First note

Do you remember what happened at the beginning of 2009?

When the crisis started I was working at an executive research company in Russia and from January on we had not gotten any open positions. In May the company closed.

Now, let me ask you a question. Have you ever searched for a job and not found anything? 

I tried to go to some interviews but it was just a waste of time and the companies which invited me for the interview in reality didn't have any open positions and were just creating a database.

This situation continued for almost a year and then the market had started to grow slowly and I finally got a new job. But in August of 2010 I moved to Brazil and saw that here they didn’t have a crisis and the market was in a really good moment. Some Brazilians said that this crisis helped the Brazilian economy to grow. There were a lot of job opportunities during and after the crisis and a lot of emigrants were coming here from different parts of the world.

First note

Do you remember what happened at the beginning of 2009?

When the crisis started I was working at an executive search company in Russia and from January on we had not gotten any open positions. In May the Company closed.

Now, let me ask you a question. Have you ever searched for a job and haven’t found anything?
I tried to go to some interviews but it was just a waste of time and the companies which invited me for the interview in reality hadn’t gotten any open positions and were just creating a database.

This situation continued for almost an one year (or "a year") and then the market had started to grow slowly and I finally got a new job. But in August of 2010 I moved to Brazil and saw that here they didn’t had a crisis and the market was at a really good moment. Some Brazilians said that this crisis helped the Brazilian economy to grow. There were a lot of job opportunities during and after the crisis and a lot of emigrants were coming here from different parts of the world.

Yes I've been in that situation and in my contry "Venezuela", there are lack of jobs because of the crisis that our current government had created and there are also lots of people leaving the country in search for better opportunities, like I did.

Have a good day!