Brilliant!
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 06/03/2010 2:49:45 AM PDT by Daisyjane69
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Job hunters are facing a new trend: businesses asking recruitment companies to keep unemployed people out of their job pools.
Peter May, of Atlanta, said he was hoping Orlando-based recruiter "The People Place" would help him find a job with Sony Ericsson. The company is moving its headquarters to Buckhead, which is located outside Atlanta.
May said he was mortified when he read the message on the website. In all caps, and bold type, it said, "No unemployed candidates will be considered at all."
(Excerpt) Read more at clickorlando.com ...
I think you’d be better off enrolling in a night school or trade school and calling yourself a student.
Part of it is that people do lose their edge. So if you’re unemployed I think its important to stay involved in different activities to stay sharp.
why take somebody off teh street when you can take somebody from your competition, thereby weakening them, and giving you access to their way of doing business?
Those techniques are pretty transparent but do show an effort and realization that its important.
Its the people that have been unemployed and on the golf course for 6 months that they are trying to weed out.
Or you could be doing “consulting” work.
I am working now in my chosen field. But that has not always been the case. Previously, when I have been involuntarily out-of-work, I would spend a couple of days feeling sorry for myself and then I would take a job, any job, just to keep working.
No matter how bad the job market, there is always some kind of job available. It might be at a quarter of what you were making before, but it is a job. And if it is a job, it is a job you can do well.
And when you are sitting in that interview, for your next “real job”, and the guy-with-the-tie asks what you have been up to recently, you can say that you are doing a great job at a really lousy job, and you would really like to get back in the game. That will sound a heck of a lot better to the interviewer than telling him that you are sitting on your couch watching Oprah.
Bingo!
Its way better to be under-employed than seen as a slacker on the govt dole for 12+ months. You’ll come across as a go getter, self reliant, self starter.
Brilliant!
“One example is not a trend.”
Welcome to the new media. Hyperbole is the new black dress of journalism.
Interestingly enough, the old HQ for Sony is here in Research Triangle Park. I commute by there daily.
The Yankees who worked there are now manning cash registers in Trader Joe’s in Cary. Lots of New York’s and New Jersey’s finest...
...finest unemployed...
Sony wants new college grads to replace them. Most of those kids are still living with mommy, and will work cheap.
The unemployed will never lash out as long as there’s sports, sports, and more sports to keep them stupid.
There’s nothing new about this situation. It’s occured many, many times in history, and people haven’t essentially changed.
Oh, the sweet justice of the authors of this policy finding themselves out of work and becoming the deserving victims of their own callousness.
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They will. It is only a matter of time.
In the future,the only jobs will be either governmental or government approved.
To get one, one must be a member of the right political Party,i.e., Democrat a non White, non Christian,and probaly a sexual pervert.
Why? Because on November 4, 2008, America went to the polls and a majority of those that voted said, via their votes, that they wanted to be ruled and governed by perverts.
recovering addicts aren’t really a problem - as long as they’re “recovering”, and not “lapsing”.
Medical marijuana, food stamps, socialized housing/cell phones/internet/cable TV keep the new leisure class pacified. The evolutionary purpose of sports is practice tribal warfare.
Should we make it the government's job to dictate to a business who they must hire?
Get over it. Private individuals and companies have the right to make decisions you don't like.
“Exactly. If I have one job opening, and receive 500 resumes, I need a way to weed them out.”
Helped my GF do that a couple of years go sitting on the couch drinking beer one night. Took an hour to weed the stack down to three resumes.
I’m not complaining. I merely posted an article I thought would interest people.
Save your hostility for someone else, Sparky.
No hostility here, FRiend.
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