Archive for the 'Personal Finance' Category

Recession-proof Your House Budget

Friday, July 17th, 2009

ShareMake your budget immune against recession by calculating your fixed costs and by identifying how much you need monthly for your basic needs, mortgages, basic utility bills, and credit card minimum due payments.  Once you’ve computed how much you need to have to get by, you can focus next on declining, if not totally diminishing, [...]

Networking for Recession-proof Job Hunting

Friday, July 17th, 2009

ShareThe best way to find that perfect recession-proof job during an economic downturn is to network your way to that dream job. There is no guarantee that you will find a recession-proof employment, but the best thing to do is to develop a group of contacts that can give you some career information that will [...]

Top Career Shifts During Recession

Friday, July 17th, 2009

ShareSome of the fastest growing jobs despite the recession include the jobs such as environmental scientist, hydrologist or geoscientist, and mathematician jobs.  It means that the jobs of scientists, such as physicists and biologists, as well as jobs such as actuaries, statisticians, accountants, and software engineers are the top careers during a recession.  The problem [...]

Difficulty of Looking for a New Job During Recession

Friday, July 17th, 2009

ShareRecession brings about impermanence.  Whether you’re a business owner, an entrepreneur, or an employee, the unemployment that recession brings affects you.  You get laid off from work; companies shut down operations; and there are job cuts everywhere.  And it makes job searching even more difficult for you.  So, if you are a victim of a [...]

Paying for Car Loans when Newly Unemployed

Friday, July 17th, 2009

ShareSince unemployment is on the rise during this time of economic recession, more and more people are finding themselves out of a job yet with so many bills due for settling each month.  One most common dilemma faced by professionals affected by the global crisis is the paying of their car loans. And as much [...]