Trends show that a large number of people unemployed are older and more experienced workers are using internships as an opportunity to get their foot in the door and hopefully turn it into a full time job.

People forget that internships and volunteer work are a way to find employment. Such activities keep your mind sharp and your skills from getting stale. The hardest most mundane job you will ever have is looking for a job. Take a break and try an internship volunteer to help someone else. The best way to help yourself is to help someone else in need. Give it a try you might just learn something, teach someone or if you are really luck find a job!

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Companies are seeking candidates who have critical thinking skills; they are looking for people who are knowledgeable and interested in the job. Any questions you might ask will demonstrate that interest. The thing to do is NOT leave them hanging with no response to the question “do you have any questions”?   

General Questions:

What you are looking for in a candidate?

What qualities did the last person you hired have?

Why is this position open?

What was it that you think kept that person from being successful?

What are the tasks in this job that will make someone in this position successful?

How do I rank among the other candidates?

Can you tell me about the company’s culture/mission/philosophy?

What do you like best about working for this company?

What are the next steps?

When do you expect to make a decision?

Do you have any reason why you would not consider moving me forward during the (hiring) process?

Are there any other folks who will be interviewing me later?

What’s a typical day like?

What stops most employees from being successful?

Are there any more questions you have for me?

Do you see how my past experience translates well for this position?

Questions for sales jobs:

Which product line of yours is your lead line? (i.e. the one that everyone should buy)

Which product line should they probably not buy?

How does the travel program work?

Remember the questions you ask will allow you stay long after the interview and defiantly make an impression. Your questions also do the critical job of uncovering any issues the hiring manager might have with you, so that you can correct any problems before you leave.

• FIFA Football for Hope™ Center in Namibia will be dedicated in Eunice Kennedy Shriver’s name
• Unified Sports® events with Mother Teresa’s Sisters of Charity in Calcutta and Delhi, India
• Special Olympics Camp Shriver events will be held in East Timor, Haiti and Malaysia
• U.S. Soccer Foundation field dedication at the Washington, D.C. Friendship Charter School
• Special Olympics Healthy Athletes screenings for those with intellectual disabilities will take place in over 20 countries

Eunice Kennedy Shriver Day has been created in her honor to inspire people to experience her legacy and embrace the movement she founded more than 42 years ago in her backyard. There will be three key components to honoring her legacy:

• PLAY: A day of sports, training clinics and sports activities to commemorate Eunice Kennedy Shriver’s belief in building greater equality through organized athletics.
• JOIN: An effort to share her life and impact and to educate people about the urgent needs of people with intellectual disabilities and to motivate new fans and friends to act.
• BUILD: A regional effort to dedicate new or renovated athletic facilities in Eunice Kennedy Shriver’s honor in the poorest communities.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver devoted her life to fighting for the rights of those with intellectual disabilities. She believed everyone deserves respect.   She opened her home, she coached and above all, she was a friend. She demonstrated an indomitable spirit in action. The Eunice Kennedy Shriver Day message calls for people to continue these acts of inclusion for those with intellectual disabilities, in essence to “play on” Mrs. Shriver’s legacy. The fourth Saturday of September will be an annual event to celebrate her life and impact and to share her story to inspire new fans to action and unifying communities around the world

For the first time on record there are more seniors than teenagers in the American labor force. Starting last fall the number of older workers surpassed the number of teenage workers for the first time since 1948, when the Labor Department first began collecting statistics. If you look at just the employment of older workers versus teenagers — that is, how many workers actually have jobs — you will also find that older people surpassed teenagers for the first time recently, in mid-2008.

Meanwhile, teenagers have been having an especially rough time in the job market partly because the economy is still weak and partly, because employers may be discouraged from hiring teenage workers because of recent minimum-wage increases. As a result, many are unemployed, and many others have given up looking for work altogether.

This lowers their labor-force participation rate, which had already been declining even before the recession began: Older people needing work + more younger people giving up on work = grandparents surpassing grandchildren in the labor force.

Laurel Kennedy Author of The Daughter Trap and Margery Pabst, author of Enrich Your Caregiving Journey. Both Kennedy and Pabst offer proven strategies to increase caregivers’ emotional health and ease family conflicts. The Laurel Kennedy interview will air at 2pm EDT on July 26th. To listen, click here. The show featuring Margery Pabst is now available for free download by clicking here.

John Hancock was the only person to actually sign the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.  Most people (50 of them) signed it on August 2, 1776.

3 US presidents have died on July 4^th.  Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on the same day in 1826.  James Monroe died 5 years later.

Calvin Coolidge is the only US president born on July 4^th.

The first public Fourth of July event at the White House was in 1804.

July 4^th did not become a legal federal holiday until 1941.

11 places in the US have “independence” in their names.  Independence, MO is the most populous.

The lettuce on your burger or in your salad probably came from California.  They grow the most lettuce in the US.

The ketchup on your hot dogs also came from California.  They account for 95% of the processed tomatoes in the country.

There is a 50% chance the potatoes in your potato salad came from Idaho or Washington State.

Most fireworks for the July 4^th celebrations are imported from China.

“Making that kind of automatic cut is senseless; you could be missing out on the best person of all,” she said. “There are millions of people who are unemployed through no fault of their own. If an employer feels that the best qualified are the ones already working, they have no appreciation of the crisis we’re in right now.”

Judy Conti; added that firms that hire unemployed job seekers could also benefit from a recently-passed tax break that essentially exempts them from paying the 6.2% of the new hire’s wages in Social Security taxes for the rest of this year. It’s a neat and attractive bonus for companies to begin to do what’s right for the economy and the unemployed!