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Research: Ongoing
Trend-Tracking
"Our access to job-hunters is unique in the industry. We work
one-on-one with our clients, and our counselors notice trends in the job
market months before they surface in the media. Our ongoing project is an
effort to solidify our hypotheses with hard facts and numbers, bringing
our media contacts breaking news and statistics long before they're
mainstream." -Kate Wendleton, President
Knowing the unemployment rate is not enough. For example: What happens to people who
leave financial services, advertising, law, or the field or industry
you are in? Where do they go? How do they
fare? Are people relocating when they find new jobs, or are they finding
jobs close to home? If they relocate, where do they go? Are
they moving to larger or smaller companies? Earning more, the same,
or less?
These and other issues will be tracked on an
ongoing basis, becoming a permanent service of The Five O'Clock Club. To receive press
releases related to this new service please fill out the form
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Job Search Stress: Who Has It and How They Control It-
With last year's terrorist attacks, a recession and massive corporate
scandals, a common denominator a common denominator among people facing
the challenge of finding a new job is a heightened level of stress. The
Five O'Clock Club recently conducted a study of employed and unemployed
job seekers to explore the causes of job-search stress: Who feels the most
stress and what are the most common causes of stress?
Myth: Get Interviews by Networking, Search Firms, Ads. Study
Shows: Job Hunters Get Meetings Through Direct Contact-
The Five O'Clock Club wanted to find out what really works, what method
is truly the most effective? An extensive survey of professionals,
managers, and executives clearly shows that job hunters get more meetings
for the time spent through "direct contact" than through any other
technique.
Job-Search Problems: Survey of Job Hunters Yields Surprising
Results-
The Five O'Clock Club surveyed hundreds of clients to determine 1) the
obstacles job hunters encounter the most, 2) the most important factors
they consider in a new position, and 3) the most common reasons they are
job hunting.
Picking Up The Phone: Job Hunters Consider "Telephone
Reluctance" a Major Obstacle-
Job Hunters were recently asked to rank 15 job-search problems, and
surprisingly "Difficulty in Making Phone Calls" placed near the top of the
list for both male and female job hunters. In response to this survey's
results, The Five O'Clock Club prepared guidelines for making phone calls
to prospective employers.
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