Not Enough Employees Applying? Blame The Company, Not The Workers (job offers, employee)
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One of my tenants took on significant debt and received assistance to get her Bachelor Degree... she thought she was going to land a 100k job and was sadly disappointed to learn all the offers she received were entry level at little more than minimum wage... she is 55.
Now she is taking on more to get her masters... I don't see it but she has section 8 which opened the door to educational benefits.
At one time she had a job as an LVN... not bad pay but had back problems and high blood pressure so gave it up...
If a company is consistently have recruiting or retention problems, it needs to look inward at whatever the flaw is.
True...if their is a retention problem, the company should be LISTENING to their employees and looking to fix those issues
Geography is another issue for some companies in relation to recruitying as people from Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Dallas etc don't want to move to podunct Mississippi
Huh? Farming is what it is. So Americans only want the jobs that are clean and easy? Seasonal or not, wouldn't an unemployed person do better with 4-6 months of income in their pocket vs nothing at all?
Actually no they wouldn't. Does their rent drop in price? Maybe food costs? Or power/cable? Many of the 'Seasonal" workers don't have those and/or head back to Mexico where their cost of living is less than 30% here.
Plus don't forget, the most common refrain in this forum is to "Get a college degree" what good would a BA in Accounting help in picking apples?
Free Market always creates the perfect balance point, which corps understand when they get enough qualified applicants to take care of their needs.
I know of a corp 25 miles from me that started 30-35% below market on several openings, and has inched up 10-15%, and execs are angry since they are still not drawing qualified applicant pool. DUH!! (30-35% vs other corps, same skill set and responsibility, experience required jobs)
Companies might as well earn that corporate tax cut instead of trying to keep even more with illegal aliens and cash income off the books.
Friend of mine own a Gyros takeout place. Can never find workers & when she does it’s tupically high schoolers who call off and quit on a short notice. She can’t figure out why she can’t keep s staff. She pays minimum wage that’s why! Even to the cooks.
Workplaces need to stop requiring a bachelors or masters degree for every damn thing.
While I agree, sometimes they don't even require it for the job. But there is also an abundance of people with bachelor's and master's degrees in the job market today. They end up applying for these jobs and crowd out those without. I work in health care (on the administrative side) and probably 85% of the people at my level or above me have a master's degree in something, and these are mostly for sub-$100k/yr jobs.
While I agree, sometimes they don't even require it for the job. But there is also an abundance of people with bachelor's and master's degrees in the job market today. They end up applying for these jobs and crowd out those without. I work in health care (on the administrative side) and probably 85% of the people at my level or above me have a master's degree in something, and these are mostly for sub-$100k/yr jobs.
It’s not always about a degree. Experience sometimes means more. I don’t have a Bachelors, just some college and I worked my way up from a teller to a Branch Manager of a large national bank. During that time I also received my insurance license and my series 6 & 63. Made well over 6 figures before I became a SAHM. My husband however is a Mechanical Engineer and you need to have a Bachlors degree for that and even a Masters typically!
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