Posted on 08/24/2019 1:38:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Job seekers have the upper hand in today’s labor market — so much so that employers are beginning to be more flexible in order to bring on new talent.
In the last year, nearly 40% of companies have eased their job requirements in order to fill vacant roles, according to a new survey from Adecco USA. The recruiting and staffing firm for temporary workers asked over 500 hiring managers about what efforts they’re using to widen their candidate pools. About half of respondents represented employers in manufacturing, industrial, call center or transportation fields, while the remaining respondents came from all other industries.
What requirements are employers willing to budge on most? According to the survey, hiring managers are more likely to give leeway when it comes to previous related experience. Instead, 78% of companies will consider applicants with transferable skills that could lend to train-ability in the new job, rather than them having to fit the description exactly.
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I worked at the unemployment office for twenty years. Yes, there is a time limit on unemployment insurance.
“I’ve been a hiring manager for 20+ years and many of my best employees never technically met the “requirements” stated on the job posting.”
As a hiring manager, does HR’s filter even let you see applicants more than qualified - such as those over 50? When I was under 50, I had companies seeking me out on a regular basis. I finally took one up on their great offer - fantastic job in Europe. Then Obama’s economy resulted in cutbacks eliminating my recently created position (along with several other high level positions). After returning to the US, not one offer in 10 years. I have applied for positions laying out how I met every qualification listed. While some of the companies have actually contracted me in this same time frame as a consultant at a much higher pay rate than for a full-time position, at the same time they don’t even acknowledge my application.
“Job seekers have the upper hand in today’s labor market — so much so that employers are beginning to be more flexible in order to bring on new talent. “
AND THE LEFT IS TRYING TO DESTROY THAT which our “non-partisan” media COMPLETELY ignores! When B.Hussein was POTUS, my brother and 3 other people I know were unemployed. Now ALL of them are employed yet every day we get these Hollywood millionaires who sit on their ass all day like Rob Reiner demanding Trump be impeached.
In my business, we need employees to stick for 10 years or more.
I will bet you an ice cream bar that not even 10
% of applicants could even begin to pass the drug tests.
Every employer I have talked to in the past 7 +++ years says that. The drug culture is driving businesses nuts.
My personal favorite is a required bachelor’s degree. I’ve grown every company I ever worked for, won national awards, and found most of my jobs by referrals from people who worked with me. But I’ve also been frozen out of jobs because someone in HR said nope! I had one owner ask why I never applied to her company. I told her I did but HR rejected me because I was a semester short of my B.A.
She was furious.
I’ve found job postings tend to overstate requirements, with HR adding reqs the hiring manager doesn’t want, and often what HR doesn’t understand.
“By default, all our job postings require a bachelors degree and 5+ years of related experience. But that’s just a filter to attract the best candidates.”
Yea, that’s pretty much a must now, as it still takes the ability to read to get a bachelor’s degree, and sometimes an associate’s degree (depending on the school and its commitment to ‘social justice’), but not for anything lower.
Amen to that. It is ridiculous. The HR departments advertise for 10 years experience in a language or technology that isn't even two years old. Who would really want to work for retards like that?
We just hired an 18-year-old and she is great - ten times better than some of the "educated" losers who preceded her. College really does make a lot of people unemployable.
Please share your experience with hiring, so we can understand.
I have a friend who owns a body shop. He says his journeyman make well over $100k.
Agree
At 57...me, too.
On the other hand, my BIL is very educated with several post graduate degrees. They made their children an offer...they would either pay for college or buy them a roto rooter franchise.
“Experience required” and/or “college required” is also used to prevent lawsuits.
“I have a friend who owns a body shop. He says his journeyman make well over $100k.”
I work in employee benefits and have numerous dealerships and body shops as clients.
$25-45k per year is about right. Guys with experience who really know what they are doing are in the $45-50k per year range.
Owners are making 100k but not the average body guy.
I learned about fifty years ago that practice does not make perfect. It makes one proficient—at doing exactly what that person has done before. Thinking about what one is doing and why one is doing it can lead one to perfection.
I hated when some nitwit would answer any question I had with, “I have been doing this for twenty (or some other number) of years. I know what I am doing.” I soon learned that years of experience might count more for the first two years than the remaining eighteen years and that I could discount any person who said something like that as an idiot.
I also soon realized that doing next year what one did last year is a formula for disaster for the individual and the organization that employed that individual.
My advice to people seeking jobs is not to apply for any job that requires five or more years of experience at anything. There are several reasons I give that advice. First, any organization that seeks five years of experience at anything is mired in five (or more) year old technology and might not be around five years from now. A second reason is that most people who apply for a job seeking five years experience will in five years have ten years of outdated experience. A third reason is that an organization that equates time with skill, ability, competence, and knowledge is a very poorly run organization which is destined to go the way of the dinosaurs.
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
Vince Lombardi
I try to get stuff powdercoated myself. About 1/2 of my 65 Willys is done. The tub will be last since it will need some minor welding in out of the way spots mostly. Two small visible offending areas should be patchable to fool most people. Rock Guards will hide the big (to me) repaired section.
When the budget allows, the fenders and a replacement dash are the last big replacement items. I’ve been running batches of parts through. The hood turned out extremely well. I get compliments on the gloss black hitch and it is sitting to the side for now.
It will take a shop to lift the tub off. I’m just one guy.
There is an industrial place not far from me that is reasonable on price, usually good turnaround, and people that are pleasant to do business with. They are constantly turning out product.
A very no frills place though. The owner is quite a comedian too.
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