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PR Manager Unemployment at 0.1 Percent According to Report
Monday, Jul 20 2009 | Author and
categories:Andrew Goss
| PR,
marketing and design
In a silver lining to otherwise horrific unemployment
figures (currently the U.S. unemployment rate was 9.5
percent in June); it appears public relations
professionals among others are bucking the downward
spiral.
According to an article in the Baltimore Business Journal, professional staffing firm Robert Half International Inc. claims only 0.1 percent of public-relations managers (like me) claim unemployment. Now this could be due to many PR professionals being independent consultants and also the fact that in general public relations has low overhead… but WOW. Some other impressive fields with low unemployment according to the firm include budget analysts at 1.1 percent, lawyers at 2.3 percent and financial compliance officers at 2.3 percent.
Now I’m not about to do the happy dance, but this is some encouraging news for many colleagues in the PR field. One could take it as further recognition that even during this downturn, good public relations support is a valuable commodity that one cannot do without.
-posted by Andrew
According to an article in the Baltimore Business Journal, professional staffing firm Robert Half International Inc. claims only 0.1 percent of public-relations managers (like me) claim unemployment. Now this could be due to many PR professionals being independent consultants and also the fact that in general public relations has low overhead… but WOW. Some other impressive fields with low unemployment according to the firm include budget analysts at 1.1 percent, lawyers at 2.3 percent and financial compliance officers at 2.3 percent.
Now I’m not about to do the happy dance, but this is some encouraging news for many colleagues in the PR field. One could take it as further recognition that even during this downturn, good public relations support is a valuable commodity that one cannot do without.
-posted by Andrew