Number of people voluntarily leaving jobs steeply up
With national unemployment still hovering around 9 percent and “job creation” the term on every politician’s lips, you’d think employed North Americans would be happy to just have jobs — and you’d be wrong.
Arecentsurvey by Right Management, a Philadelphia talent and career management firm, yielded some astonishing results: For the second year in a row, 84 percent of more than 1,000 employees surveyed said they plan to look for other jobs in 2012. The percentage of workers who said they intended to stay in their jobs remained steady, too — at a shocking
5 percent.
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Posted on Jan 05, 2012 under
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Number of people voluntarily leaving jobs steeply up
FranNet President and COO Jania Bailey. From FranNet.
With national unemployment still hovering around 9 percent and “job creation” the term on every politician’s lips, you’d think employed North Americans would be happy to just have jobs — and you’d be wrong.
A recent survey by Right Management, a Philadelphia talent and career management firm, yielded some astonishing results: For the second year in a row, 84 percent of more than 1,000 employees surveyed said they plan to look for other jobs in 2012. The percentage of workers who said they intended to stay in their jobs remained steady, too — at a shocking 5 percent.
Those data take on even more meaning when you consider that huge numbers of Americans, even with the economy in the shape it’s in, are actually quitting their jobs. Nearly 2 million voluntarily quit in May 2011, up 35 percent from January 2010, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Voluntarily quit, often without another job lined up.
So what’s going on?
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One of my favorite things I’ve ever heard Joshua say in the times I’ve had a chat with him is that “your resume is your obituary.”
When you consider the fact that your resume is really nothing more than a series of all the things you’ve accomplished in your PAST it really is an obituary. With the rise of social media the resume is going to die a rather quick and painful death and
unlikely to ever lead you to your dream job. I’ve gone so far as to write at the end of each cover letter “my resume is not going to tell you as much about me as my blog, podcast, and online presence.”
... Read more Posted on Dec 13, 2011 under
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I’m always on the prowl for new tools to help market my clients effectively. A leading-edge marketing strategy can help differentiate you in a crowded market and get your phone to ring more frequently.
Lately I’ve been fascinated with the growing use of the
QR code. QR (quick response) codes are currently one of the hottest trends in marketing. They’re popping up everywhere, including
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Posted on Nov 30, 2011 under
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Technology,
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Barbara Safani.
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It’s hard to get excited about a job search. Even less so about job search tools. Well, I have something that I think you’ll really be grateful for if you give it a chance. You can be thankful for Twitter for being Twitter. Rather than being the frivolous waste of time you think it might be, Twitter is in fact your Swiss army knife of Job Search tools. Here are my top 10 reasons to be grateful for Twitter.
- “Micro-blogging” platform: Allows you a chance to share your thoughts in a novel, quick way. It allows you to build your brand, to stand out and to conduct “Knowledge-Powered Networking”, connecting with people through sharing knowledge.
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My grandparents were farmers. They were immigrants – both born in what is today Germany. You can imagine being about three years old and coming to America where you speak no English, and you’re about to be raised on a farm doing something that was alien to your father (he was a cabinet maker). You realize you are responsible for your own destiny. To achieve your goals, you’ll need to do more than … Read more
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I asked
intRvue found and CEO Frank Rolles to demo his online resume building tool for me. This is amazing stuff.
The premise behind
intRvue is that a resume is flat and doesn’t tell your story well. But a multi-media website can tell a great story. The problem is most people don’t have the time or resources to develop their own websites.
His product allows you to have fully interactive content, customized and managed from an easy to use dashboard. So far, I haven’t seen anything this robust on the market.
Check out this quick, 5 minute, video, and see if this is a product you might want to use for your own job search.
... Read more Posted on Nov 16, 2011 under
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10 years ago we didn’t have Facebook. 10 years before that, we didn’t have the consumer web. 1000s of new job titles have spawned from new technology, globalisation and cultural shifts in the last few years alone. So what jobs do we expect to see in 20 years time? Which industries will thrive and which will fade to black? Well, we’ve dusted off the old crystal ball at
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If you’re nowhere near retirement age yet (a number that keeps changing, by the way), you might not have given much thought to the possible impact the latest recession has made on the concept and timing of retirement. It’s something that you might want to think about, though, because ignoring it could be a recipe for disaster.
... Read more Posted on Nov 09, 2011 under
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Dan Zarrella, one of my favorite social media analysts, just released an infographic showing which words are most connected in LinkedIn. And the results are quite interesting.
Dan looked at the Titles and Summaries of 40,000 randomly selected LinkedIn profiles in order to see if certain profiles had more connections than others, and what that pattern might look like.
Not surprisingly, Recruiters and Investors seem to have very large networks.
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