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🥳 Happy New Year! 🥳

Welcome to 2024!

Let’s start off the new year with some good news! Brittany Sanfilippo landed a new job in talent acquisition just a few months after being laid off! She shares some tips in this post.

Here’s three important things to know about the market right now.

1. The new JOLTS report is out. It shows a bunch of lows - job openings (down to 8.8M), quits (down to 3.5M), and hiring (down to 5.3M). The only bright spot? Layoffs are at a historic low! Read more here.

2. More jobs are being posted. I’ve been tracking LinkedIn job postings. At the end of December. Today, we have 5.35M jobs posted, and of those, just 231k are remote. The total jobs posted is creeping up from 5.21M at the end of December, but remote jobs are actually down from 259k. Yesterday, I saw that over 400k jobs had been posted in the last 24 hours alone, and today that number is 340k. At the same time, we’re seeing jobs come down quickly as well. Key takeaways: set up those job alerts, and try to be an early applicant!

3. Remote jobs are on the decline…but there may be a hack for that! Less than 5% of posted jobs are remote, at least on LinkedIn. But companies DO seem open to making exceptions. This was noted in LinkedIn’s 34 Big Ideas for 2024. For niche roles or high performers, companies may be more willing to consider remote. So this could be a conversation to have in an upcoming performance review, or if you’re fielding multiple offers. You can check out the 34 Big Ideas here.

A cool personal update!

I’m going to be a regular contributor to Business Insider! I’ve always loved writing, and am excited to be able to share career and job market insights on another platform - and to get paid for it!! You can check out my first article here. (Actually it was my second…the first was on Quiet Firing.

(I had no idea the picture would be so large but shout out to Secta AI because I’ve still never done professional headshots and my own family didn’t realize this wasn’t me. 🤣)

And an ask…

Has my content been useful to you over the last few years? One of these days, I am going to get around to building a website, and would love to have some testimonials. I created a quick form to collect input (and I used Visme which I am currently OBSESSED with to do this…so even if you don’t complete the form, enjoy the fun animation. 😀)

🙋Answering Your Questions🙋

Each week, I’ll answer a few of your questions in this section. You can submit your questions here.

Great question, and I know many folks who have struggled with this same thing! Here’s my suggestion: list the metro area you plan to move to. You can even put in parentheses something like “New York City (relocating Feb. 2024)” though I think it’s fine to simply list the metro you’ll be working from. If they ask for your location, put the location you plan to work from. Once you get into an interview, you can explain that you’re currently in Florida, but planning to relocate and do not need assistance. But that way, you won’t be removed from consideration due to location. You can even update your LinkedIn to minimize confusion.

There’s lots of classroom work that can translate to other fields! I would try to use language that mimics the fields you want to go into. For example, instead of unit and lesson planning, you translated annual and quarterly strategic plans into weekly tactical plans to lead students to exceed their annual goals by 112%.

You can talk about designing and leading trainings, curriculum development, major events and initiatives that you organized, etc.

My suggestion for teachers is also to target roles in education non-profits, ed tech, and school districts as a first step. These are places where your teaching experience will be seen as a huge asset and they’ll understand your experiences so you don’t have to translate as much!

The In-Flight Amenities 🍱

Each week, I share job openings within my network and jobseekers that I hope we can all support in their job search.

Jobs you need to check out
Zapier has a few openings!
Higher People is recruiting for several roles - you can connect with the lead recruiter in this post.
Remote People Ops role at Class Dojo (ed tech!) - move quickly here!!
As couple of remote QA roles…don’t love that it says they are only contacting shortlisted candidates, but at least they are up front about it.
Remote project manager role - they prefer folks near Pittsburgh but it’s not a firm requirement.
Remote sr. tech lead role (post lists the contact!)
Couple of BDR/SDR roles here - remote, one for US time zones and one for EMEA.
If you’re an employer who is hiring, you can share jobs here.

Jobseekers who need support
_{Each week, I highlight a few folks who are open to work - please consider giving these posts a like/comment/share to support them in their journey!}

Mike Iconis is an old buddy (literally, his mom was my dental hygienist growing up!!) and he’s been looking for IT roles for a few months since his layoff…go give him a boost!

Avianca Manning is looking for a new role AND is helping others along the way - here’s a list with a bunch of remote roles that she curated!

Taylor Dearr is looking for a new role after being laid off by Wayfair.

Allyson Burke is looking for operations roles.

Elvira Pistillo is seeking new opportunities in customer experience or program management.

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