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Sounds like there is a market opportunity for job coaches. Reasonable-reason-for-extended-absence-from-the-job-market as a service, anyone?
by jonathanwallace 13y ago
Sounds like there is a market opportunity for job coaches. Reasonable-reason-for-extended-absence-from-the-job-market as a service, anyone?
- rayiner 13y agoPeople, especially young recent graduates who make up a big part of the unemployed, really need job search and interview coaching. Their parents and schools have left them completely unprepared for that task.
- jarek 13y agoDevil's advocate: or is it employers that need interview coaching? If a candidate otherwise suited for the job (with necessary training, skills, aptitude, etc) is rejected on the basis of an interview, I would suggest it's a problem with the interview. Unless, of course, there aren't enough jobs for qualified candidates, which is a different problem altogether and interview-training some candidates will only result in an arms-escalation without any benefit on the macro scale.
- Apocryphon 13y agoThere's also a market opportunity for "career incubators" that train people relevant skills, like that one organization in S.F. that was training Rails developers from the ground up.
- jonathanwallace 13y agoAny particular reason you say that other than the existence of the aforementioned "career incubators?"
- Apocryphon 13y agoThis story seems to be a problem in need of a solution. Doesn't that suggest a market for solutions?
- jiggy2011 13y agoProblem is, who's going to pay? Unemployed, especially long term unemployed don't have any money since they can't blow their monthly food budget on a 15 minute consultation.
- michaelochurch 13y agoI actually have an idea for how to solve that problem but I don't want to blow the idea. There's a startup concept that could work, but I need to pass it by a few key players.
- pnathan 13y agoMy plan, if I ever am unemployed with no chances immediately available, is to work up a consortium with the other people in my position and do some kind of coop business on the internet. We can all get together in a cheap coffeeshop or one of our places and start hacking. I feel very ruthless in this metter: I refuse to just "lay down and take it". I can fix computers, perform small business IT, create websites, software, etc. My time immediately becomes "free" to burn a great deal of it on this sort of thing. Job hunting does not take THAT much time if you're looking in the right place. If you are long-term unemployed, IMO, you are your business, and you need to hustle very aggressively on that.
- danielweber 13y agoImperfectly or no, isn't this what recruiters do?
- michaelochurch 13y agoRecruiters work for the company, because that's who pays them, and because companies tend to be more selective but also more stable as clients (i.e. you'll lose a worker after 2 bad placements, but usually not a client).