Trying To Do Our Part

• Author: Kyle Callahan
• Posted: November 24, 2008
• Category: Recruitment Solutions
• Tags: economy, hiring, lay offs, RCI, Recruiting
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TIME Magazine recently explained Why Unemployment Could Be Worse This Time:

Unlike other economists, [Thomas Lam, an economist who tracks the U.S. economy at the Singapore-based United Overseas Bank] looks beyond the total jobless number to something called employment flow, which tracks the numbers of people moving from the ranks of those receiving a regular paycheck to those who aren’t and vice versa. What Lam has found is disturbing. Currently, people out of work have just a 22% chance of landing a new job within the next month. That already makes this a worse market for job seekers than at any time during the downturns of the early 2000s or 1990s, which is as far back as Lam’s data goes. And remember, we haven’t got to [the projected 8% of unemployment] yet.

This is why, at RCI, we’re trying create opportunities for companies to directly target those workers who have been recently laid off. While it is true that more and more employers are in a hiring freeze, it is also true that hundreds and hundreds of companies are not. Regardless of the slow down in the economy, there is still work that needs to be done.

If you’re a healthcare employer who has openings in any area, take a look at our Virtual Job Fair: Healthcare. We’re working with regional newspapers and unemployment offices to present recruitment messages to the thousands of experienced and certified healthcare workers who’ve been effected by recent hospital closings in Birmingham, Galveston, Detroit, Oklahoma, and Southern California. These are workers who’ll most likely have to relocate to continue their careers. If you’re hiring, we can put your message in front of these candidates.

If you’re a retail employer, you might want to take advantage of the Retail Supplement we’re adding to the Employment Review outplacement magazine, which gets distribution at job fairs and unemployment agencies, and in the HR offices of the companies that are laying off.

If you’re hiring for C-level professionals, or financial professionals, or marketing, supply chain, engineering and ALL other top professionals, then take a look at our special bannered-section in the Wall Street Journal, which will promote your recruitment message to a pool of highly talented individuals who are exploring new career options for the first time in years.

There are multiple options for all of these packages, and they all include postings on our award-winning career site, BestJobsUSA.com, which we recently re-launched with a completely updated design.

And that’s not all we’ve got planned for this crisis. In the coming weeks, we’ll start promoting a special seminar to give job seekers the competitive edge they’ll need to find the right job in a down economy.

For information on any of these opportunities, call (561) 277-1202, or use this web-form to contact us today.