????親愛的安妮：
????一位朋友給我看了你最近的一篇專欄,，內(nèi)容是辭職時機成熟的八個征兆，而我的情況完全符合,。我現(xiàn)在最想的,，就是離開目前任職的公司。我的績效評估很出色,，但是這是一家家族企業(yè),。我這幾年才意識到，除了首席執(zhí)行官自家的人,，沒有人能獲得晉升（或加薪）,。
????顯然,，現(xiàn)在是時候告別過去了。我重寫了自己的簡歷,，展示了自己大學(xué)畢業(yè)12年以來作為品牌經(jīng)理的優(yōu)秀業(yè)績。但是,，現(xiàn)在跳槽靠譜嗎,？我們不斷聽說，多達(dá)1,500萬美國人正處于失業(yè)狀態(tài),，就業(yè)形勢很不樂觀,，沒有一家公司在招聘，等等,，等等,。我是否應(yīng)該不管不顧開始找工作，還是在經(jīng)濟好轉(zhuǎn)前,，盡力在現(xiàn)在這家公司做到最好,？
????——走到盡頭的人
????親愛的走到盡頭的人：
????“就業(yè)市場低迷的新聞鋪天蓋地，讓人們覺得找到一份新工作似乎是一個不可能實現(xiàn)的目標(biāo),，”再就業(yè)咨詢行業(yè)巨頭Challenger, Gray & Christmas公司首席執(zhí)行官約翰?恰林杰說,。“但事實并非如此,?！?/p>
????尤其是你這種情況，原因至少有兩點,。第一,，你現(xiàn)在有一份工作。雖然雇主或許不愿承認(rèn),，但是他們常常優(yōu)先考慮已經(jīng)有工作的應(yīng)聘者,，這已經(jīng)不是什么秘密了?！安恍业氖?，失業(yè)確實是一個污點，”招聘公司DHR國際（DHR International）的首席運營官杰夫?霍夫曼稱,?！爱?dāng)然，可以找到辦法來淡化失業(yè)造成的影響,，但是,，簡歷上的空窗期確實會讓雇主產(chǎn)生憂慮?！奔热荒悻F(xiàn)在有工作,，那么1,500萬失業(yè)人群并非你的主要競爭對象。
????下面，再來看看你的第二個優(yōu)勢,，你自己或許都沒有意識到,，這就是你的大學(xué)學(xué)歷。美國整體失業(yè)率雖然比過去三年都要低,，但是仍然達(dá)到了驚人的8.5%,。但是，這一數(shù)據(jù)并不適用于所有類別的勞動群體,。例如,，擁有高中文憑但沒有大學(xué)學(xué)位的人，失業(yè)率為8.8%,。相比之下,，像你這樣擁有學(xué)士學(xué)位或更高學(xué)歷的人，失業(yè)率僅為4.3%,，不到整體失業(yè)率的一半,。
????（再來看看這個4.3%。不久之前,，經(jīng)濟學(xué)家認(rèn)為,，6%的失業(yè)率可等于“充分就業(yè)”。也就是考慮到參與工作人群的季節(jié)性和結(jié)構(gòu)性變化,，這已經(jīng)是失業(yè)率所能達(dá)到的最低水平,。顯然，4.3%遠(yuǎn)低于“充分就業(yè)”點,。）
????“報紙和廣播電視報道掩蓋了不同群體間失業(yè)率的巨大差異,，”紐約大學(xué)（New York University）的職業(yè)管理高級指導(dǎo)羅伯特?赫爾曼指出?！皩τ趽碛斜究茖W(xué)位和幾年扎實工作經(jīng)驗的人來說,，就業(yè)市場遠(yuǎn)非人們想象的那么無望，所以,，務(wù)必四處尋找機會,。”他補充說,，關(guān)鍵在于把重點放在發(fā)展勢頭強勁的行業(yè),。
????DHR國際公司的霍夫曼對此表示贊同：“金融服務(wù)、房地產(chǎn)和建筑業(yè)仍然疲弱,。但是,，在我們看來，好像幾乎所有其他行業(yè)都在蓄勢待發(fā),，謀求增長,。我們發(fā)現(xiàn),，高級管理層中出現(xiàn)了許多擴張性的招聘，而不僅僅只是替換性的招聘,?！被舴蚵a充說，只要“了解哪些行業(yè)屬于熱門,，哪些行業(yè)需要人才”,，現(xiàn)在就有希望找到新的工作。 |
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????Dear Annie: A friend sent me your recent column about eight signs it's time to quit, and all eight of them apply to me. I would like nothing better than to leave the company where I work now. My performance reviews have been great, but this is a family-owned business, and I've come to realize over the past couple of years that nobody gets promoted (or gets a raise) unless they have the same last name as the CEO.
????So it's clearly time to move on, and I've rewritten my resume to reflect the terrific track record I've built up as a brand manager since I graduated from college 12 years ago. But is there any point in going out looking? We keep hearing that 15 million Americans are unemployed, the job market is terrible, nobody's hiring, etc., etc. Should I start job hunting anyway, or just try to make the best of things here until the economy improves? — Hitting a Brick Wall
????Dear HBW: "The constant barrage of lackluster employment news can make finding a new job seem like an impossible goal," says John Challenger, CEO of outplacement giant Challenger, Gray & Christmas. "It is not."
????That's especially true in your case, for at least two reasons. First, you already have a job. It's no secret that employers (loath as they may be to admit it) often give preference to the already employed. "Unfortunately, there is a stigma attached to being out of work," says Geoff Hoffmann, chief operating officer of global recruiters DHR International. "There are ways to mitigate it but, yes, a gap in a resume does create apprehension." Since you are working now, the 15 million unemployed are not your main competition.
????Which brings us to a second advantage you may not realize you have: your college degree. The overall U.S. unemployment rate, while lower than it's been for three years, is still dauntingly high at 8.5%. But that figure doesn't apply to every segment of the workforce. For people with a high school diploma but no college degree, for instance, the rate is 8.8%. By contrast, for folks like you with a bachelor's degree or higher, joblessness is at 4.3%, or less than half the aggregate rate.
????(To put that 4.3% in perspective, it wasn't long ago that economists considered 6% to equal "full employment" -- meaning that unemployment is at the lowest point it can go, given seasonal and structural variations in workforce participation -- and, obviously, 4.3% is well below that.)
????"Headlines and sound bites mask enormous discrepancies in unemployment among different groups," notes Robert Hellmann, an executive coach who teaches career management at New York University. "For those with bachelor's degrees and some years of solid work experience, the job market is nowhere near as hopeless as people think, so do look around." The key, he adds, is to focus your search on industries that are thriving.
????DHR's Hoffmann agrees: "Financial services, real estate, and construction are still weak. But from where we sit, it looks like almost everyone else is gearing up for growth. At the senior management level, we're seeing a lot of hiring that is expansionary, not just replacement hiring." You can get a new job now, Hoffmann adds, if you "understand which sectors are hot, and where the appetite for talent is." |
