Why is hiring so much lower than new job openings?

Hot Air ^ | August 17, 2013 | Jazz Shaw

[Tallguy]

Could it be that 75% of new job postings are part-time work while job-seekers are looking for full-time? We know that this is the ratio from the job-creation stats. Isn’t it reasonable to assume that unemployed workers will continue to collect their government benefits until they find that full-time job, or their hand gets forced by the expiration of their UE Compensation?

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Oh sorry I was offline most of the day.

I agree 100%.

We exported American jobs. Some of us made the mistake of trusting the Chicoms, in good faith.

Some used the Chicoms knowing what they were doing.

I have no problem with being naive about China, but I condemn those who USED THE CHINESE deliberately to de-industrialize what was once the model country for the world.

America is #2.

I hate to say that, but we no longer are the biggest manufacturer in the world. That is now China.

China also doesn’t import very much at all.

China has taken us to the cleaners. Go in any store and look where things are made: China.

China has taken American manufacturing. For what?

What does America get out the deal?

America’s military?

America’s military is now being impacted.

Does (anyone) think it will get any better? Exactly on what, do you base that optimism?

Please on what? I would like to be optimistic about America, but both parties seem to have sold us right down the proverbial river.

It will only continue on a rapid downhill slide into an abyss, until America insists. (yes insists) on protecting US manufacturing, and stopping the export of American jobs.

For an entire generation, both parties in America have sold America out from under ... AMERICA.

What the heck were they both thinking? That they would ... what?

What is the plan?

We need manufacturing, and jobs.

I know I say this a lot, but I see no clue that anyone in either party is in any way prepared to stand up, and insist on bringing back American manufacturing.

And I do not see any future for America, if that is not done.

REPUBLICANS stop advocating sending American jobs elsewhere.

Bring back American jobs, for Americans to do, to make things for America.

Now.

[dragnet2]

Absolutely.

Can I be honest?

Many people here who make comments like that are simply FOS.

They're either government employees, retired government employees on lottery style tax paid pensions and or are just 100 percent detached from reality and have no a clue whatsoever about what is going on in real world USA.

[Straight Vermonter]

I'm making now what I made back in 2001. Granted what I used to make in Salary + Bonus (and bonus' were never guaranteed back then) I now make in Salary alone, but I no longer get what I'd call a "bonus."

My employer used to tell us (when people whined about pay) that we had to consider our "total compensation package". This included pay, bonuses, pensions & 401K, and an excellent insurance plan. Well 15 years later, pay has been stagnant (we took a 5% pay cut 3 years ago), bonuses are a fraction of what they were, our pension is gone, and our insurance is just average.

All in all I think my family's standard of living is worse now than it was 15 years ago.

[max americana]

just asking, which city was that picture taken?

[2ndDivisionVet]

I made over $300K for several years in a commission-only sales job that I found in the newspaper (a tiny little ad) working part-time. That was in the mid-1980’s. Remember back, if you’re old enough, and think about what kind of money that was back then. Oh, at that time I had a high school diploma and had recently left the Army.

[usconservative]

Unfortunately, my experience pretty much matches yours.

I've also switched industries in the last 15 years - mostly out of necessity.

I worked for a very large Advertising Agency in Chicago named Leo Burnett for a number of years. I was very fortunate to land there when I did as I was exiting an ISP business that was going under. I started working there as a Network Administrator, even though my experience was much higher than the position.

I was again very fortunate to have a wonderful Director (whom I'm still personal friends with all these years later) who saw my potential and helped me grow. I also was fortunate enough to have a CTO who saw my potential and she (also still a good friend all these years later) also helped me grow and advance and climb the ladder of success while there. I was promoted 6 times in just under 10 years. I often worked anywhere from 60-70 hours a week never once complaining because I really loved my job.

My compensation while at Leo Burnett included base salary + bonus + 401k + medical/dental benefits.

The "bonus" package was extremely generous. There was a 15% bonus that everyone in the agency received, dependent on the agency's performance that year. Each year I was there, I received the full 15% bonus.

There was also a second and third bonus pool. The second bonus pool was your Director's bonus. Your director at their discretion could award any of their employees up to another 15% bonus. I was fortunate enough to receive that 15% each year I was there.

The third bonus was the CTO's bonus. A handful of IT people would receive that bonus, also up to 15% of your salary, at the CTO's discretion. I was fortunate enough to receive that bonus as well, each year I worked for the agency.

For the nearly 10 years I was with the Advertising Agency, I received my base salary plus a 45% bonus check at the end of the year. By the time I left the ad agency (not my choice) in late 2003, my bonus check was big enough to go out and buy two current model year Corvettes and still have change left over.

Yes, those were the good old days. I still pine to be back there, it was my dream job (not just in Salary - in what I actually did for a living.)

That was now two jobs ago and a switch in industries (I now work for a large multi-national bank.) Believe me when I tell you that I really don't like my job, certainly not as much as I did the ad agency. I'm grateful for the work however, and am glad I'm getting paid what I am --- still, it's what I was making 15 years ago now.

Fifteen years ago, I was in the top 5% of all wage earners according to the IRS tables. Now I'm barely hanging in the top 10%. If you compare where you were 15 years ago in the IRS Tax Tables vs. where you are now, I think that's as good a comparison as any.

[Delta 21]

It was taken in Boston by a FReeper.

They posted it right after his grocery shopping that day and couldn’t believe it. I promptly swiped it for future use.

[redgolum]

There was a job I recently applied for.

On the job sites, it was listed at most 20 times (for one position), across three sites.

And they were planning on internal candidates anyway. In other words it was just for show.

Multiply that by a few thousand jobs, and you get the statistic.

[Catmom]

Unfortunately, I’ve known nurses in their 50s and 60s who were stealing narcotics from the hospital. We’re talking about aging boomers here, not our parent’s generation who didn’t do things like that. Hence the urine test, even if you’re 55.