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Are willing to have some fun and actually get to the bottom of the problem? Really? Just ask them flat out was it my hair, the way I talked, ect. They probably won't answer other than pat you weren't the best candidate for legal reasons, but I had C level executive say you would be my last choice because you have the least experience and the two others were a proven entity. Sucks but at east I got a face to face response from a hiring manager.
if they say you had the least experience how do you know they were telling the truth? it could be some BS reason that they're smart enough not to admit. I mean maybe not with you but you never know and in my case if I had asked them why and they told me it was due to lack of experience I would think they were lying because I've had plenty of animals in my life so how could I not have enough experience for a pet store/vet?
I don't know a definite answer, but I know someone that was out of work for a month and the interviewer wanted to know why she had been out of work for such a long time.
Why wouldn't that be a fair question for an employer to ask? Of course a month of not working looks bad because either someone doesn't find it very necessary to have a job or was terminated from one. The unemployment rate is now under 8% which means most people who want to work are working.
It can be different if the unemployment rate is over 10% -- but it's gone way down now. They're boasting of over 150,000 jobs created a month now.
Why wouldn't that be a fair question for an employer to ask? Of course a month of not working looks bad because either someone doesn't find it very necessary to have a job or was terminated from one. The unemployment rate is now under 8% which means most people who want to work are working.
It can be different if the unemployment rate is over 10% -- but it's gone way down now. They're boasting of over 150,000 jobs created a month now.
150,000 jobs is nothing. There are several million people looking for jobs. When you have 400 positions at Delta open and over 20,000 apply, it's still bad out there. At a job fair I went to last month an employer told me that they were still getting several hundred apps per job opening. A normal unemployment rate is about 5%.
Besides, if you have only been out a month, you are still considered "fresh" by employers and will be considered over long term unemployed.
150,000 jobs is nothing. There are several million people looking for jobs. When you have 400 positions at Delta open and over 20,000 apply, it's still bad out there. At a job fair I went to last month an employer told me that they were still getting several hundred apps per job opening. A normal unemployment rate is about 5%.
Besides, if you have only been out a month, you are still considered "fresh" by employers and will be considered over long term unemployed.
5% is not normal. In the last 30 years, it has only been the avg annual unemployment rate at 2 time periods. It happened at the height of the housing bubble in 2005-07 and the dot.com bubble in 1997-2001. They can keep pushing it with more easing, but eventually it all falls apart.
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Why wouldn't that be a fair question for an employer to ask? Of course a month of not working looks bad because either someone doesn't find it very necessary to have a job or was terminated from one. The unemployment rate is now under 8% which means most people who want to work are working.
It can be different if the unemployment rate is over 10% -- but it's gone way down now. They're boasting of over 150,000 jobs created a month now.
It's not a fair question because it has nothing to do with the job you are being interviewed for. The questions being asked should have something to do with how qualified for the job not something crazy like "what have you been doing?"
If a 65 year old communications/public relations executive has been unemployed 6 months, will that discourage employers from hiring him? The person in question lives in an area with about 5.3% unemployment...
He has a Masters Degree and a great resume before the layoff, but he didn't start searching for a new job until now. I think he was just depressed, although he won't admit it. Around here it's not common for someone his age and experience level to be out of work that long.
If a 65 year old communications/public relations executive has been unemployed 6 months, will that discourage employers from hiring him? The person in question lives in an area with about 5.3% unemployment...
He has a Masters Degree and a great resume before the layoff, but he didn't start searching for a new job until now. I think he was just depressed, although he won't admit it. Around here it's not common for someone his age and experience level to be out of work that long.
Any advice?
I think he should explore part-time opportunities so maybe he can atleast be active in the workforce again.
Why wouldn't that be a fair question for an employer to ask? Of course a month of not working looks bad because either someone doesn't find it very necessary to have a job or was terminated from one. The unemployment rate is now under 8% which means most people who want to work are working.
It can be different if the unemployment rate is over 10% -- but it's gone way down now. They're boasting of over 150,000 jobs created a month now.
Give me a break. I didn't say it wasn't fair. The point is a month out of work is NOT a long time. You act as if there are plenty of jobs out there to be had for all which is NOT the case. Plus if being out of work for one measley little month was a problem, then why be called in to be ridiculed about it? If it was a problem then that interviewer should have not called that applicant in.
150,000 jobs is nothing. There are several million people looking for jobs. When you have 400 positions at Delta open and over 20,000 apply, it's still bad out there. At a job fair I went to last month an employer told me that they were still getting several hundred apps per job opening. A normal unemployment rate is about 5%. Besides, if you have only been out a month, you are still considered "fresh" by employers and will be considered over long term unemployed.
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