Employers See a Brighter 2010
Yesterday I mentioned that CareerBuilder released its 2010 Job Forecast and that we’d have more info today. And we do!
We can safely say that 2009 was a year where the economy struggled, and we still have some work to do in 2010. However, this year 20 percent of employers plan to add new employees in 2010–in 2009 only 14 percent said so. Employers are certainly taking a wait-and-see approach to hiring, so expect them to remain cautious, but at least their outlook is definitely better than last year. Although 9 percent of employers expect to decrease headcount in 2010, that’s a significant increase compared to the 16 percent from last year.
If you’re wondering where the jobs are, look to the West, where 24 percent of employers intend to add full-time workers. Employers in the Northeast anticipate the next highest amount of hiring, followed by the South and Midwest.
The industries where you can expect to see the largest hiring increases are information technology, manufacturing, financial services, professional and business services, and sales.
Perhaps the one topic you care most about is pay. Specifically, should you expect a raise in 2010 or a high starting salary? Fifty-seven percent of employers report their companies will increase salaries for existing employees in 2010, down from 65 percent in 2009. Thirty-six percent expect to raise salaries of existing employees by 3 percent or more, while 11 percent anticipate increases of 5 percent or more.
Twenty-nine of employers plan to increase salaries on initial offers to new employees, down from 33 percent in 2009. Nearly one-in-five (18 percent) employers will raise salaries on initial offers by 3 percent or more while 7 percent anticipate increases of 5 percent or more.
What else should you expect in 2010? Employers intend to replace their lowest performing workers. They also intend to implement flexible work arrangements that help employees maintain a good work-life balance and consequently keep them happy. And in an effort to retain top talent, many organizations will ask some employees to postpone retirement or they will rehire some retirees.
To read more about what employers are planning, read the highlights here or the full forecast here.
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What to expect in 2010
CareerBuilder.com just released its 2010 Job Forecast, and tomorrow we’ll have all the details. To give you a taste of the good news to come, here’s a clip of spokesperson Michael Erwin on MSNBC. Click here to play the video. (You might receive a pop-up message asking you to open or download the video–you can click Open to stream it.)
Tomorrow we’ll have all the info so that you know what employers are planning in the new year.
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The 10 Worst Movie Jobs
Lights! Camera! Fantasy! Movies are where we go to forget how boring our lives are. They’re our escapism from the boring existence we call life. Well, unless you’re into obscure independent movies that aim to capture our tortured, meaningless existence in gritty, handheld camerawork. But on average, movies let us disapear into the celluloid world for a couple of hours and get lost in the images flashing on the screen.
Sometimes a movie can make us feel good about ourselves. Not because the story is uplifting but because we look at the characters and think, “At least I’m not you!” And that feeling of schadenfreude is worth the ticket price. In that spirit, we put together a list of movie characters whose jobs are less than ideal. The real-life equivalent of these jobs are perfectly fine, but in these movies no paycheck would’ve convinced you to accept the position.
Here are the 10 worst movie jobs:
Barney Matthews in Silence of the Lambs.
No, Barney doesn’t get eaten in the movie, but that doesn’t mean his job is peachy. How would you like to be the primary caretaker for one of the scariest inmates a jail cell has ever seen? Anyone who works in incarceration facilities has to be thick-skinned and on alert at all times, which is why not just any person is up to the challenge of the job. Throw in having to deal with Hannibal Lector and I’d guess the list of qualified and willing candidates gets in smaller.
Chris Parker in Adventures in Babysitting
Haven’t we all babysat to earn a little cash at some point in our lives? At worst, we had to cut gum out of a toddler’s hair or rush someone to the ER for unsuccessfully doing cartwheels off of the couch. But suburbanite Chris Parker takes three children into the scary world of downtown Chicago in the 1980s without telling their parents. They outrun gun shots, knife fights and organized crime. Oh, and they’re forced to sing the blues in a night club. Totally not worth the five bucks an hour.
Commissioner Gordon in all the Batman films
I’ll say right now that I’d love to live in Gotham and have Batman protect me from crazy villains. However, I would not want to be the police commissioner who doesn’t get much of the spotlight for defending the city. Think about how long Gordon worked to get to that post and now that he’s there, some guy in a cape gets all the credit for protecting citizens.
Dorothy Boyd in Jerry Maguire
Forget about the happily ever after. The two hours leading up to the end of this movie aren’t that great if you’re Jerry Maguire’s assistant. You’re the only employee in his newfound company, so anything he doesn’t want to do means you’re doing it. You don’t have all the perks of your previous job, which you left for him, and business is shaky seeing as Maguire’s agency only has one client. Oh, and you fall in love with your boss only to realize he doesn’t love you all that much (at least for a while). The performance bonus better be awesome.
Everyone in Office Space
Office Space fake software company is the epitome of the beige cubicle world that’s been demonized by every movie, TV show and comic strip in the last few decades. It’s what so many college students fear is their future. Look at poor Milton, whose job is so pitiful he cares more about his stapler than anything else. The setting makes for a fun movie but a horrible workplace.
Grace Coddington in The September Issue / Andy Sachs in The Devil Wears Prada
These are two different films. The September Issue is a documentary about the work that goes into publishing an issue of Vogue magazine, which is under the watch of Anna Wintour. The other film is a fictitious take on what it’s like to work at a glossy fashion magazine under icy editor Miranda Priestly, who shares many similarities to Wintour.
Coddington is a stylist and creative director for the magazine, and as the film shows, her hard work getting just the right look for a spread can take weeks of planning. Then Wintour can walk in, wrinkle her nose and decide the images won’t appear in the magazine. In Prada, Sachs is an assistant who works herself into a frenzy just to keep Priestly happy…or as close to happy as possible. Only she quickly finds out that Priestly doesn’t care how long it takes to do something or how much effort you put into it—if it’s not what she wants at that moment, it’s useless to her. We’re not saying everyone should be handled with kid gloves, but the occasional pat on the back seems like the least a boss could do for any employee.
Lucy Kelson in Two Weeks Notice
Lucy wants to work in the nonprofit world and go after the big corporate enemies. Instead, she finds herself working for a greedy, narcissistic head honcho. Of course they fall in love and things get sorted out because that’s what romantic comedies do, but forget that part. If you don’t have a business mind and you want your job to align with your core values, taking a job that contradicts everything you believe in is a bit tortuous. Every day you earn a fancy paycheck but hate yourself for it. All the while you’re catering to a boss you hate (though secretly love, of course). Get past the heartwarming smiles of Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock and you have one pretty crummy job situation.
Norma Rae Webster in Norma Rae
Any mention of Norma Rae in a list of workplace characters is a bit cliché, but her situation is the epitome of the workplace pits. Her struggle to stay healthy in an overwhelming and physically taxing workplace is bad enough, but when her efforts to change things at the factory cause her trouble at work and at home, life gets worse. Kind of puts the arguments about who ate your last string cheese from the lunch-room refrigerator into perspective, no?
The staff in Jurassic Park
You’d think that getting to work alongside dinosaurs would be pretty cool, but one power outage later and suddenly the gig isn’t so sweet. Even the best veterinarian or the most scholarly paleontologist wouldn’t be able to handle himself or herself against, you know, a carnivorous velociraptor. Stick to your regular amusement park jobs where you can ride the roller coasters for free and eat cotton candy.
Wall-E in Wall-E
Sure, Wall-E is the cute little garbage compactor everyone loves, but his job is actually kind of horrible because he’s all alone. Not alone the way you might feel in your cubicle with your headphones on. I mean alone alone. As in nobody-else-in-the-entire-world. For hundreds of years he’s going about it day, organizing the mess left behind by humans, and he only has his cockroach pal to keep him company. I think we’d at least want to have the obnoxious chatty co-worker to keep us company.
Did we forget anyone? Let us know your picks.
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Resuscitating your job search
Is your job search is showing no signs of life? Are its vital signs weak?
Today we have a guest post from Duncan Mathison, who is the co-author of the book “Unlock the Hidden Job Market: 6 Steps to a Successful Search When Times Are Tough” with Martha I. Finney (FT Press, 2009). You can check out their Web site at www.unlockthehiddenjobmarket.com.
Job Search CPR: How to Bring Your Job Search Back From the Dead
The difficulty with evaluating the progress of your job search is that there is only one true sign of success – a new job. So when you don’t see a lot of progress in this awful job market, you have to ask yourself, “Am I doing the right things to land a job or am I simply missing the mark?”
OK, so your job search might not be completely dead, but if it is not showing much life it is probably time to check its vital signs. Here are the signs of trouble and the right treatment to bring your job search back on track.
Your calendar is blank. You have no job interviews or networking meetings scheduled except coffee with an old friend. You might also have next month’s networking mixer mostly attended by other unemployed people. Your search is on life support.
The treatment: Start by scheduling the activities that will fill your schedule with interviews. In addition to meetings, schedule the time you will check job postings, research companies, and catch up on your professional reading.
Schedule specific telephone time to follow-up with every networking lead you have including those intimidating, very important and hard-to-reach people. With busy people, it is easier to schedule appointments a few weeks out than next week when they are heavily booked. Sure you want to be working instead of networking next month. Be happy that you won the appointment. If you land a job before then, the meeting can always be cheerfully cancelled.
Nonresponsive employers after a having “for sure” job interviews. It has been weeks since a promising job interview after which you heard nothing. Even your follow-up calls have not been returned. Careful, this can be a job search momentum killer.
The treatment: Grit your teeth, give out a low growl and vow never to treat a job applicant like that once you are in a position to hire. Sorry, but this is pretty typical (and inexcusable) behavior of employers. It’s time to move on. The best cure for a job that does not pan out is to have another two in the hopper. While you are at it, vow never to ease up on your job search just because you have a hot prospect.
Flat-lined with no new job leads. On-line job search tools significantly cut the time it takes to find any posted positions in the open market both for you and everyone else. As a result, employers are often buried in applicants and competition can be intense. Often employers bypass posting positions preferring informal sourcing instead.
The treatment: Apply only to posted job ads that are a fit and skip the long-shots. Adjust how you invest your time and go after the hidden job market through targeted identification of possible employers and, of course, the holy-grail of any job search: networking.
Exhausted network with no pulse. You have talked to “everyone” and they don’t know of any jobs “out there.” Now you are starting to feel like a stalker and you soon will have no friends left much less networking contacts.
The treatment: The important thing about networking is to know that networks tend to form in clusters of smaller groups. Network clusters can be insular and you may find yourself operating in a closed loop of contacts, thus the impression you have talked to everyone possible. If so, it’s time to “cluster jump.”
Start with the “100 rule.” Make a list of 100 people you know regardless of their relationship to your profession as well as industry experts such as authors, professors and consultants. Make sure every one of those people know the type of job you are looking for, the typical job titles of someone who would be your manager, and the industry you could work in. For bonus points, give them a list of 75 employers you think might hire someone with your skills. Ask them if they know of anyone who might know something about employers on the list.
Not enough major employers. You think you know who they are. You have established who among the top local employers could hire people with your skills, you have spoken to the hiring managers and they have your resume. Now what?
The treatment: According to government statistics, about 50% of all jobs are with employers who have less than 500 people. It’s time to dig deeper beyond the darlings of the local business media. Consider that many companies could have small field offices and R&D operations in town. Can’t relocate? In today’s virtual world, your job may not require you to be in an office or at corporate headquarters. Look outside of your community for employers if your job can be done remotely.
Duncan Mathison is the co-author of the book “Unlock the Hidden Job Market: 6 Steps to a Successful Search When Times Are Tough” with Martha I. Finney (FT Press, 2009). For more information or to contact the author directly, visit www.unlockthehiddenjobmarket.com.
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Résumé 101: New Résumé, New Year
As December comes to a close, we want to make sure that you’re armed with best information going into the New Year so that you can land a job ASAP.
There were a lot of factors that played into your not being able to find a job this year. While the economy and the job market had plenty to do with it, there comes a point when you have to look at yourself and what you are (or aren’t) doing and how it’s affecting your job search. Let’s start with the most basic thing you need in your job search: A résumé.
Here’s a little résumé 101 to refresh your job search this year, excerpted from Career Building: Your Total Handbook for Finding a Job and Making It Work.
Writing your résumé: Hiring managers spend an average of one minute scanning a résumé. You have just a short window to convince them that you’re either fabulous or the most boring person alive. Which is it gonna be?
Here are the elements that your résumé should include:
Contact information: Your name (If your formal name is Abigail but you go by Abby, use Abby), address, phone number, e-mail address and Web site. And make sure to use a professional e-mail address for your job applications. Employers aren’t likely to call HotPants1234@hotmail.com.
Career summary or objective: This give the hiring manager an idea of who you are immediately — before spending the 60 seconds skimming your résumé and deciding if they want to bring you in for an interview. Many job seekers equate a summary with objective. While both are two to three sentences appearing at the top of your résumé, in reality, they are very different.
An objective states a job seeker’s desired job description, and is often ideal for people who are just starting out in the workforce or changing industries. Some words of warning: It could pigeonhole you and limit how employers see you. If you are looking to take the next step in your chose field, consider writing a career summary instead.
A career summary gives an overview of your work experience and/or relevant education.
Summary of qualifications: This calls out the most relevant information for the job. If you include this, the hiring manager doesn’t have to hunt for your abilities. This is an easy way to tailor your résumé for each job application. look at the required skills listed in a job posting and use this as an opportunity to highlight the skills needed for the job. If you are changing careers or industries, this section helps you highlight certain transferable skills.
Technical skills: This is where you can show your computer and software proficiency. Are you missing a technical skill listed in the job description? Don’t throw in the towel. Seventy-eight percent of hiring managers report they are willing to recruit workers who don’t have experience in their particular industry or field and provide training/certifications needed.
Work history: This is where you list chronologically any work experience – titles, employer and dates of tenure. List only the most recent and relevant information; no one cares about your ninth-grade babysitting club … unless you are looking for something in childcare (even then, save it for your cover letter).
Education: Include your dates of graduation, college major and minor, degrees earned or expected graduation date.
So there you have it; the very basics you should include on your résumé. Other things to remember to include? Keywords, accomplishments and no errors.
Questions? Just ask us here. In the meantime, here is some more light résumé to check out:
Work history: This is where you list chronologically any work experience – titles, employer and dates of tenure. List only the most recent and relevant information; no one cares about your ninth-grade babysitting club … unless you are looking for something in childcare (even then, save it for your cover letter).
Education: Include your dates of graduation, college major and minor, degrees earned or expected graduation date.
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Engineers Help Secure California Highways and Roads
Sprays of dirt flew out of a soil box that held a retaining wall as it violently shook from a simulated 7.4 magnitude earthquake. The wall was put to test recently by engineers at the UC San Diego Englekirk Structural Engineering Center, which has the largest outdoor shake table in the United States.
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If the thermostat’s too high, productivity might be low
(I’m going to avoid temperature puns…even though I really, really want to employ them.)
Earlier this year, some of my co-workers and I moved our desks from one side of the floor to another. We moved approximately 75 feet, which seems like a negligible distance. Little did we realize we moved 75 feet closer to the sun.
In our old location we were often cold. For whatever reason a breeze would cut through our desks and force us to wear zippies or layer sweaters when everyone else was comfortable in polo shirts. Papers on our desk would flap from the phantom draft. Turn the corner and you’ll see us at our new desks, spritzing ourselves with water, holding ice cubes to our necks and standing in front of oscillating fans that are melting. It’s like you stepped into a Salvador Dali painting. We try to ignore it, but sometimes we can’t concentrate.
Turns out we’re not the only ones. A new CareerBuilder survey finds that a third of workers can’t concentrate when the temperature at the office is too extreme. Twenty-two percent of workers say a workplace that’s too hot can make it difficult to concentrate. Conversely, 11 percent say the same about an office that’s too cold.
Is this really a big deal? Well, if you can’t concentrate, you won’t be productive. So it makes sense to be concerned about this. And seeing as 27 pecent of workers say that their workplace is too hot and 19 percent say the same about it being too cold, a large percentage of the workforce is affected. (Granted, 54 percent of workers are being very Goldilocks and describe the temperature as “just right.”)
At first glimpse, the whole issue probably seems trivial. Yet, it’s a big enough issue that 10 percent of workers admit to fighting with a co-worker over temperature. Just imagine an ongoing routine of moving the dial, sitting down, watching the co-worker get up and move the dial back, and repeat ad nauseam. More importantly, 19 percent of workers feel that the company has turned down the office temperature this year–possibly as a result of budget tightening.
So what can you do about it?
- If a co-worker is messing with the temperature and it’s bugging you or making you sweat through your turtleneck, have a chat with them. Be nice and you’ll probably have luck.
- If it’s out of your hands and you can’t just flip a switch or everyone else thinks it feels fine and you’re the lone duck on the issue, dress appropriately. Layer for your commute and then remove the heavy stuff when you’re working. (Keep it professional, though. Crocs and a swimsuit are not appropriate, even if you’re sweaty.)
- Figure out the issue and work around it. If your corner of the office turns into an igloo for the last half of the day, book some time in a conference room to get your work done so you can stay productive without seeing your breath in the air. Or ask your boss if you can move to another space. Or microwave your socks every hour. Just kidding.)
And in case you’re wondering, we did figure out how to adjust the temperature over here on this side of the office, but it’s still a lot warmer in here than I’d like, but that’s why I bought a fan and avoid sweaters if possible.
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Another holiday party poll
Last week, two of our posts were dedicated to holiday parties and year-end raises and bonuses … or the lack thereof this year.
This morning on my daily bus ride, I found the results of yet another poll. This one came from a joint venture with 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair magazine. This monthly poll covers the gamut of news and pop culture asking multiple choice-questions like: “Could you confidently explain what exactly the [Health Care] public option is to someone who didn’t know?” and “If you could add a president to Mount Rushmore, which one of these would you pick?”
Here’s how the 60 Minutes watchers and Vanity Fair readers to the following question: “Which one of the following are you most likely to do at your company holiday party this year?”
- Drink way too much: 3.79%
- Only stop by for 10 minutes to show your face: 15.15%
- Kiss a co-worker: 4.41%
- Take a picture with the boss: 2.00%
- Forget someone’s name: 12.47%
- What holiday party?: 62.19%
How would you vote? If you want to see the entire poll and vote yourself, click here … or watch the Web cast below:
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Want a six-figure salary? Try the federal government
How many of you have ridden in an elevator or taxi that has a mini screen that flashes the news, weather and trivia? We have those in the elevators in the high-rise that’s home to CareerBuilder’s corporate headquarters.
Quite often there’s a tidbit that intrigues me in my pre-caffeinated state and I’ll actually remember to follow up on it when I get to my computer. This morning was one of those occasions. One of the headlines glaring at me was about the high number of federal employees who earn six-figure salaries.
A story in USA Today reports that during a time when the overall U.S. workforce is struggling with layoffs, high unemployment, pay cuts and salary freezes, the federal workforce is growing in salaries and hiring. In fact, the number of federal employees who earn $100,000 or more grew by 46% between December 2007 and June 2009.
USA Today analyzed data from the Office of Personnel Management, which tracks the pay of federal workers. (The OPM excludes info about the White House personnel, Congress, Postal Service employees, intelligence agencies and uniformed military personnel).
Some of the key findings:
- “Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession’s first 18 months — and that’s before overtime pay and bonuses are counted.”
- “The growth in six-figure salaries has pushed the average federal worker’s pay to $71,206, compared with $40,331 in the private sector.”
- “The federal government is adding jobs this year of nearly 10,000 a month – the fastest pace since the 1960s when Medicare and Medicaid were created.”
The article attributes the salary boom to three things: pay hikes, a new pay system and the easing of pay caps.
Read the full story here complete with more analysis and interesting graphs.
If you’re interested in pursuing federal employment, try searching CareerBuilder.com using the keywords “federal government”, choose the “Government-Federal” in CareerBuilder’s categories menu, or go to http://www.usajobs.gov/.
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Don’t Despair — You May Get That Raise, After All
After a year filled with layoffs, salary cuts, benefit losses and disappearing perks, I’m sure I’m not the only one who wasn’t expecting much by way of a raise or other end of year perks in the next month. So, you can imagine my pleasant surprise (and I, yours) at the results of a new CareerBuilder survey. Employers said they still plan to reward their employees with holiday perks like bonuses, gifts and parties — just on a scaled back level.
“After a challenging year, some organizations are cutting back on the holiday perks that they may have offered in previous years,” said Rosemary Haefner, Vice President of Human Resources for CareerBuilder. “Even though holiday bonuses, gifts and parties may be trimmed back this season, employers are doing what they can to reward their workers and get their staffs in the holiday spirit.”
Here’s what employers are saying when it comes to giving this quarter:
Bonuses: About 29 percent of employers plan to give their employees holiday bonuses this year. Of those employers, 16 percent are planning to give the same amount as in previous years, while 11 percent plan to give less. Twelve percent of employers say they will not be issuing holiday bonuses.
Gifts: Twenty-six percent of employers plan to give holiday gifts, with 15 percent planning to spend the same amount for workers as in previous years. Eight percent plan to spend less, while another 8 percent say they are not planning to give holidays gifts in 2009.
Parties: About 49 percent of employers are planning to throw a holiday party for employees this year. Of that group, 30 percent plan to throw the same party as in previous years, while 18 percent are planning something on a smaller scale. One-in-ten (11 percent) employers don’t plan to have a holiday party in 2009.
Are you going through holiday cutbacks at your office? Here are a few tips from Haefner on how to make it through:
- Be realistic in your holiday budgeting: If you’re anticipating a bonus this season, be sure to budget accordingly so that you can handle your financial obligations if your bonus is lower than in years past or is eliminated.
- Volunteer as a group: While companies may not have the budgets to throw a holiday party this year, employees can suggest charity work as an alternative. Volunteering with your team or company still allows you to be out of the office in a social setting while giving back to your local community and maintaining your holiday spirit.
- Don’t be a scrooge: Even if your company holiday party is cancelled, it doesn’t mean that you can’t celebrate the season with co-workers. Office potlucks or casual get togethers are a great way to have a low-key celebration in the office with your colleagues.
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