Searching for a new job can be a difficult and frustrating task especially when you are out of work or when you are in a job you hate and want to escape.

If you can't find a job and are increasingly frustrated with your lack of results, let's look at the possible reasons for this outcome:

1. You are not getting interviews: If you aren't getting interviews, your resume and cover letter are not doing their jobs. Their job is to get you interviews. Either that, or you are applying for the wrong jobs. Your resume and cover letter need to sell you to the employer and show them why you are the best person for the job. Alternatively, are you applying for jobs you really have no chance of getting? If so, don't waste your time or the time of the employer who might eventually have a job that suits you that you should be applying for.

2. You are getting interviews but not job offers. If you are unable to close the deal in the interview process, look for possible problems: Are you coming across as too aggressive or laid back during interviews? Are you asking for too much money? Is your style of dress turning interviewers off? Are you better on paper than you are in person? Get as much feedback as possible (ask for positive and negative feedback) from any employer you interview with who has turned you down for a job. Make improvements for future interviews by fixing your mistakes.

3. Are your references hurting you? This can be a difficult one to figure out but are you certain that your references are speaking as highly of you as you hope and expect? I've done references that actually hurt the candidate! Yes, bad references do happen and they can cost you jobs. Carefully think about who you are using as references and determine if they are helping or hurting you. If you are finding that employers are doing references on you and you are not getting job offers, there might be something wrong in the reference check stage.

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is manufacturing a job in the future

The American recovery from the financial crisis is far from complete. The official national unemployment rate stands at 7.7 percent, as of February. But there are surprising signs of recovery, many of them in the manufacturing sector. What had been written off as the "sick man" of the U.S. economy is now a sector primed for a recovery, analysts say.

According to one estimate by the Boston Consulting Group, as many as 5 million more positions could be recovered by 2020 due, in part, to Chinese labor becoming more expensive and less productive than the American workforce. (This figure includes service-related positions, such as plant janitors and accountants.)

Not everyone is as bullish. Economic analysts question whether these jobs are capable of providing for middle-class families the way old manufacturing jobs did. And a new report by Goldman Sachs, as was reported by the Washington Post, argues that any bounce-back from the financial crisis is really the natural flow of the market, and has nothing to do with a true jobs boom.

So what's really going on with manufacturing? What questions do you want answered? AOL Jobs will host a chat on Friday at 12:30 p.m. EDT, via Google Plus. Joining the chat will be AOL Autos editor-in-chief David Kiley and Travis Parman, of Nissan North America.