Perseverance is valued in your star employees, right? What if, for their long-term development, you told them it's OK to give up? An author of a new book says they may need to learn when it's time to step back and seek out retraining.
"It's OK if people give up banging their heads against the wall looking for jobs that just don't exist anymore," says Patricia Susan Slaughter, PhD, job search specialist and author of "Your Exclusive Destiny." "But what's not OK is dropping out of the job market completely by refusing to retrain for careers of the future."
Slaughter addresses the following in her book:
• Why are job seekers giving up? Are they looking in the wrong places?
• Are people making it harder than it really is to find a job? How?
• What are people who gave up on their job search doing instead?
• How will the choice of the unemployed to stay unemployed impact the job market?
• Should people wait out the job market until the number of applicants dwindle?
• Does the job market have a "rock bottom?" Have we hit it?
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