Wish you a very Happy 2010!
And how about starting 2010 with some upbeat news? Based on an ExecuNet study, the Wall Street Journal reports that executive level jobs will be much in demand in 2010.
Takeaways
Here are some additional takeaways from the study:
- 19% of recruiters are expected to be more busy in 2010 than in 2009 and recruiters will be adding more staff for additional hiring needs.
- Recruiting activity for executive positions will be the strongest in healthcare, clean energy, pharma and high tech industries
- According to a CareerBuilder report, recruiting activity for positions lower down the corporate ladder also is increasing. Recruiting for these positions is expected to be the strongest in information technology, manufacturing, financial services, professional and business services and sales.
Though the reports are based on independent surveys, they do provide insight to conclude that hiring in 2010 will be much more stronger than in 2009.
What are your thoughts on hiring in 2010?
photo credit: Jennie Faber
The number one resource for job seekers is:
- your resume?
- your favorite job board?
- recruiters / headhunters?
- your personal network?
- your professional network?
They are important, but there’s one that is most important….it is….
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Your time.
Time is the single most important resource purely because:
1) once spent, you cannot get it back
2) it is very easy to spend, you literally have to do nothing to spend it (pun intended)
3) as part of your job search, you get to choose how you spend your time – forwarding resumes to people, browsing job websites, researching employers, talking to recruiters, etc.
If you were employed today, you would be having:
- a positive cashflow in terms of your income – regardless of contract or full time work you are getting paid which in essence means increase in your cashflow
- building your career by learning new things, meeting new people and accomplishing things.
In other words, the faster you can get your next job, the better your financial and career situation will be.
Where would you like to invest your time in order to get to your next job faster?
You might have already heard about these statistics: There are six times as many Americans seeking work as there are job openings, and the average duration of unemployment — the time the average job-seeker has spent looking for work — is more than six months, the highest level since the 1930s.
Paul Krugman made an excellent point in his New York Times piece the other day.
To quote:
“You might think, then, that doing something about the employment situation would be a top policy priority. But now that total financial collapse has been averted, all the urgency seems to have vanished from policy discussion, replaced by a strange passivity. There’s a pervasive sense in Washington that nothing more can or should be done, that we should just wait for the economic recovery to trickle down to workers.
This is wrong and unacceptable.”
He exhorted the Federal Government to make ‘creating jobs’ as the numero uno priority.
Couple of his suggestions to immediately improve the job situation are:
- Additional funding for states to improve public services
- Tax credit for employers that increase employees on their payroll
We do need more folks like Paul to pipe on the eve of the forthcoming ‘Jobs Summit’.
Do you have any other ideas that need to put on the table?
