Comments on: Job Outlook 2008: Good News, Bad News http://gigaom.com/collaboration/job-outlook-2008/ Fri, 25 May 2012 05:52:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Amanda Mooney http://gigaom.com/collaboration/job-outlook-2008/#comment-66608 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:55:00 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/12/10/job-outlook-2008/#comment-66608 Anne,
Thank you for an interesting post and roundup of the issue.

As a soon-to-be college graduate, I’ve noticed one interesting trend: there is a huge market for workers competent and passionate about social media and the Web; However, when I tell my classmates about genuinely exciting new job opportunities in this area, many are either not interested or do not feel prepared to do the work. I’m in a marketing communications and media major so it’s surprising that this is the case.

Some companies are even creating educational programs for college professors and students to encourage the growth of the available Web savvy workforce.

Have you seen this as well?

]]> By: Ralph Poole http://gigaom.com/collaboration/job-outlook-2008/#comment-66607 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:42:19 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/12/10/job-outlook-2008/#comment-66607 Two things happened today. I have my own business so I am very sensitive to every win or loss of new business. Today was the first day I lost a job because the client said that the credit crunch had adversely affected their business and management had put a freeze on spending. Then, later in the day I got a note from a Washington Mutual mortgage broker who said that WaMu was closing its lending activities in New England. He said he was going to a new job at another bank.

So two indications in the same day that this is beginning to affect my business and people that I know.

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