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See the video here: Part One: The Job Was You

The Pink Slip 2.0 project, following the lives of three recently laid off Silicon Valley workers, is officially up and running. Check out today’s Mercury News’ page for the stories and photos, then go online to see Emmy Award-winning Dai Sugano’s compelling multimedia presentation on our three subjects.

Then follow us along here, in the paper, online and on Twitter as we explore the fiscal and emotional challenges of being out of work today.

The job-hunting world reflects the real world in all its diversity. So it’s not surprising at all to learn from my former colleague Eric Olvera that Out & Equal Workplace Advocates has launched it’s own take on the burgeoning family of job boards out there. this one focused on gays. Read the rest of this entry »

Heads up! The Pink Slip 2.0 project officially gets underway this Sunday with the first installment chronicling the lives of three recently laid-off Silicon Valley workers. I think you’ll find each of their stories compelling in its own way, with some common themes inter-linking their pink-slip experiences. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s free. It’s this week. And it’s a possible pipeline to a job for a military vet. Sponsors are expecting 300 veterans to show up for the RecruitMilitary Career Fair in San Francisco on Thursday, March 19, at AT&T Park from 11am-3pm. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m back from a week’s furlough - yes, we at the Mercury News are not immune - and moving ahead with our project to follow three people recently laid off in Silicon Valley, trying to capture and chronicle the ups and downs of job-hunting in today’s economic maelstrom. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s official today - we’ve hit double digits:

http://www.edd.ca.gov/About_EDD/pdf/urate200902.pdf

My recent piece on the latest trend in the world of layoffs about pink-slipped guys becoming stay-at-home dads during their job search - http://www.siliconbeat.com/2009/02/18/pink-slipped-stay-at-home-dad-or-still-working-breadwinning-mom/ - drew an interesting email from Jeremy Adam Smith, an author and blogger with a well-honed interest in the subject. Read the rest of this entry »

The dispatch from the front lines in the Great Recession battlefield appears on the front of this morning’s Mercury News, prompting calls and emails and even more volunteers for Pink Slip 2.0. Check it out at here. Here’s an excerpt: Read the rest of this entry »

I’m seeing it again and again - smart, aggressive and talented job-seekers, like writer Tom Bentley, are trying everything in their power to connect with a job, an interview, even a simple RESPONSE to their job bid… only to hit a wall of silence. Listen to Tom: Read the rest of this entry »

Pink Slip 2.0, the Merc’s ongoing chronicle following three recently laid-off folks in Silicon Valley while creating an online community revolving around their stories, can now be followed on Twitter, the micro-blogging site and San Francisco-based new media darling. Read the rest of this entry »