I’ve spent a few weeks talking to people around the country about jobs in their areas. There are some surprises in this video!
I've been talking to a lot of people over the last couple of weeks and I thought I would share something with you that I don't think it's talked about all that much. And it's about where the jobs are, what the jobs are and what you ought to be doing.
Now, a lot of you are white collar workers. A lot of you work in white collar jobs and you're tied to big cities by your leases, homes, what have you. I want you to hear me for a moment and this video may not be for you. But I'm going to tell you, I'm going to talk with you about where there are jobs. There are a ton of jobs in smaller US cities. There are ton of jobs in fields like the building trades . . . like if you're an electrician, a plumber, in construction, in one form or another, you don't have to get tied in to working in (I'll use my old area, Long Island in the New York area), you don't have to get tied into the expensive cost of living that you're currently in. There are a lot of good rates and a lot of good salaries in smaller cities around the country.
Like I live in a town in the mountains of western North Carolina. I moved here from the New York area and from northeastern Pennsylvania. I've been here for seven years. I will tell you, folks are crying for talent. I really mean that. Folks are crying here for talent. This is a town that's kind of has a strata to it. There are a lot of retirees in the area and there are a lot of people in hospitality and I know one of the strata that's between those two are all the service professionals who provide Home Services to them.
Like if you do air conditioning or refrigeration, if you're an HVAC person, in other words, if you do plumbing, there are firms here that are dying for folks and you can't attract enough of them.
ow, part of that is the economy. The economy is improved and home prices have gone up, and you can always rent an apartment for yourself and your family, get acclimated, get settled in, make some money, buy your house or sell your house up north and move south and it's less expensive here.
So I just want to say to you that I've been finding this has been universally true throughout the country. Manufacturing jobs. I'm not talking about a guy who moves or a woman move something from here to here . . . and even those folks are finding it easy to find jobs.
So I just want to encourage you spend some time and him think about someplace different. Think about where you might like to live, because this is the time to consider making that move, You can contact firms, one of the fun ways to do it is if you're in the trades, you contact a local Chamber of Commerce. Like if you're in New York, I know you don't think of the Chamber of Commerce all that much, because that's the place for big business people. But if you're in a smaller area, or suburban area, hooking into the local chamber, or to a BNI chapter (Bsiness Networking International, a networking group for small business owners, generally, smaller business owners throughout the world) and hooking in there and trying to connect with, you know, the chamber with the person who runs those chapters in the region that you're thinking of and talking with them about who's trying to hire. Try to set up a phone conversation with them to meet with them on a trip, I'm telling you, you're gonna walk away with jobs.
I'm telling you because throughout the country, there is a common lament that there's no one for manufacturing jobs, there's no one in the skilled trades jobs and if you want a better quality of life where you're not getting taxed to the gills, (I know the real estate taxes in the north, for example, they're brutal, aren't they)? Under the new tax bill, you're not getting the deductions that you once got. So, I'm telling you move to a different area and you're going to find a lot of work.
ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a career and leadership coach who worked as a recruiter for more than 40 years. He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with more than 1300 episodes and his newest show, “No BS Coaching Advice.” He is a member of The Forbes Coaches Council. “No BS JobSearch Advice Radio” was recently named a Top 10 podcast for job search. JobSearchTV.com was also recently named a Top 10 YouTube channel for job search.
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