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Companies have a hard time filling open positions. Some of them hire others to find talent. It's mindboggling that with such a high unemployment rate and all the cynicism toward "job creators," there are in fact open jobs that pay decent salaries and no takers.
There are plenty of people looking for employment, but they don't have the right skills.
Obviously employers should shoulder some of the blame for the lack of skilled labor if they are unwilling to train. Where do they think skilled labor comes from? Do they think there is a company out there happily training unskilled workers and then letting them go for better opportunities elsewhere? Of course the job seekers are still losing in the current situation. If a company can't find people to fill positions, they are just making less profit because they can't fulfill their orders fast enough. A person who can't find a job starves.
Companies have a hard time filling open positions.
Rather few people with real skill and the sort of personality traits employers want... don't already have jobs.
Few companies want to pay enough to hire these people away from those jobs
and rather few of the people want to risk a pig in a poke to change jobs.
Can't say that I blame either end of that.
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There are plenty of people looking for employment, but they don't have the right skills.
And few of them have ever had the right skills.
Their presence only serves to drag down wage rates for everyone else.
Last edited by MrRational; 03-17-2014 at 03:18 PM..
Some job seekers lack desired qualifications (a degree, certifications, etc.); however, with "the recession" and mass layoffs companies became arrogant and ridiculous putting candidates through interview he11 and bypassing perfectly qualified candidates who don't meet every single requirement in their job description. As time passed I think that approach has bitten companies in the butt as cubicles and jobs sit empty, work piles on frustrated existing employees yet the same companies whine that they struggle to fill positions. Either they don't really want to, they are incredibly lazy or didn't get the memo that the days of getting 1,000 resumes for 1 position are slowly coming to an end. I remember my department struggled to fill an administrative assistant position. Why I don't know, we interviewed several perfectly good candidates that I liked but still didn't make an offer. One co-worker got so frustrated he walked into the boss's office and yelled to hire somebody. We ended up hiring someone was not my first or second pick. She had typos on her resume and an accent so thick here bosses and clients had trouble understanding her. Go figure.
Some job seekers lack desired qualifications (a degree, certifications, etc.); however, with "the recession" and mass layoffs companies became arrogant and ridiculous putting candidates through interview he11 and bypassing perfectly qualified candidates who don't meet every single requirement in their job description. As time passed I think that approach has bitten companies in the butt as cubicles and jobs sit empty, work piles on frustrated existing employees yet the same companies whine that they struggle to fill positions. Either they don't really want to, they are incredibly lazy or didn't get the memo that the days of getting 1,000 resumes for 1 position are slowly coming to an end. I remember my department struggled to fill an administrative assistant position. Why I don't know, we interviewed several perfectly good candidates that I liked but still didn't make an offer. One co-worker got so frustrated he walked into the boss's office and yelled to hire somebody. We ended up hiring someone was not my first or second pick. She had typos on her resume and an accent so thick here bosses and clients had trouble understanding her. Go figure.
What i read some economists say that there is a recovery in US.It is a real joke.
The things are also very bad in Europa and it is worst in Japan.Where are we go???
if they get that far they need to pass a simple math test.
it is insane how many people are un-employable by their own doing.
we haven't even got to the point where the way they speak the english language may get them kabashed .
we have not even gotten to their job skills yet.
I'll give you a pass on a few of your prereqs, however credit check is highly subjective. Someone that has been out of work for a long time and or for various other reasons may show a high usage on their credit cards, that in turn will lower their credit score.
As for what you actually find in a credit report, again certain things can be directly related to being unemployed. If someone always paid on time for the past several years, then after they became unemployed there are some thirty or even sixty day late payments, well the two are linked. Give them a job and they will go back to paying their bills on time.
Obviously employers should shoulder some of the blame for the lack of skilled labor if they are unwilling to train. Where do they think skilled labor comes from? Do they think there is a company out there happily training unskilled workers and then letting them go for better opportunities elsewhere? Of course the job seekers are still losing in the current situation. If a company can't find people to fill positions, they are just making less profit because they can't fulfill their orders fast enough. A person who can't find a job starves.
Employers have become less willing to train new employees as workers become more mobile. You cannot force someone to remain in a position and far too often after training new employees pack up and move on for various reasons. Once that happens all costs the employer incurred for training that employee are down the toilet, a net loss. Meanwhile the employee has a nice new skill set for his/her resume with recent experience to back it up.
Before anyone starts it does not always have anything to do with "poor working conditions" or whatever. Just that many in this younger generation do not see themselves being tied to an employer like their parents or grandparents. If they meet someone on Facebook that lives halfway across the country then off they go.
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