The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is predicting weak hiring in both manufacturing and service industries as we head into 2012. The organization expects fewer companies to be hiring this January than a year ago, January.But, on the other hand, recruiters are also reporting that it is becoming more difficult to find the right candidates.
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Had trouble commenting on the website, but had to respond to the “Unemployment benefits are too good” issue. Employers who are told this should report the new hire immediately to the state department of workforce development. It is considered fraud in most states to refuse an acceptable offer of work to draw UI. Examples of acceptable circumstances are if the employer pays less than 80% of their last wage (happens less often than you would think, most people move pretty laterally, at least in my area), if the conditions are unsafe or outside of the person’s physical ability (also happens less often than you would think, a person has to believe they are able to do the jobs they apply for to be eligible), or if the person is a full time student. It’s pretty hard to get away with a work refusal unless you were making a substandard offer to begin with, and honestly, it speaks to the character of the employee if they would rather defraud the government than do an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay.
A business that interviews many applicants and chooses one so lazy that he’d rather live on unemployment, and then pays him so little that unemployment pays better – doesn’t that business get what it deserves? Some employers go too far in taking advantage of applicants in the poor job market.
Another variable: people stuck in their underwater homes who can’t relocate to accept a given job?
Looking at your Craigslist comment, another reason could be that employers just aren’t able to properly articulate what they’re looking for in a candidate and/or what the job entails.
Maybe your standard retail-type jobs are relatively straight forward, but what about a highly technical position? Internally the position is called ‘Level 1 Programmer’ but in the outside world, it’s a ‘PHP Programmer’, or something. So you put a job out there, but not in a way that anyone you want would search for it.
I would like to move in 2012, and I am very poor at math so moving into accounting is out of the question. Also, I’m in my forties and that opens me up to discrimination. However, I am casting about for other ways to improve my marketability. I have enrolled in a Spanish class so I have the advantage of being bilingual. I’m sure I’ll find more things I can do/learn.
As a provider of staffing services & staffing solutions https://www.evilhrlady.org/2010/02/firing-thoughts.html#comment-11802 I definitely agree. Candidates are getting harder and harder to find; however LinkedIn has proved to be a huge recruiting tool to help find qualified candidates.