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A Little Face Time with Meredith Vieira

April 22, 2009 at 9:32 am Tina Hay Leave a comment

On the one hand, Farnoosh Torabi ’02 lost her job last month. On the other hand, she got to talk to Meredith Vieira about it on the Today show yesterday.

We first learned about Farnoosh last year when she wrote a book called You’re So Money: Live Rich, Even When You’re Not (Three Rivers Press) and was working as a correspondent for TheStreet.com. I picked her to be the moderator for our roundtable on the economy, which ran in the July-August issue of our magazine. I hadn’t been in touch with her after that, until yesterday, when a friend on Facebook posted a link to her interview on the Today show. Turns out Farnoosh was laid off from TheStreet.com about a month ago. She talked with Meredith Vieira as part of the show’s “Get a Job” series, offering some good suggestions for her peers—younger workers—about how to make use of things like Twitter and Facebook to network your way back into a job.

Here’s the video clip of the Today interview.

Tina Hay, editor

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