A warning for future unemployed persons, it may best to avoid asking the question “how long did it take you to find a new job.” The answer won’t comfort you. If I wasn’t into being rational about being unemployed, I’d stricken it from my list of informational interview questions. Lucky for everyone else I’m a glutton for truth.
Right now I’m told, on average, it takes at least three months in a good economy and in this current economic state it could be as long as six months.
Right now, people in my field are saying a (typical) job search is going to take at least six months. Erie Times News
Granted every job and state is going to be different but I’d rather be prepared. It’s been a truth-inspired start to the week. I may be asking for boxes of Franken Berry cereal to get me through it.
