On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > Employment experts say they believe companies are increasingly interested > only in applicants who already have a job.
That's a strange thing to actually say directly to an applicant. > The article goes on to say that there is a prejudice against those > unemployed. The reasoning is that if you were a quality worker, you > wouldn't be jobless. > > That is wrong on so many levels. So many businesses have closed to inept > management. Nothing to do with the rank and file. Personally, I think there is some validity to this thinking, but employment status alone isn't the only factor. Alot of other things matter like what the local job market is like, what industry you are in, how long the person has been unemployed... Sometimes someone chooses to be unemployed for awhile. In an area like Detroit I would expect to find alot of good candidates who've been unemployed for a long time. In an area like Atlanta I would expect to find some people who may have a shorter period of unemployment (in the tech industry), but few with really long periods. As a side note, I also get frustrated by people who think that blindly sending a resume to 100 companies every day is "looking for a job". It's not. It's called wasting your time. I hate it when I hear someone tell me "how many resumes they sent out". If you are sending out 100 resumes, you are doing it wrong. > Also, hiring someone from another employer doesn't necessarily create > another opening. The other employer may decide to merge the job with > others. This is true. I hate news articles (or employer) who make broad generalizations like this as if every situation is identical. -Cameron ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:321572 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
