TIPS FROM A PRO Suggested strategies

It's not a situation anyone wants to be in, but unemployed workers forced to look for a survival job can make the best of it by adopting certain strategies. Here are some tips from Sharee Wells, a job counselor with Bernard Haldane Associates.
Look for a job that allows you to learn a new skill, particularly something marketable to another employer.
Shoot for a position that may give you a foot in the door of a company or organization that could offer better opportunities down the line.
Think about jobs that, however different, are in some way related to what you were doing before.
In some circumstances, take any job while you continue to search. Earning a paycheck will bring some relief and make you appear less desperate, and that can improve your chances with other employers.
If you've taken such a position, but it does nothing to enhance your r & eacute;sum & eacute;, consider leaving it off all together. "Your r & eacute;sum & eacute; is a brochure. It's not your autobiography," Wells says.
Source: Associated Press