Posted on 08/06/2023 9:32:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The start is always bad. HR says they want a beginner with 5 years experience.
I can only tell you 2 things
1. It gets better after 5 years working
2. Tell him to get a job anywhere as IT support, eden for a small company. It’s a start.
After workers have languished on the unemployment rolls and used up their funds, they drop off the rolls and are no longer counted as unemployed, although they are likely still seeking work to put a roof over their heads and food on the table. So the employment outlook in, say, California is likely far worse than stated. California was ‘closed’ to tourists during the Covid thing and likely still hasn’t regained it’s footing financially as people financially burdened after businesses simply closed and never reopened, are less likely to have funds for travel.
I graduated in the mid 80s with a bachelor degree in finance, the Sunday paper was my only source of any jobs. I’d put my only suit on and walk into banks with my resume. You’re right, todays job hunting is a cake walk.
Bkmk
The job market was so bad in the 80s for new college graduates, I would call and leave messages obsessively with people I interviewed with just reminding them I wanted the job. I was shot down most of the time until one job opened up due to an applicant not accepting and I got the call.
Resilience, grit , etc is needed and I think the only motivator for me was hunger and shelter, but I do believe it made me a good salesman.
The Reason for the Gap = Refusing to pay market rates for labor.
Too bad that nowadays it requires a Bachelor’s degree to get a $15/hr customer service job or as a janitor.
People past their 30’s/40’s, who got dumped during Covid do not have time to do 4 years of college while trying to maintain the home and family - for a minimum wage job. It’s a weird thing.
There is no such thing as a labor shortage there are only wage shortages.
I really question the Dakota data now that Biden has basically eliminated the spudding of new wells. On appearance, the female author has the looks of a sixteen year old high school student. (I suffer from lookism.)
Tell him about Adam Karpiak’s job listing on LinkedIn.
And yet Micron sited in Upstate NY...
Gee, I wonder why?
Snort.
They’re not accurate in NYS.
Nor even for the public sector.
There are large numbers of jobs open.
But people either don’t want to move here or don’t want to work.
That and keep trying. When I left the Army in the late 80s I had the same issue. Then accepted 3 jobs in 2 weeks each better than the previous.
Might need to check with the big outsourcing companies. IBM, Accenture, DXC, Wipro ....
later
Although I wouldn't mind living in the Connecticut suburbs they're as expensive as hell so I couldn't do it. As for NY and NJ...no way in hell!
Networking is the best way to get a good job.
He needs to know somebody who knows somebody.
The breakdown of community has made this harder.
When I was a young man (many decades ago) I could get a serious face to face interview with almost every significant employer in the area. Inevitably they knew somebody who knew someone in my family—or a family of my friends.
I realized that the potential for income growth wasn't there on the waterfront. I applied to Pacific Telephone and after months of calling regularly, I was hired as a central office equipment engineer. Mostly a pencil pushing job. Writing orders to Western Electric, updating floor plans. Tracking completion of facilities moves and removal/installation of equipment at the CO. Time to move up. Huge amounts of reading on UNIX/C. A few successful software projects and I was out of engineering and into the IT side of the house. Concurrent with the pencil pushing, I earned a teaching credential and taught embedded systems at Southwestern College from 1980 to 1983. The extra income financed a fixed wing, private pilot license.
The point of the details is that sometimes you will need to take some detours to get a foot in the door. Along the way, pick up some skills to improve your future options.
That private pilot license and software engineering skills was entree to be the project lead for a mission planning system for 3 fixed wing and two helicopters. I wrote all of the quadri-linear interpolation code for the Phenom 100 jet as well as both helos that allowed the mission planning system to support military ops in the field. The predecessor to that code was used at the Top Gun training school.
I think so too. Daughter and son-in-law recently started attending a small church where they are among older people who might offer assistance. I think as they get to know people, they can start making connections.
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