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Half of Workers Who Were Laid Off in the Last Three Months Found Jobs, According to a New CareerBuilder Survey: PRNewswire Business News - MSN Money (http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=PR&date=20090408&id=9769 666 - broken link)
This doesn't mean that everything is rosy, but it's another metric to show that the world isn't collapsing as some would have us believe.
I wonder what fields these people were in? I haven't read the entire article yet,but it would be interesting to see what the majority were.
My cousin has been out of work for 9 mos, an engineer with a large food distributor,can't find anything even remotely close to what he was making.
He did get offered a job working at Home Depot and is doing a pt thing there,but it is a far cry from his job before and certainly not paying his bills.
Many people would relocate - if they knew there were good areas to get jobs. But I don't think anywhere is safe. I can't tell you how many people I know who relocated for jobs and got laid off within 2 years of that relocation.
And if job searchers are skilled enough to be able to cross industries - that is definitely to their benefit. I did this - I jumped from the industry I worked in for 25 years. It worked.
Says they found new jobs - doesn't say they found new jobs at the equivalent level of income. That's what's hard. Even if it's the same industry, same job...income is usually lower.
Last year I jumped industries into the industry I'd always wanted to be in but never could get my foot in the door. It wasn't easy - took 4 separate face-to-face interviews and two telephone interviews, plus a whole lot of self-selling - but I managed it in part due to the extended absence of one team member out of a two-person team. I also managed to negotiate salary equivalent to what I was making plus a little more with a few contingencies that I later met. I've been working hard ever since to prove that I'm worth every dollar they're spending on me and then some.
But see, I voluntarily left because I saw the writing on the wall long before most of my colleagues. Being in financial service was a a death toll. I'd started searching way back in early 2008. Some people wait to get laid off to use the severance package, which in some cases is smart, but it could cost you the perfect opportunity if it's available.
Unless that article says they got jobs with similar salaries and benefits then do not look at it so rosey.
I know of several progammer colleagues that got layed off and are working but not in tech anymore. and took salary cuts. They couldn't get jobs..tech is being offshored at exponential numbers since last summer so companies can cut costs where they can.
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