by Peter Lloyd for Job Hunting
If there were a job waiting for each of us, a job search would involve nothing more than finding it. A job search, then, could accurately be called a job search. Today, with six of us scrambling for every one available job (15.5 million job seekers v. 2.4 million jobs), we need a new name for what we do every day.
Job race, job wars, employment scrum? It’s more like a melée for positions out here. While the ratio shows signs of improving, we can’t just wait for the day when there are six jobs for every job seeker—the day when our biggest headache is figuring out which combination of salaries, bonuses, perks, and benefits suits us best.
The obvious strategy for standing out from the other six has most of us working to improve every angle of our search—resumés, networking, interviewing skills, cover letters, follow-up calls. Since this is the obvious strategy, most of the other five looking at our target job are doing the same. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: employment, freelance writing, odd jobs, school bus, unemployment
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by Peter Lloyd for Job Hunting
The number-one crappy job, as determined by the whiners on askmen.com, is hiring and firing call-center staff. Give me a break! Number two goes to the people who manually stimulate pigs in order obtain their tissue for research and breeding purposes.
Come on! No matter how long the current job dearth continues, no matter what we have to do in order to hold body and soul together until it does, nothing will approach the kind of job Bruneseau offered. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Bruneseau, Ed Norton, Jackie Gleason, job description, job search, lousey job, Naploeon, odd jobs, staffing, The Honeymooners
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by Peter Lloyd for Creative Experts, Job Hunting
While leading economic indicators say we just might be pulling out of the worst recession since the Great Depression, some of us looking for creative jobs and IT jobs aren’t feeling any employment relief just yet and might not for some time.
A law developed by economist Arthur Okun in the 1960s has accurately predicted for a long time the decline in employment based on the decline in output of goods and services.
Not this time. Right now, available jobs are disappearing faster than Okun’s Law allows. See “The New Joblessness” by Roger Lowenstein. That’s why some of us have taken jobs we might not have considered a few years ago. And like a lot of things in life, there have been some surprises. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: odd jobs, recession
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