Local Author Guides Job-Seekers Through Unemployment Wilderness
Lisa Mauri Thomas turned her expertise with executives into help for average workers.
If a nurse in between jobs in 2002 was suddenly transported to December 2012 and tried to carry on with their quest for employment, chances are they would find the job search world had turned upside-down. Now, a local author is trying to help nurses find their way through this new kind of hunt. "If you compare job postings 10 years ago to those now, it's like night and day. A few years ago, it would have said 'licensure required, overnights,' now there are so many different specialty areas," Southwest Minneapolis author Lisa Mauri Thomas said. "It was always billed as a career where you can get into it and have a good deal of job security. Turns out, that's not really the case anymore." In between the Great Recession and a profusion of …
