Go East, Not West, Young Man!

The Robert Walters Asia Job Index is a real eye opener.

Horace Greeley

The percent change in job advertisements for professional positions placed from Q1 to Q2 is 31.52% in Hong Kong, 13.7%% in Sinapore, 34.27% in Japan, and 36.68 % in China (with 10 million job openings) for a total of 11M jobs add in April through June of this year.

Amazing!

The famous quote by Horace Greeley, "Go West, Young Man!" has to be turned 180 degrees to find new employement opportunties.

But I think that in the United States or developed regions like Europe, opportunties abound.  They are just different than how we traditionally see employment.  As McKinsey reported in their ten trends (see previous post on July 27, 2010, Organization of Networks - Part I), employment as we know it has changed for the executive/professional. 

Options include outsourcing, close sourcing, interim executive roles, networked pools, and other "nonemployee" roles can be found through digging for opportunities, rather than trying to find the traditional 7am to 7pm job.

What are you seeing in your world?  Have opportunties taken a different form?  Let's share.