For almost ten years I sent out a monthy email newsletter to my clients with a job or sales tip and a ccouple of punny jokes. When I stopped doing the monthly email in 2009 and switched to a blog format. I received 78 (out of 300 recepitiants) responses asking em to start it again! Since October 2010 I've 15 comments from clients that they missed the montly email and asked if I start it again.
I have done so.
Below is the November edition. I will be sending the email around the 20th of each month. If you are a regular reader of the blog the email content my be familiar. If you receive the email newsletter and are looking at the blog for the first time please enjoy!
Thank you!
Ev
It has also been requested that I continue the newsletter with the jokes.
More articles and jokes can be found at my blog:
http://everetsblog.blogspot.com/
Below is the short article for this month and the jokes:
WI Labor: Where is it and Where is it Going?
Remember three years ago when we were all screaming for good employees?
Heck, some companies were just asking for ANY employees.
With the recession that changed and now companies are inundated with lots of good candidates for each open position.
Will it stay that way?
Even with the recession and sluggish growth of the US economy, the numbers suggest that the trend will soon be to employers having a hard time finding good employees.
Demographic data suggests that the baby boomers are now just starting to retire. Many are choosing not to retire completely but to work part-time either at a job out of their field or as a consultant. Generation X is not as big and so there are not as many workers to fill the available jobs. Xers are also more concerned with family time than working overtime like their parents because they saw their parents work for years at a company only to get fired or laid off.
Millennials want more control of their own time. Since they have been "plugged in" to technology they often are available to employers through various technologies so when they are away from work they want to control their own time (as an aside you can incent millennials with time off, not money).
Look at the numbers. As the population changes that has a huge effect on the ability to hire.
Very interesting. Thanks to Betsy Falk, Labor Economist for Southeastern Wisconsin for sharing this information.
To see the data click below:
http://slidesha.re/9iS9yH
Jokes:
-Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.
-A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. "But why?" they asked, as they moved off. "Because", he said, "I can't stand chess-nuts boasting in an open foyer."
