An interesting trend that is developing is the unemployment rate folks with high education is much lower than the unemployment rate for college dropouts or lower.
Let’s consider the unemployment rate for a minute.
Though 10% unemployment sounds pretty dire, what about 90% of the people that are still employed? Let me explain.
You are taking the morning train into work and 90% of the people are sitting down and 10% of the people are standing up. Statistically speaking, what are your chances of getting a seat? As the train keeps making stops and people keep getting off and getting into the train, you have a pretty high chance of getting a seat.
Apply that to our current job scenario. Even in our current employment environment, there’s still quite a bit of natural churn – attrition and hiring.
If you can play your cards even a little bit correctly, you’ll get a seat. And then you should hold onto that seat until you find a better one.
Many of you have been awaiting this moment – to register for the first CareerTiger bootcamp. Wait no more.
Silicon Valley Job Bootcamp is on June 13th and promises to be a phenomenal event for people looking for their next job.
It arms you with job search skills and techniques. And then it puts you right in front and center of a panel of recruiters and headhunters.
More information and registration
As you and your friends start register for this event, I cannot help but congratulate you with this Dr. Suess poem:
And when things start to happen, don’t worry. Don’t stew. Just go right along. You’ll start happening too.
Oh! The Places You’ll Go!
You’ll be on your way up!
You’ll be seeing great sights!
You’ll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.
Similar to our earlier posting around using Slideshare, here is a classic Jason Alba blog entry that provides a great idea to share your personal brand / story on LinkedIn:
Create a powerpoint presentation that is focused JUST on YOU. Load that into Slideshare.net (I would create a new, different account, so that when I add it to LnkedIn, it doesn’t pull in all of my presentations, just the ONE that I want to put on my Profile), and then add the slideshare app to my Profile with that new username.
