Some experts note the phenomenon of unemployed professionals and managers is nothing new.

Still, the top-quality videos can be out of reach for some unemployed professionals.

This year the number of unemployed professionals and managers soared 63 percent, to 1.2 million, and the situation is likely to get worse before it gets better.

The services include everything from dental work and plumbing to psychological counseling and tarot card readings, often proffered by underemployed or unemployed professionals.

Ridgewood's caddy master, Dave Fagerstrom, said the unemployed professionals began trickling in a year or two ago.

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The development center offers remedial math, science and English training for high school dropouts as well as job placement assistance in the region for unemployed professionals.

For some unemployed professionals, the groups humanize the job search and ease the pains of displacement and alienation, especially during long stretches of unemployment.

And Russia - with its swelling rolls of unemployed or underemployed professionals - is a recruiter's dream.

Of course Nate had to have contacts for new business, and he knew a great many currently unemployed professionals who were willing to work for us.