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Job Seekers Newsletter
July 2007
Welcome Everyone!
The Work Ministry Team wishes you the best of success for your job search! Hope you are enjoying the summer of 2007 as well!
Comments About the U.S. Job Market
A survey of 2400+ hiring managers and HR professionals was conducted by Careerbuilder and USA Today last month. The survey findings were:
- More than two-thirds (67%) of employers reported their companies added to staff and hired new full-time, permanent employees during the first six months of 2007.
- 43% expect to hire the same amount of employees in the next six months
- 35% expect to expand staff and hire more employees than the past six months
- One-in-five (21%) expect to hire fewer employees than the past six months.
- 5% expect to decrease staff
This survey plus others all report the same findings: Hiring plans of the next six months remain strong, despite a slower pace of the first quarter and an improvement in the past three months. Keep networking!
This recovery is different....
In a recent article, Larry Kudlow, economist and TV commentator, stated that this recovery is different and historic. Ten or twenty years ago, the US was the engine of the world economy, pulling the world economies forward. If the US economy got a cold, the world economy got pneumonia since we were everyone's biggest customer!
Today, things are different. Brazil, India, China and Russia are establishing themselves as economic powers as well. India, for example, with a population of 1 billion, has progressed from a society with a wealthy elite and large scale poverty of fifty years ago to a country with 300 million people with middle class incomes and lifestyle. And it is the world's largest democracy. China's growth into a major economic power is well-known, but the emergence of the economies of Russia and Brazil are important as well since all five economies generate global growth. So the global economy has five engines pulling the "economic train" instead of just one.
For the first time in human history, several billions of people are living in economies that are functioning at mid to high level performance, providing greater access to jobs and education to build lives.
In Kudlow's view, this is the most extraordinary development of our time and may make this century the century of global prosperity as the quality of life for hundreds of millions of people improve. The challenge of this century is to assist non-performing economies, especially in areas of asia and Africa, to find solutions to their economic issues and become functioning economies.
Special Announcement
What Color is Your Parachute? author Dick Bolles offers support and comments on Work Ministry in the 2008 edition of his upcoming book! Thanks for your support Mr. Bolles!
Alliance Partners
We support the following resources in service to job seekers:
- BPWUSA. Business and Professional Women USA
- HACEUSA, a professional Hispanic Association
- Jobkabob.com: sell your skills, not your work history.
- Career Concepts USA: Job Fair resource
New Job Postings
KPMG is one of the big four consulting firms and currently has about 200 positions posted in ten states. We have additional jobs from major employers as well. Please visit our site and check out the opportunities!
Networking Tip Of The Month
There are two kinds of Recruiters: those who read cover letters and those who do not. For the benefit of the Recruiters who actually read cover letters, apply a few basic rules. A cover letter should be written like a 15 second TV commercial, providing enough information to create an interest but no detail on the scale of a one minute resume commercial.
A good cover letter should be brief and have three parts:
- One or two lines about response to an ad or job post, expression of interest
- Three bullet points about your core competencies that qualify you as a candidate, directly related to the specifications, six lines maximum
- A closing comment about strong interest and a "welcome the opportunity to meet," etc
That's it. A cover letter should provide a Recruiter with the rationale for spending more time to read the resume, which should reinforce the core competencies cited. Anything more in a cover letter will just duplicate what is reviewed on the resume. Help those Recruiters who read cover letters: be direct and brief!
Networking Group of the Month
Holy Family Job Support Group has been meeting weekly since 1986 and is one of the oldest faith-based networking groups in the US. Located in Inverness, Illinois, the group assists 500 to 600 or more job seekers per year in the six county area of Chicago. The Job Support Group functions as a networking session, offering ideas and help with job search efforts. Jim Phillips and Brian Healy are co-leaders and can be contacted at: Holy Family. Our best wishes for continued success!
Welcome to new Job Support Group
In March, 2007, Harvest Bible Chapel in Rolling Meadows IL launched a job support group to serve the members of the church and community. Harvest Bible Chapel is the second largest congregation in Illinois. Meetings are held on the second and fourth Saturdays from 9:00 to 10:30 AM. Details and map are available on the Illinois list of groups. Great to have you with us, HBC!
Important Information
Leaders: please review your Job Support Group web page and see if all information is accurate and up-to-date. Please send any corrections to work@workministry.com.
Remember networkers: once you have landed your job, complete our landings survey.
Quote of the Month
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. President Harry Truman
A Prayer While You Are In Transition
The will of God for your life is simply that you submit yourself to Him each day and say, "Father, Your will for today is mine. Your pleasure for today is mine. Your work for today is mine. I trust You to be God. You lead me today and I will follow."
- Kay Arthur
We hope you have enjoyed our July Newsletter!
The Work Ministry Team
Contact us at (847) 428-5049
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