Disposable People: The Unemployed Need Not Apply

[paft.livejournal.com]

From Clickorlando.com 6/1/10:
Job hunters are facing a new hurdle: businesses asking recruitment companies to keep unemployed people out of their job pools.

Video here.

Yes, you read that right. Some businesses are now placing job ads that exclude all those icky unemployed people. A trend I first mentioned back in July of last year is continuing and, according to this story, growing.

So, many of the unemployed face, not only the cutting off of their unemployment benefits, not only potential employers holding bad credit ratings, (often a byproduct of not having a job) against them, they now are increasingly being barred by potential employers from applying for job openings -- because they are unemployed.

Apparently in today’s society, more and more, once you’re out, you’re out.

Think of the weapon this hands employers. The saying, so beloved of free market types, “If you don’t like the job, quit and find another one,” is becoming not just a platitude, but a mocking sneer. Quitting is no longer an option, being fired, or laid off, no longer a relatively minor blip in someone’s working life.

If this trend continues, unemployment itself could become a catastrophe that knocks someone permanently out of full time work.

Comments

[paft.livejournal.com]

t:I've been unemployed for about 10 years now, if I had my health back I'd put money on me being able to get a job within the day!

The chances are, you'd lose.

t: So many rely on agy's who take take take, dressing up smartly and knocking on doors is the way to go, often getting me 3 job offers before dinner time, even in the early 90's recession time.

So you figure the problem is there's been this vast epidemic of people who just aren't trying to find jobs?

[torpidai.livejournal.com]

So you figure the problem is there's been this vast epidemic of people who just aren't trying to find jobs?


no, What I'm saying (And said back then) when alegedly the numbers were pretty similar, is they are going about finding jobs the wrong way and or aiming too high.

Many also lack the balls to go door-knocking, and often lack simple interview skills/personality/willing to learn any new skill to get any job offerred. Hell back then I didn't even have a CV most of the time, nor mobile phones, I simply had cards with my name and number on to hand to the secretary if there were signs of a job but the boss wasn't around for whatever reason.

[paft.livejournal.com]

So there's been a sudden, massive epidemic of people who've lost their job hunting skills?

[torpidai.livejournal.com]

So there's been a sudden, massive epidemic of people who've lost their job hunting skills?

Most never had them in the first place.

[paft.livejournal.com]

Then how do you account for them being employed up until recently?

[torpidai.livejournal.com]

More luck than judgement, though you assume "They" were employed.

[paft.livejournal.com]

I know for a fact that "they" were employed.

What makes you think they weren't? Is it your claim that suddenly, a bunch of people are claiming to be newly unemployed when they haven't actually been employed at all?

[torpidai.livejournal.com]

You seem awfully confrontational, are you one of them?

[paft.livejournal.com]

"Confrontational?"

Hmmm. I don't as a rule call names. I don't as a rule descend into personal insult.

I do tend to ask people questions.

Odd that you'd consider this "confrontational."