A Jobless Rate Still Unaffected by New Hiring

NYT ^ | 06/04/10 | MOTOKO RICH

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A Jobless Rate Still Unaffected by New Hiring

By MOTOKO RICH

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — After hemorrhaging jobs for months, the economy is finally starting to add them. Yet the unemployment rate is not really budging because of people like Regina Myles.

Ms. Myles, 51, has been out of work for three years. After a grueling job search yielded 150 interviews but no offers, she simply stopped looking last fall. Then this spring, with a $3,000 government-funded grant to help pay for a training course at a local beauty school in this Chicago suburb, she began applying for jobs online and in stores again.

“I just know if I am given this chance to finish this course I can make it,” Ms. Myles said after practicing a facial on a classmate at the International Skin Beauty Academy. “I feel like it is my time now.”

Millions of people became so discouraged during the brutal recession that they gave up the job search altogether. Some entered training programs to redirect careers; others focused on caring for family members. Some college graduates, despairing of their prospects, enrolled in graduate school, rather than hunt for jobs.

[TigerLikesRooster]

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[ClearCase_guy]

To a certain extent, the bad news is also the good news.

Of course it is.

[Cindy]

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Are You Looking For A Job? (Summer Edition)
Various Sources/Job Links ^ | Updated June 2, 2010 | n/a
Posted on June 2, 2010 12:25:41 AM PDT by Cindy

Are you unemployed?

Are you employed, but looking around for another job?

Are you looking for an extra job, part-time job, work from home job, starting your own business, or finding a good turn-key business?

Are you looking for a job for yourself, a family member or a friend?

If any of these apply, this is the thread to bookmark.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

There was a post here earlier this week IIRC that said employers were refusing to hire the unemployed, giving new jobs only to folks who were employed elsewhere.

This of course would mean that the job market is merely shuffling the deck, not expanding.

Poor, poor Obama...foiled again by those dastardly free markets! Not hard to see why he hates them.

[pnh102]

What new hiring?

[RC one]

ya know, the economy supposedly added jobs last month yet the unemployment rate increased for some reason. On top of that we learned that the BLS used the birth-death rate adjustment to "guesstimate" approximately 90,000 newly created small business jobs (because Obama's economic policies are sooo friendly to small businesses you know). I don't believe that jobs are being added. I think the people that add the jobs are figuring out new and creative ways to lie to us.

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

old adage

[doodad]

I don’t believe a word of it.

I would like to know what the deal is with the online job sites like Monster and such. The same jobs appear day after day or disappear and reappear. They could not find, in this large market and body of job seekers, a single person in months?

Submitting a resume only yields offers of franchise opps and resume assistance. I don’t think 20% of the jobs are real.

[libertarian27]

There’s a bunch of phishing job offers on Monster, CareerBuilders, etc.
After a while looking you can pick them all out of the lists.

There’s job offers that require money to apply - red flag

There’s headhunter listings that go no where - building their file cabinets of potential applicants.

There’s job offers that cycle constantly from reputable companies - they are filling their resume holding pools - not necessarily hiring.

Now starting to see ‘bonus up front’ ads - with a fee to apply - I believe the positions are from Nigeria.

[Oceander]

Spin, spin, spin! It's the only thing the Old Grey Whore still knows how to do.

[Syntyr]

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

From my professionally employed statistician friend - “Statistics don't lie... Statisticians lie!” ;)

[Thermalseeker]

Of course it is.

Yep. In the Obamanation bad is good, up is down, black is white, vacation time is working hard and "news" that the economy is recovering continually gets recycled despite what is actually happening. As it all crumbles around us I am amazed that Obamalamadingdong's approval numbers remain so high. There must be a lot of people out there who enjoy misery....

[doodad]

And what the hell is with having a profile on a large site only to have to redirect to every company offering a job to then fill out 5 pages of info that is all on one’s resume? And register at their site? C’mon.

Frustrating as all get out. I just did it again this morning.

[grey_whiskers]

As it all crumbles around us I am amazed that Obamalamadingdong's approval numbers remain so high. There must be a lot of people out there who enjoy misery....

Government workers, University professors, and Union Thugs.

Cheers!

[GatorGirl]

So are they blaming Ms. Myles for re-entering the job search?

All the little peons must stay home, collect their government checks and not show up in the “unemployment” numbers so Dear Leader can come out smelling like roses as opposed to the cigarette smoke and ketones he undoubtedly reeks of now.

If they actually counted the truly “unemployed” the number would be staggering and people might wake up and say “tell me again why we see fit to pay millions of people for doing nothing?”.

[6SJ7]

As for the third message, it referred to a very simple error which could be set right in a couple of minutes. As short a time ago as February, the Ministry of Plenty had issued a promise (a 'categorical pledge' were the official words) that there would be no reduction of the chocolate ration during 1984. Actually, as Winston was aware, the chocolate ration was to be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty at the end of the present week. All that was needed was to substitute for the original promise a warning that it would probably be necessary to reduce the ration at some time in April.
1984

[expat_panama]

Great set of links —they give much needed weight to the get-to-work mindset to balance the doom’n’gloom funk we seem to get too often here.

[Cindy]

Thank you expat panama.

[silverleaf]

what new hiring?
The census.

I heard one census worker describe being hired, trained, work a few hours,. then get laid off.

Then got hired again, trained, work a few hours, got laid off.

Four times.

Each time he was rehired it counted as a “new job”

[Red Dog #1]

Or how about one of my favorites, “figures don't lie, but liars figure”.