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Posted by: Darrell Castle
February 04, 2010
Topic: Bankruptcy
According to a February 3, 2010 article in the Denver Post, many people are unemployed because they use the wrong tactics in seeking employment. People are unemployed longer than before and therefore they are competing for jobs with yesterday's job search skills the article said. The collapse in the Nation's economy has left so many people unemployed that it is now a buyers' market and the employers are screening much more stringently than before. If a company laid off 500 or 1000 employees, that company will probably hire back only 200-300 and the burden is now on the candidates. What worked before is not working now.
On average women remain unemployed three to five months and 80% of men for at least a year. Some of these people have great backgrounds and are finalists for 6 or 8 jobs. "The successful candidate is the one who builds value, with a strategy on the hiring company. Fewer than 10% of all jobs are gotten via job boards, yet better than 80% of job seekers focus their efforts there, studies show." Translation: Employers do not care about you no matter how grand sounding the propaganda from their Human Resources Departments. Doesn't the term human resources say it all? You are a resource and that's just the way it is in the work world. Employers have to keep an eye on the bottom line if they are to survive and potential employees need to be prepared to let the employer know what value they will add to the company. In other words, you can't afford not to hire me and here's why.
Many people are unaccustomed to selling themselves but in order to find work today, you had better not be one of them. Every person is a business person but few know it. Each worker has a commodity to sell-his or her labor. The employer is a reseller of that commodity. He buys the labor at one price and hopefully resells it for a higher price. The employee, therefore, must know the value of the commodity and become a very good sales person in order to remain or become employed. Show the potential employer why hiring you will be profitable for him. Survival doesn't allow him to run his business based on how badly his employees need work. He must instead hire people who will be profitable for him.
My advice: Become a personal marketer and, by any means necessary, get out of debt.
