No Help Wanted: Review of Ehrenreich's latest

[MountainLaurel]

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.--Maybe it was the missing lapel pin that doomed Barbara Ehrenreich's search.

She couldn't get a job and she couldn't figure out why. She'd hired job coaches, haunted Internet job boards, endlessly massaged her résumé and networked, networked, networked. She'd paid an "image management" consultant to help her upgrade her wardrobe.

But she never got around to replacing her sedate silver pin -- deemed "not corporate" by her clothing guru -- with the recommended gold.

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The beaten-down, middle-aged job seekers she encountered along the way, however, lack the luxury of such a fallback position. And as for still-employed fiftysomethings, fortysomethings and thirtysomethings who will likely make up much of her book's readership, Ehrenreich's failure story is a chiller.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/06/AR2005090601923.html

[Cassandra]

1. It was originally called Bait and Switch

I read an advance copy distributed at the book expo. It was very good.
Edit: I see it's still called Bait and Switch. I thought they had changed the title.

[MountainLaurel]

2. Nope ... that's the article title

Didn't want the Moderator Gods to invoke their wrath for not posting properly.

:evilgrin: