Many Good Jobs Are Going Begging
The media has reported that thousands of good jobs are sitting vacant, even with unemployment so high. This may sound shocking, but it is true and getting worse. Both the Wall Street Journal article entitled “Help Wanted: In Unexpected Twist, Some Skilled Jobs Go Begging” and the NY Time article entitled “A Sea of Job-Seekers, but Some Companies Aren’t Getting Any Bites” revealed that many jobs are not being filled.
One recruiter is looking to hire 600 people by year-end. Another recruiter stated: “We currently have 18,000 open job orders we can’t fill, claiming companies all over are having a difficult time recruiting the kind of people they are looking for.
Why Are Companies Not Filling These Good Jobs?
The primary reason given for so many jobs going unfilled is there is a “mismatch.” Companies have become pickier amid the slow economy. They are choosing to ONLY hire new employees who provide an excellent match to the job.
Employers have discovered that hiring the wrong mismatched employees will cost more than leaving the jobs vacant. No longer can business afford to suffer costly and wasted training and the disruptions bad hires bring.
What Is The Secret To Getting Hired Into Good Jobs?
The secret is to apply for the good jobs you KNOW BEFOREHAND will create a great match for you and your employer.
These are the good jobs that are ideally suited for you. They allow you to do what you love and you will produce great results because you have the talents, motivations and focus to perform them very well.
When you apply for jobs that fit your ideal income positions, you solve the most difficult part of the matching problem. “Pickier companies” will quickly hire job seekers who arrive knowing how well they create an excellent match for the job.
Well-matched new hires will generate considerable value to the business. As the articles report companies are discovering how hard it is to find such well-matched employees.
The Best Way To Obtain Your Best-Matching Jobs Is:
Engage Your Own Career Coach!
Your career coach will assist you to discover and define in great detail your ideal income positions. And your career coach becomes your personal partner, your secret weapon, to find the jobs that best match your ideal income positions, and develop and execute the steps to actually obtain your best matching jobs. You and your career coach become a well-oiled team focusing on you getting hired into your best-matched jobs.
Using a career coach creates the best job matching scenarios before the hiring process starts. And virtually eliminates all of the guessing and struggles encountered otherwise.
Smart hiring managers will seek prospective employees who are very clear about their job matches. In fact, many hiring managers prefer candidates who come prepared by having their own career coach.
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