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Monday, April 06, 2020
Job hunting during the coronavirus pandemic: It’s dismal.
slate.com: Job hunting can be difficult at the best of times. It’s absolutely dismal right now. With layoffs climbing into the millions, workers are being abandoned in an economy where, in many fields, it feels impossible to find a job anytime soon.
4 comments:
Alexa Janoschka
said...
“It is dismal” is that an understatement? I think that my generation, in particular, is in a strange place (in particular the non-graduating college students) most of us have never held a full-time job or worked more than a waitressing or small management position in our home towns. We were all around the age of 10 when the last recession happened and probably had no clue what was going on. If our parent's jobs were affected some of us might have seen a rougher period but our generation hasn’t entered the job market yet and this is what we are starting with… and I think something that a lot of us might be wondering is will I be able to afford to go to college? A lot of blogs and articles are talking about entering the job market, being in the job market, and dealing with student loans but what about the people in college? What about the people figuring out whether or not they can afford to get the training to enter the race. Rescissions suck. Period. A lot of people are going to, and are, getting hit hard by this and this is not going away anytime soon and again the term “uncertain” comes up. Things are not clear, things are scary, we are in the dark and being told to move forward. How in the world do you move forward in a dark room? We will find a way, we always do, but it's not gonna be easy.
This is so scary and so sad. It is bizarre how everyone is in a point of loss and how it seems like the whole economy is collapsing. I don't remember much from the 2008 recession but I know it did affect my family. We have never been the same financially and everything really changed at that point for the worse. Now, we have been getting more comfortable but with the corona virus occurring out of the blue, our lives are just put on hold. I am lucky in a sense that my mother is still getting paid even while not working at the high school she usually works at. But I know others who were just in between moving to another state or just leaving a job for better opportunities who suddenly have nowhere to go. I hope this doesn't end up any more bad but I honestly don't even know how the theater scene will be built back up once this virus is taken care of.
I think it can be unanimously agreed that everything about this situation just, sucks. Across the board. I feel bad for everyone these days, but as a student who spent most of this year looking for summer jobs, I especially can connect with the stories shared in this article. I worked hard throughout the year, applying, interviewing, waiting for months for answers, and then I finally got a yes—an amazing opportunity lined up to start on June 2, only to get a call last week that it is cancelled due to the virus. Many unanswered questions, changed trajectories for the near future—it’s scary and it is frustrating. I can’t imagine being at the age where people experienced both the 2008 recession as young people entering the workforce and now experiencing that anger and frustration and lost security again. My dad was telling me recently that as a law school student during the 1990 recession, and that he missed out on jobs that he had been expecting. But, he gave me hope that it all figured itself out. I hope the same is able to happen this time around too.
Statistically, it is said that a factor that affects one’s lifetime earnings the most is the year of one’s birth. If you look at the average, the year you start job hunting, in other words, the year you finish your study matters a lot, and that is all about the economic climate. It is scary, especially for people in our age who haven’t experienced world wars or other great impacts by the financial crisis, to think about how a global emergency can change our lives. All of my friends in Japan are now in the middle of job seeking. Seniors usually get offers from April to June, but many companies are postponing the decision due to the difficulty in interviews and of course the financial instability. My friends are very stressed, and so as students who would start job seeking next year. We say that we are entering the employment “ice age.” Although the only thing we can do is to do our best, the fact that we don’t see an end to this situation expands our anxiety about the future.
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“It is dismal” is that an understatement? I think that my generation, in particular, is in a strange place (in particular the non-graduating college students) most of us have never held a full-time job or worked more than a waitressing or small management position in our home towns. We were all around the age of 10 when the last recession happened and probably had no clue what was going on. If our parent's jobs were affected some of us might have seen a rougher period but our generation hasn’t entered the job market yet and this is what we are starting with… and I think something that a lot of us might be wondering is will I be able to afford to go to college? A lot of blogs and articles are talking about entering the job market, being in the job market, and dealing with student loans but what about the people in college? What about the people figuring out whether or not they can afford to get the training to enter the race. Rescissions suck. Period. A lot of people are going to, and are, getting hit hard by this and this is not going away anytime soon and again the term “uncertain” comes up. Things are not clear, things are scary, we are in the dark and being told to move forward. How in the world do you move forward in a dark room? We will find a way, we always do, but it's not gonna be easy.
This is so scary and so sad. It is bizarre how everyone is in a point of loss and how it seems like the whole economy is collapsing. I don't remember much from the 2008 recession but I know it did affect my family. We have never been the same financially and everything really changed at that point for the worse. Now, we have been getting more comfortable but with the corona virus occurring out of the blue, our lives are just put on hold. I am lucky in a sense that my mother is still getting paid even while not working at the high school she usually works at. But I know others who were just in between moving to another state or just leaving a job for better opportunities who suddenly have nowhere to go. I hope this doesn't end up any more bad but I honestly don't even know how the theater scene will be built back up once this virus is taken care of.
I think it can be unanimously agreed that everything about this situation just, sucks. Across the board. I feel bad for everyone these days, but as a student who spent most of this year looking for summer jobs, I especially can connect with the stories shared in this article. I worked hard throughout the year, applying, interviewing, waiting for months for answers, and then I finally got a yes—an amazing opportunity lined up to start on June 2, only to get a call last week that it is cancelled due to the virus. Many unanswered questions, changed trajectories for the near future—it’s scary and it is frustrating. I can’t imagine being at the age where people experienced both the 2008 recession as young people entering the workforce and now experiencing that anger and frustration and lost security again. My dad was telling me recently that as a law school student during the 1990 recession, and that he missed out on jobs that he had been expecting. But, he gave me hope that it all figured itself out. I hope the same is able to happen this time around too.
Statistically, it is said that a factor that affects one’s lifetime earnings the most is the year of one’s birth. If you look at the average, the year you start job hunting, in other words, the year you finish your study matters a lot, and that is all about the economic climate. It is scary, especially for people in our age who haven’t experienced world wars or other great impacts by the financial crisis, to think about how a global emergency can change our lives. All of my friends in Japan are now in the middle of job seeking. Seniors usually get offers from April to June, but many companies are postponing the decision due to the difficulty in interviews and of course the financial instability. My friends are very stressed, and so as students who would start job seeking next year. We say that we are entering the employment “ice age.” Although the only thing we can do is to do our best, the fact that we don’t see an end to this situation expands our anxiety about the future.
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