Because the folks laid off were mid-level workers. The jobs that are open are low wage and the hiring managers don’t want to hire someone who is over qualified.
In the end, you just give it up.
And the fact that if not for low wage McJobs, the job posting list a couple of dozen “must have requirements” before you may be considered. . .miss just one of those requirements and you are totally passed over by the HR screening software or by the 24-yr old HR bimbo—the same bimbo that knows nothing about the world.
You are spot on.
I am currently on unemployment (former employers, small business owners decided-suddenly!-to retire. As they liked to travel a lot, I literally had a “key to the store” and ran the place in their absence. For 12 years. The job before that, I ran I store inventories (almost 6 years). Before and during the inventory job, I was also a real estate agent.
Here in PA, you MUST apply for 2 jobs per week on line (via their career link portal). So with experience you would think I could at least get a call back for a customer service desk or lead cashier/asst lead cashier position? No.
Minimum wage mall jobs only .No more than 24 hrs per week (except during holiday season).
Also, many online apps include DATE OF BIRTH. So they weed out those who they think can’t climb a stockroom ladder or move a box sweaters.
Yes it’s THAT depressing.
(And I do have a job lined up...but they hire only as seasonal so in the late fall ill be unemployed again.)
And they don't to pay someone who needs a full-time job and wants a living salary. US workers are being squeezed by illegals for the lower tier of jobs and unnecessary green-card workers for jobs that require skills.
Vast number of mid-level office jobs that survived even the huge downsizings of the mid-80's have nonetheless been eliminated since 2005.
By Google.
There is simply no need to pay someone 70K+ a year to "know stuff", when a three second Google search can provide a more accurate and in-depth answer.