More bad news: things aren’t looking good. No one’s hiring, no ones getting promotions. And the people who are lucky enough to have jobs right now, are doing the work of 2-3 people. There’s a lot of uncertainty in the air.
Hang in there people.
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It’s rough out there and that’s an understatement.
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I’m seeing software engineers scramble for the first time ever.
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There’s just not that many jobs out there.
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I mean, it’s not just in tech and engineering, it’s it’s everywhere.
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So if you’re applying to 100 jobs and getting no response.
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That’s kind of how it is right now.
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Take some solace in knowing that’s what’s happening to everybody.
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Everybody I talk to is running into this.
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I’m having interns, excuse me, not interns.
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Students come back to me and tell me they can’t get an internship.
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So it’s hard to get a job working for free right now.
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And that might seem ridiculous, but you have the people who are employed probably doing the work of an intern in addition to their other job and maybe even managing in some regards as well.
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You know, and hiring an intern does take effort and companies don’t feel like they have the bandwidth to manage an internship to manage an intern right now.
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So it is really hard and if you’re looking for work and you can, you might want to take the rest of the year off.
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I don’t think it’s going to speed up.
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I think it’s going to stay this slow, slow as molasses.
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I don’t see much hiring happening at all.
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So if you can take a breather, be with family, get some training.
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If you can’t, the age-old adage.
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Network, network, network.
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That’s the way you’re going to do it.
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And I don’t just mean with the jobs that are posted.
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I mean going after the companies directly, respectfully, but but to go after people in the company, start talking with them, work your network, but reach out and do some cold calls too.
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Applying for listings.
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It’s just not working.
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All right, so people, keep your chin up.
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And also, if you want an ally in this, we certainly can help you figure out a good strategy, get kind of more focused on what you need.
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And of course, we can build a resume that’ll get some attention.
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So think about that.
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All right.
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I wish you all well.
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This is rough.
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Let’s hope next year is better.
