The numbers and messages being shared recently will tell you that life is good for jobs and job growth here in the region. Individuals will tell you that there is a talent gap and will admit to an imaginary “talent cliff” that will soon render the hopelessness of filling jobs across the area. My company Cape Fear Jobs and I will tell you that in our research…what you are hearing, is all very wrong.
Look up the word, “middle,” in your thesaurus and what do you find? Words like intermediate, average, mainstream and median.
Look up the definition in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and you will read, “being at neither extreme” and “equally distant from the extremes.”
Through calls to our office, emails to me personally and to the company inbox, and messages to us on social media, Cape Fear Jobs gets an average of 100 inquiries per month, all with one request - Can you help me find a job? And 75 percent of these individuals are in the $40,000 to $80,000 salary range that I refer to as “The Middle.” But they are far from intermediate or average.
Why “The Middle” you ask?
Because I see these often intermediate-level employees a bit like the middle child of a family (for my generation, the Jan and Peter Brady’s). They are the ones who get lost in the shuffle. They are, in most cases, ignored and passed on for just about every job. Yet, they are the most qualified talent we have in our community.
In this struggling job market, there is a list of “Lucky 7” workers:
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