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What is different about looking for jobs today in Crawley compared to 10 years ago

What is different about looking for jobs today in Crawley compared to 10 years ago

The following editorial deals with the ever changing job market and is designed to help people that are looking for jobs today and also for people who are looking to possibly make a career change in the near future.



As anyone who watched the employment field will no doubt have noticed, jobs today are much more likely to be on a contract or temporary basis. Naturally this can be somewhat off-putting to anyone who has mostly been employed on a permanent basis up until now, however in reality this is nothing to be afraid of.


Jobs aren’t always for life anymore



Jobs today alas just aren’t always ‘for life’ anymore and therefore even if you’re employed on a permanent basis there is no cast iron guarantee that your job will be permanent.


The best way to look at jobs today is that even if the contract type being offered by the employer isn’t exactly what you would have wanted in an ideal world – is to consider a temporary or contract position to be a really good opportunity to ‘get your foot in the door’ and also to ‘check out’ the employer to see how much you enjoy working there before you decide to stay with that company for a long time to them.


Crawley has some great opportunities



We are confident that by regularly visiting AllCrawleyJobs we can help you to find the very best jobs today, Crawley has some great opportunities to be found and AllCrawleyJobs wish you the very best of luck with your job hunting.



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