The current economic crisis has resulted in massive layoffs across the world. LiveMint.com, a subsidiary of Wall Street Journal, reports there is at least one layoff every ten seconds. In the US, for the month of November alone, there have been more than 500,000 jobs slashed. Techcrunch layoff tracker reports over a hundred thousand job cuts in tech companies. However there is some positive news from various job sites around the web.
- A report released by readwriteweb.com shows some recruiting happening including at startups. The top three job categories between Nov’1 2008 to Dec’14 2008, with maximum vacancies are for a) Designer/Developer b) VP c) Sales/Marketing. The complete report is available over here. The job postings are here.
- Dice’s report for St Louis released in Nov’08 is available here showing Tech jobs might assume more importance.
- A posting from SimplyHired team says though there has been significant increase in job search activity in the New York area, however, job searches in the areas of San Jose, Oakland and Cincinnati have decreased to -13%, -37% and -21% respectively. The complete post is available over here.
Mentioned below are some resources from around the web to survive a layoff.