[freedumb2003]

MAGA!!!!

KAG 2020!!!

[dirtboy]

Anything that reduces an unhealthy fixation on the length of a CV is positive for economic dynamism

Limitations on H-1B visas help as well. Makes older IT workers more attractive.

[Vigilanteman]

An unhealthy number of HR Managers were SJWs attracted to the profession to enforce their warped values on the private workforce. I used to work for such a dastardly place.

Now that HR Managers (or at least their assistants) actually have to read resumes again, the value of SJWs in this field will be diminished.

Another win with Trumpanomics!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Online job postings frequently include a long list of detailed requirements, with most applicants summarily rejected by algorithms or offshore résumé reviewers.

That process only rewards the George Costanzas of the world.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"A Kansas City Federal Reserve study found that the number of men in that key demographic not in the labor force increased from 4.6 million in 2006 to 7.1 million in 2016."

[GOP Poet]

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[Lazamataz]

Banning the box????

Oh this is awful. How will I hit it???

[Tench_Coxe]

"Online job postings frequently include a long list of detailed requirements, with most applicants summarily rejected by algorithms or offshore résumé reviewers. Nearly two decades of a recessionary or anemic jobs economy allowed companies to become prima donnas of hiring,..."

The bolded part on of the "tricks" to demand more H1-b visas (where the Visa applicants puffed up resume coincidentally checked all the boxes).

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I just had word that a former co=worker of mine has managed to find a job.

She has trouble walking, has to wear leg braces but was a very good worker. We were "downsized" at the same time and while I was able to get by with a series of temp jobs she was rejected. No one would come out and say it was because of the way she walked but there was no other real reason.

Finally after her unemployment ran out she went on disability because that was the only thing left and she had to eat.

She is so happy to be back to work.

[gogeo]

I had to grit my teeth to make it through the article.

Anything that reduces an unhealthy fixation on the length of a CV is positive for economic dynamism.

How would one define 'healthy' as opposed to 'unhealthy?'

The marketplace is also helping those who found themselves with situations that previously rendered them all but unemployable.

Found themselves? FOUND THEMSELVES???

Anyone with an employment gap was effectively exiled from the job market, for example. Someone who fell prey to drugs but then conquered addiction, or who simply had a run of bad luck, found it all but impossible to get a foot back on the job ladder.

Fell prey to drugs? Really?

People with other negatives—such as criminal records—had it even worse.

You're d@mn tootin', Skippy.

...and this 'ban the box' cr@p-listed here for employment purposes, locally in the People's Republic of King County also used for property rental.

A benign sounding thing, it basically puts the onus on the landlord/business owner to PROVE that someone's record would be an impediment.

Some good notions in this article, but the writer is obviously a blockhead.