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If and when the economy comes back a lot of HR departments are going to be unprepared. Instead of sitting back and only calling in the most perfect candidates, they will have to call in a lot more and persuade the winning candidate to work there.
"Fortunately" for HR the economy, at least in this nation, is probably never coming back. The jobs are gone. Everything can be made cheaper overseas or in this nation using: visa workers, illegals, or automation that brings back "jobs" but only 1/10 the number lost when the factory closed the first time.
The only field I can think of that's not over-saturated *might* be experienced network security / software professionals with Top Secret clearances. Admittedly, that's just based on what I see around here in central Maryland, but there are a ton of those type of job openings. Even if half of them are fake, there's still a good number. Meanwhile, the rest of us idiots who went into the STEM world are competing for a few job openings per state, at least once you remove the fake jobs (that you know have been posted for years) and the ones with laughable requirements that literally can't be met unless you already work at the company.
And it was a rough 3 days. I don't see how you folks manage to keep your sanity after months or years.
Trust me, there's a price to be paid that is permanent. But, hey - some big wig somewhere made a few pennies more at my expense - and that of hundreds of others from that company alone - so who cares, or so I'm supposed to believe, I guess...
If and when the economy comes back a lot of HR departments are going to be unprepared. Instead of sitting back and only calling in the most perfect candidates, they will have to call in a lot more and persuade the winning candidate to work there.
Either the second coming or the economy awakens from it's long slumber. Either can come first.
Not counting the time in your life before you got your first paying job
I have gone years before being in unemployment. Lately, I've been unemployed since October, and yeah, seems pretty hopeless at this point.
Let's put it this way: In California you have to be unemployed for an entire week before unemployment benefits kick in. I've never collected a dime because I've never been unemployed for a whole week. What's my secret? A) Flexibility B)Credibility
Longest time unemployed was for about a week. I accepted a long term temp assignment. A year and a half later, I got laid off from that job. Because I quit a retail job a month prior, the lovely state of Michigan denied me unemployment because I had the nerve to quit a 7 hours per week sales job a month before I was laid off from my real job. Having my back up against the wall, I cleaned rooms at one of the new hotels in town.
For people who say there aren't any jobs out there, I can attest that there are loads of jobs out there... it's just stuff you'd normally wouldn't dream of doing. But, you need to pay the rent.
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