Posted on 06/01/2013 4:56:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
If you’re paying attention to the U.S.’s economic recovery, you’ll probably know that there are about 11 million unemployed citizens and strong disagreements about how to create more jobs. What you may not know is that there are actually four million open jobs waiting to be filled, and that American businesses could be filling more of those jobs – if they better utilized technology.
When it comes to this mismatch between unemployment numbers and vacant jobs, blame is cast in all directions: Job seekers are unwilling to move cities or work in unfamiliar positions; Employers are holding out for the elusive “perfect candidate”; and schools just aren’t providing the right skills.
As someone who has moved a family across continents for work (not easy), and as a business owner who has often struggled to find talented people with specific skills (who wants to compromise?), I sympathize with both sides.
An objective look at the job market, however, clearly shows that while technology is increasingly deployed in higher-level recruiting efforts, it is underutilized in services and support sectors – such as retail – that require less specific skill sets and tend to have high turnover among predominantly low-wage positions. These jobs should in theory be relatively easy to fill, but many businesses are failing to recruit well-qualified candidates – and too many jobs remain open.
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I usually take that as a clue that the hiring manager is technically deficient, or focused on something other than abilities of a candidate to quickly come up to speed and do the job.
They include advanced degrees plus proficiency in every acronym and buzzword they've heard as part of the requirements... then they list 2-5 years as desired experience.
I remember when Java™ was first coming out in the mid 90’s. I saw adds for Java™ developers with 5 year of experience for a software language that was only 2 years old.
That's the thing. Most welfare people do work-for cash.
...because 3.999999999 million of them want 3-5 years of experience for the position/field.
That is why it is way OK to bump up your years of experience on your resume. Just make sure your reference knows what to say. I have a group of friends/references we all share each other as references, and know what to say about about each other.
Forbes has become one of the worst of the leftist publications, absolutely unreadable.
It is said that once you are out of work for six months, the desire to go back to work evaporates. Especially when you discover the welfare lifestyle and how easy it is to maintain a decent standard of living on the public dole.
It is work ethic, love of job and pride of self that keeps most of us in the workforce - otherwise, why bother?
At my company, we have a very tough time filling our open positions. The bottom line is that most applicants are work shy. As soon as they find out that our business is high intensity and that they are required to work very hard, they decide our line of work is not for them - even though the rewards are high. Most people in my company make six figure incomes. But expect to work 10-12 hour days and be on call for emergencies 24/7.
Bingo. HR has become a self perpetuating bureacracy dynasty with its own set of PC laden criteria as a “techno-professional” service essential to business development and survivability. They play hand in hand with corporate lawyers to keep the ball rolling.
Yes, and I believe it's by complete design.
Another problem is affirmative action. I have been passed over several times for promotions because of it, and I have applied for jobs where I wasn’t even considered because of race. Later, I see who was hired, and I am stunned that someone so unqualified got the job instead of me. Sometimes, they won’t even talk to whitey, no matter how qualified they are, especially if blacks are doing the hiring.
Most of the people in the HR department at the corporation I work at are black females. There’s your problem.
(snort)
There are job seekers out there.
There are some big differences between now and the, not so recent, past that I have seen.
One is that companies used to look for people, hire and train them, and pay them a living wage.
Now they let the people come to them and expect experience for the position for a lesser wage.
Another is that younger people that have never known hardship will not take a lesser wage and endure hardship for a couple of years to get ahead. They want it NOW.
Another is that some people are not willing to make finding a full time job their full time job.
When I got laid off, I went looking for a job, taking free classes, making contacts, going to job fairs, contacting prospective employers, etc. I made it my full time job to FIND a job.
There are some other points but I see these all the time.
The only purpose I can determine for HR is to protect the company from the employer. Other than that, there is no way in hell that our department managers would let HR choose anyone for our department. We do the interviews. We select the candidate. We tell HR how much to offer. There’s probably some friction on that last one, but other than that, HR is kept out of the process.
YEah - the blame goes to the GOP fir running a Mormon instead of a stronger more acceptable candidate - but the socialist liberals have created a huge entitlement community - and yes - I will concede that Bush and the GOP - should have halted that growth - but added to it...Bush should have ended NAFTA that was put in place by Clinton that destroyed the Mexican agriculture system and lead to the increase in illegal drug cartels - and perhaps we wouldn’t have the illegal immigration influx that we are now seeing — Yes, Bush could have done more - but he didn’t do anything as near as what Dear Leader is doing...just because someone creates the conditions - doesn’t mean they are totally responsible for an opportunist that seizes control and run amuck wild with power like Obama has...
Of course they're part-time positions. Do you think these employers would expose themselves to the fines/taxes of Obamacare by hiring anyone full time?
I agree most retailers use a computer now to screen candidates. The problem is if the candidate does not use the right keywords etc. ...nobody, but nobody will ever see their application. It gets sucked into the black hole of cyber-hiring.
The problem isn’t the lack of technology, it is the technology. Garbage into the screening systems, yields garbage out. For retailers this means high turn-over and declining service skill sets.
the positions are unfilled helloooooooooooooooo because no one knows what obama care is going to cost, so business ain’t hiring, it’s not that hard, people
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