Full-time part-time job
Contracting’s new appeal
With unemployment continuing to increase, more people are turning to contract work, freelancing and consulting. The issue is real in Westchester and it is real across the Connecticut border in Fairfield County, where Mary Ann Gontin has noticed the change.
"Instead of trying to get hired for scarce full-time jobs at the present, more people are pursuing alternative ways to make a living and pay the bills," said Gontin, managing partner of OI Partners-Cunis & Gontin in Fairfield County.
OI Partners-Cunis & Gontin is a global career transition and coaching firm.
The national unemployment rate now stands at 8.5 percent, with 13.2 million people unemployed. Nationwide, there are only about 3 million new jobs available.
According to Gontin, there are more than four applicants for every job opening, twice as many applicants per job opening as when the recession began in December 2007, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
Elena Oppedisano works freelance as Checks & Balances Bookkeeping Services out of her Trumbull home, though she continues to work in her career managing foreclosures.
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