Is the New Career a Perpetual Job Search?

Jobless Not Hopeless

by Mac Byrd  A couple of years ago Booyango saw this phenomenon/trend in the job market developing and we covered it in our first few blogs. See:  The Road Ahead – written in December of 2009          The Recent Arrival of the Gigonomic Age – written in January of 2010 We had observed the trend developing in the way the work world is now functioning, that businesses are hiring, that employees are increasing job mobility and turnover, and the challenges of managing many types of employees – temps, contract, freelance, part-time and full time workers. The principals at Booyango also recognized that the work world had changed in spite of the recent economic collapse, not because of it.  These changes were … [Read more...]

Success and a Future of Contingent Employment

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An easy way to think of contingent employment is to think of it as contract labor for a specific task – a free agent employee arrangement.  Not just for unskilled blue-collar labor, but for skilled professional white-collar labor like accountants, marketers, IT professionals, code writers, CEO’s and all professions.  In the new, post recession America of 2010, thanks to Tina Brown of the Daily Beast, this is also called gigonomics.  Contingent labor has been in use since tasks were first divided amongst early tribesmen.  There were stonecutters (defense contractors), herdsmen (ranchers), hunters (butchers), tanners (clothing and shoe manufacturers), farmers (okay, they are still called farmers), and medicine men (healthcare … [Read more...]

Five Proven Social Activities to Speed Your Job Search

It is easy to get lost in the activity of finding a job.  Checking corporate websites, responding to the opportunities listed on the job-matching sites, sending off resumes to recruiters, job aggregators and collecting recommendation’s on your LinkedIn profile.   Some of these activities are necessary and can help expedite the job search process.  However, for the most part, these individual activities are performed alone, without the help or assistance of others.  One of the biggest mistakes we can make in searching for a new job is to become isolated and singular in our search.  Some job seekers may come to think that they are in this quest alone and come to think of themselves and behave as an isolated individual.  When you … [Read more...]

What Will You Celebrate This Holiday Weekend?

This weekend, who will be celebrating control over their careers, their income, their time and their life? Imagine if companies bid on your talent competitively and YOU were in control and selected whom you worked for and how long you worked for them. Imagine if YOU could determine when and how you worked to perform the function or complete the project at your convenience – as long as the deadline was met. Imagine what your life might look like. Many experts in the HR field are predicting that this is your future. They are predicting that the power dynamics of employment are going to flip within the next 10 years, and that the power will shift from the employer to the employee. It is an interesting thought although unfathomable at … [Read more...]