Sharing LinkedIn's Economic Insights on Jobs

LinkedIn's Workforce Report for April 2020 shows the businesses that are experiencing the greatest negative impact from COVID-19. Not surprisingly, companies that rely on person-to-person interactions to sell their goods and services are laying off workers, while companies that hire remote workers are growing.

LinkedIn's Workforce Report is updated monthly and shares the latest economic insights on the job market. You can access April's report here:
https://economicgraph.linkedin.com/resources/linkedin-workforce-report-april-2020

Many technology companies are thriving, despite the pandemic. Tech companies offer a large number of work-from-home opportunities. One of my clients, a programmer analyst who lost her job through a reduction in force, landed a new job within 27 days! How did she do it? The short answer is company research and networking.

6 Tips for Building Your Network of Business Contacts

1. Don't wait for a job to be posted online. Create opportunities through networking.
2. Follow companies of interest on LinkedIn. Set a Google alert to notify you when the company is in the news. Read the company's annual reports. Learn about their corporate culture, mission statement, and growth initiatives. Dive deep into your company research to understand the company's goals and challenges. Research competitors. Create a comparison chart to see if the entire industry is facing the same issues, of the challenges are unique to a particular company.  
3. Develop your network of contacts. Identify people who work at companies of interest and have the authority to hire you. Identify peers within the company. 
4. Notice which professional associations and industry groups these people belong to and start participating in these organizations and groups on LinkedIn. 
5. Like and comment on other people's posts. Add your thoughts to the group conversation.
6. Reach out to new contacts and share relevant articles by industry influencers.

Times of adversity test our resolve. Inspiration and reassurance come from the least expected places. 
A.A. Milne, the author of Winne-the-Pooh, wrote: “You are braver than you believe, smarter than you seem, and stronger than you think.”

And you are more resilient than you know.

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