Ask Asa Viewer Questions Answered If you are unemployed, you know it’s a jobless jungle out there. To help you navigate the employment terrain and find a job, NY1 Employment reporter Asa Aarons has answers to some of the questions viewers have been sending in.

• With High Unemployment Comes High Hiring Rates: Even as the national jobless rate jumps to a 26-year high last month and some local areas are coping with even higher unemployment rates, labor offices are very busy helping applicants get hired.
•  Many Job Seekers Shocked By Current Hiring Practices: People new to the job hunt are finding many differences in the way they are treated by prospective employers.
•  Turning The Tables On Negative Hiring Practices: Today’s highly competitive job market has some companies ruffling the feathers of applicants over their sometimes inconsiderate hiring practices.
•  Tiny Details Help Job Seekers Stand Out As Winners: When even the best paper resume is not enough, NY1’s Employment reporter Asa Aarons has some ideas to help job applicants stand out from the competition.
•  Ask Asa: Viewer Questions Answered: If you are unemployed, you know it’s a jobless jungle out there. To help you navigate the employment terrain and find a job, NY1’s Asa Aarons has answers to some of the questions viewers have been sending in.
•  Laid-Off Duo Creates Virtual Bazaar: A new website created by two recently laid-off women helps small businesses find customers on the Internet.
• A New Job Each Day Is Zach Bliss’s Way: Zach Bliss is a New Yorker who is trying to learn about the job market by working a different job every day for an entire year. 
• Future Builders Learn Eco-Friendly Techniques: A training program in the South Bronx gets students to learn to use eco-friendly construction and materials to boost their budding building careers.
• Alumni Networks A Useful Tool For Job Seekers: Whether you graduated from college last month or several decades ago, your alumni association could be loaded with helpful employment information and job leads. 
• Franchises Can Be A Worker’s Best Friend: A Staten Island woman let her career go the dogs, but she couldn’t be happier about setting up her own pet care franchise. 
• Father And Son Know Best In Shaky Job Market: A father and son partnership is looking to take on an industry that’s tough to break into no matter what the job climate may be.  
• Give Best Earful In Phone Interviews: Jobs hunters should prepare for a phone interview but still act natural.
• Current Job Seekers Embrace Old-Fashioned Methods: Hundreds of city residents recently lined up at a job fair in the Bronx as one of the nation’s largest retailers begins recruiting for its newest location.
• Perfect A 15-Second Job Pitch: One employment expert says the difference between getting a job or not could be just 15 seconds.
• Job Interview Do’s And Dont’s Focus Of New Book: The author of a new book is helping to let job seekers know that there are a lot of factors that go into a successful job interview.
• An Unemployed New Yorker’s Job Plea: One of the city’s 350,000 unemployed shared her story with NY1’s Employment reporter Asa Aarons.
• Expressions Of A Job Interview, Part 1: Experts say body language can have a large impact on how well you come across during a job interview.
• Expressions Of A Job Interview, Part 2: You may want the job, but your body language could send a different message.

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