The perception of the jobs market

I am so fed up with switching on the news or picking up a newspaper and reading headlines about 10000 jobs to go here, 3000 jobs go there blah blah.

These sensationalist headlines sells newspapers! Yesterday was a prime example, take the BT job losses, 10,000 jobs to go was the headline! Their CEO made a statement that was kept fairly quiet stating that BT loses 7000 people per year anyway.

What about the fact that there were 580,000 vacancies in the UK from August to October according to the Labour Market Statistics. And by the way the average earnings were up by 3.3% against the same period last year.

Looking for a job in today's economic climate just means you have to sell yourself a lot better than the next person. There are the jobs and opportunities out there. Look at oZZle, we have 75 jobs advertised by direct employers and hundreds more by recruitment agencies. There are the opportunities out there, it's all down to you and your attitude.

I'm not trying to deny there is a credit crunch and there will be companies that shut their doors, but unfortuntely some of them use recessions to have a clear out. History shows strong businesses survive recessions and many new businesses emerge.

It's critical at times like these you hold a strong can do attitude, sell your skills according to the vacancy requirements and remember every no takes you one step closer to a yes.

Now is not the time to make a career change, it's time to get even better at what you do.

To steal a well known phrase. It's not what the employers can do for you, it's what you can do for the employers.