OPTION 1: As a traditional employer, you put people to work for your company because you need them now. But then: You’re responsible to them, one way or another, as the company evolves. The cost of everything that goes into maintaining their traditional employee status is high, even spread out over multiple employees. The commitment…
Tag Archive: San Francisco CA
Returning Vet Startups
Instead of looking for jobs when they get home, a lot of veterans are starting small businesses, with the help of programs that cultivate entrepreneurship. (WSJ 11/11/10). Overall, this indicates many returning veterans are open to multiple options that include alternatives to standard employment.
Leaner is the Lesson
Speaking of the transformation of companies in response to the economic shift: “There has been a radical cultural shift in the organization. We will be much leaner going forward.” – David Fry, WCI Communities CEO (WSJ 10-14-10)
Cautionary Re-Training Tales
The WSJ reported last Thursday that jobless are biting on fly by night re-training programs that offer believable certificates in all kinds of cool sounding things (like Web Security) for which there are no jobs. The problem with some of these outfits is no placement to match their education. Of course, at FAS, we’ve long…
Job Forecast Worries?
Find Work, Not Jobs! There may not be as many jobs these days, but the business of America still needs to get done. As independent professionals, independent consultants, contractors, Free Agents!… we don’t need jobs, we need work and clients. Next time you are at your favorite trade and professional association meeting or anywhere else…
Traditonal Job Situation Getting Worse
The California jobless rate rose to 12.3% last month from 11.9% in May, said the CEDD. Government workers hit the unemployment lines in droves, due to lay offs – that’s a lot of it. The question is, are those jobs really ever going to come back for those same people? Frankly, it seems like becoming…