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a standout resume is vital.

“You need to separate yourself from the pack.”

Job hunters should also reach out to everyone they know—friends, former coworkers, old classmates, consultants, contractors.

spending up to 10 hours a day hunting for a position

The occasional job opening she does spot typically requires five-plus years of experience. “Getting a job is harder and harder,” she says. “There are fewer and fewer jobs.”

members of the Creative Class value meritocracy, diversity and individuality, and look for these characteristics when they relocat

For a city to attract the Creative Class, he argues, it must possess "the three 'T's": Talent (a highly talented/educated/skilled population), Tolerance (a diverse community, which has a 'live and let live' ethos), and Technology (the technological infrastructure necessary to fuel an entrepreneurial culture)

“the Creative Class share of the workforce; innovation, measured as patents per capita; high tech industry, using the Milken Institute's widely accepted Tech Pole Index…; and diversity, measured by the Gay Index, a reasonable proxy for an area’s openness"

Creative workers are looking for cultural, social, and technological climates in which they feel they can best "be themselves".

active participation in a variety of experiential activities.

Street Level Culture

hard to draw the line between participant and observer, or between creativity and its creators”

interest in being participants and not spectators

40 million workers—30 percent of the U.S. workforce

Super-Creative Core: This group comprises about 12 percent of all U.S. jobs. It includes a wide range of occupations (e.g. science, engineering, education, computer programming, research), with arts, design, and media workers forming a small subset. Florida considers those belonging to this group to “fully engage in the creative process” (2002, p. 69). The Super-Creative Core is considered innovative, creating commercial products and consumer goods. The primary job function of its members is to be creative and innovative. “Along with problem solving, their work may entail problem finding”

knowledge-based workers

Florida argues that the Creative Class is socially relevant because of its members' ability to spur regional economic growth through innovation (2002).

these usually require a high degree of formal education

a major shift away from the traditional orthodoxy of demography and socio-economics as predictor variables of an economic trajectory.

+ a spending propensity model (SPM) to identify the respective economic impact of each social type.

NEOs dominate elective consumption (discretionary spending) in developed economies,

behavior is determined by progressive social attitudes and tertiary needs.

NEOs are largely metropolitan dwellers, with more of them living in inner urban areas than anywhere else

Forty-five per cent of NEOs are women and 55 per cent are men

tend to be younger than Traditionals

Half of all people with a university degree are NEOs

EOs are most likely to be in professional or management occupations, and earn more than the rest of society

NEOs spend more … and more frequently … than anyone else. Ninety-three percent of NEOs are in the Big Spender category, compared to only 4 per cent of Traditionals.[9]