Category — Useful Tips

If you are in an industry that is affected by the downturn, you’ll probably find yourself in 1 of 3 possibilities. You are either:-
1. Retrenched, now unemployed and looking for a job,
2. One of the luckier ones and still have a job but working harder since there is less manpower, or
3. You don’t know how bad things are and might end up in position 1 or 2 above.

Whatever position you are currently at, there are some things you can do now, rather than waste time doing nothing. Skills wise, you may be into 2 possible groups. Either you are skilled at something and your expertise is worth something, (just not at the moment) or you don’t have really expertise in any field.

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Yesterday a friend decided to take a job offer with a new company. He tried out a small business for over a year but that didn’t work out. He went for some interviews and in fact he had 6 job offers! Yes 6 offers at such job markets. I didn’t have the opportunity to ask where those offers came from and I think that is not the point.

You might think that my friend here (let’s call him Bob) is a top of his field or someone brilliant that he received 6 offers. Nothing like that sort. Not to put Bob down but he is an average guy, late 20s not much specialization to speak off.  The fact was that there are jobs available if you are willing to do it.

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