Is the unemployment rate here to stay? (job opening, interview, application)

[HollaGeo]

Moderator cut: deleted I am also curious as to what you people think.

Is this unemployment situation here for good???

[sskkc]

Maybe this should be in the 'Unemployment' forum.

[HollaGeo]

Moderator cut: deleted Two years of being unemployed means you got MAJOR issues.

[Hialeah_Rules]

Originally Posted by HollaGeo

Moderator cut: orphaned I am also curious as to what you people think.

Is this unemployment situation here for good???

Moderator cut: orphaned

High unemployment rates will be around for a while. I would say at least 3 more years with rates over 7%

[pvande55]

Originally Posted by HollaGeo

Moderator cut: orphaned Two years of being unemployed means you got MAJOR issues.

In this depression, that is not unusual. I know some that have suffered over two years. But many have finally found jobs.

[Rambler123]

Originally Posted by HollaGeo

Moderator cut: orphaned Two years of being unemployed means you got MAJOR issues.

See this is where you go from asking a valid macroeconomic question to being a troll. Just based on this forum along, we have skilled workers from engineers to lawyers to medical people who have been out of work that long or longer. Do you want to know why? Because there are NOT ENOUGH JOBS!

That's all there really is to it. At best, there are 4.5 unemployed people per job opening, and many of those "jobs" aren't really anyway. They sit on company websites for years, nobody is hired, and nothing improves. So even if every job opening was filled tomorrow, we'd still have millions of decent people out of work.

As for me, I've applied to literally every company I can find out there for every job for which I'd have any chance of being hired. Nobody cares and my actions do not matter. The jobs just sit there... and nearly every interview I've been on ends with the company hiring nobody "because its cheaper."

I've been flat out told to my face by corporations that "we don't hire unemployed people," and "all the jobs we've been posting have been fake." I've been told that "they can't hire me" because I don't have 3 to 5 years of experience so narrow that the only way to get it is to already work for the company in question?! I've been hailed as "exactly what they need!" and then I hear nothing from them and the job is still on the website a year or more later. How the heck is any of this my fault?

So, I'm done listening to people who think that is is somehow "our fault" - most of the unemployed have done everything they can do and followed the rules every step of the way. The system has failed us, and there isn't a dang thing we can do about that.

[silenthelpreturns]

I'm with ya on that^

[annerk]

My son's best friend recently decided he wanted to find a different job because he wasn't all that keen on his new manager. Four days ago he put out 32 applications and got eight calls for interviews and was hired by the first interview on the spot. (It was the job he really wanted of the bunch.) Full time with full benefits after 90 days--listed on the 100 best companies to work for.

Two years ago when he was last looking for a job he put in over 200 applications and got one interview.

Things are getting better, at least in this area.

[silenthelpreturns]

What state? I put massachusetts on the same level as california and michigan, maybe worse.

[Tekkie]

Originally Posted by annerk

My son's best friend recently decided he wanted to find a different job because he wasn't all that keen on his new manager. Four days ago he put out 32 applications and got eight calls for interviews and was hired by the first interview on the spot. (It was the job he really wanted of the bunch.) Full time with full benefits after 90 days--listed on the 100 best companies to work for.

Two years ago when he was last looking for a job he put in over 200 applications and got one interview.

Things are getting better, at least in this area.

That's good. Which area is that if you don't mind me asking?