detroit s business district. so far she s gotten on the news but not a job. she s been out of work for 18 months now. we re going to give it a try and ask her to do a 30-second pitch. first, though, denise. tell us about this board and what gave you this idea. well, i have been searching for a job online for about a year and a half. then i decided to go i looked in the yellow pages and went and joined a lot of temporary agencies trying to seek employment, and i try to stay positive, and every couple of days, if no one s responded, then i decided to take my resumés, caught the bus downtown and went to several businesses like door to door, trying to seek employment, but most people would say, go online. so i just go ahead, i m sorry. i m sorry, what made me do
there. i sent a resumé to channel 4, and i was waiting for maybe an interview to get a job. let s get down to business. are you ready for your 30-second pitch? wonderful. take it away, denise reese jennings. my name is denise reese jennings. i have 15 years of executive level experience. i possess skilled assets that would be beneficial to your company. i m a great multi tasker and have a very positive attitude. i will bring uncanny dedication to your job each day. i am a very personalable i can take orders and carry out orsd with little instruction, and i m a very good team player and can take leadership if i need to. you are extremely creative. denise reece one word atia who
that is you see the people that s homeless and people wanting handouts. i thought to myself, i don t want any handouts. i m capable and able to and ready to work. i thought, i wonder if anybody ever put their resumé on a poster. i went to kinko s and said would you be able to put my resumé as tall as i am, and they said, yeah. that s a first. sure, denise, we ll do that for you. yeah. i kept trying to convince myself, this seems positive, so i m going to do it. i just went for it. i got up at 8:00, went there and got it done. they went able to put it on the board i saw. it cost more money than i wanted to. so i went down to arts and crafts, and a lady there helped me. she gave me cardboard. i got a glue stick, took it home, had my son help me.
stores generally hire extra workers during the holiday season but they are touting it right now because of the horrible job market. there is a glimmer of hope that it does appear that most of the stores are hiring more than they did in previous years but we got another reminder of the weak job market. 445,000 people joined the unemployment lines. in a healthy economy it would be in the 300,000 range. new claims actually fell by 11,000 last week. it could be a sign that layoffs are slowing, but it doesn t look like investors are thinking that. let s look at the early numbers here at the new york stock exchange. back to you. thanks. one lady s job hunt grabbed our attention. too bad it hasn t grabbed an employer s attention yet. we are talking about denise reese jennings. she put her resumé on a big board and started walking around
the threat that s still alive, still out there and lethal. also, the war s toll on the military and their families. heroes coming home like this. for nine years now. and this morning, the fighting doesn t stop. neither do the attempts at peace talks. president hamid karzai meeting with a group of prominent afghans to discuss ways to talk to the taliban. however, a taliban spokesperson says that peace talks won t happen until u.s. and nato troops withdraw. militants keep targeting nato convoys. there have been at least six attacks in pakistan in a week. at least six people killed. dozens of trucks destroyed. let s get one more attempt to talk about this peace initiative that s on the table. ivan watson live in kabul. what do you think, ivan? can it happen? reporter: well, hi there, kyra. what we have seen from the karzai government for years is aa an atempt to try to convince taliban commanders to put down the weapons and those efforts largely failed an enwhat we saw here