Posted on 08/10/2012 12:48:46 PM PDT by Macoozie
For the country's 12.8 million unemployed, it may seem like the jobs just aren't out there. The average jobless American is out of work, after all, for nine months. But a somewhat different lament is coming, increasingly, from the employer's end: They can't find good enough people to fill all their open jobs.
(Excerpt) Read more at jobs.aol.com ...
That's several million people dating back to the beginning of the Great Obama Recession 2008!
In America’s past, internal migration, whether during or before the depression, set Americans to migrate to the places in the country where job opportunities were better.
Now the entire complex web of government programs tells them, leads them, to expect that is no longer necessary, that the government will one way or another, sooner or later, some day get around to making it unnecessary to pack up and put your dreams in your own effort and in somewhere else.
I am sure many employers who can’t find employees with the skill set they are looking for could find them, or at least more of them, if more Americans gave up on holding out for the job that has not come, or come back to them, in the past few years and just “headed west” in the figurative sense - just headed to all the different places where unemployment was less and where more hiring is happening.
Now the Feds tell everyone that a mortgage foreclosure need not force the unemployed to seek work elsewhere, they’ll do all they can to keep you in your foreclosed house.
When the government “loves you” so much, tough love measures are harder to come by and, as a result, true economic recovery - re-balancing - takes longer or never comes.
After Oabama, too many are holding out for his messiahship. Good luck with that.
“all contact I made with employers was through email”
Problem number 1...
Your next call to them is not a cold-call, but there's your marketing guide already done.
I did a bit of large dollar value "Bill collecting" and you do the same thing ~ some of your information might end up in your company's lawyer's brief to take to court so be careful to note your sources.
“Problem number 1...”
Exactly! I have walked into companies who advertised open positions, only to be instructed to use the company website and submit resume online. What better way to cull the herd?
The usual way companies get around that now is to specify 0-1 years of experience. More than one year of experience? Why that’s not what they’re looking for!
As to this woman and her opening, the ad itself is very poorly written.
She seems to have in mind a fresh college graduate, but asking a fresh college graduate to be a world-traveling, research-report writing and editing dynamo while working from mom and dad’s basement is asking a lot. It’s not 22-year-olds who want to, or should, be workers from the isolation of home.
Also, what kind of college degree is in a related field—chemistry? Trying to hire a recent chemistry graduate with an effective salary in the $25K range (about $12/hour) is asking a lot as well.
So 77 LinkedIn ad respondents are all useless for this effectively $25K/year job? I don’t see how an employer who writes such a tangled ad should really complain simply because respondents express in their cover letter in interest in gaining experience.
But yes, now she’ll get hundreds of applications, I would think.
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ChemOrbis is a leading market intelligence source for the global plastics industry with office locations in all major regions including Europe, Middle East, Asia and the US. Our writers aim to keep members informed of all market developments so they can make the right decision when buying and selling plastics raw materials.
The job location is working from home. Only candidates from North America will be considered. ChemOrbis US is located in Weston, Florida.
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Bump! ;-)
If that wasn't bad enough, he told us that the new hotel next door had to close off their top two floors because they couldn't hire cleaning people.
Poorly written job descriptions are a big problem - I say this as a father of two kids who graduated college in the last three years. The lady in the article complains that too many people just send out resumes whether or not they are qualified. The other side of that is that there are a lot of young people who read a job description like this and conclude the same thing you did - hey, my degree is not related to chemicals, and I don’t think I can travel internationally for a trainee-level job.
Her job description should be closer to what she said in the article - we want a recent graduate for an entry level job. Ambition, willingness to learn, and writing skills are most important.
I witnessed the same thing when I was training new recruits. The job wasn’t hard, the pay was good, but there were too many people who were trying to see how little work they could get away with and still get paid. Some of them went to unbelievable contortions to do it, too.
I got nicknamed “The Assassin”. I hated it every time I had to fire someone, but they’d make sure there wasn’t a choice. Some even said straight out that they only applied so they could qualify for unemployment again.
Is that the ad? Entry level? Hell it sounds to me like they want someone to run the company.
That doesn’t surprise me IN THE LEAST!
Welfare, food stamp credit cards(EBT), etc. pays more for them to sit on their butts than working AND PAYING TAXES.
Throw in a few ‘crazy checks’ and they are doing quite well for themselves if you exclude self respect and motivation to live free from government.
Stand in any grocery store, Walmart, etc. line and see for yourself. They have NO PROBLEM having government pay their way. NONE...and they also have no problem getting manicures put on those EBT cards either. Just like they have no problem putting gambling money, cigs, liquor, porn, strippers, etc. on there.
And they don’t even appreciate the taxpayers who are footing the bills! They expect it!
I am so sick of it I could punch someone.
Oh, and her opening as she outlines it sounds illegal to me: an independent contractor who is supposed to be ‘guiding’ and editing the work of other staff members?
It’s posted as both a regular, salary-type position, with the expectation of carrying out various tasks as assigned—and yet she’s trying to avoid paying the taxes and benefits due to an actual employee.
I wonder if all of this attention will backfire on her and get her an IRS audit.
I think she’d be better off with someone like a work-experienced mom trying to get back in the workforce while still staying home—someone who has been a trade journalist in the field or maybe was in industry research before having a couple of kids.
That’s someone who could deliver more high quality work on a half-time basis (and thus at a reasonable level of pay), without trying to figure it all out from scratch.
You’re right. Most kids who have just graduated from college won’t be interested. After four years of full-time partying the transition to full-time employment will not be attractive.
Companies are making it extremely difficult if not impossible for candidates to contact them outside of the prescribed application process. No phone numbers, “noreply@” addresses for their outbound communications...I even had one company state that any inquiries to the status of a submitted application would cause the application to be dropped from consideration.
It’s not just a brutal market out there, it’s a downright hostile one.
Exactly right. My experience also. We have a tremendous moral and ethical character deficit in this country - thanks primarily to government schools.
It's not just what they expect, it's what they NEED. $50-100K in loans is a hell of a burden.
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