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TreasureKY -> RE: Being unemployed can keep you from getting a job (5/27/2011 5:34:56 PM)
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ORIGINAL: OrionTheWolf
I also contacted a friend of mine that works in HR for a large corporation, and he said they no longer have the guideline about being unemployed as automatic dismiss of your resume. Their company also used to do credit checks, but they have stopped that as well. He said that you would be amazed that some of the better candidates will often have nice savings they have been living on, and are particular about the job they want, as well as so many people have worse credit scores due to so many things now.
I spent years in HR Management. It was never a policy of any company I worked for not to hire the unemployed; however, it was considered good hiring practice. Rationally speaking, the individuals who are unemployed typically are those who were the least valuable to their last employer. Companies are in business to make money... you don't fire or lay off your best employees. Ergo, those who are unemployed were considered the less desirable. Better to hire an employee who is still working (and still considered a valuable asset by their current company), than to risk hiring in someone who was culled.
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ORIGINAL: AlwaysLisa
I've seen them request a two year degree, for a receptionist position. We're talking answering phones and stuffing envelopes. Must be those complicated kind of envelopes that only a Bachelor Degree will prepare you for. It's like house shopping during a sellers market. Having lived through a few of these, I'm going on hope that this too shall pass.
I doubt it is ever going to pass... the bar has been raised.
Think about it. Thirty years ago, fewer people attained a college degree. It wasn't necessary because there were plenty of opportunities for work without one. They weren't necessary glamorous, and they might require more labor, but you could still make a decent living.
Typically, higher wages are paid to individuals who hold positions where a college degree is needed. Note that I didn't say "necessary". I'm not talking about where an employer arbitrarily decides they want someone with a degree, but positions that actually require someone who has skills and education only obtained through college.
Due to the drive to hold those higher wage positions that were more glamorous and required less labor (much of which is instigated by parents... the drive, that is), coupled with an increased willingness to go into debt for an education and a societal shift wherein higher education is more of an expectation, we've greatly increased the number of people who now have degrees.
Unfortunately, we've not commensurately increased the number of positions that truly require a higher education. Instead, we've forced degreed individuals into lower paying jobs... and the employers of those jobs have become accustomed to having higher qualified persons to fill those positions.
There is also the fact that typically the company officials who determine what criteria is needed for a job are pressured to do whatever they need to do to ensure a more productive employee. Requiring a receptionist to have a two year college degree is a way to help ensure that employee will be more responsible and more productive.
I hate to say this, too, but many of those company officials, as well as the supervisors who do the hiring, have also developed something of a "snobbish" attitude with regard to their own degrees. For example, it is almost impossible to get a position in a Human Resources office without a degree. Even a lowly receptionist position in an HR office usually requires a degree because many of the duties they will perform will be Human Resource related functions. Now, nearly everyone working in the Human Resources field in a hiring position holds a degree. Do you think they want to admit to anyone else... let alone themselves... that someone who doesn't have a degree can possibly do any of the work they do without the higher education?
Of course not.
So the bar keeps getting pushed higher and higher, while the value of a degree continues to drop.
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