Posted by
Jay R on Friday, May 01, 2009 1:52:33 AM
May 1, 2009
To hear some of our valued politicians and members of the MSM from the ground up tell it, American job applicants will be swimming in in job opportunities once the recession ultimately ends. I do not think so. Many years ago I worked on Madison Avenue for an employment agency as a job counselor. My duties were to secure employment openings and match them to job seekers and upon successful placement I made a commission. Maybe I had limited potential in that location but I did learn quite a bit about the nuances of any job market that remain universal. With the exception of skilled labor or hard labor in situations where nobody else has the physical prowess or desire to do a dirty job, it is never easy to get any administrative or executive position at any point in time. After the recession, employers who are savvy will look for bargains in salary levels because they know that job seekers will be hungry . White collar jobs usually require college and can get highly specific considering the course study. I would be amazed if credible trainee jobs will ever evolve because companies cannot withstand the expense of the training process and prefer an individual with concomitant and documented skills in their industry and furthermore, sometimes a following is mandatory. The insurance industry always offers plenty of sales opportunities but if you do not belong to an organization or a religious group or a political party meeting where solicitation is somewhat facilitated, I would say your chances of selling anything will be limited. Then there will be the plethora of scam jobs out there, usually identified as management trainee and travelling million dollar opportunities. Now you too can be a broadcaster or do commercials, and believe me, so many trusting souls fall for these mousetraps. The bridge builder engineers and the infrastructure repair guys will be the first hired. What happens to inner city individuals where unemployment today is 50%? The thought that through magic they are going to somehow ascend into boardrooms makes me wonder why we have not heard that much about job training. Finally there is the job interview, not that easy an experience especially if you have not been on them with much frequency. Most Fortune 500 hundred corporations desire an individual who will reside in an office to be well groomed, clean teeth and fingernails, neatly and appropriately dressed, acceptable content in conversation, decent vocabulary and syntax, non accusatory statements and even tempered. This is a partial list of how to beat out 30 other applicants as stated. A big percentage of people being interviewed for a job walk quietly into the boss man's lair and slink into the chair (posture, posture, posture) and then proceed to "hide" behind their resume. Mr. Obama. who I will not as a Republican nickle and dime him when he achieves something good as he certainly did by beginning credit card reform, in my view is in need of much more refinement in his display of job creation. There is much more to this concept because we are talking about citizens who I believe will not just melt into well paying positions. I would like to understand that plans for extensive job and job getting instructional programs are being considered.
Jay R