No BS Career Advice: September 22, 2024
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
As you may know, LinkedIn offers news summaries with links back to the original source material. I that these summaries are generally terrific. On Friday, they offered this synopsis to a Bloomberg article about the Federal Reserve Bank’s rate cut. It included this sentence, “That means the tightest monetary cycle in decades, which came to a close with the half-percentage point reduction, may not result in recession or job losses.”
For those of us on LinkedIn who have experienced job loss or seen the constant sharing of #opentowork posts in our feed for two years, in my opinion, it demonstrates a disconnect between people in certain roles and economic strata with what is happening in the real world.
It is like when the federal jobs report is summarized, and we don’t go past the headline of the number of jobs created to read how many of these jobs are part-time or how many fit the work that LinkedIn users do. We don’t see that many of the jobs for the past two years were government jobs or government-adjacent like social services and healthcare (heavily supported by government at the federal, state, and local levels). Many people I speak with feel hurt and pain that they are not among those finding work or even being interviewed for jobs.
By the way, in addition to these jobs, when you read the report, you see, that other jobs being created are in leisure and hospitality (waiters, bartenders, and, in the summer, camp counselors), construction, and, at times, retail.
The job market will probably remain “complicated” until after the US Presidential election is decided in early November because business doesn’t know how to plan for 2025 given the vastly different alternatives offered by the two leading candidates (and one of them has yet to expand on a few sound bites to a real plan).
So, I encourage you to keep pushing. If you must accept a temp or contract role until you find something full-time, do it. Even after the election, it will take a few months until one person will become President and affect policy.
Jeff
Although I completed releasing new episodes of No BS Job Search Advice Radio in July after 3000 episodes, I am releasing shows from the past on YouTube. This week, they include:
Is It Better If My Cover Letter Is Informal?
Did The Recruiter Lie To You About What Job You Would Get?
How Do People Find Me Through LinkedIn?
The entire library of shows is available on YouTube as No BS Job Search Advice Radio or The Original No BS Job Search Advice Radio
I also released this:
Two Sections to Add to Your Resume
One Thing You Should Do More Often
The 5 rudest co-worker behaviors
Career Coach Office Hours: September 17 2024
Employing The Sports Model of Staffing
A few articles from other people I want to share include:
How to Use AI to Find Your Next Job: 4 Tips
How To Describe Yourself In An Interview: Words To Use With Examples
CEOs Are Confident In Hiring And The Potential Of AI, New Research Shows
Negotiating your salary is a two-way street.
Big productivity killers at work and how to avoid them
How To Stay Relevant In An Ever-Changing Job Market
I’ve been watching the interviews at the All-In Summit on YouTube– Bari Weiss, Takedra Mawakana (Waymo), Sergey Brin (Google), Michael Ovitz (CAA and others), Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and others. I stumbled into an interview from the 2023 summit with Rob Henderson called, “Luxury Beliefs are Status Symbols” I thought it was a thought-provoking presentation.
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