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As Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan said recently, rising uncertainty so far doesn't seem to have significantly hurt the job market. But these measurements don't take into account what's happened to employer mindsets within the past couple of weeks as news spreads about the damping of the economy and pronouncements of the Chicken Littles who insist a '29 style depression has already begun. No overnight surveys have produced traction on the developing job market question yet. I'll leave the financial prognostications to the economists, but do suggest a heightened state of alertness concerning your immediate career management issues. Conventional wisdom was that hiring lagged six months behind a recession's end and that you could count on a little slack before hiring got chopped when one started.