{"id":2453,"date":"2010-10-26T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/10\/a-great-headline\/"},"modified":"2010-10-26T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T20:58:00","slug":"a-great-headline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/10\/a-great-headline\/","title":{"rendered":"A Great Headline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2010\/10\/20\/office-job-stress-leadership-careers-employment.html?feed=rss_leadership_careers\" target=\"_blank\">From Forbes.com:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>How To Handle Post-Recession Job Stress<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Post-Recession?<\/em>&#160; I think most people are still dealing with Recession Job Stress.&#160; It gets worse:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The worst of the waves of layoffs may be over, but countless American workers who still have their jobs are unhappy at them, overloaded with increased responsibilities, short of colleagues to share the burden, and unsure where they can turn to look for something better. Few people got raises last year&#8211;many took pay cuts&#8211;and it&#8217;s not looking like pay hikes will come anytime soon. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Again, this viewpoint strikes me as seriously off target.&#160; I equate this type of unhappiness to people who complain that their ice cream is too cold.&#160; There are countless people attempting to find employment so stories involving the stress of not receiving a raise seems out of touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Forbes.com: How To Handle Post-Recession Job Stress Post-Recession?&#160; I think most people are still dealing with Recession Job Stress.&#160; It gets worse: The worst of the waves of layoffs may be over, but countless American workers who still have their jobs are unhappy at them, overloaded with increased responsibilities, short of colleagues to share the burden, and unsure where they can turn to look for something better. Few people got raises last year&#8211;many took pay cuts&#8211;and it&#8217;s not looking like pay hikes will come anytime soon. Again, this viewpoint strikes me as seriously off target.&#160; I equate this type of unhappiness to people who complain that their ice cream&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/10\/a-great-headline\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,49,2],"tags":[49,1748,1660,248,38],"class_list":["post-2453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotes","category-economy","category-hiring","tag-economy","tag-hiring","tag-post-recession-job-stress","tag-recession","tag-sales-hiring"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-Dz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2449,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/10\/a-secondary-effect-of-the-recession\/","url_meta":{"origin":2453,"position":0},"title":"A Secondary Effect Of The Recession","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"October 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Most people agree that there will be a demand for workers as soon as we start the recovery process (no, I do not subscribe to the idea that the recession ended in June of 2009).\u00a0 Companies are running in a most efficient manner right now due to the fact that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Generations&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Generations","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/generations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1547,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/05\/you-cant-grow-if-you-arent-selling\/","url_meta":{"origin":2453,"position":1},"title":"&#8220;You Can&#8217;t Grow If You Aren&#8217;t Selling&#8221;","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"May 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Isn't that the truth?\u00a0 Entrepreneur.com has an excellent archived article (from 2002) titled Hire and Hire that discusses hiring salespeople during a recession (no, we're not in a recession).\u00a0 The point is valid - economic downturns are the best time to upgrade and\/or expand your sales team. Pick the right\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring Salespeople&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring Salespeople","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/hiring-salespeople\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2282,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/02\/double-dip\/","url_meta":{"origin":2453,"position":2},"title":"Double Dip","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"February 25, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The title of this post is one that brings pause to many people.\u00a0 Are we headed towards a double dip recession?\u00a0 I don\u2019t think we can say one way or another quite yet.\u00a0 However, today\u2019s numbers are not good: The number of Americans filing for initial unemployment insurance surged to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2278,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/02\/hiring-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":2453,"position":3},"title":"Hiring Time","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"February 24, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"According to this CNNMoney.com article, 2010 hiring will be steady and growing (emphasis mine): \"We see a healthy expansion under way, although it will take time to reduce economic slack and repair damaged balance sheets,\" said Lynn Reaser, president of the National Association for Business Economics, which conducted the survey\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1507,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/recessions-are-tactical-problems-recruiting-is-strategic\/","url_meta":{"origin":2453,"position":4},"title":"Recessions Are Tactical Problems, Recruiting Is Strategic","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Steven Rothberg over at CollegeRecruiter.com provides a money quote in his post Why Today's College Students Need Not Fear Exploding Offers.\u00a0 Obviously, Steven's market is geared towards college students, but this paragraph is applicable to all businesses when it comes to hiring (emphasis mine): The recession of 2001-03 was worse\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1467,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/a-soft-hiring-trend\/","url_meta":{"origin":2453,"position":5},"title":"A Soft Hiring Trend","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Manpower's quarterly survey is often considered a bellwether of the upcoming labor market.\u00a0 The Wall Street Journal reports on this trend in Hiring Plans Soften Across Industries. The title sounds a dire alarm, but there\u00a0 is an interesting quote within the article: Jonas Prising, president of Manpower North America, characterized\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->