i got i got some hot topics i gotta talk
to you about all right so
um what i what i'd like to do i'd like
to do this more on a frequent basis it's
may 12th right now when i'm recording
this so we're going to try to get this
this maybe this little portion out into
the world on linkedin or instagram or
wherever the heck uh else we put our
videos but
i'm noticing uh hot hot hot topics and
by hot topics i mean they're in the news
or i'm getting flooded with questions
in uh my in the milewalk academy
training system by people who are uh
have the package where they can get the
online support or they're uh they're
answering um
they're commenting on my youtube channel
and so there's three things i want to
talk about
the first one is um
the the the news lately in the last week
you're hearing things about
uh facebook slash meta
doing hiring freeze
and or letting people go
heaven forbid that that that could
happen you know netflix isn't doing well
peloton oh my goodness what's happening
and i want to make sure that you can
differentiate the noise in the market
from something that's surgical and
specific to these particular companies
and companies like them
versus
what i in nauseating detail
outlined for you in my video the the the
job market outlook 2022. maybe stacy can
drop that in the chat
i re i i did a live show in march we
released a video in april
and i it's 40 some odd minutes probably
where i went into
nauseating detail on why we are in the
current situation that we are with
inflation rising prices
rising
wages increasing and what's going to
happen i outlined what's going to happen
to whom it's going to happen and the
actions you should take specifically to
make sure you're in order i'm not going
to revisit that lesson because i spent a
lot of time preparing it for you and
it's out there in youtube land for you
to watch and it's probably on my podcast
but make sure that you take that in
because that's going to help you
differentiate what i'm about to say
just because facebook decides to
publicize it's going to be freezing
uh hiring
is not cause for alarm
and netflix and peloton like i said just
as an example
what you're seeing there is three you
know billionaire owners or whatever
that for various reasons their companies
are going south and i'm going to give
you my opinion on why those are in a
minute but i want you to know it from uh
from a trends perspective we're all
seeing the stock market go like this
right what this is called is whiplash
all right it's it's going down this is
emotional reaction it's gonna go down
it's just it's dipping right now and
that's called whiplash all right that's
what you're seeing is a whiplash effect
i outlined all this in the in the job
market outlook video
why why is this happening this is
reaction this is overreaction this is
investor overreaction
okay file that and separate that from
what's actually happening in the
employment market which lags the stock
market you still have a bit of time to
get these big fat juicy offers and you
should be now why would somebody like
facebook
all of a sudden be freezing that has
nothing to do with the macro economic
trends that you're seeing in the market
the reason facebook is going through
what facebook is going through is
because of the way the company is
structured and how it's behaved let me
give you a great example i'm three
people me andy i'm andy lacivita on
facebook somewhere that i never use
that's my personal page the reason i
don't use it is because i can't find
anything i'm using facebook is sending
me alerts all the time about stuff i
don't want to see and videos i don't
want to watch and ads that i don't care
about and all this other stuff okay i
i've stopped using it from a personal
perspective because it's really hard to
get around
from a business perspective andrew
lacivita second person
i have a business profile and it doesn't
send my
my business posts to the people who
follow my page okay so that's not really
great
and the advertising that i might want to
do is so heinous to operate and so
restrictive and not nearly as effective
as they'd like to believe with costs
rising drastically because of their
greed that i as a business person don't
want to use the platform okay now andy
andy third guy andrew lacivita third guy
runner of milewalk academy had a
community group out there
but i was just trying to read the posts
from the people in my community who i
love and care about and want to support
but i'm being bombarded
by ads and
facebook watch and other things that i
don't care about that make the platform
so noisy and irritating to use that why
do you think that that community
platform that i just said we took it off
of facebook that's one of the reasons i
wanted better control i wanted to
structure it the way that i wanted i
didn't i want people who want to go
there proactively look at it collaborate
with each other in an uninterrupted
environment in the safety of our own
platform and the security of our own
platform where they can share direct
message group chat
talk about the topics that we want to
talk about without being you know
inundated with all this other crap guess
what i am the triple threat and i see
all the differences people are getting
off that platform in favor of other
platforms that's why they're going
through what they're going through has
nothing to do you think people are not
wanting to use social media
right what's happening with some of the
other social platforms so think about
that netflix different issue
right just because netflix's revenue is
going to
have has anybody been on netflix lately
i try to watch every imaginable show
that i possibly can i watch more tv than
you probably would imagine i read a ton
i work a ton i need i need a little time
where my wife and i can sit there and
laugh or think the shows are cool and
they don't come out with new shows and
you have fatigue you have fee fatigue i
have i have comcast cable i'm not
getting rid of that okay i know it cost
me whatever but you know when i got my
internet i got all this other stuff that
i need i'm not letting that go but hulu
and all these other things that i also
have bought paramount and whatever are a
fraction of the cost just about as good
and people are getting tired of that
people are still going to watch tv
right so that's it they've got their own
issue they they were lazy they fell
asleep at the wheel all right because
they were not getting up with the times
as all these other streaming
environments started to invade the
market and then you got the pelicans of
the world they had bad press okay i
don't know about you i go to the health
club right three times a week i go there
three times a week because the other
four days of the week i can either run
outside ride in my basement strength
train in my basement or whatever but i
still gotta go to the pool why i get to
go to the pool to do my swimming the
parking lot is filled i gotta wait for a
swim lane why people want to get back to
that stuff
right and so
so you got to think about this bad press
combined with people you know wanting to
get out of the house more now that they
can
you're gonna you're gonna get hurt so my
point to all this is don't think there's
some crazy shift in the market
no which what you're seeing is whiplash
yes i talked about the recession that's
imminent
but but the stock market is always in
advance of the employment market which
lags the only issue that you need to
worry about with the employment market
is is it going to be a jobless recovery
or not
so i want you to be able to
differentiate this i've given you the
answer how to do that in the job market
outlook video that's hot topic number
one
okay so i hope you enjoyed that one i'm
gonna go on to hot topic number two
which is ghosting
guess what got a video on that too
the 14 different ways that you could be
ghosted maybe stacy can
pop that one in the in the chat i would
like you i hope you would take the time
to go and watch that to understand what
ghosting is why it occurs how you can
prevent it and all that good stuff but i
want to talk about changes
in that a lot of us are not we're not
really
some of us are in my demographic right
i'm about to be 56 you know are are just
floored by the ghosting and a lot of
people in their early 20s are not so
surprised by this i want to talk about
that
so i as an executive recruiter have
placed over 600 people in my life
in 2007
okay 15 years ago
i had the one and only
person
frank i won't sell him out with his last
name
not show up for their first day
of of employment
okay now the the the the market and and
and
what has transpired
in
the the attitude that employees and
employers have toward each other has
really changed so i want you to think
about i want you to think about that
stat one in 600 and change
didn't make it to their first dan on the
job
and then there was one other person who
crapped out in a week and one other
person who crapped out in a month okay
those are like minuscule percentages now
part of that is my recruitment being
able to assess employers hiring the
right people but when
i looked and i i'd ask my employer
clients
you know do people not show up like do
people crap out and those kind of things
they say well you know it happens and i
noticed it from what they would share
with me as i would help support them in
other other candidates that they'd hire
job candidates that they'd hired but
what's happened now and we talked about
ghosting right i went through all the
details but one of the things that i
want you guys to realize is that
we live in a different world today
because the generate the younger
professional generation this is not a
knock on them it's it's about what we're
used to and what we've all been through
they've grown up with phones in their
hands they know what it's like to be
ghosted to not respond no not to the
texts or whatever nobody calls back
nobody calls in in any way and
a lot of what's happening is as these
indiv these individuals in this
generation have become professionals a
lot of the the folks in their 20s um you
know they're they're not showing up on
their first day on the job but it's not
that big a deal to them
because of what they've grown up with
this is not a knock on them i'm looking
at the and analyzing what's happening i
have been reviewing statistics and
surveys over the last week or so there
was an article i think in the journal
the other day
southwest airlines a major company said
they'd estimated between 15 to 20
percent of the people they hire don't
show up on their first day that's
ghosting
right maybe the reverse ghosting that
you're talking about but what happens
employers are the same way so you've got
young professionals who are in the
recruitment slots that are handling you
not so experienced but also used to i
don't need to call that candidate back
and let them know they didn't get the
job right this is becoming common so
what is what is all of this saying
well
i don't want you to be that person but
if you're wondering why the times have
changed so greatly right it's a cyclical
effect it's nobody's fault it's
everybody's fault right employers do it
to candidates do it to employers do it
the candidates do it right and it's
these are generational changes that
occur as we go right from from
generation to generation and i think
that has a lot to do with the ghosting
practices you can't just say
well you know employers just ghost
people
well they didn't just start ghosting
people right and they haven't always
ghosted people to the extent that it's
occurring right now but they also
have not been treated by new hires the
way they are being treated could you
imagine those stats if i would have told
you that six if we just round it down to
600 people that 120 wouldn't show up to
their first day on the job right think
about that
this is just some food for thought but i
would highly recommend that you go watch
the ghosting video now the last thing is
a little bit shorter but it's on
resignation i have a a popular i have
two
two videos on resignation on my youtube
channel stacy can you can you pop in the
long one
uh about the complete guide to resigning
the eight steps
and i i did a full fledged everything
that you should do to resign properly
and then a while back i have a
resignation video where i was answering
somebody's live office hours question
where i just i talked about resigning
with class i want to reiterate for all
of the people that have been putting
comments on my youtube channel
remember you resigned for you and just
because employers might not treat you
so well and you're upset remember it
doesn't cost you a whole lot to resign
properly give them a notice
digital written hand it to them i don't
care give them a couple of weeks notice
or whatever the appropriate amount of
time is but you've got to remember that
you might think well geez i don't really
owe them anything right they were mean
to me right except that if you leave and
you huff and your puff
and you leave
in a tizzy
remember number one
all those people you work with they're
part of your team they're part of your
network somewhere in the in the future
you're going to be interviewing at a
company and they're going to be working
at that company and they're not going to
put a good reference in but you also
have to remember that your employer is
going to be fielding a reference check
in all likelihood not you might not give
people at that employer as references
but when the when your potential
employer your new employer does a
background check they go back to these
employers
some of the organizations they call
these employers directly to verify it
they call into hr they say did so and so
work there
and what is it going to sound like when
i say oh yeah she worked here
what do you mean andy
well
she didn't leave on the greatest of
terms
why is that
well she dropped her notice and then ran
out the building
right that this this is what i'm talking
you have got to be thinking way ahead
and guess what
it doesn't take it's like smiling it
smiling right takes less
muscles and energy than it does to frown
right it's the same kind of thing with
um
with residing why not go out with some
class right
breadcrumbs don't leave breadcrumbs in
this world that you don't want you don't
want to be looking over your shoulder
right so don't do that you're better
than that all right so those three
topics making sure you understand the
market what's going on in the market
what's what's gonna happen andy's job uh
market outlook right the full-fledged
version this is whiplash you got noise
you got some companies that were greedy
or fell asleep at the wheel or a
combination of both right you've got the
ghosting issue and you got the
resignation issue okay hope you enjoyed
that one