WalletPop.com, a Web site and online magazine dealing with personal finance, covered TheCanned.com in a recent story. Author Geoff Williams writes: “If you’re unemployed, or employed but think you’ll be out of a job soon, or just want to find a new position, it’s definitely a site that’s worth taking a look at.”
This Friday we received the latest numbers on unemployment from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Do yourself a favor and don’t pay attention. These numbers have policy implications, to be sure, but they really don’t affect our job searches.
Lots of jobs have been lost and lots more will be lost. But this is a huge economy, and there will always be a certain number of openings as people move, retire, die, quit, get promoted, etc. Also, large corporations aren’t perfectly efficient with their human capital. Just because a firm cut a thousand jobs doesn’t mean it’s not hiring.
Check out this article from Fortune Magazine which profiles 20 large companies that are planning to hire serious numbers in 2009. Edward Jones, Cisco, Wegman’s, KPMG– some of America’s beheamoths are still adding headcount (notice that Microsoft makes the list, even after announcing plans to cut 5,000 jobs).
Most importantly, you can glean from this article the best industries to focus your job search:
Competition increases naturally with the unemployment rate, but there are still thousands of job openings nationwide. So screw the unemployment figures. These statistics are backward-looking, and if we’re going to beat the competition we’ll all need to do a better job of looking in the opposite direction.
Marla Diamond, a reporter for WCBS Newsradio 880, spread the word today about TheCanned.com to thousands of listeners in the Northeast. Check out a summary here or listen to the audio coverage below!
Island Caretaker
Tourism Queensland, Australia
This is the best job in the world, or so the press seems to think. You be the judge: how does $100 grand sound for six months of lounging in a luxury beach front villa in Queensland? Your only duty would be to enjoy the islands of the Great Barrier Reef and blog about it.
There is no catch. This is a promotion from Tourism Queensland. Sure, there have already been 9000 applicants (I’m about to be one of them). But hell, a job at Starbucks is probably pulling in close to the same number of applicants in this economy. You choose: make custom coffee drinks for the soon-to-be-canned, or get intimate with a hammock in the land down under.
One lucky duck will actually get this job, starting July 1st. The application deadline is February 22nd, so get moving. Click here for more details.
CollegeMogul.com, an online magazine featuring new Web start-ups, featured TheCanned.com in a recent article. Reporter Chikodi Chima has the story here.
