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????親愛(ài)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(shí)機(jī)成熟的八個(gè)征兆，而我的情況完全符合。我現(xiàn)在最想的，就是離開(kāi)目前任職的公司。我的績(jī)效評(píng)估很出色，但是這是一家家族企業(yè)。我這幾年才意識(shí)到，除了首席執(zhí)行官自家的人，沒(méi)有人能獲得晉升（或加薪）。 ????顯然，現(xiàn)在是時(shí)候告別過(guò)去了。我重寫了自己的簡(jiǎn)歷，展示了自己大學(xué)畢業(yè)12年以來(lái)作為品牌經(jīng)理的優(yōu)秀業(yè)績(jī)。但是，現(xiàn)在跳槽靠譜嗎？我們不斷聽(tīng)說(shuō)，多達(dá)1,500萬(wàn)美國(guó)人正處于失業(yè)狀態(tài)，就業(yè)形勢(shì)很不樂(lè)觀，沒(méi)有一家公司在招聘，等等，等等。我是否應(yīng)該不管不顧開(kāi)始找工作，還是在經(jīng)濟(jì)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(ài)的走到盡頭的人： ????“就業(yè)市場(chǎng)低迷的新聞鋪天蓋地，讓人們覺(jué)得找到一份新工作似乎是一個(gè)不可能實(shí)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(shuō)?！暗聦?shí)并非如此。” ????尤其是你這種情況，原因至少有兩點(diǎn)。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。“不幸的是，失業(yè)確實(shí)是一個(gè)污點(diǎn)，”招聘公司DHR國(guó)際（DHR International）的首席運(yùn)營(yíng)官杰夫?霍夫曼稱。“當(dāng)然，可以找到辦法來(lái)淡化失業(yè)造成的影響，但是，簡(jiǎn)歷上的空窗期確實(shí)會(huì)讓雇主產(chǎn)生憂慮?！奔热荒悻F(xiàn)在有工作，那么1,500萬(wàn)失業(yè)人群并非你的主要競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)象。 ????下面，再來(lái)看看你的第二個(gè)優(yōu)勢(shì)，你自己或許都沒(méi)有意識(shí)到，這就是你的大學(xué)學(xué)歷。美國(guó)整體失業(yè)率雖然比過(guò)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(dòng)群體。例如，擁有高中文憑但沒(méi)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(lái)看看這個(gè)4.3%。不久之前，經(jīng)濟(jì)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(diǎn)。） ????“報(bào)紙和廣播電視報(bào)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(jí)指導(dǎo)羅伯特?赫爾曼指出?！皩?duì)于擁有本科學(xué)位和幾年扎實(shí)工作經(jīng)驗(yàn)的人來(lái)說(shuō)，就業(yè)市場(chǎng)遠(yuǎn)非人們想象的那么無(wú)望，所以，務(wù)必四處尋找機(jī)會(huì)。”他補(bǔ)充說(shuō)，關(guān)鍵在于把重點(diǎn)放在發(fā)展勢(shì)頭強(qiáng)勁的行業(yè)。 ????DHR國(guó)際公司的霍夫曼對(duì)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(lái)，好像幾乎所有其他行業(yè)都在蓄勢(shì)待發(fā)，謀求增長(zhǎng)。我們發(fā)現(xiàn)，高級(jí)管理層中出現(xiàn)了許多擴(kuò)張性的招聘，而不僅僅只是替換性的招聘。”霍夫曼補(bǔ)充說(shuō)，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。 |
????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." |
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