Posted on 08/14/2013 6:37:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
An odd puzzle is taking shape in the labor market: Over the past three years, the number of job openings has risen almost 50 percent, but actual hiring has gone up by less than 5 percent. Companies are advertising a lot more jobs, in other words, but not filling them.
To get some sense of how significant this is, consider that if, since June 2010, hiring had risen a third as much as advertised jobs have (rather than only a 10th), and nothing else were different, job creation would be roughly 500,000 higher each month, and the unemployment rate would already be back to normal levels.
So what explains the yawning gap between jobs open and jobs filled?
One possibility is that there is a mismatch between the work that companies need done and the skills that workers have. As Peter Newland of Barclays Plc has said, “We believe that this divergence between openings and hiring is consistent with our view that some of the loss of employment during the recession was structural, rather than purely cyclical, in nature.”
Such a structural mismatch may well explain part of the gap, yet it seems unlikely that it explains most of it. After all, job openings in the retail trade have doubled over the past three years, while hiring has been flat. Is it really plausible that we lack qualified workers for these jobs?
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonmonthly.com ...
I think I told this story before but we have a “questionnaire” where the applicants fill in the blanks. In order to weed out the libtards, the last question is “President Obama is __________”. If they start writing a PHD-level thesis on why they wanna stick their heads up Obama’a ass, then step 2 which is the interview is a no-go.
I always recommend this step for Freepers business owners.
You are hiring for Developers, what did you expect? Plus, the market is sky-high right now for anyone with some IT experience and under 40 years old. 100K is middle-level pay in some markets now.
My BIL has hired and fired for cause three new graduates in agribusiness in the last year. There were root causes. One couldn’t show up for work on time and lied about other things. One’s mom didn’t like where he was living near the work location and so subsidized him and moved him to more posh digs 30 miles away and he could not show up for work on time. The third didn’t realize he was going to have to go out in the heat and cold to go to the production facilities.
The BIL says that it took more time to manage them than the time it took to do their job without them.
All the ones I work with are PhD.
Government has meddled in personnel decisions to the extent that "hiring wrong" imposes huge penalties on employers. They've become gun-shy. If the government would keep its nose out of things like independent contractor status, straight salary/no benefits compensation, trial-period employment, and flexible part-time/full-time scheduling, America would have millions more people working.
But government does the unions' bidding on these issues, and thus the private hiring process remains highly convoluted and cautious.
It’s a real problem. I was suckered into one of these, did 2 long interviews in person and a phone interview. Then after the 3rd interview they said ‘The CFO changed his mind and we’re not going to have this position at all’.
Really pissed me off for wasting so much time and gas.
$100,000+ is senior or lead in our market.
and that is why you are having problems, all of your talent is moving to a bigger city that pays a lot more vs a small increase in cost of living.
I argue that outside California central Texas has become a major tech hub and pays the appropriate rate. The cost of living in Austin area is not cheap and rising every day.
Good idea, I'll file that one away. Lots of 6-month help desk jobs out there.
With this particular intern, I didn't want to waste a lot of time with him. "Over-entitled" and "not very bright" make for a bad combination.
A couple of years worth of stocking shelves, or pouring coffee, will do him some good. Make him a little hungrier for the next opportunity, and will give him an appreciation for what success looks like, and what it takes to get there.
Or not. :-)
Typically, I start with (and have gone through, myself)
Phone Interview. Screens out the real bad ones....usually.
On site Interview.
Then the decision is made.
For high-level jobs (Director or higher), or if a key person wasn't available, there might be a "final round".
A request for a 3rd interview would set off some warning bells.
Well, I believe it was supposed to be only 2. They were a total mess. I sent them a nasty email after, damn the consequences. The 2nd times I was supposed to go and get SQL tested (I have a degree in MIS, and really think that’s lame but a lot of places want testing now). When I went for the 2nd one they testing guy wasn’t in at all, so they had me talk to the CFO instead.
So I was totally thrown off. I was ready for a technical interview and had one with a guy that literally didn’t know what the reporting system I’d be working on is called.
Then they scheduled an interview to do the technical test online from home and they stood me up on that. Then I got the ‘we’re not going this direction and we’re not doing this job at all’.
After that I told them they are pathetic. The recruiter I was using left me a nasty voicemail. Was the worst interviewing experience of my life and I’m not a noob at them. And each time I went was a pretty far drive. Companies these days know they can do whatever they want and they care less than ever about treating people professionally so screw them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU
Once, I took a phone interview with a company for (what I thought was) a Windows / VMware position. First thing out of the interviewer's mouth - not "Hi.", not "How are you.", no pleasantries whatsoever - was "How well do you know Unix?"
"I don't, but I'm willing to learn." was my response, approximately.
"OK, thanks for taking our call." (Click)
The interview was at 11:00. I called the recruiter who set it up at 11:00:25, and the first thing he said was "Jeez, this can't be good news." :-)
I later found out that I'd not have wanted to work at this place anyway, it was a real meat grinder. So these things tend to work out.
I have talked to HR people who tell me that they advertise and interview for job openings that do not exist because it makes it look like they are doing something.
The original clip was about 15 minutes long, but your clip shows the meat. What gets me the most is these obviously American looking speakers in nice suits and skirts talking so matter-of-factly about how to deny opportunities to their fellow Americans.
I forgot, before all that I had:
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