Why There Will Always Be Job Openings

I hear this all the time: "No one is hiring!". Before you get too dejected over the job market, consider the following...

The good news is that regardless of what is going on in the economy, key positions will continue to be vacated for a variety of reasons. And those positions will get filled (although not all of them will get replaced right away, but many of them will).

For example, regardless of what is going on in the economy or job market, people will continue to:

* retire
* relocate
* get pregnant and opt not to return from leave
* get so fed up/burned out with their job that they quit
* decide to go back to school full time
* decide to be a stay at home mom/dad
* make a career change
* leave corporate america to start up their own business
* transfer to another part of the company
* get recruited away to another company
* get fired
* die - and yes, this is morbid and unfortunate, but it does happen

And so on. Any company that experiences one of these situations in a key position is going to be hiring. If a VP of Marketing or the assistant to the CEO retires/relocates, etc., you can guarantee that position will be replaced.

Even positions that weren't initially going to be replaced oftentimes do if the hiring manager builds a strong enough business case for it and fights hard to get it approved. And if they don't get replaced right now, they likely will at some point in the future. Companies generally can't handle being severely short staffed for very long.

It might not be a GREAT job market, but there is opportunity out there!

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