Troy Wolverton tweets from CES 2011(0)
Columnist Troy Wolverton is at CES 2011 in Las Vegas. Follow his reactions here. Note: If you’re having difficulty seeing the widget below you can check out Troy’s posts on Twitter @troywolv.
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Troy Wolverton Tweets his reactions to the new iPhone 4(0)
Columnist Troy Wolverton has gotten his hands on an iPhone 4. Follow his reactions here. Note: If you’re having difficulty seeing the widget below you can check out Troy’s posts on Twitter @troywolv.
The Great Recession - on film - this Friday(4)
My friend Austin Chu and his brother have made a documentary based on their six-month journey throughout the United States looking to find the human face of the Great Recession. That’s the same recession, by the way, that led to Austin being laid off in 2008, prompting him to hit the road with his camera.
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A note from the new job(0)
Sounds like Kris is off and running on his new job at Stanford:
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EXTRA! EXTRA! KRIS LANDS A JOB!!!!!!(5)
Two-hundred and ninety-seven long days after he lost his aviation-tech job at San Jose’s airport, Kris Rowberry is finally finding salvation.
When he starts his new job on Monday moving and tracking supplies throughout Stanford University’s medical school, hospitals and clinics, the 25-year-old San Jose resident will be
the first of the three Pink Slip 2.0 participants followed by the Mercury News the past year to have escaped the jaws of joblessness.
And all it took, besides those never-ending days, was two reams of resume paper, lots of cold-calling, numerous dead-ends, and way too many sleepless nights.
“”I don’t think it’s hit me yet,” Rowberry said Tuesday. “”After nine-and-a-half months of looking, I’m a little dazed. It’s like, is this really happening?” Read the rest of this entry »
Word from our front line…(1)
No jobs yet for our three pink-slippers, but here are a couple of updates, first one from Roopa: Read the rest of this entry »
Twittering about(1)
I’m reporting a piece on job-hunting in the great and growing wildness of the twittersphere. I’m finding hype, hope, good and bad, lots of noise. It’s a wonder you tweeting job-hunter don’t have your heads explode after a few hours in that place. The piece should run later this week sometime. Let me know what you think.
Jobs on the front line?(0)
Passing this along to you job-seekers from the Santa Clara County Association of Recruiting Officers: Read the rest of this entry »
More good news(2)
Kris finally got his long-expected letter of recommendation. Check it out:
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Another week, another bit of suspense(1)
Kris updated me this morning on the first of his two interviews. Still up in the air: Read the rest of this entry »
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