Show Me The Jobs
Friends,
You're all asking the same question. Where do I get a job? Where are the jobs now? What should I do to find a job? I'm no job bank, but let me give you a few pieces of advice.
1. Take a good hard look at yourself. What are your skills? What can you offer an employer? What are you good at? If you used to work for a car manufacturer and you got laid off consider your skills. What can you do? What are you skilled at? And what are you passionate about? There is no question that it's tough out there right now. But sell yourself for what you are good at.
2. Consider some additional training. Maybe you need a refresher course, a new certificate or a full training program. Look around and see what jobs are available. What industries are growing where you are located? Renewable energies are growing. It's possible that some of the new wind power companies are setting up shop near you. Find out if they need construction workers, electricians, foremen, etc. Car battery companies are looking to build $1.7 worth of factories in the Michigan area. You may be able to transfer your skills to their plants.
3. Think green, think change, be adaptable. Things are changing. They almost always are. But as car manufacturers struggle solar companies are becoming more and more lucrative. Hybrid cars and electric cars hold more promise than the car plants of yesterday.
4. Think manufacturing. The United States still has a healthy manufacturing industry. And yet, as the baby boomers retire factories are struggling to find skilled workers to replace the outgoing employees. Welders, machinists and mechanics are in demand, according to a study released by Manpower Inc. In Baltimore, the company Marline Steel Wire Products makes wire baskets for industrial uses and they have been steadily increasing the number of workers and their profits.
Bottom line: you have to be resourceful. Kraft Foods added people to its food manufacturing operations in Iowa. If you're surrounded by a dying business, look elsewhere. If you're wondering what is available in your area, ask around. Read. Dig through the help wanted sections. And find out what industries are based in a 20 or 30 or 40 miles radius of where you live. Sometimes we think we know everything that is around us and we don't. Check out your local industrial parks to find out what is being built or assembled or processed near you.
And check out this article from The Wall Street Journal (May 26, 2009) that tells a great tale of two Michigan cities ; one floundering, the other booming.
As always, thanks for reading,
Joe
You're all asking the same question. Where do I get a job? Where are the jobs now? What should I do to find a job? I'm no job bank, but let me give you a few pieces of advice.
1. Take a good hard look at yourself. What are your skills? What can you offer an employer? What are you good at? If you used to work for a car manufacturer and you got laid off consider your skills. What can you do? What are you skilled at? And what are you passionate about? There is no question that it's tough out there right now. But sell yourself for what you are good at.
2. Consider some additional training. Maybe you need a refresher course, a new certificate or a full training program. Look around and see what jobs are available. What industries are growing where you are located? Renewable energies are growing. It's possible that some of the new wind power companies are setting up shop near you. Find out if they need construction workers, electricians, foremen, etc. Car battery companies are looking to build $1.7 worth of factories in the Michigan area. You may be able to transfer your skills to their plants.
3. Think green, think change, be adaptable. Things are changing. They almost always are. But as car manufacturers struggle solar companies are becoming more and more lucrative. Hybrid cars and electric cars hold more promise than the car plants of yesterday.
4. Think manufacturing. The United States still has a healthy manufacturing industry. And yet, as the baby boomers retire factories are struggling to find skilled workers to replace the outgoing employees. Welders, machinists and mechanics are in demand, according to a study released by Manpower Inc. In Baltimore, the company Marline Steel Wire Products makes wire baskets for industrial uses and they have been steadily increasing the number of workers and their profits.
Bottom line: you have to be resourceful. Kraft Foods added people to its food manufacturing operations in Iowa. If you're surrounded by a dying business, look elsewhere. If you're wondering what is available in your area, ask around. Read. Dig through the help wanted sections. And find out what industries are based in a 20 or 30 or 40 miles radius of where you live. Sometimes we think we know everything that is around us and we don't. Check out your local industrial parks to find out what is being built or assembled or processed near you.
And check out this article from The Wall Street Journal (May 26, 2009) that tells a great tale of two Michigan cities ; one floundering, the other booming.
As always, thanks for reading,
Joe
posted by BES at
12:05 PM
2 Comments:
This is a wonderful book! I bought 2 copies...one for our 18-year-old son and one for my husband and myself. I've been telling everyone about the book...it's the book that my husband and I wish that we'd had years ago. Our son is a rising high school senior as well as enrolled in our local community college, taking the marine trades program. Living so close to the Chesapeake Bay, there are more marinas than you can shake an anchor at, and many of them are desperate for workers. He already works at a marina and in about 2 years, he'll have a job, training in a valuable skill, and no mountains of education debt!
Thanks so much for writing this book. I've even written about it on my website:
http://www.AskMeanMom.com
Really a shame no one has updated this blog in years. It could be very helpful.
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