With many talented workers experiencing stretches of unemployment, employers are taking a harder look at unpaid experience. Here’s what to include—and what to leave out.

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Craving a new career?

You’re not alone — workers are less satisfied with their jobs than they were five years ago, and one out of three is seriously considering walking out the door, according to human resources consultancy Mercer.

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While unemployment continues to ravage this country enough to where Hallmark has launched a line of “Sorry you lost your job” sympathy cards, no one will deny that a promising professional future lies in the tech industry. Bubbles grow and pop, but if you can write a killer line of code or streamline a web app design, companies will always need you.

But it’s not like you won’t have competition.

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Unemployment, job dissatisfaction and sheer guts created startup success for these seven entrepreneurs.

Most young people in their 20s and 30s wouldn’t remember “Take This Job and Shove It,” a 1978 country hit sung famously by Johnny Paycheck.

But these days, they probably can appreciate the sentiment.

For millennials, those born in the 1980s and 1990s, finding employment has not been easy. And when they do, it can be pretty crummy: long hours, low pay and little security.

For some, a good solution has been entrepreneurship.

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In today’s labor market, a well-paid, lucrative job may sound like wishful thinking. We have all heard grim stories of unsuccessful job hunting, but the news is not all dire. According to career site PayScale.com, the good news is that certain industries are still offering fast growing jobs in this otherwise slow-growth economy.

Not all jobs are ‘hot,’ but those looking to start a new career might be helped by looking specifically at certain jobs that pay well in growing industries. These jobs are largely specialized roles that require dedication and are traditionally available to those with a bachelor’s degree.

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If you’re among the 14 million Americans looking for work, you already know that in today’s world, landing a job is less about pounding the pavement and more about pounding the keyboard.

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Although the U.S. employment and jobs economic outlook is bleak, a new study released today reports that Facebook is creating a thriving economy around its social network. According to new research from University of Maryland, the Facebook App Economy has added at least 182,000 new jobs and contributed more than $12.19 billion in wages and benefits to the U.S. economy this year. Using more aggressive estimates, the Facebook App Economy created a total of 235,644 jobs, adding a value of $15.71 billion to the U.S. economy in 2011.

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The job search game has changed quite a bit over the past decade; applications are now processed online, and social media accounts are becoming just as valuable in reviewing applicants as the actual resume. Before you presume that the old rules don’t apply, however, check out these classic errors that could be costing you the next big job opportunity.

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Call me old-fashioned. At age 52, I still struggle with, and sometimes resist, 21st-century technology. When I first started getting invitations to connect on LinkedIn a few years ago, I winced. Do I have to do this, I wondered. But I begrudgingly spent a hasty five minutes clicking through one of those invitation e-mails and filling out some basic information about myself. Then I left the site.

From time to time after that I’d get invites and messages. Often I ignored them, or put them off for another day. Since Facebook seemed more fun, with its photos and games and fan pages, I spent much more time there, accumulating more than 200 “friends,” revising my bio several times, and posting my article links.

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One of my favorite Gladwellian Theories (Malcolm Gladwell is the king of cool theories) is thin-slicing: the ability to find patterns and make decisions based on the combination of a limited set of data and a wealth of experience. Call them hunches, call them snap decisions, but more often than not thin-slice judgments turn out to be accurate.

Like where hiring employees is concerned.

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Adults are doing it. Using online social networking sites, that is.

Two-thirds of adult internet users now say they use a social networking site like MySpace, Facebook or LinkedIn, more than double the percentage that reported social networking site usage in 2008, according to a new survey released Friday by the Pew Research Center.

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Summer is a season to relax, unless you’re a job seeker.

Given the steep competition for jobs, people who are energized and organized, and those who avoid lazy mistakes, are the likeliest to land a spot.

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Location, prestige, academic reputation and tuition are major factors for students in the college selection process, but post-graduate salary is something rarely taken into consideration.

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Surprising as it might sound, today’s job market is making a strong effort to counter-balance the sluggish economy, industry experts say.

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Google+ hit 20 million unique visitors this week, and the company launched a mobile app. The stats are impressive, but the new social network has room to grow in catching up with its massive competitors Twitter and Facebook.

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Conventional wisdom says that the higher your degree, the higher your salary. A study by the College Board shows that the median salary of a worker holding a bachelor’s degree is more than $20,000 higher than the salary of a high school graduate.

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Just where does your resume go after you hit the submit button on a job application? Turns out, it’s not into a big black hole.

After hearing repeated complaints from the unemployed about their job applications disappearing into the void, CNNMoney decided to examine how a company fills a job posting.

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We know how important it is to proactively manage our career for the long-term but we’re busy just staying afloat with what we need to do right now. We always have time to brush our teeth. Is there a way to build in good career habits in 5 minutes a day? Here are 10 ideas:

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A non-profit executive with 20 years of experience in strategy, operations and development is looking for a six-figure salary, but getting called into positions for half that. A former management consultant with a successful track record of building businesses over 20 years was at six-figures before the market downturn and is now seeing risky start-ups offering almost no cash salary. Would you advise these experienced professionals to take these leads seriously or move on?

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