Obama Job Market & Tough Economy Networking VOL III, Issue 1
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Welcome to the Career Pulse from FPC (F-o-r-t-u-n-e Personnel Consultants), Your Executive Recruiting Partners.
In this issue, FPC highlights the jobs expected to be in high demand based on the Obama administration's initiatives and discusses how networking has never been more important than in the current economic climate.
The Obama Job Market - Jobs in High Demand
Many Americans have either lost their jobs or are worried about losing their jobs. Some of those who have been laid off are taking this opportunity to prepare themselves to move in a new direction in their career as we move into a new administration. President Obama laid out his ideas for economic recovery in his American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, the goal of which is to “save or create at least three million jobs over the next few years…the overwhelming majority of the jobs created will be in the private sector…”
People want to know where the job creation will be. There are over 90 million search results in Google for the phrase “new jobs” and a similar number for “obama jobs.” Looking at the initiatives tells us where we can expect to see these new jobs.
In This Economy, Networking is More Important Than Ever
In a Forbes.com article entitled “How to Headhunt the Headhunters”, a recruiter is quoted as saying that he gets about 100 résumés a week, but rarely looks at any of them. What? A recruiter that doesn’t even look at the resumes he is being sent? How can that be? That’s because the number of unsolicited resumes a recruiter receives grows exponentially as more and more people become un-employed. And that means there isn’t enough time in the day to work on making matches between clients and candidates whose resumes they sought and the numerous resumes that come in – many of which aren’t in their area of specialty. Recruiters do want to know about you, you just need a new way of getting in front of them.
If sending unsolicited resumes isn’t going to work, there is something else you can do to get seen by hiring companies AND recruiters.
Learn what tools you should be using to network in this economy
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