Now is the Time to Relaunch Your Career Rick Fuggle,
Managing Director.
Aegle Limited.
Doom and gloom, credit crunch, recession, redundancy, repossessions. Pick up any paper and this is all that you will see. The press love bad news, which is self perpetuating and increases the impact of the problem by making people feel they have little hope for the future.
However, it is in times just like these that any one affected by the current problems should look to the future to see how they can best readjust their lives to cope with their personal dilemma and maybe even make a complete career change for the better.
Countless numbers of people will find themselves unemployed or at real risk of losing their jobs over the next 2 years. For those over 40, despite ageist legislation, it will prove more difficult to return to the work that they have been doing successfully for the last 20 or so years. Employers will be able to pick the best/cheapest possible person from a pool of hundreds which minimises the chances of even getting to the interview selection stage.
Some people will have received the benefit of outplacement, paid for by their last company, although as the credit crunch starts to bite the amount of money assigned to staff who have been released will dry up and outplacement will be devalued to the minimum of support with the production of a generic CV....
Career Appraisal in a Difficult Job Market
Work to Live or Live to Work? Chris Brayley,
Senior Consultant.
Aegle Limited.
The current turmoil in global financial markets, the soaring costs of credit, energy and key raw materials and the resulting fallout in leading world economies are having a devastating impact on the job market in many sectors.
Understandably, people in work are inclined to sit tight, keep their heads down and hope that the storm will blow itself out without adversely affecting them. Those thrown out of their jobs by the economic crisis have no option but to quickly analyse how best they can become gainfully employed again without losing too much quality of lifestyle and, hopefully, self esteem.
It is an irritating cliché borne of management speak from the eighties that there are no such things as problems, only opportunities in disguise, but I do not propose to promote that oversimplification here. Nevertheless, both for those in work and those looking for work, even in these difficult times, there is tremendous value in taking time out to conduct an in depth review of personal aspirations against perceived transferrable skills and talents.
