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- GENERAL: Problems Changing Careers/Finding Jobs From: john sampson
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GENERAL: Problems Changing Careers/Finding Jobs
Posted by: "john sampson" jcsspike@yahoo.com jcsspike
Sat Jan 1, 2011 6:47 am (PST)
Career Shift Often Means Drop in Living Standards
By CATHERINE RAMPELL
Published: December 31, 2010
Sue Bires, 60, was laid off from a job managing homeowners' associations in Orlando, Fla. She eventually filed for bankruptcy and took a job at a call center.
A new study of American workers displaced by the recession sheds light on the sacrifices a large number have made to find work. Many, it turns out, had to switch careers and significantly reduce their living standards.
"In many cases, these people are not very happy," said Cliff Zukin, professor of public policy and political science at Rutgers University and one of the authors of the study. "They're the winners who got new jobs, but they're not really what they want, and not where they want to be."
The study, conducted by the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers, was based on a survey of Americans around the country who were unemployed as of August 2009 and re-interviewed about their job status twice over the next 15 months.
As of November 2010, only about one-third had found replacement jobs, either as full-time workers (26 percent) or as part-time workers not wanting a full-time job (8 percent).
And of those who successfully found work, 41 percent had switched into a new career or field.
Some of these may have been workers who retrained for new fields they wished to enter, but many seem to have taken their new jobs out of desperation. Only a minority of those displaced workers changing careers — 22 percent — said they had taken a class or a training course before finding their new job.
"Look, I am really happy to have a job — that's the main thing," said Sue Bires, 60, who was laid off from a job managing homeowners' associations in Orlando, Fla., in September 2008. She initially had another job lined up with a different realty association in Orlando, but when that fell through, she moved to Austin, Tex., to stay with a friend. She filed for bankruptcy and took a job at a call center.
But she now earns $30,000, far below the $45,000 she was paid when she was managing properties.
"It's competitive out there, even for the lower paying jobs, especially when you're 60 looking for a job in a young town," Ms. Bires said. "So I'm grateful to have a job where the people are nice and I have a little bit of flexibility in my hours. That's especially important now, since retirement is looking like a long way off."
Like Ms. Bires, most of those forced to switch careers generally seemed to downgrade their job status.
Nearly 7 in 10 of the survey's respondents who took jobs in new fields say they had to take a cut in pay, compared with just 45 percent of workers who successfully found work in their original field.
Of all the newly re-employed tracked by the Heldrich Center, 29 percent took a reduction in fringe benefits in their new job. Again, those switching careers had to sacrifice more: Nearly half of these workers (46 percent) suffered a benefits cut, compared with just 29 percent who stayed in the same career.
Many of those who found work in a different field say they have come to terms with the limited opportunities, but they are reluctant to see their new job as a calling.
"I wouldn't go so far as to say I've switched careers, since I'm not exactly sure this is a career, but I'm definitely doing something different," said Adam Kowal, 30, of Royal Oak, Mich.
After being laid off from a job as a quality control supervisor at a department store warehouse and losing his house, he moved his family across the state to live with his mother. Unable to find similar work, he initially took a "soul-sucking" temporary job on an assembly line making auto parts, and is now working in a kitchen at a high school.
His hourly wage has fallen from $15 an hour at the warehouse to $10.50 an hour washing dishes and preparing food, and he has gone from having health insurance coverage for his whole family to no benefits. He, his pregnant wife and their 4-year-old son are now on Medicaid.
"I'd love to go back to what I was doing," he said, or even into what he described as his true passion, full-time screenwriting. "But when I talk with the unemployment office here in Michigan, they tell me the chances of going back and using the same skill set I had before are pretty farfetched."
MIS Ntwk Assoc Mtg Dates:
Jan 4th Reg Mtg - 6 pm - Berman Larson Kane Offices, Paramus - DO NOT use GPS for directions - Bring 15 copies of your resume
Feb 8th Combined Dinner Mtg - Assoc of Women in Computing - Totowa - Rod Colon - Networking: Do You Get It?
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LEADS: 25 IT Pos - NYC/NJ - Devel/BA/Eng/Security/QA
Posted by: "john sampson" jcsspike@yahoo.com jcsspike
Sat Jan 1, 2011 9:00 am (PST)
Warm wishes for a Happy and Healthy New Year!!!
I hope the New Year finds you well and brings you lots of good fortune.
Here is a quick list of immediate hiring needs that we are actively
searching for. Please feel free to contact me or pass on to your
friends and family that may be interested.
1. Java Software Engineer for world renowned Internet Retailer
(NYC)
2. Core Java (consultant) with Restful Web Services, Spring, JDBC
and Oracle for new web product at SW firm (NYC)
3. Natural Language Processing Engineer for Global Software Firm
(NYC)
4. Machine Learning Personalization Engineer for Web division of
Media Firm (NYC)
5. C++ Software Engineer for Financial Market Data Systems (NYC)
6. Software Engineer for Algorithmic Trading Systems (C++) for
Financial Firm (NYC/NJ)
7. Quantitative Developer (PhD in Math, Physics, Engineering) for
Derivatives Systems and Hedge Funds (NYC)
8. Quantitative Developer (C++, Matlab, Mathematica, Advanced
Degree) Pricing Models for Financial Firm (NYC)
9. C++ Software Developer (STL, Distributed Systems,
Multithreading, Web Crawling) for Media/Legal Products (NYC)
10. Software Engineer (C++, Unix, OOP/OOD, Algos, Multithreading)
for high volume transactional financial syst(NYC/NJ)
11. Front End Web Developer (CSS, AJAX, JavaScript,) for Consumer
Facing sites (NYC)
12. Hedge Fund - C#/.NET Software Engineer (WPF, WCF, SOA, OOD/OOP)
(CT)
13. Web Security Engineer for large scale Enterprise Systems (JBoss,
Weblogic, Perl, LAMP, Network Security) (NYC)
14. SR QA Engineer (Cons) - Automated Testing for Web based
transactional sites (Selenium, Cucumber, Scripting) (NYC)
15. QA Engineer - Manual/Automated testing (QTP) for Financial
Trading Firm (NJ)
16. Senior Unix/Linux Systems Engineer (SAN, Security, Automation,
Networking) for large scale systems (NJ)
17. Senior Network Engineer (Arch/Des/Imp, L/3,L/2, Cisco, Linux,
Solaris) for Software Firm (NYC)
18. Senior Java Developer for Web R&D Team (Performance, Scalability
for Consumer Facing Sites) Media (NYC)
19. SQL Developer for new DW build and integration of Financial
Investment Data (NYC)
20. Informatica Developer for new DW build for Investment firm (NYC)
21. Application Architect to drive technical vision and core
platform for portfolio construction at top Hedge Fund (CT)
22. PHP Developers for web company 2 openings (NYC)
23. Mobile Developer Team Lead (Android or iPhone) for Global
Software firm (NYC)
24. Business Analyst with Legal or Finance experience for global
investment firm (NYC)
25. Informatica ETL Developer (Consultant) for leading Financial
Firm (NJ)
Please feel free to reach out to me if you would like more detail on the
openings above...or if you just want to connect and update. Here's to a
great 2011!
Have a great Holiday!!!!
Brian
Brian Wiseltier
Vice President
SilverSearch, Inc.
brian@silversearchinc.com
201-947-7050 x102
2 Executive Drive, Suite 705
Fort Lee, NJ 07024
Link to me at http://www.linkedin.com/in/wiseltie r
Website: www.silversearchinc.com
MIS Ntwk Assoc Mtg Dates:
Jan 4th Reg Mtg - 6 pm - Berman Larson Kane Offices, Paramus - DO NOT use GPS for directions - Bring 15 copies of your resume
Feb 8th Combined Dinner Mtg - Assoc of Women in Computing - Totowa - Rod Colon - Networking: Do You Get It?
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