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Job Support Group Leader Newsletter
May 2007
Job market talking points
Manpower Survey
Employers in the U.S. plan to slow hiring activity during the second quarter of 2007, according to a Manpower Inc. survey. The seasonally adjusted survey results show that employers are more likely to maintain or reduce staff levels than ramp up hiring. Of the 14,000 U.S. employers surveyed, 28 percent expect to increase payrolls during the second quarter of 2007, while 7 percent expect to trim staff levels and 59 percent expect no change in hiring. Six percent are undecided about their hiring plans.
To summarize the findings:
- 28% plan to increase staff
- 7% plan to decrease staff
- 59% plan to continue to replace staff, not expand
- 6% are unsure of plans
So more than eight out of ten companies are hiring!
Job search successes
Have a job search success story to share? Email your comments!
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!
Connecting with employers
Job seekers attending networking groups use various tools to help their search process, such as resumes, broadcast sheets and business cards. Consider offering the following advice to your job seekers:
Business cards are very useful for providing other networkers with the Cliff notes version of what a job seeker does plus his/her contact information. A card should contain two or three ways to contact the person (email, cell, landline) plus three or four skill sets that reflect what he/she does. Some examples that illustrate the point, but will need editing by a job seeker:
- Marketing: Product management, new product launch, market share growth
- Sales: Business development, account management, sales growth
- Operations: Order fulfillment, customer satisfaction, cost containment
- Customer service: Productivity , customer satisfaction, account retention
- Production: meet goals for quality, productivity, customer needs
- Administration: Support of management, communications, data management
- Accounting/Finance: Financial reporting, forecasting, compliance
A business card helps people to recall a few key things about a job seeker and pass information along that will assist a person's job search. Help your job seekers make it easier for people to assist them with the Cliff notes version of their background!
Alliance Partners
We welcome a new alliance partner: Business and Professional Women, an association dedicated to women's issues of career management. Check out their site: BPWUSA and explore their services as a resource for women. Find a chapter meeting near you and connect!
We support the following resources in service to job seekers:
- HACE: Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement
- Jobkabob.com: sell your skills, not your work history.
- Career Concepts USA: Job Fair resource
Have a success story or best ideas for job search to share? Send an email to leader@workministry.com.
Reminder:
Workministry.com has a growing list of job posts as well as continual improvement in resources for JSG Leaders and job seekers. Please make a
point of asking your group members to check the site, review the job posts and respond or send along to a friend, relative or former group
member.
Editor’s Note:
The Job Support Group Leader newsletter and message board are all about you. Our goal is to create a forum for
sharing information that helps you fulfill your mission. If you have feedback, ideas or suggestions for either the newsletter or the message
board, please send email to: leader@workministry.com.
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