{"id":1266,"date":"2007-10-31T11:07:24","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T16:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/10\/cashing-in-on-skills\/"},"modified":"2007-11-05T10:12:42","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T15:12:42","slug":"cashing-in-on-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/10\/cashing-in-on-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Cashing In On Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Career News newsletter (sorry, no link-my emphasis):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And a growing number of employees have concluded that <strong>the best way to move up is to move around<\/strong>. According to international-employment-matchmaker Randstad&#8217;s latest World of Work Survey, more than half of today&#8217;s employed are searching the Internet for a better situation; yet most profess to be happy in their current jobs, despite a 41-to-60-hour work week.<\/p>\n<p>A just-released study by the Conference Board confirms that almost <strong>three-quarters of job-seekers are pounding virtual pavement<\/strong>. They&#8217;re scanning Internet job boards like Monster.com or CareerBuilder.com and networking with friends, acquaintances and friends of acquaintances on sites like Facebook and its business-networking predecessor LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p>Most job hunters simply scout employer offerings on job sites, but significant percentages also post resumes and register for e-mail alerts of openings. And these aren&#8217;t necessarily unhappy campers, insists Harris Interactive, which conducted the Randstad study. &#8220;This year, we see the highest workforce morale in three years, mirrored by impressions of improved productivity and less pessimism about the state of the job market,&#8221; writes Harris Senior Vice President Deanna Wert. &#8220;These workers are looking to cash in on their skills,&#8221; adds Wert, &#8220;and <strong>are more likely to switch jobs than at any time in the past five years<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Retention will be one of the most important sales management topics of 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Career News newsletter (sorry, no link-my emphasis): And a growing number of employees have concluded that the best way to move up is to move around. According to international-employment-matchmaker Randstad&#8217;s latest World of Work Survey, more than half of today&#8217;s employed are searching the Internet for a better situation; yet most profess to be happy in their current jobs, despite a 41-to-60-hour work week. A just-released study by the Conference Board confirms that almost three-quarters of job-seekers are pounding virtual pavement. They&#8217;re scanning Internet job boards like Monster.com or CareerBuilder.com and networking with friends, acquaintances and friends of acquaintances on sites like Facebook and its business-networking predecessor LinkedIn.&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/10\/cashing-in-on-skills\/\">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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,4,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-kq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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