**** JOB SURVEY RESULTS **** (For those hired since 2009 in the USA)

[Cara McConnell]

What do you mean by “found employment” since 2009? If I was employed in 2008, never laid-off and currently with the same company, then the survey isn’t for me? And what is the purpose of this survey? Just wondering.

By the way, for question #4, you should add an option for Recruitment Agency. A friend of mine found employment through Aerotek.

[Jay Smith]

Found employment = sought out a job and hired January 2009 or later.  If you managed to hold onto a job obtained prior to 2009, then this survey would not pertain to you.  The purpose is to help anyone looking for employment in our field develop a clearer picture of companies hiring habits during the worst years of the recession/recovery.  In other words…the who, how, where, etc.  I created the survey to see if any obvious trends could be derived from a large pool of new hires.

 

Good idea on the recruitment agency option, I’ll add it. 

[Jay Smith]

Thanks to the 10 participants so far, keep ’em coming everyone.  At this rate I’ll be able to post the results next week.

[Jay Smith]

17 and counting….

[Joshua Elam]

Not sure if 100 people were hired as LA’s since 2009.  Good luck, post results regardless, please

[Jay Smith]

You could be right.  Up to 25 after 6 days, so we’ll see.  I’d be happy with 50.

[Jay Smith]

Just want to encourage anyone else who hasn’t participated in this survey to do so soon.  I will probably be posting the results sooner than originally planned. 

[Leslie B Wagle]

Shouldn’t there also be one for people who have been looking and not feeling a satisfactory resolution since 2009….ie. went into a side field, only found part time, etc. I know there wouldn’t be anything scientific about either one, but it might be interesting to see if in a given period of time, those reached by this site appeared in quicker/larger numbers for one survey question than for the other. I guess that would risk us getting kinda sad if it tipped towards the second question, though. So far in all the various Land8 discussions it’s really hard to tell where we stand overall…other than stressed in comparison with the boom times.

(Have to admit didn’t take the current survey and maybe you are going to sift this out anyway).

[Jay Smith]

Actually it does account for full time, part time, contract, volunteer…as well as closely related fields such as Landscape Contractor/Nursery work.   Ideally, I would have broken it down further and added such questions as “were you able to keep that job?”, and also had questions about portfolio submittal methods.  Unfortunately there is a ten question limit so I had to pick and choose.   The purpose of the survey really was to try to uncover any hiring trends during one of the most competitve job markets in history….to determine if there are any obvious factors in one person being hired over 100 others for the same job.  We’ll just have to see if this survey reveals anything or not.   The more people that take a minute to participate, the better conclusions we can draw.

[Jay Smith]

Last call.  Thanks to the 36 who participated so far.

[Jay Smith]

The survey says!…..

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