{"id":618,"date":"2010-01-22T14:17:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T21:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/?p=618"},"modified":"2010-01-22T14:17:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T21:17:39","slug":"rebound-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/career\/rebound-contractors","title":{"rendered":"Rebounding with contract employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Contractor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-619\" title=\"Contractor\" src=\"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Contractor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a>I heard a great presentation by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denvercoach.com\/Events?eventId=108224&amp;EventViewMode=EventDetails\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Edward Hernandez in Denver last week<\/a> which was quite interesting.\u00a0 He was talking about one of my hot topics at the moment, employee engagement.\u00a0 I thought I&#8217;d share with you an additional observation which I believe is much more important than it first seems:<\/p>\n<p><strong>As the economy rebounds, companies will be reluctant to hire full-time employees<\/strong>.\u00a0 Fairly obvious, right?\u00a0 But this has broad implications.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->First, why would this statement be true?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Companies have recent painful memories of how hard it is to shed permanent employees.<\/li>\n<li>They will be unsure about the magnitude and longevity of the rebound.\u00a0 Is it for real this time?\u00a0 What happens if it&#8217;s slower than currently projected?<\/li>\n<li>Full-time employees come with the expectation of stability in job assignment.\u00a0 There&#8217;s more flexibility with hiring contractors to address short-term pain points.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s some very interesting implications from this statement for anyone who&#8217;s in the job market:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be open to the possibility of part-time and\/or contract work, possibly for the rest of your career.<\/li>\n<li>Tap the available resources to learn how to manage yourself as an independent contract business.\u00a0 Fortunately, there&#8217;s plenty available.<\/li>\n<li>Market yourself as an excellent contract worker &#8211; this may well place you ahead of others who are only looking for full-time positions.\u00a0 Change your r\u00e9sum\u00e9\/CV, put up a website, and start describing yourself as a business.<\/li>\n<li>Start tracking what&#8217;s going on in your market &#8211; what&#8217;s happening with strategic moves at various possible employers, where pain points are emerging, and map that to short-term projects that you could engage with.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s tough to find a job right now, so anything you can do to increase your odds will be time well spent!<\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a great presentation by Edward Hernandez in Denver last week which was quite interesting.\u00a0 He was talking about one of my hot topics at the moment, employee engagement.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/career\/rebound-contractors\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,76,29,35],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-carl","4":"has-more-link","5":"post-618","7":"format-standard","8":"category-career","9":"post_tag-career-coaching","10":"post_tag-career","11":"post_tag-job-hunt","12":"post_tag-marketing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}