When you look around what do you hear? What I hear everywhere is “I’m looking for a job.” That’s right looking for a job.

It could be time to reach out to help a friend or a friend of a friend. Just as we are now starting to realize it is not just the big banks, or the credit hungry consumers but all of us that are responsible for the huge credit crunch and recession, it is time to stretch across the table or the sidewalk. We are in time that is so unusual it may actually force us to stop thinking about our little selves, our own world of getting more things, and pretending we don’t need others.

The economic crisis of today swept the globe and we wonder when and if it will settle down. But in our own hands is another crisis and that is the profound and sweeping changes in jobs. If the impact isn’t on you as you are “locked in” in a job with great entitlements, or perhaps doing the hot new thing like bankruptcy, or making a necessity, if there is such a thing anymore.

For you today has changed. Maybe you were smug before the crisis but not that you see we are all linked in the good and bad why you may want to reach out with some ideas, introductions and not just empathy. Consider this:

-Amazing talent is sitting on the sidelines
-Job searching is much more difficult NOW
-Managers, professionals and even executives are often not experienced in highly competitive job searching. -Everyone is impacted. You will be impacted.

I could ask you to be less smug, to actually reach out, to have empathy, or to better understand the dire or stressful situation many people face today. Consider this:

Job ideas generated by friends are one of the top three ways people find jobs.

Believe me when I say the world has shifted, many people are in dire straits and you now need to shift too. Put something against this so your associates, friends country and can get everyone back to normal. Not only try to understand the new economic climate impacting the job climate, but also how to support, connect and reach out to those going through a new struggle. For we are, as I believe and see, “All in this together!”

Charles Moldenhauer, a respected consultant for over 30 years and agent for executives in search of new situations, provides a free review session.

http://www.executivejobcoach

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