10 The Hampton Roads Messenger
Volume 6 Number 10 Career Opportunities
Looking for a Career? Get Off the Job Line
BY RICKY COHEN
The rate of improvement in the unemployment picture is such that it will take decades for the unemployed to benefit...
Assuming the market creates 100-200,000 jobs per month it will take approximately 10 years to absorb the current numbers of unemployed and underemployed. As the number of job seekers increases with the graduation of men and women from high schools and colleges, millions of additional people will be cast into a job market that is at best under-performing and unstable. Day to day challenges will become exacerbated for job seekers as the potential number of applicants grows exponentially relative to the small number of jobs being created. Millions more men and women will be chasing the few jobs that the longer living baby boomers and boomlets are attempting to hold on to!
So what do we do?
We must continue to enable and incentivize private sector companies and non-profits to increase hiring with creative policies and initiatives, and we must do the same in the public
sector. But to take a serious stab at providing income for current and future career seekers, we must put our greatest efforts into something that is a much truer reflection of the reality of the job market: Ignore it.
The answer for job seekers is obvious: Get off the job line.
The concept of a job is relatively new. For most of the time that human beings have populated the planet there was no such thing as a job. Ancient societies were made up exclusively of what we would presently refer to as entrepreneurs. The world economy was agrarian – with most men working for themselves in efforts that were related to farming or managing livestock. Farmers and shepherds made up the overwhelming majority of those in the ancient workforce. The only men who worked for someone else were those who were enslaved to that person. There was no perspective of job seekers and job opportunities. If you needed to eat or to provide food for others, you would come up with a way to get something of your own started. The advent of an individual or an entity that hires or employs someone else is a relatively new phenomenon begun with the industrial revolution, as companies were created that provided the opportunity for numbers of men, and ultimately women, to lend their services to another.
JOB LINE PAGE 13 YOU CAN FINALLY EARN WHAT YOU’RE WORTH!
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Our Commitment to Diversity At Cox Communications, diversity is a critical part of our culture, values and business operations. Here, diversity starts with under- standing and representing the varied needs, gifts and priorities of employees, customers, communities and suppliers. This diversity of people, products and partners naturally stimulates a diversity of perspectives, which helps create an enviable company culture, and enhances the growth and vitality of all Cox stakeholders.
Our Commitment to Diversity
At Cox Communications, diversity is a critical part of our culture, values and business operations. Here, diversity starts with understanding and representing the varied needs, gifts and priorities of employees, customers, communities and suppliers. This diversity of people, products and partners naturally stimulates a diversity of perspectives, which helps create an enviable company culture, and enhances the growth and vitality of all Cox stakeholders.
Apply by visiting:
www.cox.com/coxcareer A great place to start:
Paid training, relaxed professional work environment, competitive benefit packages
Learn more: A great place to grow:
Tuition reimbursement, professional development opportunities, promotions from within
Tammy McCluney Agency Recruiter (757)873-4794
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