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WSJ.com: Monster.com for Bankers?
Eight unemployed bankers have something to be thankful for today: they've finally gotten their stipple portraits in the pages of the Wall Street Journal.
Well, its online pages, anyway. WSJ.com launched a new blog yesterday called "Laid off and Looking," which promises to track the trials and tribulations of eight pink-slipped M.B.A.s on the job hunt.
So far, we've seen posts from just two of the subjects:
Geoff Hibner, who lost his job as chief financial officer at Banta Corporation last year, recently walked away from another C.F.O. opportunity because the company was smaller than he wanted and there was no short track to C.E.O. He's not desperate, so he keeps looking.
Michael Crehan, on the other hand, appears to be nearing desperation. The former Lehman Brothers senior vice president was laid off from its ratings advisor group in March. Several months ago, he got a stellar job offer in Atlanta, but turned it down because he didn't want to move his family there. Now, he's kicking himself, and says he'd move just about anywhere for a job like that, even "scary" Atlanta.
This blog (or online resume service if you want to call it that) should be an interesting experiment. After all, what better place for jobless executives to grovel for new jobs than the pages of the Wall Street Journal?
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