A Dose of Positive
Today I read on Forbes.com that there are over 345,000 people that have been laid off their jobs since November of 2008. Forbes is placing a tracker on their website so that the American people will know exactly how many people are out of work…Kinda bleak if you ask me. However if you feel like focusing on positive good news….I have some for you.
On Monday I also read on Yahoo that” Employers Avoid Axing Oldies but Goodies” and guess what that’s you! You read it right employers across the board are trying hard to retain and in many cases recruit older candidates because as this story reported: “We need their expertise,” says Stephen Wing, director of workforce initiatives at CVS Caremark in Woonsocket, R.I. “When you’re in your 50s and 60s, you’re in your prime.”
If you are interested we have taken a proactive approach to this impending labor market crisis, the first in the line of defense is our “Putting American’s Back to Work” Job Fair series taking place in more than 50 cities across the country throughout 2009. The job fair series allows jobseekers to have personal contact with perspective employers.
We are so confident that we are going to be successful with these events we are going to track the number of people that get hired and post the results to our website. Stick with these numbers because they are important and they are positive and that’s what we all need these days….a little dose of positive…..
Tags: Job Search, Older Worker