Paul Sullivan, a video editor, has been invited for numerous interviews from the same company, but has not been offered the job.
Well clearly then Obama and the government should force these companies to hire people in a specified time and manner. /sarc
All those employers are just being unreasonable.
HA! How many staffers has The New York Slimes laid off lately? Obviously one fewer than it should have.
Every now and then the NYTimes stumbles over the truth.
My company recently placed a job posting for a writing position. We got 1200 applicants!
It’s definitely a tough job market out there. I suppose even more so for those who had endeavors to be journalists.
If he actually knows his stuff, they are probably using him to get free information on how to do things.
Oh, wait. This just in....Investing.com: Initial Jobless Claims Rises to 352,000
This is a interesting post because the lib/Keysian Krugman view is that ‘demand’ which comes from ‘free’ money inserted into the economy forces employers to hire.
Sounds like its not working as planned.
From how I see it - one man’s perspective - in my field the skill set we would need for a technical position in my company - are pretty daunting indeed. Obviously there is the sort of nature vs. nurture argument - which is more or less “can they hit the ground running or are they going to take 6-12 months to get up to speed or are they the type of individual that wouldn’t get there in 100 years?”.
The “hit the ground running” guy or gal will be typically snapped up in a heartbeat. But there just aren’t too many of that sort.
So you’re left with trying to decide if the candidate is an “up to speed in 6-12 months” or are they more the type that rode the short bus to school.
And that distinction isn’t all that easy to make based on a two page resume and a bunch of technical interviews.
I've gone through the hiring process many a time.
In the tech world, current dogma is to get a "screening interview", always over the phone. Sometimes it's with an HR weenie, sometimes it's with someone more tech savvy. These rarely last more than a few minutes, they're just to weed out real undesirables.
If you get called back for a second interview, these are almost always onsite. There may be several of them, all scheduled for the same morning - HR, meet the boss, meet the team, maybe meet higher ups. This can take 1/2 day or more. Usually at least a couple of hours.
*Very* infrequently, you might get called back for a 3rd round. Every time this has happened to me, it's because someone who wanted to talk to me, wasn't available for Round #2.
That's it. Company either makes the offer, or not.
If a company called me back 6 times, I'd think that they didn't have their act together, and would doubt I'd want to work there.
However....if I was unemployed....why the heck not? Keep at it....Number 7 is the charm. Meanwhile, it's always good practice to interview.
ObamaCare: Job Killer
Geez...their prime example of how indecisive employers are in offering jobs claims he spent $520 in parking fees, two parking tickets and “numerous expenses at StarBucks and the lie. Can anybody say entitlement? Nevermind if this person was adept at tax preparation, he’d find that some of these expenses can be deducted. Likely he’s not experienced with that sort of thing.
Give me a frigging break! To be honest, there is an awful lot of angst by employers in the economy (they must not believe the ObamaPropaganda), mismatch between available applicants and job descriptions. But to be completely thorough in a treatise on the ‘problem’ as stated by this NYT shill, one would have to at least consider some impact by the coming ObamaCare (AFA) regulations and costs - one of the many new employer government regulation and tax impacts.
Of course it’s an employer’s market! What car buyer wouldn’t LOVE to come up on a dealer that hadn’t sold a car in six months, huh? Get the best for the least.
Mr. Sullivan obviously has some champion in the company that keeps urging the powers that be to ‘check him out again’.....my guess is that it’s someone like him.
Poor writing in this piece, poor background research, and a piss poor story. Nothing here but ‘blame it on anybody but the victim’ liberal puff.
This story is ironic because most companies are less than desirable and the people are no better themselves. The fact they are being picky is just plain silly. I think candidates could say, “Don’t be picky, I wasn’t.”
I have never been in a situation where I had 6 interviews for the same opening. That’s just ridiculous. What a waste of time!
Since government spending is a component of GDP, and the current deficit is +/- $1 Trillion annually ongoing, it looks like the “growth” being crowed about is strictly a matter of government overspending. Take away the continuing obama deficits in excess of those run by Bush43, and what is the growth rate of the private economy?
Believe me I know its tough out there, but unless the position was an executive level with mutiple hundreds of k to 7 figure salaries, 3 is the max interviews I’m doing. Generally its 2, but that’s fairly standard.. a non techinical and then a technical. I will give a 3rd if I am intrigued by the position enough... They ask for a 4th and it isn’t a situation as stated above, I have no desire to work for company. By that point you have evaluated me, and are just wasting time.
If you haven’t been able to evaluate me with 3 interviews your organization is so fundamentally flawed and unorganized I don’t want to work for you.
Slowly improving economy?