Job Action Day 2011: Skill Up, Start Up, Speak Up

Job Action Day: Empowering Workers and Job-Seekers

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Job Action Day 2011 is all about empowering job-seekers to attain the skills employers seek, take charge of directing your career, and be vocal and demand action on job creation -- helping you move your career and/or job-search forward.

Job Action Day is a day for all job-seekers and workers to take stock of their situations and make plans and/or take action steps to improve their careers.

As the unemployment crisis sadly continues -- much worse than most experts have expected, it's clear that job-seekers must now become proactive in attaining the skills employers seek, taking charge of your careers, and demanding action on job creation.

Job Action Day 2011, the fourth-annual initiative spearheaded by Quintessential Careers, includes expert and empowering articles, tips, and blog posts that give both workers and job-seekers information, ideas, and concrete steps that you can take to secure your futures -- both in the short-term and in the long-term.

Specifically...

Skill Up: The skills mismatch is a huge issue in the current jobs crisis. Thousands of jobs are going begging because employers can't find skilled employees. This theme focuses on what job-seekers can do to attain the skills that will help land these jobs (including retraining, internships, apprenticeships, lateral job moves, and more).

Start Up: Refers not only to starting small businesses as an alternative to traditional jobs or unemployment, but a whole new mindset of being the CEO of your career -- having a portfolio of portable skills, a great network, flexibility, a project-mentality; not sitting at the computer visiting job boards, but getting out there and meeting people, knocking on doors, taking ownership of your career path.

Speak Up: Job-seekers need to be more vocal and demand action from our elected officials -- using the media to push a jobs agenda and demanding better media coverage of the jobs crisis -- as well as from the so-called job creators to create more jobs.

Job Action Day 2011 Articles:

Skill Up Articles

Start Up Articles

Speak Up Articles