Job Search Market Update: The job market still continues to be tight as evidence by all the statistics such as unemployment, GDP, consumer confidence, etc. The good news is that it has to get better. I predict that we will continue to see a slow improvement going into the the fall. The labor market will continue to be conservative going into the first part of 2011.(Don't forget we have the holiday season to get through)
The momentum should start to pick up speed the early part of 2nd Quarter.(After all the experts analyse the holiday sell through)
The reason for all of this is the consumer is still feeling gun shy from all the false starts and ups and downs of all the artificial mechanisms such as the stimulus checks for clunckers, first time home buyers, refrigerators etc. While the stimulus package was supposed to help, this writer believes that it has hurt the consumers confidence in terms of seeing a true positive consistent economic recovery. This in fact has not happened. In turn organizations are vary morally and financially to make the commitment to hire people if they too can not see a true positive consistent economic recovery. This country needs the consumer confidence to drive this recovery.
Job Search Tips: Be creative. Continue to "mine" the job marketplace every type of way you can.Find out where the job growth is currently.
Assess if some of these job opportunities are somewhat aligned with your past experience. Can you leverage that background into some of these current growth areas?
If not does it make sense for you to go back to school and get some type of education to help you transition your professional background into one of these growth areas or an area that will broaden your current background in a way that makes professional sense.
Job Search Action Item: Indeed. com has a very nice resource that is worth looking into:
Job Trends
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Example: Twitter Job Trends
"Twitter" is the #1 job trend - the fastest growing term over the last year - beating "Cloud Computing" into second place and "iPhone" into third place. The top 10 trends are to the right or you can see the trend for any words or phrases by entering them in the search box above.
Indeed.com searches millions of jobs from thousands of job sites.
This job trends graph shows the percentage of jobs we find that contain your search terms.
Find Twitter jobs
Feel free to share this graph
Insert the code below into any webpage to include this graph:
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With this tool you also have the ability to insert other job titles at the top of the page.
See: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends
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I am dedicated to your success with your job search!
Good luck with your job search,
Eleanor
Eleanor Anne Sweet
www.TheJobSearchExperts.com
Sweet@TheJobSearchExperts.com
Ph: 847-304-4500
The Experts in Job Search Solutions.
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Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 2:44PM