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The nation wakes up to another week of  job losses with nearly 75,000 job cuts announced this Monday and over 500,000 job losses predicted for the month of January. In an interview with Stacy Delo of Market Watch, DJ Patil, Chief Scientist and Sr. Director – Product Analytics at LinkedIn, outlines three different ways job seekers can enhance their chances of finding the right job in this economy.

A common temptation in building a company is to go after too many businesses at once. The best path to business success, according to Hulu CEO Jason Kilar, is the narrow one.

“I’m a big fan of companies that know what they want to be and stay to that,” Jason told us. His online video service Hulu is a good example. The company’s mission is “to help people find and enjoy the world’s premium video content when, where and how they want it.”

Here at LinkedIn, we are always looking for ways to make the world’s professionals more effective through the use of their network. Today, I’m happy to announce the first of several upcoming product features being built through a partnership with IBM’s Lotus, which extends the availability of LinkedIn functionality to Lotus Notes.

Here are three key LinkedIn features that 140 million Lotus Notes users can look forward to:

Everyone across America has been riveted to either their television screens, twitter or flickr feeds these past 24 hours, as 150 passengers & crew of a US Airways Flight survived a crash landing on the Hudson river soon after take off. All eyes are on the pilot, Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger, for his expert handling of the situation. CNN reports:

Passengers on the US Airways flight that crash-landed into the Hudson River Thursday afternoon praised the actions and courage of the pilot, a safety consultant with 40 years of experience in the aviation industry.