The good news first! The third quarter GDP is up 3.5% and the four week moving average on initial jobs claims is at a 40 year low. Fewer people are entering the field service industry and looking for a job. Most of the low-fee $3 mortgage inspections have dried up. These were a draw primarily for the unemployed. The surviving hiring firms are the higher quality firms that pay the higher fees. The smarter field service inspectors … those with a great resume and great advertising … will get the higher paying work from the higher quality firms. Many field service inspectors have no visibility in the industry as they do not advertise. A smaller workforce will also result in even higher inspection fees.
Initial jobs claims are at a 40-year low.
The bad news for some inspectors is that they will miss out on the higher quality firms that pay the higher fees and as these firms do NOT post job ads on Craig’s List or Yahoo Groups. The higher quality firms are drawn to the field service inspectors that have a great marketing plan that includes a great resume and advertising. The field service inspectors with a plain old resume with a lot of noise in it and no advertising will not get the work. They will be invisible!
Those inspectors that do nothing to promote their business with get nothing. It’s always been that way, but the impact in an improving economy will be greater because if you are not seen … you will not be found. Job ads at Craig’s List and the Yahoo Groups have dried up … you won’t find them.
The year 2015 may be your best year or your worst year … you decide how you are going to beat out the competition. Will you be visible or invisible? You decide!
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