i don't buy the unemployment, not as bad as its being reported (Iraq, statistics)

[Repubocrat]

I am in Minneapolis and the local job market is HORRIBLE. Our current unemployment rate is 8.3% and it is getting worse, I have no idea where you are seeing all these jobs but I have been to the workforce center in both St Paul and Burnsville and they are packed all day long with job seekers. My girlfriend is also unemployed, we are both college graduates with several years of experience in our fields.

[DreamingSpires]

Originally Posted by Repubocrat

I am in Minneapolis and the local job market is HORRIBLE. Our current unemployment rate is 8.3% and it is getting worse, I have no idea where you are seeing all these jobs but I have been to the workforce center in both St Paul and Burnsville and they are packed all day long with job seekers. My girlfriend is also unemployed, we are both college graduates with several years of experience in our fields.

Tropolis :

Huh???

Yawns

Wait, what's this thread about again??

Tropolis scratches head.

Oh yeah, I started the thread but I'm just too tired and damn lazy today to go back and look.

[DreamingSpires]

Originally Posted by Repubocrat

I am in Minneapolis and the local job market is HORRIBLE. Our current unemployment rate is 8.3% and it is getting worse, I have no idea where you are seeing all these jobs but I have been to the workforce center in both St Paul and Burnsville and they are packed all day long with job seekers. My girlfriend is also unemployed, we are both college graduates with several years of experience in our fields.

Seriously, I'm very sorry about your situation. This "recession" is brutal for white collar workers. And yes, I have heard about how bad things are for many in my beloved Twin Cities.

The reason I asked the OP for specific details was because I thought this might help people in your situation. Notice he is "avoiding" expanding these details. That speaks volumes, doesn't it?

[Repubocrat]

The job situation here in the Twin Cities is pretty bad. I have been contemplating moving to ND because they have the lowest unemployment in the nation and there are jobs there but they usually pay between 7-12/hr. If there were plenty of jobs here in the Twin Cities, do you think I would be contemplating moving to Fargo or Grand Forks?

Minneapolis-St Paul latest job report

[DreamingSpires]

Originally Posted by Repubocrat

The job situation here in the Twin Cities is pretty bad. I have been contemplating moving to ND because they have the lowest unemployment in the nation and there are jobs there but they usually pay between 7-12/hr. If there were plenty of jobs here in the Twin Cities, do you think I would be contemplating moving to Fargo or Grand Forks?

That's pretty extreme when college grads are contemplating exiting the sole cultural mecca of the Upper Midwest for the Grand Forks.

What fields are you and your girlfriend in?

Incidentally, I was making $10.00 per hour in 1993, working in a law office part-time. What does that say about "wage deflation" as pertains to the middle-class?

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by tropolis

I have a keen sense of how the job market is turning by viewing job sites and looking at the local paper.

I was out of work from January-May, no bites. Few interviews, but never turned into anything. The jobs were scarce then and I remember my paper's sunday jobs were 1 page, instead of when we were booming it being 4-5 pages.

Recently before I got the job im at now I noticed more and more openings. Actually a ton in my radius(minneapolis/st. paul). I put my resume in, been getting calls every week, had to turn them down because I took a job and obviously couldn't interview.

the unemployment is going up for some reason, but the jobs are there. people are too lazy to look and just chilling on unemployment, or they just don't know how to properly conduct a job search.

I think you are a bit off base. In Ca even bar tenders and servie people can not find jobs. This is just one example. Of course there are jobs out there, but many require talents that those laid off do not have. Then there are the lower level jobs that people with great qualifications would take but companies are leary to hire these people because they are over qualified. I do not think it is as cut and dry as you say.

Nita

[AeroGuyDC]

Originally Posted by tropolis

lol, yes wells fargo is a bank.

and like every other bank, wells fargo has branches. im in operations/production for the home mortgage branch. Ops/production is more of the muscle/physical side of wells fargo, but still extensive computer work with fha's and sp's, strikeforce etc. I got in entry level, since im still in school, but i mean its wells fargo, its a legit company, and when i have my degree i'll be able to move up since ill have tenure with them.

job openings though, I see at minimum, at minimum, 500 a day within 25 miles of where I live, thats where I set my radius.

sorry, i just don't buy it that unemployment is bad as they say.

I don't understand your "...minimum, 500 a day within 25 miles where I live" statement. Are you saying that 500 new jobs, per day, are being listed in the newspapers or online, or are you saying that you guesstimate that there are 500 jobs total available within 25 miles?

If you mean the former, I would need to see some proof that 15,000 jobs are being created per month within a 25 mile radius, and if you mean the latter, i'd offer you that 500 jobs is just a drop in the pail.

What are you saying?

[DreamingSpires]

Originally Posted by nmnita

Of course there are jobs out there, but many require talents that those laid off do not have.

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Then there are the lower level jobs that people with great qualifications would take but companies are leary to hire these people because they are over qualified.

Nita

Yup.

As AnnS from the NYT says: "Not everyone can go back to college to become oil petroleum engineers."

The conundrum for the "overqualified" is absolutely brutal. Most people would be more than happy to take a "stopgap" job doing nearly anything, and do the job quite well and happily, but they simply cannot get hired for the reasons you state. In Ohio a few months ago, there were over 4,000 applications for a janitor's job.

Then you have people like the OP making claims that these people "aren't trying hard enough."

[Repubocrat]

I worked in the financial sector, my background is Economics. My girlfriend has been trying to find an HR position for the last year with no success. She sure knows how to conduct a "proper job search", she has worked as a recruiter in the past, she networks a lot, she knows all the temp agencies, etc, she is hardly a lazy person like the OP states. Right now, I am willing to take ANY job, pretty pathetic but I can't stand sitting at home anymore, living on food stamps and not being able to travel, like I used to do before.

[North Beach Person]

Years ago I applied for a teaching job while on layoff from industry. I was not hired since, according to the Principal, I would just quit when called back since the factory offered overtime and I'd make more money. He didn't quite understand that my job there had been in management and didn't entail overtime because he "knew" all manufacturers paid overtime. He was later allowed to take early retirement when financial irregularities were found in the school based accounts.