ANYONE expecting to get a job at the same "rung of the ladder" they had before the economy tanked IS just unrealistic. The world does not work that way. The primary reason for any job is a paycheck, career concerns are secondary.
If anyone wants a job, starting at the bottom IS what may be necessary in the current job market.
You get a paying job THEN continue looking for that better career opportunity.
"American Dream Is Elusive for New Generation" by LOUIS UCHITELLE, New York Times 7/6/2010
Excerpt
After breakfast, his parents left for their jobs, and Scott Nicholson, alone in the house in this comfortable suburb west of Boston, went to his laptop in the living room. He had placed it on a small table that his mother had used for a vase of flowers until her unemployed son found himself reluctantly stuck at home.
The daily routine seldom varied. Mr. Nicholson, 24, a graduate of Colgate University, winner of a dean’s award for academic excellence, spent his mornings searching corporate Web sites for suitable job openings. When he found one, he mailed off a résumé and cover letter — four or five a week, week after week.
Over the last five months, only one job materialized. After several interviews, the Hanover Insurance Group in nearby Worcester offered to hire him as an associate claims adjuster, at $40,000 a year. But even before the formal offer, Mr. Nicholson had decided not to take the job.
Rather than waste early years in dead-end work, he reasoned, he would hold out for a corporate position that would draw on his college training and put him, as he sees it, on the bottom rungs of a career ladder.
No comments:
Post a Comment