Getting a Job in Today’s Market

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🗓️ 8 March 2012

⏱️ 17 minutes

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John Lees, career strategist and author of "How to Get a Job You'll Love."

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0:00.0	If you work with early career professionals, my colleagues at
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0:08.4	Young Professional's Guide to Building a Meaningful Career on your own terms.
0:11.9	Share New Here with the Young Professionals in your life. a meaningful career on your own terms.
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0:18.6	Just search new here. Welcome to the HBR Ideacast from Harvard Business Review.
0:33.1	I'm Sarah Green.
0:34.6	I'm here today with Career Strategist John Lee's.
0:37.8	He is the author of, among other titles,
0:40.4	How to Get a Job You Love, and the interview expert. He blogs for HPR.org and he's with us today to talk about job hunting
0:47.4	Whether you are looking for a new job looking for a new career or looking to come back to work after being out of work
0:53.7	either voluntarily or involuntarily. John, thanks so much for talking with us
0:57.4	today. It's great to be with you, Sarah. I'd like to just start with a little bit of
1:01.6	context because recessions have a way of accelerating
1:04.7	business trends that are already underway and certainly we're coming out of a pretty grim one.
1:09.6	What are some of the ways that the recent sort of economic malaise has changed the landscape of job hunting?
1:16.0	Yes, your question points to a number of interesting trends really.
1:22.0	I mean, first of all all there were things that were already
1:23.7	going on well before this recession kicked in so to give you an example the growth in
1:29.2	self-employment the growth in portfolio working and a substantial growth in the head and job markets.
1:37.0	And those are all three trends that have been going on for the most of the last decade.
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