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Get Out of Underemployment This Summer

Get Out of Underemployment This Summer
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Underemployment can feel worse than unemployment because there are traps. Your mindset is more important than strategy. In this last episode, I discuss 5 ways to rethink your next moves out of underemployment. 
 

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– Call and leave a voicemail at 708-365-9822, or text your comments to the same number
– Go to TheVoiceofJobSeekers.com, press the “Send Voicemail” button on the right side of your screen and leave a message
– Send email feedback to mark@thevoiceofjobseekers.com
 
BLS reported May 3, “the unemployment rate declined to 3.6 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Notable job gains occurred in professional and business services, construction, health care, and social assistance.”
 
The only underemployment related stats are here:
“The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons (sometimes referred to as involuntary part-time workers) was little changed at 4.7 million in April. These individuals, who would have preferred full-time employment, were working part-time because reduced hours or because they were unable to find full-time jobs.”
 
Highlights:
Find the April’s Bureau of Labor and Statistics report here. 
 
Underemployment
Part-time workers who can’t find full-time jobs in their field
People voluntarily work pt because they are in-between career decisions
People voluntarily pt because that is their decision – to work two or three pt jobs because they love those areas
 
 PayScale survey, 46 percent of respondents said they believed they were underemployed. Of those respondents, 76 percent said they felt underemployed because they were not using their education or training. While the Bureau of Labor Statistics does not measure underemployment because of “the difficulty of developing an objective set of criteria,” it is safe to say that underemployment is a severe social challenge harming our economy.
 
If you don’t want to be underemployed here are some tips:
 
  1. Fight the urge to be complacent or settle even if the opportunity is a lousy ft job
  2. As personal trials start to take up space, you can’t ignore the impact
  3. Embrace rejection, but it is not the verdict
  4. Learn more to develop professional, and be an asset to others
  5. It helps to prepare for a longer journey
 
Look for my summer content on the blog and don’t forget to sign-up for the newsletter! 

About Mark Anthony Dyson

I am the "The Voice of Job Seekers!" I offer compassionate career and job search advice as I hack and re-imagine the job search process. You need to be "the prescription to an employer's job description." You must be solution-oriented and work in positions in companies where you are the remedy. Your job search must be a lifestyle, and your career must be in front of you constantly. You can no longer shed your aspirations at the change seasons. There are strengths you have that need constant use and development. Be sure you sign up to download my E-Book, "421 Modern Job Search Tips 2021!" You can find my career advice and work in media outlets such as Forbes, Inc., Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, Glassdoor, and many other outlets.

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8 Ways to Use Underemployment to Sway Your Employment Opportunities

8 Ways to Use Underemployment to Sway Your Employment Opportunities

We know underemployment is hard to measure. Even the government has difficulty measuring it.

But that said, you certainly know when you are unemployed. It’s when you have a job, and it pays the bills for the most part, but your talents are worth so much more.

Read Three Signs Underemployment Has Stole Your Soul

Getting out of the underemployment trap requires a shift in mindset. You have to understand your day job as the one that produces a check, and your night job as the search for your truly desired opportunity. It will be hard to manage both tasks at once, but you can’t disengage from either your current job or your job search. Making the most of your time is vital to your success.

Perhaps you’ve already noticed that the job hoppers today tend to be the ones who win spikes in salaries and gain new marketable skills. Millennials and Gen. Z-ers have already figured this out.

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You want a sustainable opportunity where you feel useful and fairly compensated – and you can have it. Just do these eight things to help you leverage your period of underemployment to your advantage:

1. Create Solutions to Build on Over Time

Employers are looking for people who can apply new solutions to their business problems. To compete in the job market, you must be one of these people. The modern job search is not about tricks and tips, but about strategies and your network. Don’t look for jobs; look for opportunities to contribute and create your network. In time, this will lead to the career you want.

Listen to Underemployment Trends: Your MBA or JD alone is not Enough

2. Cultivate Your Voice

Don’t be afraid of positioning yourself as an authority as your network grows. As you gain more experience collaborating with people who are more experienced than you, your voice will increasingly stand out. Learn to speak when expected, listen when it’s unexpected, and master both when they are critical to your brand.

3. Pay the Price

I am not suggesting you take one for the team, nor that you make yourself a martyr. Rather, what I mean is that there will be a cost to you of some kind.

There are no shortcuts to career success, so expect pain, setbacks, and some discomfort as you search for the right job.

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4. Use Your Strengths and Accomplishments as Motivation

Many things will pull you in different directions, but the core of your efforts must always be your desire to optimize your contributions to your industry. Your achievements can serve as daily reminders to motivate you.

5. Surround Yourself With People Who Will Support You

Don’t consider it a weakness to have people to remind you of your mission. All of us need people who can help lift us up when we can’t lift ourselves.

Read 6 Ways to Deposit Value While Under Employed

6. Be Uncomfortable With Comfort During Underemployment

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Persistence means trying different ways to open doors you find closed – or even break them down if need be. Don’t settle or wait for someone else to open the door for you. It will become a way of life, and you’ll pay for it in mediocrity.

7. Reconcile With Yourself 

Underemployment can be quite lonely, even if you’re around others who face the same challenge. You may feel alienated by people who wonder why you’re still “in that job.”

Surround yourself with those who understand what you’re doing. You need to hear the voices who are encouraging, truthful, and patient. Sometimes, there may be no such voices. In those instances, you have to reconcile with and rely on yourself.

8. Master Your Craft

You’re in it for the long haul, not just trying to “break through” to the next job. You should be crafting a body of work that serves as evidence of your value.

Build a network of people with whom you can share ideas and exchange value. Master your craft through constant work.

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Underemployment is not a sentence you are obligated to accept. It is a battle you can win. It is a season of life, and you can weather the storms it brings by proving your uniqueness.

About Mark Anthony Dyson

I am the "The Voice of Job Seekers!" I offer compassionate career and job search advice as I hack and re-imagine the job search process. You need to be "the prescription to an employer's job description." You must be solution-oriented and work in positions in companies where you are the remedy. Your job search must be a lifestyle, and your career must be in front of you constantly. You can no longer shed your aspirations at the change seasons. There are strengths you have that need constant use and development. Be sure you sign up to download my E-Book, "421 Modern Job Search Tips 2021!" You can find my career advice and work in media outlets such as Forbes, Inc., Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, Glassdoor, and many other outlets.

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Three Signs Underemployment Has Stole Your Soul

Three Signs Underemployment Has Stole Your Soul

Underemployment sucks in a few ways. As family and friends remind you the gratefulness you ought to have a job, you feel enslaved. Sometimes, it’s torture. Other times, it’s depressing. There is no shortlist for the range of emotions you feel from day-to-day. It’s frustrating, hurtful, and downright depressing.

You used to laugh, find fun in doing extra work and fostered meaningful relationships. Now you feel like an outsider. Perhaps your peers moved up or moved on, and you’re here.

Did you take this position as a bridge job? Did it have the schedule for you to be home more with your family? Did it provide some insight into future career goals? Whatever your reason you are over it now, aren’t you?

Most of you just know you need to move on. Perhaps you can’t identify what it is you feel or why? I got you.

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Here are three signs you’re underemployed and what you can do to ease the pain:

Any bit of enthusiasm for this job has dissipated

Depressed? Maybe not, but you are not happy and finding fault and shortcomings in the real things. If people are initiating lunches, casual conversations, and after work sets less could be a sign of your lack of positivity.

TIP: Start being intentional in finding and speaking positively about people who have stood out accomplishments either business or personal. You don’t have to be the cheerleader, but try being the noticer. Not only it could change your outlook on the job, but possibly bring you positive visibility.

It is as stressful as anticipated divorce

You want to leave now, but the job search is slow for your desired industry. You have bills to pay, and it’s tough to make it through the day. Some days you just want to quit. What’s worse– you can care less about what anyone associated with that job thinks about you.

TIP: Leave work at work. Leave the problems at work. Don’t try to overcompensate for uncompleted work not done during regular hours unless you’ve committed it to a deadline.

You’re always thinking of ways to escape

You can’t stop checking the schedule daily published a month ago. Are you thinking of ways and reasons to call off? It’s stress. It’s boredom. You have the “Cheshire Grin” just like the cat from Alice and Wonderland. You call off of work with no regard for the consequences.

TIP: Time off has its proper place, but it tips off your employer you’re unhappy and looking for a job. Even worse, you are unavailable for critical assignments and projects. In most cases, you want to leave on your terms.

Are you a loyalist to everything including friends, relatives, former girlfriends/boyfriends, former teachers, and neighbors. With employers in 2017, you can’t be sentimental.

It’s time to start looking for a meaning transition to a fulfilling career. If you don’t, you’ll regret it.

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And believe me, you’ll set yourself up for a lifetime full of regrets.

About Mark Anthony Dyson

I am the "The Voice of Job Seekers!" I offer compassionate career and job search advice as I hack and re-imagine the job search process. You need to be "the prescription to an employer's job description." You must be solution-oriented and work in positions in companies where you are the remedy. Your job search must be a lifestyle, and your career must be in front of you constantly. You can no longer shed your aspirations at the change seasons. There are strengths you have that need constant use and development. Be sure you sign up to download my E-Book, "421 Modern Job Search Tips 2021!" You can find my career advice and work in media outlets such as Forbes, Inc., Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, Glassdoor, and many other outlets.

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