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A Timely Self-Help Guide For Finding Employment, February 19, 2010
This review is from: Where the Jobs Are Now: The Fastest-Growing Industries and How to Break Into Them (Paperback)
Although finished in 2009 when the unemployment situation was better than it is
now, this book is still very timely. It's hitting the market at just the right moment as far as a help guide is concerned. It is packed with helpful information that will help the unemployed find a new job and hopefully, give them hope that there will be a job for them. As the writer points out, the reader only has to find one job--the job for them.
"Here's the hard truth that a lot of people don't want to face. A lot of jobs that were lost won't be coming back." It's going to take a decade for the economy to create enough new jobs to reach the previous level of employment in 2009.
"The problem for all job seekers in this climate is that the old rules of job hunting and career management no longer apply. In today's market, you either adjust to the new reality or get left behind."
"This book can help you take back your control over your life...The way to take control is to go where the growth is...You just need to know where to look." This volume "will show you what those fields are, and break down the industries and roles in a clear, down-to-earth way for workers looking to embark on the next part of their career. At the back of the book, you'll find an appendix that will act as your one-stop guide to career resources for each of the industries we'll be covering."
The nine industries where there will be job growth are covered in nine chapters. They are: "Health Care, Biotechnology, Education, Green Energy, Government, Security, Information Technology, Entrepreneurship and Dow Busters." Each of these chapters is broken down into subchapters for different facets of employment. Dow Busters are those mostly non-government industries that are recession proof and continue to grow and hire no matter how far the Dow drops. They are the essential jobs in our economy. They include accounting, customer service, dental hygiene, engineering, finance, firefighting, insurance, law, attorneys, paralegals, social work, and veterinary medicine. All those jobs are service, not manufacturing jobs.
"The recession is forcing a seismic shift from a manufacturing-based economy to a service-based economy one, most of the jobs that were lost aren't coming back, and, boy is that a hard truth for workers to swallow. Manufacturing jobs have been moved off shore because of the high cost of labor, taxes and doing business in the USA. They won't be coming back and the sooner people realize that and start retraining themselves to handle the jobs in the service economy that need to be done at a local level, the sooner they will find employment. People will also need to be willing to move to where the good jobs are located.
As this reviewer read this guidebook to finding a job, I was glad I was retired and not having to face the current employment problem. Today's job market is a whole different world than the one I grew up in. Hopefully, this volume will provide some helpful advice for those just entering the job market. If nothing else, it has some encouraging advice. While it won't provide all the answers, it will provide the job seeker with some good tips on where to start looking and how to go about it.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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A timely book for a needy generation!, February 2, 2010
This review is from: Where the Jobs Are Now: The Fastest-Growing Industries and How to Break Into Them (Paperback)
This is a time of change and Watson's book is clearly dedicated to helping his readers make that change as they search for employment. . This book offers not only where the jobs are now but the fastest growing industries ,how to look for a job, where to look, how to reevaluate your job experience to date , an appendix which gives fantastic grant and Scholarship information , websites, etc. Once you pick up " Where the jobs are now" you will not want to put it down. A chapter on entrepreneurship is well done and a must read ! This book is full of current information, encouraging, motivating, easy to read and gives hope which is so desperately needed in our global economy today!.
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Recession survival guide meets career re-tool kit, February 10, 2010
This review is from: Where the Jobs Are Now: The Fastest-Growing Industries and How to Break Into Them (Paperback)
Joe Watson has delivered an essential guide to finding more stable and rewarding work in these tough times. Growth-industry by growth-industry, he lays out the facts and offers words of encouragement that make finding that better job seem doable. Each industry overview has an appendix with resources to get the ball rolling. The personal accounts of workers who have successfully made the transition from declining to rising industries, often by just transferring existing skill sets, were also helpful. The chapter on becoming an entrepreneur was a real eye-opener because it seems counter-intuitive in a recession, but makes sense. Anyone trying to get back to work or struggling in a dead-end job needs to read this book!
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