Starting a new job is an unsettling time when everything and everyone is strange and new. For most of us, the temptation is to make friends with just anyone in our attempt to ‘fit in’ and not feel like the new boy or girl. Align yourself with the wrong people, however, and you could just blow your Career Karma from Day One!
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When we’ve been in the workplace for a number of years, there is a tendency to do what we’ve always done, especially if what we have always done has meant that we have progressed at a reasonable or acceptable pace. The same often holds true when we start a new job in a succession of jobs. We feel like we know the ropes and we set off in just the same way as last time or the time before that. If we want to really launch our careers on the path to success, however, and make an unforgettable impression, then perhaps it’s time to look again at our approach and try something different!
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Although not designed to happen this way, the release of the February employment statistics has coincided neatly with the end of my little mini-series explaining what the key figures mean. So, how did the job market fare during last month?
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Having looked, over the course of my last few posts, at the two key unemployment statistics and the adjustments made for seasonality, the final area of the government’s employment data that I want to address is job losses.
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I have been talking over the past couple of days about the bewildering array of employment statistics which are produced by the government every month and how to make sense of what they actually mean. As I mentioned at the end of yesterday’s post, alongside the U3 and U6 unemployment figures (which paint an entirely different picture of the situation), another variation that you will see is between the ‘seasonally adjusted’ and ‘not seasonally adjusted’ figures. So, what do these terminologies mean?
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Last Friday’s post looked at the ‘official’ unemployment rate (the U3 figure) and how it is calculated, but is this really a true reflection of the state of the country’s employment situation? Let’s take a look at the ‘other’ figure, the U6 figure which you will sometimes see quoted, and you can decide for yourself which you think is the more accurate…
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Lies, Damned Lies, And Statistics – What Does The ‘Official’ Unemployment Rate Really Mean?
Posted on 05. Mar, 2010 by Matt Shelly.
Take a look on Wikipedia and the definition of the title phrase goes like this:
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In my last few posts I have been talking about people styles and today it is the turn of the Amiable style. As the name suggests, these are the real ‘friendlies’ in the bunch; they are warm and sensitive, easy-going and dependable. Unlike the Drivers and the Expressives, they tend not to be very ambitious or driven people, but their personalities do often mean that they sit well in roles such as counseling.
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After looking at the second of the four people styles, the Expressive style, we then compared the behavior of an Expressive interviewer and an Analytical job candidate to show the potential for an almighty personality clash in the interview room. We then went on to describe how, by adapting his behavior so that it better mirrors that of the interviewer, the job candidate can create a better bond and sense of empathy with the recruiter.
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As I described a couple of days ago, this series of posts is looking at the characteristics of the four main people styles and at how, by being able to identify the style of an interviewer and mirror it, we can create a much closer rapport and make him feel that we are the best fit for the company.
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