[euclid216]

Many employers are too specific in their requirements to fill a position. Unless you have the specific skill set for the opening, they will not consider you. And Employers seem very unwilling to train people to fill a position.

[riverrunner]

When one can get a clerk job for 18 dollars an hour.

Yes small town USA.

One better be willing to pay skilled and mostly skill labor a lot more.

Henry arms is trying to recruit CNC machinists starting at 17 dollars an hour what a joke.

[nonliberal]

Most retail positions I have seen have three requirements:

Pass a drug test
Show up on time
Maintain a body temperature somewhere in the general area of 98.6

[Ezekiel]

Many employers are too specific in their requirements to fill a position. Unless you have the specific skill set for the opening, they will not consider you. And Employers seem very unwilling to train people to fill a position.

As is often the subject of lament, HR departments lack the basic critical thinking skills to discern who are truly the most qualified applicants -- those who should be placed into the "call in for an interview" stack. That's not even allowed. 1001 reasons to reject, however.

It's like HR (human religion) in search of the Messiah. Highly specific requirements without anyone able or willing to think outside of the lockstep, established parameters. That would be downright heresy in the HR world.

Train him? He supposed to know everything already! No wonder everyone keeps waiting and watching, yet he's "nowhere" to be found. And thanks to the insurmountable HR laundry lists, he'd never even think to apply for the job -- would never suspect that he would be the perfect candidate.

Now why would business-as-usual do such a thing... difficult question. /s

David, out in the field... the simple shepherd tending to his sheep. He would have had to leave them unattended to go in for the interview.

Samuel... connected the dots. Not complicated.