Summary Sunday: Your Pandemic Job Search

Over the past several months, we’ve seen drastic shifts in the job market and you’ve been riding the ups and downs of a pandemic job search. Here’s help and hope to improve your strategy and knowledge.

This week’s Summary Sunday includes articles about your pandemic job search. You’ll find

• Job search tips from Jason Alba (JibberJobber founder)
• The future of work from home employment
• The differences between recruiters, staffing firms and headhunters
• How to reach out to people when it’s been a while
• Social media trends likely to be embraced by employers (and job seekers)
• LinkedIn’s listing of in-demand and growing jobs
• Journaling and your well-being

A pandemic job search requires different strategies than ever before. So if you are using old techniques and not seeing results, you’ll need to change what you’re doing.

JOB SEARCH

Job Search During The Pandemic | Ask The Headhunter, Nick Corcodolis Guest Post by Jason Alba

Pay attention to these four really important points about job searching today.

Ask The Headhunter® | Job Search During The Pandemic

Before you think I’m an expert in the history of pandemics (check out this great infographic for a visual of pandemic history), I’ll admit that I’ve never experienced anything like what we are going through today. The world seems to be at a standstill with no more eating inside restaurants, all conferences postponed…

How Coronavirus Will Change The Job Market Forever | Bernard Marr, Forbes

Learn how working from home is here to stay and the ripple effect this has on the workforce.

How Coronavirus Will Change The Job Market Forever

Coronavirus changed many things. Our workplaces and job market are no exception. After being forced to work from home, will companies continue to allow employees to do so in a post-COVID-19 world? And what will this mean for the job market as a whole?

How to Find Jobs Working with Recruiters, Staffing Firms, and Head Hunters | Susan P. Joyce, Job-Hunt.org

Understand the difference between the different types of recruiters. But keep in mind, during high unemployment, employers tend to use their own in-house recruiting/Human Resources team. (Finding people isn’t as difficult today as it was 4 months ago.)

How to Find Jobs Through Recruiters, Staffing Firms, and Head Hunters – Job-Hunt.org

By Susan P. Joyce The “middle man/woman” in the job search process is usually a recruiter, someone who specializes in finding people to fill jobs. Many different kinds of recruiters help employers fill job openings. It’s important to know which kind of recruiter you are working with so you have a good idea of how that process works with them.

NETWORKING

Easy Tips for Reconnecting with Your Professional Network |Shelley Piedmont

If you haven’t been keeping in touch with past colleagues, it’s never too late to start. Here are tips and what to say when reaching out to someone you haven’t spoken with in a while.

Easy Tips for Reconnecting with Your Professional Network – Shelley Piedmont – Resume Writer, LinkedIn Profiles and Interview Preparation

Are you embarrassed because you have not kept up with your network? This blog post has easy tips for reconnecting with your professional network.

SOCIAL MEDIA

5 Emerging, Surging Social Media Trends for 2020 | PRDaily, Devon Gardner

Pay attention to the PR/Marketing trends because many of these relate to employers and job seekers. Personalization, humanization, just-in-time, and no self-promotion. Watch for these trends and see what you can do.

5 emerging, surging social media trends for 2020 – PR Daily

Scrap your content calendar, prioritize listening, and put self-promotion on hold. the way we work and use social media. Five crucial social media trends are highlighted below. 1. Adapting the content calendar process Most social media managers have been trained to prepare content weeks or months in advance, but that approach will either result in […]

JOB MARKET

The Most In-demand Jobs: Where the Opportunity Is Now | LinkedIn, Blake Barnes

Using LinkedIn data, these are two sets of growing jobs – by volume and by growth.

The Most In-demand Jobs: Where the Opportunity Is Now

The jobs landscape has changed significantly over the past few months, there’s been increasing demand for healthcare, retail and logistics workers due to COVID-19, as well as jobs that can be done remotely like software engineers and accountants. To help you understand where the opportunities are now, we’ll be sharing monthly insights into the most in-demand jobs around the world.

WELL-BEING

Not Sure What You’re Feeling? Journaling Can Help | NPR, Andrew Limbong

Journaling helps! It’s especially useful for job seekers dealing with a lot of emotions. See how to get started.

Not Sure What You’re Feeling? Journaling Can Help : Life Kit

Journaling helps you process emotions and gain insight. But you don’t have to write for an hour a day or keep a beautiful bullet journal to get the benefits of journaling. This episode helps you get started with helpful journal prompts, even if you’re wary about putting your feelings out there.

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