Posted on 07/13/2011 7:10:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Unemployed workers continue to be excluded from job openings in online postings and a report released yesterday by the National Employment Law Project hopes to create federal legislature to stop it.
“Unemployed job seekers continue to be excluded from work opportunities, and this disturbing and unfair practice appears to be more pervasive than previously thought,” said Christine Owens, executive director of the National Employment Law Project.
“This practice is a perverse catch-22 that requires workers to have jobs in order to get jobs, and it means highly qualified, experienced workers who want and need work can’t get past the starting gate in the application process simply because they lost their jobs through no fault of their own,” Owens continued. “As a business practice, this makes no sense. It is debilitating to workers—particularly the long-term unemployed—and it hampers economic recovery.”
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Always easier to find a job when you already have one....nothing new under the sun.
But if they hire someone who does have a job, they create an opening elsewhere. Sure, that company may also hire someone who is already employed, but eventually some company somewhere has to take an unemployed guy.
But if they hire someone who does have a job, they create an opening elsewhere. Sure, that company may also hire someone who is already employed, but eventually some company somewhere has to take an unemployed guy.
They asked a bunch of single women to take a test, then told them that based upon the test they were compatible and shown a picture of a handsome guy - half were told he was single, half that he was in a relationship.
When asked if they were interested in pursuing a relationship with him by having him call them - 60% that were told he was single wanted him to. Of those told that he was in a relationship - 90%.
I call it the 60-90 rule. If you are single you have to show a woman you are compatible and attractive and STILL only 60% of those you so convince are willing to go out with you. If you have a girlfriend it is 90%.
With men it didn't make a difference. But women like to “mate poach”. It is kind of like a pre-sceening process.
Same with being employed. You survived the cuts and are making the grade somewhere else.
They asked a bunch of single women to take a test, then told them that based upon the test they were compatible and shown a picture of a handsome guy - half were told he was single, half that he was in a relationship.
When asked if they were interested in pursuing a relationship with him by having him call them - 60% that were told he was single wanted him to. Of those told that he was in a relationship - 90%.
I call it the 60-90 rule. If you are single you have to show a woman you are compatible and attractive and STILL only 60% of those you so convince are willing to go out with you. If you have a girlfriend it is 90%.
With men it didn't make a difference. But women like to “mate poach”. It is kind of like a pre-sceening process.
Same with being employed. You survived the cuts and are making the grade somewhere else.
They asked a bunch of single women to take a test, then told them that based upon the test they were compatible and shown a picture of a handsome guy - half were told he was single, half that he was in a relationship.
When asked if they were interested in pursuing a relationship with him by having him call them - 60% that were told he was single wanted him to. Of those told that he was in a relationship - 90%.
I call it the 60-90 rule. If you are single you have to show a woman you are compatible and attractive and STILL only 60% of those you so convince are willing to go out with you. If you have a girlfriend it is 90%.
With men it didn't make a difference. But women like to “mate poach”. It is kind of like a pre-sceening process.
Same with being employed. You survived the cuts and are making the grade somewhere else.
Well, now I come to a better appreciation of why it is so difficult for those who have been layed off to find another job.
If for some reason, your company goes into dire straights and has to lay you off, or cannot extend your contract, you’re now considered a leper.
Is this a great country or what?
On one hand I've even heard cruel bastards say they would rather deprive a competitor of a resource, all things being equal (I hope there is a particular place in hell for such sorts) but ti does make sense that all other things being the same someone recently employed would be more recent on their skills.
On the other hand, were I a lawyer of the social activist persuasion, I could probably make a case that such a policy is de facto age discrimination, so I imagine that someone will even if the subject is not addressed via legislation.
If Ms. Owens REALLY believed this, she would NOT be pressing for federal legislation to regulate the hiring practices of private companies. She would be willing to wait until those practices harmed the corporations' bottom lines and they chose to amend their policies.
Yep, being in a relationship, is like having a good letter of recommendation.
National Employment Law Project = a George Soros organization.
The problem I have with this policy is that it promotes a lack of loyalty.
If I’m willing to walk away from one employer to work for you, what leads you to believe I won’t do the same to you?
Not if they are firing down.
Most HR dept's are operated like women run them, oh wait they do. Sorry....
Have no fear. The gubmint will fix it with some new legislation while further demonizing business.
We're a "Free Agent Nation" now...people better get used to that, there is no loyalty on either side anymore. Your "loyalty" to the company is to do the best job for them while they are paying you, and their loyalty is to pay you for your time with them....beyond that, both sides look out strictly for themselves.
>> But women like to “mate poach”.
I prefer to be had “over easy”.
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