in Europe, fears continue for a double dip recession and the Dow fell in recent trading after plummeting over 512 on Thursday. Job seekers are frightened. Fortunately, hope is available from SEO (Search [&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":[65,55],"tags":[38,53,56],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recruiter","category-technical-recruiter","tag-interview-preparation","tag-technical-careers","tag-technical-recruiter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","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=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}