Who's worried about their job in 2009

[Hot Lizzy]

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Patricia.........I hope you aren't saying nasty things about me.........

You will go to Maggot status if so.......... xxx Lizzy

[roxyw11]

Just curious. Things have slowed a bit here but not too scary - just a levelling off.

First 2 months of new year will really show whats happening in my industry - Fingers crossed.

Are things as Bad as the Newspapers would have us believe ?
How are things with you ?

p.s. what is minimum statutory redundancy - does anyone know ?

HUNY HAVE LOOK TO THAT


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The most in-demand job is sales representative, a sign that employers remain optimistic about their prospects, says CEO Rob McGovern. "The fact that companies are hiring salespeople tells us that they think they can grow out of this recession," McGovern says. "In the sectors where there isn't an opportunity for top-line growth, those companies are cutting." Washington-based Jobfox compiles a monthly list of the professions in greatest demand by recruiters and other employer agents. It mined that data over the eight-month period from November 2007 through July 7, 2008, to compile a list of the 20 jobs with the best median monthly rankings.

Jobfox was launched last year by McGovern, who also founded CareerBuilder, a job site he sold in 2002 to Tribune Co. and Knight-Ridder.

Shane Greenstein, a professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, concurs that technology jobs have been immune to this slowdown. "The closer you get to the housing sector, the more you're in trouble," McGovern says. "But the rest of the economy seems to be shrugging it off."

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Growing, cash-rich tech companies may fare particularly well, Greenstein says. "An established company in a growth area that has its act together is in a good position now," Greenstein says, singling out Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Apple (AAPL), Oracle (ORCL), IBM (IBM), and Intel (INTC) as examples of tech companies that are unlikely to take a big hit. Indeed, on July 15, chipmaking colossus Intel said its second-quarter profit surged 25% (BusinessWeek.com, 7/15/08) amid resilient demand for PCs and consumer electronics. "We see continued healthy demand for our products" in coming quarters, CEO Paul Otellini said in a statement.

Another way to recession-proof a job is through education and experience, figures show. The unemployment figure for those with college degrees was at 2.3% in June, compared with 2.0% a year earlier, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Among management and professional occupations the unemployment rate was 2.7% in June. It was 9.1% for construction and maintenance occupations.

To be sure, the outlook for tech could dim in the event of an extended economic contraction, says Jim Wilcox, an economist at Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Much of the tech industry has benefited in part from the dollar's weakness, which makes U.S. goods less expensive to overseas buyers. "If in fact you have a more serious recession, it is bound to take its toll on business budgets for equipment purchases," Wilcox says. "And when budgets get cut and people can't buy new hardware and software, that's got to hurt Silicon Valley."

For now, the pain is subdued in Silicon Valley, in particular among software developers, Greenstein says. "[At] the high end of that business, those guys are pretty much recession-



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