The situation for job seekers is daunting - the country is experiencing record unemployment during a global pandemic and widespread social unrest.
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Even if you know what career direction you want to pursue, spend time examining your field with fresh eyes. Some, such as grocery stores, fast food, telecommunications and healthcare, may not match your original career vision but can provide valuable opportunities. Customer service, analytics and project management skills span all industries. If you need to reconsider your career goals, explore your options.
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Although the first US COVID19 case was noted in January 2020, the initial impact was simply a tiny ripple in the economy. It wasn't until the beginning of March that it began to feel like a tsunami was overtaking our country. Of course, we are all familiar with the narrative…jobs have been lost, the DOW has plunged, and people have suffered so many personal losses.
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How does one manage their career and professional development during a pandemic? Cast offered advice during a recent webinar from Kellogg Executive Education, based on research for his book, The Right-and Wrong-Stuff: How Brilliant Careers Are Made and Unmade.
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According to the Economic Policy Institute, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic could result in employers cutting nearly 20 million employees by July 2020. Some, like Uber and Boeing, have either terminated workers outright or offered buyout packages. Others, like Walt Disney World and Marriott, have placed employees on furlough, with the intention of bringing them back when market conditions stabilize.
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Newly minted college graduates have landed into one of the most difficult job markets in recent memory. Job offers have been rescinded or delayed by months. After two summers interning for Swinerton commercial construction, Caviness secured a full-time job offer.
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The truth is that the decision to hire for a role is never about the candidate's needs as much as it's about the company's needs. Thinking it's all about you is the biggest mistake you can make when looking for a new job, especially right now in a slow job market when the competition is intense.
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Your mind is probably running a million miles a minute, your Google search history and your social media feeds are all coronavirus all the time, and-frankly-you may feel like work is the last thing you care about.
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As companies move to remote work to fight the coronavirus pandemic and an increasing number of workers are being laid off or furloughed, you might be wondering if you should continue to send out resumes or just assume that no one is hiring for the foreseeable future.
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While telecommuting has become more mainstream in recent years-the remote workforce grew 159% between 2005 and 2017-when just 3.4% of Americans work from home at least half of the time, it's not unreasonable to think that many of the employees who have been asked to work from home due to the coronavirus may have little to no experience doing so, or at least not for an extended period of time.
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Americans have pretended that our home lives are irrelevant to our work.
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If you're job searching during Coronavirus disease pandemonium you're probably experiencing delays in the typical process.
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If you're job searching right now, you may be wondering what affect the pandemic will have on hiring and interviewing while hiring managers are out of the office.
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Do you know who gets hired during economic shifts? Those who didn't stop job searching and, instead, kept going.
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