Career Chaos

YOUR CAREER VALUES VS. YOUR WORKPLACE

Are your values in alignment with your workplace? Or do you cringe sometimes because your values don't just quite fit in where you work?

Over the years of coaching many people about their careers, I've seen the values piece come up over and over again. I've learned that when you feel out of sync with your employer, you tend to feel out of place in your workplace. This will contribute to your discontent with your job and can become a primary reason for starting a job search.

Take the Workplace Values Exercise to see where your own "disconnects" are.

SURVEY PROJECTS 2008 EMPLOYMENT TRENDS

As I read the results of CareerBuilder.com's recent survey conducted by Harris Interactive, certain numbers jumped off the page at me:

• 32% of all employers want to hire more permanent full-time workers in 2008
• 45% of employers in Professional and Business Services and Information Techonology will lead the hiring trend
• More hiring will take place in the South and West than in Northwest and Midwest (Midwest is at the bottom of the group.)
• 80% of employers plan to increase current employees' salaries with 69% expecting to issue raises in first quarter
• 45% of employers currently use online search and social networking sites to research job candidates (Beward of your digital dirt!) and 19% plan to add these activities to their searches
• 85% of employers will be looking for bilingual candidates, and 48% claim Spanish is the most important second language to English

Take a few minutes and read the entire survey results. There's a lot interesting data here gathered from November 13 through December 3, 2007. Hope it helps you with making your career plans for 2008.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!