Uh, actually, no. If an employer isn’t willing to pay the ‘going rate’, then they aren’t going to fill the position.
If you want someone with 10 years of experience, you’re not going to get them by paying what they made 20 years ago.
What they are going to get are the entry level folks, the same folks they don’t want to train.
The solution is simple.
1, train one of the new hires.
2, raise the wage.
I'm not referring to employers undercutting the going rate. I'm saying the going rate is set by the marketplace, and employers should be paying the going rate. But, that rate is not set by the job seekers which is what the article stated.
I've been out of the job market since '93. So I'm not familiar with corporate hiring practices today. But in my day, we always strove to pay the 'going rate' for a given position, or even sometimes a little higher, in order to get the best level of applicants possible. If that's not the goal for corporations today, then they're cutting their own throat.
Exactly-you can’t expect to pay people in peanuts, and that’s exactly why our IMMIGRATION has to stop. Wages will never rise when you have a continuous flood of people coming in who will work for $5.00-8.00 hr., live people 15 to a house OR can be fired at the drop of a hat and have their visas revoked by their employers. It’s hard enough to compete against 150 million or more of your own citizens for a job, but even worse when you have to compete against millions of foreigners. Remember the Katrina cleanup? There were job agencies with Americans willing to work for 10$ an hr., but they hired Mexicans instead.
The solution is simple.
1, train one of the new hires.
2, raise the wage.
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Or, for those coming out of school, take the job and wages offered, get experience, and immediately start the search for another job.
They’re getting experience, and when another job is found, and they quit their present employment and move on, it gives the employer pause to reconsider.
I’ve done this throughout my career and I presently make extremely good money.
My resume is chalk full of varied experience.