HUMAN RESOURCES Some factors that can affect an employer’s bottom line when replacing an employee include: 1. Lost productivity during the interim before a replacement can start, the time other coworkers spend away from their jobs to help fill the gap and low employee morale. 2. Training the new employee 3. Severance pay or litigation from involuntary turnovers. 4. Costs for advertising, referral bonuses, relocation expenses and background checks. Source: AARP.org
“What I am teaching is what the really big executive career search firms are teaching, the stuff recruiters are holding close to the vest so they can charge $5,000 to learn it,” Czarnik said.
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Why would you make a half a million-dollar decision based on what somebody put on a piece of paper?
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Christopher Jossart, co-author The Human Search Engine
He should know: He once forked over $4,250 to a slick headhunting firm that promised VIP access to unadvertised, executive-level jobs: open positions hidden from the ordinary Joe.
But it felt to him more like a bait-andswitch job than a job-placement firm. “It ended up being a training program, which was a shock to me; I thought it was a recruiter and I thought they had all these great jobs waiting for you,” Czarnik said, adding that he was pretty mad. “I was promised an executive-level job and here I was, (being) trained to find one.” Some elements of the pricey program were valuable, though, and those now play a part in his Human Search Engine formula. One difference is the price. FVTC’s Job Seekers Network program (www.fvtc.edu/jsn) is free of charge and involves no tuition or other cost. Enrollment is open to anyone, and new participants can start at any time by just showing up at one of the meetings. “A lot of people are like ‘Well, where is the profit for the college?’ and I say it’s in helping the community when the community needs it. It is a thank-you from the college to the community for
“The Human Search Engine: It’s what you think you know about a job search that keeps you unemployed” is available at the FVTC-Appleton campus book store and on Amazon.com for $19.95.
supporting the college all these years,” Czarnik said. Jossart said the real-life results he saw Czarnik achieve propelled him to take on the book project. “He was changing life after life in terms of helping people find another career,” Jossart said.
Lee Reinsch writes and edits from Green Bay.
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