Posted on 06/01/2013 4:56:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
If you’re paying attention to the U.S.’s economic recovery, you’ll probably know that there are about 11 million unemployed citizens and strong disagreements about how to create more jobs. What you may not know is that there are actually four million open jobs waiting to be filled, and that American businesses could be filling more of those jobs – if they better utilized technology.
When it comes to this mismatch between unemployment numbers and vacant jobs, blame is cast in all directions: Job seekers are unwilling to move cities or work in unfamiliar positions; Employers are holding out for the elusive “perfect candidate”; and schools just aren’t providing the right skills.
As someone who has moved a family across continents for work (not easy), and as a business owner who has often struggled to find talented people with specific skills (who wants to compromise?), I sympathize with both sides.
An objective look at the job market, however, clearly shows that while technology is increasingly deployed in higher-level recruiting efforts, it is underutilized in services and support sectors – such as retail – that require less specific skill sets and tend to have high turnover among predominantly low-wage positions. These jobs should in theory be relatively easy to fill, but many businesses are failing to recruit well-qualified candidates – and too many jobs remain open.
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The HR mafia has become the bottleneck.
Odungocare
/johnny
. Guy owns a moblie recruiting company that markets 'mobile' recruiting. While his prime example is of trying to get a job with one or more of the "global" companies that routinely have entry or low skill level positions, his conclusions are that a 'new better technological' way of recruiting of the future is (tada) new technology! spiced with a little bit of "I couldn't got to their web page on my mobile!" stuff. Talk about self-serving promotion! Why does McDonalds or Walmart or whoever it was he fake-tried to get a job need his app?
I’m not sure which retail stores the author visited, but my wife works for Target, and they utilize kiosks for prospective employees. And my local Safeway uses a room with banks of laptops whenever they’re in a hiring mode.
Still, for smaller enterprises, he’s right. But in today’s environment, I doubt they can afford to upgrade their hiring systems.
Yep, HR won’t interview candidates they are not getting paid to fill positions - they are being paid to act as gatekeepers.
Salary/Experience mismatches. I’ve found employers are demanding too much experience for too little salary - they don’t have a good idea as to market demand for the segment they are targetting. As a result, they get folks with fewer qualifications (as they are willing to take on the salary), while the folks with the qualifications aren’t even taking a second glace.
They need to lower experience demands and engage in training their hires. Need to look for capacity to do the job not hire someone who’s already got 5 years under their belt doing the job they’ve been doing for 5 years for entry level salary...
qualifications?? skills?? language proficiency?? physically fit?? etc.
People are lazy, BUMP.
Easiest question to answer I’ve ever seen in a headline...
1) People are lazy and won’t move,
2) Some of the jobs required actual work.
There is someone for every job at the right price. Wages are suppressed by immigration and the H-1b program. Both of those things are evil.
True. HR, as an institutional process, has become the administrative tail wagging the operational dog. Most of those “jobs” advertised online don’t really exist as an immediate need to fill, but they do boost up the HR department’s applicant file and help justify HR administrators existence. Couple that with a poor economy buyers market for employers along with business owners going cash rich Galt as reaction to Obamacare, and you have the perfect storm.
RE: Wages are suppressed by immigration and the H-1b program
If so, then these jobs would already be “filled”. But they aren’t.
That's another aspect. Compare and contrast with the recent story of that kid who was going to walk 10 miles to apply for a job. THAT was initiative. IIRC, there was a manager who happened to give him a lift and hired him on the spot.
Very few people are going to schools to learn these skills.
We have millions with worthless degrees, many of whom are too lazy or stupid to ever do any of the above.
My skills are in huge demand. — in places I don’t live. I could get a job in NY, SF, Boston or DC in a minute, but I have roots here. Nothing requires that I live in those cities to do the job I do, I can work remotely, even travel back and forth occasionally. But recruiters never bite. They always want to talk about relocating. The cost of living difference is huge. So a job goes unfilled.
Marijuana stays in the system for 30 days, a lot of companies drug test. Some slackers cannot give up the pipe for 30 days so the either stay at their current job or on unemployment neither of which require drug testing.
There are always jobs openings.
There are always people looking for a job.
There are always some job openings recently created.
There are always some job openings that sit for a long time unfilled.
Great job opportunities get filled quickly.
Crappy job openings are hard to fill.
What makes a job opening have wide appeal or little appeal ?
What am I being asked to do, how much am I being paid ?
Agreed. We had to fire our HR Director because she had decided that she knew better than the Operational Managers and that she would control every step of the hiring process. Almost cost us our business.
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