because the new openings are for minimum wage?
Wages have been stagnant for a dozen years now, as the U.S. government and global banking mobsters continue to devalue the dollar.
Work harder for less and less...As price of nearly everything increases...
Guest worker fraud or the like?
Some of those advertised openings aren’t meant to be filled, but to say that nobody is qualified.
I think that the explanation may be that the job openings are in just a few limited areas of the country (e.g., Texas, the Dakotas) with low unemployment and not where people are looking for jobs locally.
Some employers drag the process out looking for the absolutely perfect fit, which doesn’t exist.
Also, in the high tech biz, the requirements are so specific that only about one in 100,000 people have that SPCIFIC combination of skills and experience. What, they really think they’re going to get away with not having some sort of learning curve for a new hire?
The 1996 Welfare Reform Act required able-bodied welfare applicants to accept available jobs (Workfare) instead of joining the welfare rolls.
But Obama has allowed state exemptions to this rule, so it’s no wonder fewer people are taking jobs. Everyone just goes on welfare.
Not to mention the fact that since so many people have gone on disability during the Obama years, many fewer Americans each year are considered ‘’able-bodied,’’ and therefore they are not required to accept available jobs.
I learned during my working years that many companies list jobs, even though they did not have job openings or they already had someone in mind to fill those jobs.
One reason was to explore the available talent as they worked on prosals for new contracts. They could get a ‘feel’ for how many potential qualified employees were in a particular area.
Another reason was to fulfill state and/national regulations, such as a job had to be posted x number of days to the general public before it could be filled.
Job opens up, illegal get job and since he is not reflected in the labor pool the number of unemployed does not go down. Then the guy can’t hack the job; Terminate and repeat.
Problem #1: how much do you trust government statistics?
Im curious if their data include temp position’s being filled. That’s all that’s out there right now in Houston. I just had my second job offer fall through as they simply kept it internal. I spent my time and gas money to interview, them knowing the whole time they had a person internally in mind, but HR forced them appear as if the posting was open.
I don’t buy the line about companies not being able to find skilled labor. It’s much more likely they don’t want to train anyone or their expectations are ridiculous. You should see the system admin job postings out there. Many have been up for months, looking for senior level in an insanely broad array of products, but only paying at entry or mid level. I asked an Agency about it and they said it’s been a growing problem. Companies are looking to replace people that have jumped ship and they expect to find someone with nearly the same skill set. They rely on contract work which stifles growth and creates high turn over, then they look down on you as a job hopper because all that is out there are short term contracts. Greed, corrupt culture, and lack of investment in personnel is killing long term job growth in this country and Congress and our idiot Gov leadership are making matters worse.
Year after year it is getting more ridiculous. Companies are paying less, asking for more, and giving less. No more bonuses, no parking reimbursement, zero training or investment. I wont be surprised to see companies offload their computer fee’s on their workforce by charging a rental fee.
Because the federal government pays able bodied people not to work.
Because by law they have to advertise for employment even though they already know which relative or illegal will have the job. They love to pay under the table.
I have spent the last four years working to move up to higher management levels in keeping with my experience. Recently, my company redefined the job descriptions so that the next level has been brought down to where I am now, so that not only will I not be moving up, many of those who are at the old higher levels will be stepped down. They say that I will have an equal chance to move up to the new next level, but I am already seeing that is not going to be reality. The ones who are facing massive pay cuts will get first shot at the limited number of positions. Who knows how long it will be before I get a shot at the new next level? I suspect that the next step is to cut hours of the hourly workers at my level to avoid Obamacare mandates.
Head hunters advertising to reach one certain individual for the purpose of stealing him/her from one company for another.
Oh, but according to many Freepers, the difficulties some of us have in finding work is simply due to indolence. We all want to be on welfare and would rather starve than work. We aren’t doing it right. We made bad choices. We turn down lucrative jobs because they aren’t fancy enough. We’re fat, dumb, and slow. We aren’t trying hard enough. We all ought to move to the Baaken and be chemical engineers. We ought to move to Texas, abandoning family and children—haven’t we heard that the streets are paved with gold there? We’re extravagant. We ought to dig ditches, no matter how old we are or how poor our health. We ought to invent some fabulous new product or start an incredible new business with no capital and get rich. We’re just bone lazy.
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?
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.