Still looking for a job? You might be looking a little longer.
The July jobs reports shows that the civilian employment-population ratio, which measures how many working-age Americans actually have jobs, was flat at 58.7 percent, near the lowest in 30 years and down from more than 63 percent before the recession.
The job market is a long way from being fully healed of the damage done by the Great Recession, according to the Huffington Post Business Blog. The total level of non-farm payroll jobs is still about 2 million below its peak in January 2008. Adding in the number of jobs that should have been created in a healthy economy, we could have a jobs deficit of 8-10 million. It could take 7 years to close the job gap.
Seven years is a long time to wait for the perfect job to come around. It might be time to create your own job. How? Evaluate your skills, package them into a service that meets a need and market yourself to small businesses and homeowners. It’s a fact that contract and day work is the new way to get a job.
LaborFeed.com is a national jobs website that was launched in a post-recession job market to help people work themselves out of joblessness and into contract and day work. It’s free to create an account, search for contact and day work jobs and post a worker ad. It’s also free for homeowners and small businesses to post a job ad.
By 2020, the majority of Americans will be part of a independent workforce. So, stop sitting back and waiting for the job market to improve. Pull yourself up by your entrepreneurial bootstraps, put one foot in front of the other and make things happen for yourself.
