Two weeks and 28 applications later, he had just nine email responses, one follow-up phone call, and one interview with a construction company that advertised a full-time job focused on site cleanup paying $10 an hour.
But Holz said the construction company instead tried to offer Florida's minimum wage of $8.65 to start, even though the wage was scheduled to increase to $10 an hour on September 30. He added that it wanted full-time availability, while scheduling only part time until Holz gained seniority.
Holz said he wasn't applying for any roles he didn't qualify for.
This is interesting….I belong to a local community Facebook page where I live. A few weeks ago multiple people commented on a post about this topic. Many of them shared similar experiences: applying for numerous jobs only to be ignored, not contacted at all, or turned away due to being “overqualified”
Something strange is going on
Maybe he should hitchhike his way across the U.S.A....
I suspect that there is more to the story. I’m retired and I could find a job tomorrow if I wanted.
How about copies of the applications he turned in?
And there this is this statement. Pretty obvious he had a pre existing political agenda. Seems he had an outcome and created an experiment designed to fulfill that pre determined agenda.
Holz acknowledged that his results may not be representative of the larger labor challenges in the country, since his search was local and targeted the most vocal critics of stimulus spending.
I think this is BS.
Where I live there within in a quarter mile there are 2 restaurants asking for help. And the marina spitting distance from me cannot get full time help, and forget about qualified mechanics.
The business owners I associate with are hurting.
I've talked personally with many, many small biz owners who are desperate for new-hires.
I've talked w employees who are overworked and would like some peeps to be co-workers.
I see a lot of small biz owners doing most of the work themselves.
I was at a restaurant a few weeks ago where the owner had to greet customers at the door saying that he was sorry, but no workers had shown up and he was temporarily closed.
The grocery store I frequent had a card table set up at the entrance just yesterday with reps asking customers if they would like to apply for a job (all positions open.)
I could go on.
American business is subsidized by cheap money and cheap labor, so they think their business models are viable when they are not.
Raise pay and you will find workers.
DO IT!
I’ll bet they don’t budget advanced training and raise pay rates to KEEP workers productive, well paid, and growing.
As government can subsidize sloth in workers with free stuff, the US government has subsidized LAZY businesses with owners who think they are ENTITLED to near zero interest rates and dirt low wages. Stop immigration for twenty years, send overstayed visas home, and...
PAY A F’in HIGHER WAGE.
A friend of mine in Sioux Falls, SD took a picture of a job posting for a pizza delivery driver for $17-$22/hr. They were having trouble finding help. Then another friend from there told me UPS was starting at $21/hr and has been having trouble finding people.
What a crock. My kid here in Alaska is working jobs as a laborer for $19-23/hr and he feels blessed and happy to be earning that much. The cost of living in Fairbanks is 35-40% higher than down there.
People are sponging off the government and are turning into welfare kings and queens. Get your buttocks to work, people!
This very well could be skewed by the types of jobs he was applying for. Entry level? nothing nothing over twelve bucks an hour? In good times those are probably not the best places to work and probably churn through employees of questionable quality already. In a severe labor shortage, they’re probably even worse places to work because the bosses aren’t trying to appeal to their potential employees.
I also think there’s a big change afoot with the nature of work. The past two years have taught a lot of people that 40 hours + a week isn’t for them, and they’d rather have a part time income than a full time work obligation... but a lot of employers don’t want to adjust for that type of manpower situation, and in some places the full time workers they hire on often get pushed to do overtime and on-call work, and then there’s no job security that comes with it. They’ll be the first furloughed when the market tightens up.
I for one think more people should embrace this idea that work doesn’t have to be 40 hours in an office or 45 hours on an assembly line, two weeks of vacation and a gift card for a Thanksgiving turkey each year. A motivated employee working three days a week is far better than a slug working five. It changes a lot of metrics and manpower calculations, but it would make a lot of people happier.
I hire A&P mechanics for a large freight carrier. If you have three years experience in big jets, you’ll make $100k plus in six years. If you’re a fresh A&P, it’ll take ten. You’ll work in the weather, but that’s the job. You won’t get rich but you won’t starve.
My teen daughter just got her 2nd job a few weeks ago...fast food. She had no problem at all. She started at $14 and they have already upped it to $15. Her boyfriend is about to start at the same place.
The interviewer asked him:
Why do you think we should hire you?
His reply:
Because you are understaffed.
She laughed.
Employment
Vs.
Gainfull Employment
One can’t GO to work and lose money.
Monopolies: TWO only big retailers. Banking consolidation. Insurance Self-regulated. No competition.
Business Insider is a FAR, FAR left propaganda outfit, basically the Rolling Stone of the biz world or The Manchester Guardian of the biz world, take your pick ... NOTHING they publish is credible because they lie so much ...
I’m searching for a new job as well and the employment websites utilize keyword search algorithms. Experience doesn’t matter, industry knowledge doesn’t matter, references don’t matter and you don’t interview anymore, they look for words in your resume. It would have been nice if one of the companies I applied with took the time to talk to me or read my experience. It’s been like that for while. Several years back, I had some pimply voiced kid ask me what some of my areas of expertise were, I responded back with my resume verbatim and he acted surprised. which is when I figured they didn’t read it.