Job search in times of crisisJosé Vera is a Professor in the Master in Administration and Human Resources Management: People Management in a Globalized Environment at Bureau Veritas University Center .
If we start from the assumption that in times when we can enjoy a certain socio-economic stability, the search for employment can be an arduous task; what can we say when we have to do this search in times like the present , when the persistent (and, with all due respect, cursed) crisis seems to have taken hold among us in an almost structural way.
In any case, we must begin by rejecting the idea that everything linkedin data that happens to us is the fault of the crisis . The crisis, as such, does not exist; it is a pure fiction. The real crisis is a situation (hopefully temporary) that we humans have created with our socio-economic behaviour and from which we will emerge by integrating all individual efforts. Let us not wait for the appearance of any messiah , or any superhero . What each of us does not do to get out of this situation, no one will do for us .
However, and according to one of the many statements of the well-known and pessimistic “Murphy’s Law”, any situation, however bad, always has to be a reason for generating hope . As the character Igor (brilliantly played by the late Marty Feldman), Doctor Frankenstein’s assistant, says in the famous cemetery scene in Mel Brooks’ ineffable film ( Young Frankenstein ):
It could be worse! It could rain!
Based on the two kanji (ideograms) with which the Chinese and Japanese describe the concept of crisis, we must always be optimistic, no matter how acute the crisis is .
ideograms
For those of us who are not lucky enough (or skilled enough) to know Chinese (either Mandarin or not) or Japanese, the first of the two kanji clearly means “danger”; but the second expresses the idea of “opportunity” . In my opinion, I think that this is a very wise and, above all, very sensible way of describing such a complex and, often, so misused and abused concept.
With this brief preamble I just want to point out that the search for employment in times of crisis,
It's not Mission Impossible !
We must not forget that the fateful figures on the number of unemployed that the National Institute of Statistics (INE) publishes periodically and insistently through the Active Population Survey (the well-known EPA), as well as the one published by the National Institute of Employment (INEM) on citizens looking for work and that we are reminded of so insistently, more than daily, by all the media; are the result of an algebraic sum made up of the jobs that are lost through the Expedientes de Regulación de Empleo (ERE's), but also by the new jobs that are being created. Despite the fact that, today, the negative elements of this algebraic sum outweigh the positive ones and although sometimes it may not seem so, life goes on and there are many companies that continue hiring employees, either by rotation or by vegetative growth .