By: Joseph Pisani
CNBC News Associate

Should you move to find a job?

Career experts advise unemployed job seekers to first exhaust all options in their current town or city before considering a move.

“Try to make a change locally first,” said Paul Sorbera, president of Alliance Consulting, a Wall Street executive search firm in New York City. “When people get frustrated with that, they can start to look somewhere else.”

But if conditions in your area are not improving, a job search in another city might be your only option. Here are some tips from career experts on making a move:

1. Search first, then move.
2. Where to look. Washington, D.C., San Jose, Calif., Baltimore, Boston and New York are the front runners.
3. Research the area. Use regional and national job boards.
4. Be up front about relocating.Say something like ‘I am moving to your city,’ don’t say you’re ‘thinking about it.’ Include your address in your resume; leaving it out will raise suspicions of potential employers.

Now is a great time for an inventors because businesses want to pull themselves out of this economic slump, and they're looking for smart ideas, according to Steve Greenberg, author of "Gadget Nation" a book that describes quirky inventors who have dreamed up everything from a talking toilet paper dispenser to a "Vidstone" grave marker that displays a video tribute of the dearly departed.

Then too, the demand for green products has also increased demand for inventors, says Alan Tratner, who has run an inventory workshop since 1971. "There's this whole new rich area that's developed since the late 1990s," says Tratner, who is based in Santa Barbara, California. "This is a new age of opportunity."

Andrea Belz, a management consultant who specializes in technology commercialization for companies, says this is a "fabulous" time for inventors because labor and real estate is cheap.

"A lot of money is looking for good places to go," she says. "There's a desire to invent. If you have a good idea, there's actually less competition for money."

Inventors are "the grass roots of this country's ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit," says Greenberg, who demonstrates inventions on TV shows and writes an "Innovation Insider" column for magazines and newspapers.

"They're what make America great," Greenberg says. "It's the ultimate American dream to dream of a product and bring it to the market."

Five small business marketing trends for 2010

Social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, coupled with the iPhone App Store is putting a whole new face on small business marketing. Here are five trends business experts say will shape small business marketing in 2010.

Right now is really right now
Many search results in 2010 will be in real time. Instant gratification is here. Forget knowing a high school football score online six minutes after the game ends. An iPhone app called Shazam can tell you what's playing on a bar's stereo and if you want to buy it you can get it from iTunes as soon as you know the name of the song.

Location, location, location
Augmented reality and location aware services such as Foursquare, Loopt and Google Latitude are being mentioned in the media and if you don't know what these are, perhaps you should.

Cloudy with a chance of clouds
Google Apps, Microsoft Office Live and Google Docs allow document and spreadsheet sharing with vastly reduced costs and real time collaboration. Even project, task and scheduling tools such as Central Desktop, Backpack and others allow remote workers in a global supply chain to work together in a practical manner. Apps such as GoToMeeting, WebEx and even Skype
allow people to connect and consult in richer ways.

Filter in down
OK, you can get a vast amount of data in seconds on nearly everything but can it be turned into useful information? Yes, because you can find out what people you know have said about what ever it is you're searching for.

One from column A, one from column B
The race will be on to find the best way to merge the online and offline experience. Face-to-face meetings convey way more information than any online presence. Going to a meeting at somebody's office tells you what part of town they're in, the depth or lack of carpeting, the age of the furniture, the personal grooming of the person you're meeting and many many other subliminal things. The next big thing might be something that goes further into getting the face to face experience without really being there.

There ARE jobs available that pay well* and that you don't need a degree
to get. Here are twenty such:
1. Aides supervisor $60K
Supervise home-health aides, monitor care quality, set work schedules.

2. Assembly supervisor $59K
Oversee workers who work with power tools or other dangerous equipment.

3. Assistant construction site manager $86K
At a construction site, assistant site managers report to head site managers and plan, direct and coordinate the necessary tasks to complete each day's activities.

4. Automobile service station manager $81K
Draws guidelines for gas stations and car repair shops. Decides hours of operation, assigns job duties, sets prices.

5. Cable supervisor $71K
Monitor installation and repair cable workers.

6. Carpenter supervisor $70K
Oversee schedule and execution of carpentry work. Work hands on as needed.

7. Chemical supervisor $67K
Oversee workers who handle dangerous chemical substances. Ensure guideline compliance.

8. Construction equipment operator $50K
Operator large tools and equipment used on construction sites. Perform safety and performance inspections.

9. Credit and collection supervisor $61K
Manage employees who calculate credit risks and collections. Review client credit histories.

10. Data control supervisor $61K
Manage data entry workers. Ensure completion and accuracy of work. Work hands on as needed.

11. Electrical repairer $58K
Disassemble and repair electrical equipment and components.

12. Flight service manager $67K
Ensures flight attendants personal appearance and preflight requirements are met. Compile flight reports.

13. Gas plant operator $64K
Monitor pipelines pressures to ensure plant safety.

14. Home care aide supervisor $66K
Manage home care aides who help homebound patients with daily activities and certain rehabilitation exercises.

15. Housekeeping manager of a medical facility $60K
Sets team schedules and tasks for housekeeping team. Ensure compliance with health and safety guidelines.

16. Illustrator $54K
Design fonts, images, video for Web, print and video. Often a freelance position.

17. Lead carpenter $68K
Ensure construction projects are completed on time and correctly. Work hands on as needed.

18. Locomotive engineer $70K
Drive electric, diesel-electric or gas-turbine electric trains.

19. Payroll supervisor $63K
Oversee payroll employees complaince with company policy, government regulations and tax codes.

20. Route sales manager $65K
Monitor delivery teams for performance, customer satisfaction and efficiency.

*Salary figures based on data from CBsalary.com, powered by SalaryExpert.com

According to the U.S. Department of Labor the February unemployment report showed the unemployment rate remaining steady at 9.7 percent but job loss fell less than expected. Some believe this shows that the U.S. economy is finally beginning to improve. According to Monster.com's CEO Sal Iannuzzi, "Businesses that find a hiring advantage can lead the economic recovery."

Business growth is always spurred by two things: innovation and marketing. In the social marketing field innovation abounds with emerging social and business networking (such as Make Millions Together), career networks and targeted job advertising all serve to help employers quickly find the best candidates and job seekers to find the right jobs faster than ever before.

Innovation doesn't end there however. Soon you will be reading electronic price cards on the shelves of supermarkets that not only tell you the price but can offer images, nutritional information and more. Soon you'll be having your iPhone know where you are in a store so the phone can receive special offers available only on your phone and only when you're in the correct department to take advantage of the offer. Talk about targeting!

Underpinning all of these developments -- whether it's social or business networking or faster-time-to-market in software development -- is collaboration. Being able to find and access almost anything -- or anyone -- in minutes or hours instead of days, months or sometimes never, is a truly astounding concept that we are only beginning to witness the effects of.