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Posted By yyjworks on May 19, 2011

Welcome to YYJWorks – I hope I can be of assistance to you in your job search. You may notice at the end of this post that I am now located in Uppsala, Sweden. I am here until June 2014 doing a Masters’ Degree in International Health at Uppsala University. Despite being far away I want to persist in my efforts to help those of you looking for work in Victoria – I started this blog because of my personal difficulties with finding work in the spring of 2011 so I know how tough it can be. So let’s cut to the chase!

If you’re looking for job listings you’ve got a few choices:

• you can look at jobs with closing dates in the current month, or
• look at those that are closing after the end of this month or have no closing date stated or
• check out the daily fresh sheet which is updated with new jobs from the 25+ job boards I peruse each weekday

If it’s other things you’re looking for feel free to explore jobseeker resources, networking ideas and articles on a variety of subjects in the posts section (accessible in the column on the left hand side of the page). If you’re interested in being notified when the fresh sheet comes out each day simply follow me on Twitter by clicking on the follow button in the top right hand corner of this page.
(January 3, 2013 – Uppsala, Sweden)

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I’ve added this lovely photo of Victoria’s natural beauty not just so you can ‘pin’ my website but also because I think it is a really good metaphor for employment in the city. Because you may not realize it but this photo is not of a Garry Oak meadow but is actually a snapshot of an electrical box in my neighbourhood. Yes, even here in Lotus Land not everything is as it seems and you need a job – you can’t live on air after all.

The first three months of 2012 are nearly over and big changes are on the way for me. In September 2012 I will begin a Master’s in Public Health in Sweden. I am pretty sure that I will be attending Uppsala University since I have been admitted there but there is still, I’m guessing, a small chance I could also be admitted to the Karolinska Institute’s program where I am on a waitlist. I’ll be leaving Canada at the end of June since accommodation is notoriously hard to find in Sweden’s ‘university towns’ and I want to get a jump on the arriving hordes. Stay tuned for more news.

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Welcome to 2012. The job I mentioned in the paragraph below has slid from 25 hours a week to 15 and so I’ve now got more time to devote to this blog and other projects. I’m going to make a commitment to do a post every Friday by 9:00 pm Pacific Time (or else have a damn good excuse why I didn’t) as well as the fresh sheet every weekday. I may even join Facebook (should I or has Google+ made it obsolete?) – love to have your opinion on that if you’d care to comment below or send me an email. I’m also going to get back into tweeting. (January 6, 2012)

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I’ve left my earlier introduction below although much of it no longer applies. I now have my own domain and although the blog isn’t perfect I’m pretty pleased with it. There are ads from our friends (they are our friends aren’t they?) at Google to try and at least recoup hosting costs. In the middle of August I’m starting a ‘real’ job that will probably be 3.5 days per week. That will of course cut into the time I can spend on this blog but despite that I do hope to expand the site by adding editorial content on a variety of issues and static pages on topics like Victoria’s biggest employers and the essential tools that every 21st century job hunter should have in their tackle box. Stay tuned. (July 29, 2011)

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Welcome to my humble blog. I hope that you’ll find it useful and that you’ll tell all your Victoria-resident (or Victoria-bound) job-hunting friends about it. After getting started, both with this blog and with blogging in general, with Blogger I’ve left that platform and made the move to WordPress. This move was partially prompted by Blogger’s recent day-long outage as well as a desire to learn WordPress. Of course blogs taking advantage of WordPress.com‘s free service can’t have ads so monetization will have to wait. But perhaps this is for the best – let’s see if I can build a following and some steady traffic before I invest in the admittedly low cost option of going it on my own.

Most of this blog is built around pages but I’ll add more bloggy (meaning real-time, reactive and interactive posts rather than more static information) content as we go. Hope you visit often (although ideally I’ll be so successful at helping you find work that you will come back out of interest rather than because you’re still searching for a job). (May 19, 2011)

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Posted By on April 29, 2013

Today marks the start of something new and the discarding – if only metaphorical – of the old. I will be heading to the center of Uppsala shortly to take in the boat races on the river which are an integral part of the Valborg celebration here.

Then I’ll retreat to my classroom and watch the proceedings from the well-positioned windows and work on and off on the guide to Uppsala I am working on. Yesterday I received my personnummer and now feel like I can perhaps gain some kind of a foothold in this society as more than just a transient student. Out with the old – in with the new.

The three months of summer – June, July and August – will be mostly spent here in Uppsala working on some projects that I hope will be both profitable and educationally enriching. Happy Valborg to you all, wherever in the world you are, and stay tuned for more information about the YYJWorks project I am going to be working on (among other things) this summer.

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Posted By on March 6, 2013

I’m feeling in a playful mood today – my course just finished and I have a week before I have to be back in class (although we have individual projects to be working on starting next week). Tomorrow I’m going to take a trip to Sundsvall – 4 hours north up the coast – returning Sunday. So here, without further ado, is a rather fun little post all about the spam I receive here at YYJWorks.

Okay, this is a serious blog about a serious topic but sometimes when I am doing the mundane tasks associated with blogging – namely sifting through the spam – I find myself laughing out loud at the total inanity, weirdness and hilarity of the spam I receive (and sometimes being more than a little disturbed by the creepiness of some of the posts). Usually anywhere between 50 and 80 posts per day make their way into the ‘spam to review’ queue. The ones selling stuff are easy to pick out with their drug names (what is tramadol anyway?) and links but many are so odd and seemingly have nothing to do with anything commercial they mystify me. Here, for your viewing pleasure, are a selection from a single day (March 5, 2013).

However, with the movie Zombieland, it was an entirely different approach to dealing with zombie apocalypse. As suddenly as they had appeared, the road ahead was clear. Recruiting survivors is complicated but not difficult.

Is this actually a disguised metaphor for the job search? Is it promising to my readers that although finding a job may seem an apocalyptic task it is in fact ‘complicated but not difficult’?

5. The victim, 65-year-old Ronald Poppo, is in critical condition-which is to be expected when someone literally eats your face. Crocs are also not a good option for a zombie apocalypse.

Obviously zombies are a trending theme – but this piece of spam actually refers to a real event – the attack on the homeless Ronald Poppo which is horrific to say the least.

As soon as your waffles are finished, you only detach the cooking plates and turn them over. On the one hand we are more than eleven years have been little, our families, and I need something more. As children do, they got the hang of it in no time at all.

This one is just plain odd – is it selling waffle irons or suggesting that you turn your family into a workforce of wafflemakers to bring in money?

can diced tomatoes, un-drained. Toss meat for 1 to 2 minutes. These chicken recipes are ideal for everyday meals or for a special occasion or party.

No zombies here – at least I don’t think so (is un-drained code for ‘undead’ – is chicken a euphemism for zombie)

Keep an open mind and have fun with these intense training sessions. The front head in the shoulder that allows you to rotate your arm inward.
one-legged body weight Romanian dead-lifts.

Huh? What is a front head in the shoulder and do I need a Romanian to do the last exercise and should they be an amputee or am I supposed to stand on one leg? Far from clear – and if it is selling something I have completely missed the point

Yo this is the beeznezz of blogs aight fo shizzle man u write good aight

Aw shucks – so glad you like the blog (at least I THINK that’s what you’re saying)

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Posted By on February 20, 2013

In the good old day the content of your resume was important but as or perhaps even more important was how it looked. I remember how I used to go down to the local copy shop to get my master printed on a laser printer – I think I still had a dot matrix at home (don’t worry if you have no idea what that is) – and then leaf with delight through the binder of paper choices that this original would then be copied onto. It was a bit of an urban myth that the way to be successful in a new job hunt was to get a hundred copies of your resume made – this would ensure that you’d get hired at the seventh or twelfth place you applied – long before that expensive stack of resumes had been even half depleted.

And certainly the Internet has driven a stake right through the heart of this important appearance quality of the resume. The convenience of the electronic resume isn’t just that it is quick, cheap and easy to send and receive but that the employer can do so much more with it. Rather than having to scan it using humans they can feed it into a computer that can then analyze it for keywords and required skills and use it to screen (or eliminate?) candidates much more efficiently and cost-effectively than before. But many of the automated application systems like Brainhunter or proprietary systems (like at UVic) absolutely butcher your resume. For me this almost brings tears to my eyes when I think about how gorgeous those old printed resumes looked.

On most of these systems you are simply directed to go to your properly formatted resume created in MS Word or other program, do a select all, copy it and then paste it into a box on the screen. Your sentences and paragraphs flood onto the screen and bullets turn into weird symbols. Fonts are lost or distorted and overall the thing looks like crap. But there is little or nothing you can do about it and you just click done hoping that you’ll be judged on the content and not on the way the damn thing looks.

Hopefully there will come a day when the resume will once again be valued for both its aesthetic appeal and its role as an easily accessible snapshot of what a candidate has to offer. But I think it is obvious that even if it does rise again to a more prominent position in the jobseeking toolbox it now one of many components instead of being the single tool at a job hunters disposal. I would suggest that for anyone – whether artist, aspiring CEO or anesthesiologist in training – a presence on LinkedIn is important. And increasingly anyone seeking a job needs to think about whether a portfolio is a more appropriate vehicle for them than the resume.

There have been a sprinkling of video resumes that have garnered some attention but for most of us I think that is still some way off and it is hard to imagine how some jobs (mechanic? Truck driver?) would benefit from such an alternative to the resume. But definitely this is a space to watch and going out on a limb and trying something a bit unusual might make you a more memorable candidate which can be very difficult in today’s economic climate when there are so many talented people competing for so few jobs.

My final thought is that it is crucial to make sure that if you create alternative/supplemental tools in addition to the resume you must check and recheck them to make sure that they agree completely on the details of your education, employment and skills. You don’t want a typographical error in recording a date to call your integrity into question for example.

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Tags: LinkedIn, portfolio, resume, video resume

Posted By on February 13, 2013

First let’s introduce the star of our story for those of you who may not be familiar with him – and I call the resume him since for the first 500 years my guess is that these documents, that started out as letters of introduction, generally were penned by and profiled men. You can read a brief history – which I would advise you to take with a grain of salt – at the Business Insider website.

Today’s resume is very different than what people would have considered a resume even fifty years ago and in fact the resume of the 1940s was more like today’s online presence with details about height, weight and age. These kind of personal characteristics – and often a picture of the resume’s subject – are still expected in some countries (for example in South Korea) although in most European and North American contexts asking for such details is illegal.

When I was in highschool over thirty years ago a resume was essential and I still have one from then tucked away somewhere (that’s one of many great things about moving halfway round the world for an extended period – you’re forced to cull your belongings/hoardings and in the process you discover some gold among the dross). It’s typewritten, looks like crap but is actually quite intentionally humorous. I don’t know if I ever distributed it while job hunting as it seems pretty cockily written for a 17-year-old but maybe I did. Resumes continue to be important even to this day although the printed-on-paper resume is nowhere near as ubiquitous as previously.

However, I was surprised to find that the paper resume is certainly not considered dead by many in the HR department and that jobseekers are well advised to bring a printed resume (and perhaps multiple copies of it) to a job interview. One HR executive quoted in a WSJ article said she uses the printed resume to jot down notes about the candidate on and also scans it for grammatical and other errors that might indicate a lack of attention to detail.

Of course another place where resumes are essential is job fairs. Think about working as a recruiter at a job fair and ask yourself which candidate are you going to favour – one that offers to send you their resume by email later in the day or one who has a resume – crisply printed on good quality paper – ready to hand over right then and there.

It seems obvious that the concept of the resume – a place to capture and catalogue your skills, accomplishments, education, interests and experiences – is still valuable but that the formal, one-size-fits-all, strictly adherent to format document may be on its way out. And the Internet is certainly behind the death of the latter.

I’ll discuss what I mean by that in Part II – How the Internet killed the old-fashioned resume.

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Posted By on February 8, 2013

Here are some other types of podcasts I recommend.

Challenge everything – it can sometimes be really good to try something outside your comfort zone or investigate a topic/personality/attitude that you have no interest in or perhaps even actively dislike or disapprove of. There are amazing podcasts about the most arcane of subjects so it shouldn’t be hard to locate material. I think it is pretty easy to argue that despite the absolutely overwhelming quantity of choices we have today in terms of getting our news or forming our opinions or learning about events outside our own personal sphere we frequently tend to stay within known and easily digestible (to our own particular palate) sources. So try something new – if you usually listen to NPR perhaps try a Fox or CNN program on the same issue (and vice versa). Try Al Jazeera or the BBC or any show in a language you understand that is not from your place of origin.

Be prepared – in every sense of the word – whether you are unemployed, underemployed, closing in on retirement or not yet old enough to be looking for work there is great value in having a deeper understanding in the way the world of work/jobs/business/career is changing and how you can lessen the chances you will be on the outside looking in when you need to be (for economical, psychological and practical reasons) involved and functioning to your full potential. Trendspotters and thinkers like Seth Godin, Dan Pink, Chip Conley, Malcolm Gladwell can help you get a grip on how things are morphing and you can take the knowledge you gain from them and start looking at what do you need to be doing to make yourself and what you do – to use Seth Godin’s term – remarkable. Whether this means learning new skills, taking a risk, creating art or doing a complete U-turn in your life/career/education/relationships will be up to you. There are lots of podcasts that can inspire, reassure and challenge you in this new paradigm of job creation and entrepreneurship versus the old model.

Along with the iTunes store there are some other sources for podcasts though many are uneven and you may download some duds along with some golden material. Try Alternatives from St. James Church in London. Personal Life Media is also worth checking out. This is more than a couple years old now but here’s a list of TED talks in audio format.

I hope now your MP3 player is filled up with fascinating, thought provoking and inspiring podcasts that will stimulate you to explore new topics, question your own assumptions and contemplate how you might do things differently to improve your own outcomes whether its in terms of everyday well-being to going after a new and exciting opportunity.

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Tags: Al Jazeera, Alternatives, BBC, podcasts, TED talks audio

Posted By on February 6, 2013

Back to the article by Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn. The second ‘career advice’ tidbit he mentions is something he read in a book (remember those!?). I am on the same wavelength as Weiner here in that this is part of the reasons I listen to podcasts (and read books) by trendspotters and thinkers like Seth Godin and Daniel Pink. Some times it is hard to see the forest for the trees and reading, listening to podcasts and exploring new, unfamiliar and perhaps even unappealing issues and subjects is I believe essential to making sure you have some clue about what’s actually happening in the 21st century world of work behind all the media hype (outsourcing, robots, telecommuting).

Finally I guess Weiner’s last point really is career advice in the most pure sense – just in this case he was lucky enough to have someone else wise enough to ask the pointed question that pierced through to the heart of his true passion. Most of us won’t be so fortunate but I am sure that if you have two or three close friends or a significant other or even siblings/parents that you can sit down with for 30 minutes and talk to about your day-to-day job you will be able to get closer to knowing whether what you do at work is actually moving you closer or further away from something that will fulfill you (presuming that what you are doing now isn’t).

This article by Weiner had some mildly interesting ideas but I suggest that if you really want some helpful career advice you watch this video by Cal Newport on why the advice to ‘follow your passion’ is flawed and what he recommends instead. And he’s a hardheaded academic who has spent plenty of time talking to those who are genuinely engaged and happy with their work rather than a CEO of a multimillion dollar company whose connection to the world of the common working stiff is pretty tenuous (in my opinion).

Do you have experience with career counseling/advising that you’d like to share? Email me at susan at yyjworks dot com.

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Tags: Cal Newport, career advice, Dan Pink, follow your passion, Seth Godin

Posted By on February 1, 2013

I’m a big fan of podcasts – I listen to them on my walk to and from school and when I am working out. Many of them I choose just for pure entertainment though I am guessing that what each of us finds entertaining is a very personal and subjective matter. Although I choose with entertainment in mind my choices are also influenced by the subject area, the interviewer and/or guest (if it’s that type of podcast) and the length (I don’t like super short things – so I’m unlikely to download recordings of less than 15 minutes in length).

Some that I return to frequently are from (or heard on) National Public Radio – Fresh Air, Planet Money and This American Life. I would like to include more purely ‘fun’ podcats (by this I mean more laugh out loud comedy) but it has been my experience that many such podcasts are either not available for free and/or are not available in a purely audio format (I listen to my podcasts on an array of cheap bottom-of-the-line MP3 players so video is not an option).

So what would I recommend for the jobseeker who might be looking for podcasts and why? Here are some suggestions:

Pick a hero – this can be somebody that you admire for their values and personal qualities or someone that is a major figure in a field that you aspire to (or perhaps someone that fulfills both criteria). Then go to iTunes to the Apple Store and look for podcasts featuring them. Some of the podcasts I enjoy are those featuring Seth Godin, Malcolm Gladwell, Hans Rosling and Vandana Shiva. What does listening to podcasts by people we admire do for us – especially those that are seeking work – I believe that we can learn from the experiences they’ve accumulated (including perhaps most importantly their failures) and share with listeners as well as getting valuable tips about how they have used their own particular strengths in unexpected ways.

Back to basics – it’s easy when things are going badly in our careers/work lives to get so caught up in crises and the interminable list of tasks in front of us to forget that the foundational aspects of our lives – our physical and mental well-being and keeping things in perspective – is shoved to the end of our to-do list. This is, as we all know, foolish but, I think, a very normal human reaction to chaos and even momentous amounts of (dis)stress. After all the expression ‘rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic’ exists for a reason – it is often much less scary to focus on the smaller, easier-to-handle tasks than tackle the elephant in the room.

For back to basics you might want to search for ‘happiness’ or ‘positive psychology’ or speakers like Martin Seligman, Gretchen Rubin, Daniel Gilbert, Sonja Lyubomirsky and Matthieu Ricard. On the physical well-being side I’m afraid I don’t have any exercise recommendations (other than maybe listening to the podcast possibilities I’ve just mentioned while enjoying a brisk walk or jog) but you could check out Kelly McGonigal (who is into yoga, willpower and compassion). If you have specific recommendations for podcasts you have found helpful around physical well-being – things like stress relief, meditation, lifestyle modification etc please drop me an email at susan at yyjworks dot com.

Part II – Some more podcast suggestions and some unexpected sources

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Posted By on January 30, 2013

Speaking just for myself the only involvement I’ve ever had with career advice or career counseling is several decades ago when I was in highschool. In university I took some kind of ‘strengths’ testing but it really didn’t give me much guidance or reveal anything that I didn’t already know about myself.

It seems to me that most people who are currently unemployed in Victoria (and beyond) are unlikely to have access to career advice and, even if they do, it is even less likely that they are going to be able to apply any of that advice since they are probably in a desperate economic situation that instead demands they take the first decently paid job they are offered.

But what do those who have been very successful have to say about career advice – what kind of advice did they get, who was it from and why was it important to them (or conversely ignored or even defied). Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn, talks about career advice he received at three different stages of his life – when he was a child, in his early 20s and then in his early thirties when he started at Yahoo!

However, I don’t consider two of the things he mentions in the article as true ‘career advice’ since they are neither reproducible (that is it is impossible to imagine how what he details could be replicated in some form for others to benefit from) nor universal. And that is perhaps the problem with career advice in general and particularly with it in today’s rapidly evolving and vastly different (than even 5 years ago) employment outlook.

Let’s look at the first piece of advice that Jeff says he got from his dad who told him constantly when he was a kid that he could do anything he set his mind to. I think actually that this is excellent advice but that it really applies much more widely than just talking about career – it is in fact the way we must think today about our lives overall.

No longer are we constrained (or comforted!) by having everything laid out for us in a clear set of steps from the classroom to the campus to the C-suite. But unfortunately many of our institutions – especially educational ones – still haven’t got the memo and are turning out graduates woefully unprepared for the revolution that is already underway. And of course for many of us it is frightening rather than consoling to be told that we can do anything we put our mind to because this implies we must stretch ourselves and use our ingenuity to not only walk the path ahead of us but build it as we’re moving along it.

I’ll continue with Part II featuring the rest of Weiner’s career advice reminiscences next week.

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Tags: career advice, education, Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn

Posted By on January 25, 2013

Most of us have had difficult job interviews – ones where the questions are beyond your ability to answer because you simply don’t have the technical skills or where a grim-faced panel of interviewers fires theoretical posers like “Where do you see yourself in five years?” at you rapid fire and barely gives you time to squeak out an answer before moving on to the next. But often, in hindsight, we admit that the dreadfulness of these ordeals was due either to our own lack of preparedness or our misstep in applying for a job that was well beyond our reach at the time (or both).

But what about job interviews that cross the line and ask you to do something demeaning or uncomfortable (for example, stand on a chair and sing a song) that has absolutely no connection to the position you are applying for? Or interviewers that suddenly begin asking you questions in a foreign language when no mention of such a language requirement was made? Or what if you are asked a question that is illegal – Do you have a boyfriend? Are you planning to get pregnant? What do you think about unions in the workplace?

For an astounding array of these type of completely off the wall interview questions and behaviours you need to check out this BBC article from 2008. It is simply staggering what some people have been asked, asked to do or had to put up with during an interview. I guarantee that you’ll not only be shaking your head in amazement but you’ll get a good laugh out of it too.

But what should you do if one of these things happens to you in an interview? I think that if you are asked to do something ludicrous in an interview you should first confirm with the interviewer that they really want you to do this – perhaps this is just a test. And if they don’t back down then you need to think about what they’ve asked you to do – if you find it too demeaning then I believe you should say so and excuse yourself and leave.

If an interviewer tries to get you riled up or put pressure on you to see how you react to stress try to keep your cool. Realize that this is what is being done – after all it is unlikely that the interviewer actually wants to make you angry or frustrated. Breathe, take your time and think before speaking. Finally, if inappropriate questions are asked I personally would express that I am not going to answer such a question unless the interviewer can explain how it has legitimate bearing on my employment. And if the interviewer continues to ask such questions I would probably terminate the interview.

I think it is probably pretty unlikely that you will ever encounter such interviews here in Victoria but it is possible that if you go somewhere with a more cutthroat employment climate or where competition among candidates is more fierce that you may. It probably wouldn’t hurt to do some role play with friends or classmates to improve your interviewing skills and prepare you just in case you ever are unlucky enough to find yourself in an interview from hell.

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Tags: illegal questions, inappropriate interview questions, interview from hell, job interviews, personal questions, role play

Posted By on January 23, 2013

What would you think would be the most ideal employment (or unemployment situation) of all? Most people would automatically say ‘full employment’ which to the majority of people means zero unemployment. But in actuality that isn’t desirable at all. For a fascinating contemporary example you might enjoy listening to this Planet Money podcast about Williston, North Dakota.

Unemployment in Williston is 0.7% and the local McDonald’s had to offer a starting wage $2 higher per hour than standard just to find enough employees to be able to open. A Williston resident complains that when she goes to the local Wal-Mart to buy groceries the shelves are usually empty and goods are simply piled in the middle of the aisles and customers help themselves – Wal-Mart can’t find enough staff to stock shelves despite pay of $17 per hour.

Basically the problem with zero unemployment is it means that production slows down because companies can’t find employees and also, as Williston demonstrates, the whole fabric of goods and services that make life workable begins to fray at the edges. Most economists instead seem to agree that there is a natural rate of unemployment that is the best for both the workforce and employers – this number is somewhere between four and six percent.

Earlier I had said that full employment means to most people that unemployment is zero – but this is in fact not what economists mean by full employment. Instead they mean that cyclical unemployment should be as close to zero as possible while frictional and structural unemployment are kept low. So what are these types of unemployment?

Frictional unemployment is considered inevitable as it is caused by the (often) brief disconnect between jobseekers and jobs. For example when a student graduates from university and takes a couple of months to find a job – that’s frictional unemployment.

Structural unemployment is not inevitable and is a reflection of discordant demand and supply between workers and jobs whether this discordance is geographical or skills-based. For example, when manufacturing jobs are lost in Canada because a factory relocates to Mexico this is structural unemployment. These workers may need to retrain to get new more highly skilled jobs and this period when they are unemployed is called structural unemployment.

Finally there is cyclical unemployment and this is the one that is directly associated with an economic downturn. As demands for good and services declines because people do not have the money to buy things less workers are required. It’s easy to see that this can become an ever-worsening spiral.

I hope you found this information about unemployment interesting and that wherever you are in the world you find the job of your dreams and that full employment becomes a reality for your community. Most of the information about unemployment is taken from this great article at State University of New York at Oswego.

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Tags: cyclical unemployment, frictional unemployment, planet money, structural unemployment, zero unemployment