ASK THE HEADHUNTER The New Job Market: COVID-19 complications

[deanwebb]

The New Job Market: COVID-19 complications

SPECIAL EDITION In the April 28, 2020 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter we take a look at some unusual insights about the job market in the time of coronavirus. The new job market will be complicated Last week I published "COVID-19: Does it kill jobs?" in the News I want you to use feature. My short column pointed to an article by Lani Rosales in The American Genius, an entrepreneur's publication. Rosales offers great advice I think you can use in the new, post-coronavirus-crisis job market, from a perspective we're not accustomed to. She also offers surprisingly hum-drum guidance that I

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[deanwebb]

With MASSIVE unemployment in the USA for service jobs that have little skill to them, step one to getting and keeping a job is going to be skills development. And that's something that is likely to be pushed onto prospective employees, given the high labor supply out there.

[NetworkGroover]

Yep - this highlights to my friends what I've been trying to tell them... regardless of what jobs you can get *right now*, always work on making yourself more valuable.  Always learn.  Tackle what you suck at.

Course I'm better preaching than doing.. but hey - words! 

[deanwebb]

And getting good combinations of skills is always beneficial, especially if some of those skills are in areas nobody else wants to touch.