Indeed:
Posted on 10/24/2011 8:58:48 AM PDT by Haiku Guy
He doesn’t think it’s too much to ask of a job seeker. A resume, a statement of salary expectations and a single written paragraph that answers a question like, “What do you believe a good customer service representative’s attitude should be?”
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Stories are legion of inept or half-hearted applicants who submit resumes marred by misspellings, show up at interviews dressed for a beach party, make inappropriate jokes, fail to learn basic details about the job and company in question, and otherwise leave hiring managers aghast.
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“Who the hell is going to hire these people?” asks Heinemeier Hansson. “Who is going to read some of these atrociously bad applications and say, ‘Yeah, that’s the person I’ve been looking for?’ ”
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My 38 year old step-daughter has a good sized department working for her, and it always cracks me up when she tells me similar stories about candidates she interviews. I always saw her as feeling unduely entitled to perks, has a 9-5 attitude, and so on. For her to complain about the younger candidates is really saying how bad it continues to get.
I’ve come to the conclusion that entry level refers to pay, not experience.
I've told this story here before... 6 years ago, when I was desperately looking for a job, I went to a "headhunter" who told me that they had a local job that required very specific technical certifications (in Novell networking). I got pretty excited because at the time I had nearly every certification that Novell had. The requirement was expertise in 10 or so different Novell products. Interestingly enough, I was authorized by Novell to TEACH every one of the products listed. I was never presented to the company for an interview, and found a job on my own (at a huge pay cut from my previous job).
Years later, I learned that the company in question had completely switched from Novell to Microsoft in part, due to the "Novell expert" placed by the headhunter... It turned out that the company was one that I had supported years earlier, had set up their initial Novell networks, and trained most of their in-house network support. The guys I spoke with were livid! The headhunter had placed a guy from India who didn't know much about any of the products they used, and practically nobody at the company could understand him. He had come over on an H1-B visa, but only lasted at this company for about 8 months. The guy I was speaking with told me that had they known I was available, they would probably still be using Novell and would have hired me in a second.
Mark
It doesn't matter any more. The Obama regime has nationalized all student loans. Now if you want/need a student loan, you have to go to the "gubmint" to get it.
Mark
It doesn't matter any more. The Obama regime has nationalized all student loans. Now if you want/need a student loan, you have to go to the "gubmint" to get it.
Mark
Worked at a place that had a warehouse opening. He filled out an application and put “whorehouse”. And he put that he was a Viet Nam vet. For this to be true he had to have served when he was five.
Sadly, he got the job.
Depends on the state.
That said, most of the “benefits” paid to unemployed workers are from taxes on business at the local level. The federal unemployment tax is very low - it’s .8% on the first $7,000 an individual employee earns. So $56 a year per employee goes to the feds.
The amount that states tax (rate and on how much) depends. Most of the blue states are very high. Most red states are not. TN, for example, has an average rate of 2.5-3.5% of the first $8,000 earned that year and that depends on the individual business and it’s “history”.
If you have a business, like manufacturing, that periodically lays off people (for whatever reason, sometimes it’s a cyclical business model and it’s cheaper to lay off for a few months than keep a factory open and pay the higher tax).
TN only requires that you fill out a form once a week stating your status and can be done over the phone or online. The payment can be in check form or direct deposit. The maximum amount per week regardless of previous income is $275 and is taxable for federal income tax but not FICA (payroll taxes).
My job was eliminated last January and I was approved for 46 weeks to start and was reviewed after the first six months. Fortunately, I’m not in the financial situation to have to find another job.
The 99 week thing you hear about if from the federal government who pay the state from their program (or get Congress to authorize more as they have for the last two years). So if TN taxes federal money I might get another 46 weeks.
One year off is enough, I’m going nuts and there is only so much of my 1200 sqaure foot apartment I can clean. And it’s very clean! lol
My restaurant cashier story: My friend’s and my meal were combined on the same ticket. I asked the young cashier with facial hardware to split the charges. She punched around for several minutes on a calculator while I and my friend traded smirks until she finally announced that the calculator was “broken”. She left and brought back her manager to do the heavy lifting for her.
The Governor of California, United States Senators, and many local dignitaries, including Frank Miller, attended a ten-course meal at the hotel that evening. Taft did not stay at the Mission Inn overnight; after dinner, he left on a train from the Southern Pacific Depot.
That's a riot! The chair looks too big even for Taft. No wonder he thought he was being insulted.
Ick.
Speak for yourself. I remember 2003 "The Summer of the Flip-Flops". when even business-suited young ladies were wearing them to the office. Ick isn't the word.
I stopped at a fast food joint in the middle of WY one time and gave the lady my cash. The burgers for the family were off the dollar menu and I don’t think there was sales tax, but whatever it was, the bill was dirt simple to figure in your head. Instead of the $8.00, she asked for $3. I said no, 8 burgers at $1 each is $8. She got the confused look and then bucked it up and demanded $3.00. I tried once more and then saw the line had formed behind me. A guy in line said, give her $3, maybe we’ll all get a good deal today. What the heck.
I had my toddler son in a local store one summer and a mountain storm was booming away up in the hills. Right before I paid, the power went out. The two young clerks had just graduated high school that week and were talking about the ceremony. One said the credit and debit card machine was down, no power. I paid cash. Both of them stared at the wad of bills with no register to figure change. It was a ten minute ordeal that I refused to help in as I watched them struggle with making change. Right then and there I made the final decision to homeschool and have never looked back.
and they throw in the receipt too - just to muddy the water.
I HATE that. I stop, put it all down, then pick it all up one at a time - while they wait for me.
We had a deluge of applicants for a graphic designer and 99% were complete idiots.
The worst one was when when we found ‘the one’, this guy had the gall to ask me over the phone if I could PICK HIM UP FOR THE INTERVIEW.
My stepdaughter has a forty year old husband who is letting the rafters rot on their house because he doesn’t know how to make a simple roof patch on a very low slope shingle roof and he has spent the money that should go to home repair on expensive lunches and season tickets to ball games at his favorite school. He is hoping a hail storm will come along and they will get a new roof paid for by insurance before the house falls down. They have two sons, one just turned eleven and the other will be fourteen in January and these boys are learning NOTHING from their father about how to make it in the real world. They are experts at video gaming though. By age eleven I was a farm hand when I wasn’t in school and by fourteen I knew how to grow a crop without any further instruction from anyone. I had an older brother who turned fourteen shortly after I turned eleven just like these two and by the time my older brother was fourteen we were taking care of the farm while my father worked construction. I didn’t realize at the time how fortunate I was. I see young “adults” now acting hopelessly stumped by the sort of little problems that we were handling with ease as teenagers. We could have patched that roof before breakfast on a Saturday morning. Re roofing the whole house would have been a matter of my father getting a couple of neighbors to help us and it would have been done in a day for the cost of materials. The old American “can do” attitude seems to be nearly dead.
Boys learned at an early age about work by being paperboys —now they’re illegal aliens driving battered compacts. Or they worked at the theater taking tickets —illegals, now, who will accept less, not ask questions and will not sue. Or they worked at fast-food places —also often illegals.
This is a cost of illegal immigration —kids do not learn this stuff at an early age, and it’s the fault of our leaders.
But there’s something else at work, here, too —Freepers are usually over age 50 or even 60, and many inherently do not like young people.
You are exactly correct. In Silicon Valley, for example, they can’t say, “Be a person who is Japanese/Chinese/Korean”, so they’ll say, “proficiency in Japanese, Chinese or Korean a strong plus”.
But I’m white and I do speak one of those quite well —but mysteriously they never wish to hire me, and I’m sharp as a tack.
They often want to hire a person whose visa is tied ONLY to that one company or University—this way they’re way more likely to accept very low pay or bad working conditions.
I like young people,
'Long as they keep off my lawn...
And don't vote for 'Rats!
As for the corporations, the reason they demand college degrees, as we wrote in 2007, is that the government forbids them to screen applicants directly for basic intelligence under a doctrine of antidiscrimination law known as "disparate impact" that the U.S. Supreme Court established in the 1971 case Griggs v. Duke Power Co.: But why are employers able to get away with requiring a degree without running afoul of Griggs? Because colleges and universities--again, especially elite ones--go out of their way to discriminate in favor of minorities. By admitting blacks and Hispanics with much lower SAT scores than their white and Asian classmates, purportedly in order to promote "diversity," these institutions launder the exam of its disparity. Thus the higher-education industry and corporate employers have formed a symbiotic relationship in which the former profits by acting as the latter's gatekeeper and shield against civil-rights lawsuits. Little wonder that in 2003, when the Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of discriminatory admissions policies at the University of Michigan, 65 Fortune 500 companies filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging that they be upheld. Now of course the kids at Occupy Wall Street don't know any of this. They have received four-plus years of "education" from mostly left-wing professors who owe their sinecures to this arrangement and who are happy, for reasons of both ideology and self-interest, to vilify the capitalist system they feed off. When we explained this to Taylor, it was totally new to him, and he was fascinated.
If these young people ever figure out the real reasons they're so deeply in debt, maybe they'll "occupy" Columbia and NYU rather than Wall Street.
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