"The Early Show on Saturday" to air jobs summit

"The Early Show on Saturday" on July 9, will feature CBS News Business and Economics correspondent Rebecca Jarvis hosting a live job summit where unemployed workers can ask experts for specific help in navigating the job market in this difficult economy. The summit comes on the day after the Department of Labor releases its highly-anticipated monthly jobs report.

Jarvis will be joined by John Challenger, chief executive officer of Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., a global outplacement consulting firm, whose insight is frequently sought out by major foreign and domestic broadcast and print media. In addition, Nicole Williams, Connection Director at LinkedIn and career contributor at Shape magazine will be sharing advice for job seekers.

Jarvis, Challenger and Williams will answer questions raised by 12 unemployed panelists. Some of the questions experts plan to address include the following:

• What methods of job searching are most successful?
• With new social media outlets, are there other job search or networking tools that should be utilized?
• Should job seekers apply for positions that they're overqualified for?
• What should not be done in an interview?
• What is the best way to follow up post-interview?
• What are the best ways to avoid "long-term job applicant" burnout?

[CometoWoodstock]

I AM HIRING!!!
But I cannot afford the prices some of the classified websites the job hunters are using. You should talk about the sky-rocketing costs to find applicants for jobs.
I need valuable employees BUT I CANNOT AFFORD TO FIND THEM!

[James_Winstanley]

My best tips for those looking for work:

You get a no in your job-seeking process, get more determined, not bummed out, and learn from it.

You'll get plenty of "No's" before you finally get that yes. Make a decision that something is gonna give, and it ain't gonna be you.

I am currently working after 2 years of unemployment. And I got plenty of "No's" and turndowns before I got the "Yes".

[ddlc0323]

We can't afford any longer to wait for our elected officials to create jobs. Go to www.joinchangenation.org to join thousands of Americans as they participate in 'house meetings' next weekend to brainstorm CONCRETE IDEAS on how to create jobs. Together we can get our economy back on track!

[Dr-Quack]

I wish people would stop all this nonsense about skills. Forget skills!! Contrary to popular belief in the REAL WORLD skills don't mean a thing. Its EXPERIENCE that employers want to see. You can have skills dripping out of your eyes and ears and a college degree in some chosen field but if you have no experience with the employer's custom designed, proprietary software or gizmo then you're nothing but a wannabe. I have a closet full of rejection letters all saying "...not enough experience." or "...we hired someone with a better background" You don't get experience in your chosen career field when potential employers always see you as a rank beginner. Your best job has to find you. You're own looking around, education, skills and efforts only go so far. You can look as much as you want but its like looking for a ghost, something that's not there. When employers really start recognizing APTITUDE over experience, the WILLINGNESS TO LEARN over work history, THEN maybe things might start moving. The best training starts AFTER you're hired.

PEOPLE DON'T HIRE WANNABES.

[KSandru62]

Two other questions need to be asked:

1)Is there age discrimination in hiring decisions, since the majority of those who have been unemployed the longest are age 40 and over, and are the least likely to be hired.

2)Should credit checks be eliminated from the hiring process? Again, long-term unemployed who are suffering from credit problems due to their unemployment status cannot get a job. It's a vicious circle - you need a job to pay bills, yet you can't get hired because of credit issues suffered while unemployed, etc.