Career Prospects Poll Results
Over the past couple of months we have been polling visitors to our site on their near-term “career prospects”. We ask, “How do you feel about your prospect for career growth over the next 12-months?”
Given that we are just starting to recover from the MOAR (Mother of All Recessions): near-miss global banking meltdown, plummeting real estate and stock market values, record unemployment… the results seem to be pretty up-beat.
We have had 105 participants so far – presumably web analytics and search marketing professionals, since this is our audience (there is really no reason for anybody else to be on our site). Here is how they were feeling:
10% (11) reported feeling “Never better” about their prospect for career growth
30% (32) reported feeling “Pretty darn good” about their prospect for career growth
32% (34) reported feeling “So so” about their prospect for career growth
15% (16) reported feeling “Slightly nauseous” about their prospect for career growth
11% (12) reported feeling “Panic, despair or generally awful” about their prospect for career growth
It is not a huge sampling, but it is pretty consistent with our experience over the past few months. There are definitely some folks feeling the pain that the rest of the workforce is feeling (26% had “negative” feelings about their career prospects), but the web analytics and search marketing community is far outpacing the pack. What do you think the percentage would be of financial services professionals? Real estate? Pretty much anything outside the online marketing / eCommerce world? I would guess that the number would be closer to half.
To participate in the poll head over to IQWorkforce.com.
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