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Two Things
1) How about a Brian Lehrer Show Listeners, job event or networking group.
2) Brian, (or anybody else,) How can I find a good job recruiter or headhunter to help me with my job search?

If you don't mind making not too much, but have good health care plan and other benefits why not give a civil service career a try.
Following is a link to Department of Citywide Administrative Services website for further information.
http://home2.nyc.gov/html/dcas/html/home/home.shtml

I am an HR Consultant (outplacement) and former corporate HR manager,so I have been on both sides of the desk. What I have found is that looking for a job is like the commercial --- one person tells someone and so on and so on, eventually the link is made for the right job. NEtwork Network, but Know what you are qualified for and what your interests are. The caller who is speaking about sending resumes on the internet is very right--too passive. The HR exec. sounds very hard line. There are some excellent people who do not fill the cookie cutter mold of people who will be successful in the new economy. Re; hiring freezes, people always get hired-- circumstances always allow for exceptions for talented and necessary skills that the Co. needs.Right place, right time, right person=job

Brian, I love your show but I am sick of you taking pity on Wall Street folk. So many of my friends and I have been living on the edge of poverty because we did not participate in the greed inspired rat race of Wall Street. We have been living on 22 to 30 thousand a year. Why don’t Wall Street people TRY living like the rest of us. We are educated, intelligent and we work as teachers, social workers, and non-profit workers. We have no savings. DO you think a Wall Street person does not have anything to live on? Maybe they can sell their downtown apartment and live in the outskirts of Queens, like the rest of us?
Aggee, teacher and grad student

I would like to ask Ms. Caruso about the value of a CFA, Chartered Financial Analyst. Especially for someone who has an MBA, but spent most of my time in media and entertainment. I would like to move into banking and finance. I passed level one exam and am determined to get the charter. I am also finishing up a formal credit training program at NYU.

Your guests are stuck in the 20th century. 5-8 years at each company? Blue-chip companies only? Please.

Your guests are going to have trouble finding anyone beyond robotic drones with that criteria.