{"id":2233,"date":"2010-01-13T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/01\/the-key-word-is-hiring\/"},"modified":"2010-01-13T18:39:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T00:39:25","slug":"the-key-word-is-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/01\/the-key-word-is-hiring\/","title":{"rendered":"The Key Word Is Hiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You don\u2019t have to look far to find disconcerting news about the present economy.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/business\/ci_14176415?source=rss\" target=\"_blank\">This AP story<\/a> from one of our local papers lays out numbers that paint a vivid picture (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There were nearly 6.4 <strong>unemployed<\/strong> workers, on average, for each available job at the end of November, according to Labor Department data released Tuesday. That&#8217;s up from 6.1 in October, and a record high.<\/p>\n<p>There were 1.7 jobless people for each opening in December 2007, when the recession began.<\/p>\n<p>Job openings fell sharply to 2.42 million in November from 2.57 million in October, according to the department&#8217;s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.<\/p>\n<p>That may sound like a lot, given the depths of the recession, but it&#8217;s the lowest number of job openings since July and the second-lowest since the department began tracking the data in 2000. It&#8217;s also about half the peak level of 4.8 million, reached in June 2007.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It will turn as our economy is almost constantly in a state of expanding or contracting.\u00a0 The real issue on the horizon is retention as I have written about in the past.\u00a0 Hiring is the key.\u00a0 There are many salespeople today who are \u201ccorporate cocooning\u201d until hiring picks up again.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week I spoke to just such a salesperson.\u00a0 He is stuck in a development position where the company is eager to talk about supportive changes but reticent to act on them.\u00a0 He is simply performing in the role as best as he can with the internal company factors working against him.\u00a0 He basically said he is ready to leave once there are signs of expansion in the economy.<\/p>\n<p>There is probably a ratio in the above quoted article that flips the exit light on for salespeople.\u00a0 I won\u2019t hazard a guess, but I suspect it won\u2019t have to get back down to 1.7 jobless people for each opening to open the floodgates to job jumping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don\u2019t have to look far to find disconcerting news about the present economy.\u00a0 This AP story from one of our local papers lays out numbers that paint a vivid picture (emphasis mine): There were nearly 6.4 unemployed workers, on average, for each available job at the end of November, according to Labor Department data released Tuesday. That&#8217;s up from 6.1 in October, and a record high. There were 1.7 jobless people for each opening in December 2007, when the recession began. Job openings fell sharply to 2.42 million in November from 2.57 million in October, according to the department&#8217;s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. That may sound like&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/01\/the-key-word-is-hiring\/\">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":[49,23,5],"tags":[1416,1748,1493,1766,38,1765],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-A1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233"}],"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=2233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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