The Terrible Economy Might Be Good For Jobseekers

Call us a Pollyanna, but we just need to believe headhunter Skip Freeman’s take on why the dismal economic news is actually good for jobseekers.

See, the way Freeman sees it, ever since the recession began, a lot of people have made plans to leave their jobs “as soon as the job market gets better.”

With the dismal news on Wall Street etc., many of those people are probably deciding to wait it out. As Freeman says, “for the time being at least, with the exodus—temporary though it may prove to be—of a sizable segment of currently employed people from the job market, the ranks of job seekers have been substantially thinned.

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