Posted on 11/30/2009 2:24:57 PM PST by Ravi
I placed an ad for a medical receptionist ($10-$14/hour) and received over 100 resumes. I didn't know where to start and have interviewed two dozen people for this single position and the desperation out there is very real. People are begging for jobs. Thank you for nothing Mr. President. There's definitely no green shoots in the real economy.
How much Stimulus money didja get? Hold out for $1,200,000; that’s what each job cost in Hollywood - I think you are at least worth that. After all, it’s all ‘Obama money’ .... I think he has a stash of it somewhere. < /sarcasm, but just barely>
First thing you do is find out how the prospective applicants voted, if you can. Second, ask about activities, hobbies, social outreach. If anyone says community activisim, voter registration, etc. trash the resume. Run a credit check and background investigation on the top 3 and downselect.
Is this replacing someone else or a new job that Obama created?
Better check recovery.gov to see how many jobs are being claimed that you “saved or created”.
er..make that recovery.con
But if they say that and didn't GIVE you a resume, elect 'em President.
And remember....a smile can be heard over the phone....believe me!!! LOL! ;)
I’m in industrial construction and heavy maintenance. We’re having people call us that have been out of a job since the oil downturn of the 1980s.
Weed out the obvious klinkers and check out the others online via Google, Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter. You’ll learn a lot more that you need to know than what the resumes will tell you.
You should run these checks:
Credit Check
Rental/Tenant Check if a renter (Knowing how someone lives can be a great hint of how they will work and their organization, as well as how they care for other people’s property)
Criminal Check
To check the state of affairs I posted by resume on Dice and Monster. That usually results in 20-30 qualified opportunities within 3 days. So far, two weeks later...nothing. Not a single bite.
I know that you can’t do this without risk, but if I were hiring:
Hire vets and true conservatives, let the others eat from dumpsters.
Pick the hottest looking female.
A temporary fix to a lot of unemployment might be for the States to create “virtual scrip cities”. It combines a lot of problems into a single solution, as a stop gap until there is economic recovery.
To start with, there is a lot of empty housing that nobody right now wants to buy. Foreclosed housing that rapidly falls apart or is vandalized, that is now owned by counties and States. Importantly, for the most part, it is *not* clumped together.
It is not too easy to imagine counties and States putting homeless families in such housing. But normally this would be problematic, because they have no motivation to keep up the property.
So the solution is to provide them paying jobs. But not paid for with dollars, but paid for with State issued scrip. Here’s how the entire process works:
1) Just the father, hopefully, takes public transport, paid for with scrip, to a literal farm, where food is grown to feed the people who are in the system. Not everybody farms. Those individuals with training may work at the farm on other things, like medical care or as teachers, etc. Whatever skills are available for whatever is needed.
2) The father is paid in scrip for this work. Part of his pay is deducted for rent and part is put into redeemable savings for him. But the rent earns him equity in the home his family is living in. Other parts of his scrip he uses to buy food produced on the farm, to feed his family, and to pay others for scrip based services. Then any other retail stores that get into the scrip program can provide goods and services for scrip.
3) Essentially, this replicates the normal economy, but because scrip is a controlled currency, fluctuations in the dollar economy don’t impact as much.
The end result is lots of people “treading water”, while waiting for economic recovery, and *also* both building up future home equity and their savings, convertible to dollars when they get out of the system, *and* producing much of the food they eat, *and* providing other skills for each other as needed.
This is a heck of a lot better than ordinary “relief”, in dollars, that is subject to the fluctuations in the economy and the retail market, while living in more expensive rental property that gains no equity for the renters, and trying to do work that is unneeded in the downturn.
And it actually costs *less* to the counties and States than ordinary relief.
Your business would have me hooked. I’d probably look for way to buy your product/service.... even if I didn’t need it. ;>)
In todays world and at my ripened age, customer service is a very large part of the deal.
I quit checking out Craig’s List when the goody two shoes decided to clean up the personal ads. There used to be hundreds of females selling things now there are few...
I posted a job a couple of months ago for a VP of Sales and recieved a couple of hundred responses in two days.....
Sign of the times......
100 hundred = 10,000.
That’s a lot of resumes, all right!
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