70 years of rampant abortion and the high expense of raising educated children has led to demographic inversion, and young Japanese workers holding all the cards. The only solution is the one Japan is least likely to implement, which is bringing in workers from abroad, even though there are many educated workers world-wide who are Nihonophiles and would love to become permanent residents and corporate management.
Layoffs cause all kinds of far reaching issues. It destroys company loyalty even if you don’t get laid off.
But it is still ok for companies to ghost interview candidates right? And to change work requirements, add duties, and never go through with promised compensation?
The sword cuts both ways. I got an angry email from a recruiter saying I need to answer his emails or the company I have no interest on working for will black list me.
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I don’ wanna work. Just wanna bang on the drum all day.
This is the example set by social media “influencers”.
I predict that employers will find ways to manage with fewer employees and when all the COVID money and other programs like rent moratoriums run out, folks will return to the workforce and find openings are scarce. Unemployment will soar, and there will be no doubts about recession.
Tips:
1) Be on time and show up everyday.
2) Do not gossip as the person you talk to will talk to someone else and it will get back to whoever you gossiped about. You will run into others that bad mouth people. Stay away from them. Also do not complain unless you have a solution.
3) Get training in microsoft office skills. It helps if you know how to write or do simple excel and do email.
4) Always be on the look out for something better. Go to places like salary.com to see what jobs pay what.
5) Be prepared to move either miles away from where you are or out of state. If working in state then try to find a place in the middle where there are lots of job opportunities.
My first job in California was 3 miles away. The 2nd was 40 miles and I almost moved closer and the last was about 20 miles in the opposite direction.
6) Save your money. If the companies have a 401k plan then take advantage of it. They are giving you extra money. Also invest in stock. You will retire well off someday.
I found that when I switched jobs I ended up making more money when starting then the past job. I only had 5 jobs till I retired. I wish I knew early on to get training.
The internet makes it easy to find answers and work nowadays.
I just thought I would work at the same place all the time. The grass is greener elsewhere at times so keep looking. The difference between my first job in Minnesota that paid less then $8/hr to over $14/hr for my next job over 3 decades ago and it went up and up from there. You may need to take stepping stone jobs to get the training for the better paying one.
We had people who were absent many times in the office and those same people when working from home would call in sick too....
I knew of a guy when I worked at Earthlink (ISP) almost 20 years ago who was gone like 2 years as he knew how to work the system and always had an excuse. He only showed up when the place was closing and we were offered extra pay and 1 year of schooling if we stayed till the end.
I don't have to. What I do is in demand and since Baby Boomers started really retiring in droves a few years ago, I've noticed my market power increase substantially. In my early 50's, there just aren't many people around who have the skills and experience banks are looking for in this field.
So give me 100% remote offers or move along. I won't accept anything else and I don't have to. If you refuse, your competitors will not. You'll be left high and dry.
As a Gen Xer who had a huge overhang of Baby Boomers with 10-15 more years of experience hanging over me throughout my entire career, I can't begin to tell you how awesome this is. That overhang is really being thinned out and because things were so tough in this area for so long because of it, not that many of us persevered and gained a lot of experience. The Great Recession was simply awful for me. Now its my turn. I'm going to enjoy it to the full and put the screws to banks the way they did to me 10-15 years ago. Its only fair.
THe only hire ypung because they work cheap. Experience doesn’t count for much.