Posted on 06/17/2014 4:55:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I have some good news, and I have some bad news.
First, the good news: Employers have more job openings today than they’ve had at any time since the Great Recession began.
The bad news: Employers may be posting jobs, but they’re taking longer than ever before to fill them.
It now takes 24 working days for the average job opening to be filled. That’s the longest hiring delay since at least 2001, the first year for which numbers are available, according to a recent report from Dice Holdings based on research by Steven J. Davis, R. Jason Faberman and John C. Haltiwanger. To give you some context, when the recovery began five years ago, the average opening took about 16 days to fill.
This means employers are dragging their feet making hires, despite having 10 million jobless workers to choose from (not to mention many more already-employed applicants looking to job-hop). I’ve spoken to workers who have been called back for as many as nine or 10 interviews for a given position, only to be told at the end of the process that the firm had decided to hold off on making a decision “for now.”
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When I was around 30, working as a manufacturers' rep, I met a guy from Germany who worked for a machinery manufacturer. Over some beer he complained about his inadequate wages, small apartment and how much better his parents had it. I advised him to chuck it and move to the U.S. where his hard work would be rewarded. I look back on that and think "under Bush & Obama the US has swiftly become like Europe, economically." Everybody is jealous of what they think others have, and nobody can really break out of the straight-jacket we've made for ourselves.
A site like Task Rabbit and other hire by the job sites might be the best short term bet. You can take the assignments that fit your schedule.
Thanks! I’ll check it out!
Same here. Everybody should have to pay taxes quarterly.
We have become a nation of show me the man and I’ll find you the crime. The more you do the more you try to do the greater your risk of being wrong about something. If you do not believe you are a target because of your success better think again.
Collect your W-9s and keep them handy.
You just nailed a big part of the problem. On TeeVee, everyone lives in a McMansion or bigger, drives brand new (or exotic) cars, and does diddley squat in the way of work, unless you count all that eating out, partying, and drinking.
Ethnic backgrounds, as presented in pop culture, vary wildly in their compensation levels (You see ghetto, inner city, but seldom Oprah's crib).
The images of who has what (and what they do to earn it) cause a lot of crap, even in the expectations of those who come from solid middle class backgrounds.
HR has become a fortress of indecision. Laws are such that you have to take risk to move because so many of the laws are conditional and subjective.
HR has also become the pillar of EEO. As gate keepers the outcome is predictable. If a job is unfilled it is no problem for HR. They don’t have production schedules to maintain. Their incentive is to avoid problems not to move the ball down the field.
Like so many other socialist countries, terminating an employee is almost impossible, under any circumstance. The larger and more visible the company the harder it is. I’m seeing droves of contractors and I saw the same thing in lots of other countries in years past.
Add to all this the difficulty of finding drug free candidates and hiring becomes glacial.
I stand by the “reply”, but if I did mis-direct it to you I do indeed apologize. I was interrupted while reading the original post...so my bad. Again, sorry
I know that you would never consider bartering, would you?
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