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Thursday, June 17, 2010

The bs with looking for a job while being unemployed

...Out-of-work job applicants told unemployed need not apply

The last thing someone who is unemployed needs to be told is that they shouldn't even apply for the limited number of job openings that are available. But some companies and recruiters are doing just that.

Employment experts say they believe companies are increasingly interested only in applicants who already have a job.

"I think it is more prevalent than it used to be," said Rich Thompson, vice president of learning and performance for Adecco Group North America, the world's largest staffing firm. "I don't have hard numbers, but three out of the last four conversations I've had about openings, this requirement was brought up."

Some job postings include restrictions such as "unemployed candidates will not be considered" or "must be currently employed." Those explicit limitations have occasionally been removed from listings when an employer or recruiter is questioned by the media though.

That's what happened with numerous listings for grocery store managers throughout the Southeast posted by a South Carolina recruiter, Latro Consulting.

After CNNMoney called seeking comments on the listings last week, the restriction against unemployed candidates being considered came down. Latro Consulting refused to comment when contacted.

Sony Ericsson, a global phone manufacturer that was hiring for a new Georgia facility, also removed a similar restriction after local reporters wrote about it. According to reports, a Sony Ericsson spokesperson said that a mistake had been made.

But even if companies don't spell out in a job listing that they won't consider someone who currently doesn't have a job, experts said that unemployed applicants are typically ruled out right off the bat.

"Most executive recruiters won't look at a candidate unless they have a job, even if they don't like to admit to it," said Lisa Chenofsky Singer, a human resources consultant from Millburn, NJ, specializing in media and publishing jobs.

She said when she proposes candidates for openings, the first question she is often asked by a recruiter is if they currently have a job. If the answer is no, she's typically told the unemployed candidate won't be interviewed.

"They think you must have been laid off for performance issues," she said, adding that this is a "myth" in a time of high unemployment.

It is not against the law for companies to exclude the unemployed when trying to fill positions, but Judy Conti, a lobbyist for the National Employment Law Project, said the practice is a bad one.

"Making that kind of automatic cut is senseless; you could be missing out on the best person of all," she said. "There are millions of people who are unemployed through no fault of their own. If an employer feels that the best qualified are the ones already working, they have no appreciation of the crisis we're in right now."

Conti added that firms that hire unemployed job seekers could also benefit from a recently-passed tax break that essentially exempts them from paying the 6.2% of the new hire's wages in Social Security taxes for the rest of this year.

Thompson said he also thinks ruling out the unemployed is a bad idea. But he said that part of the problem is that recruiters and human resource departments are being overwhelmed with applications for any job opening that is posted. So they're looking for any short-cuts to get the list of applicants to consider down to a more manageable size.

"It's a tough process to determine which unemployed applicants were laid off even though they brought value to their company and which ones had performance issues," he said. "I understand the notion. But there's the top x percent of unemployed candidates who are very viable and very valuable. You just have to do the work to find them."

Monday, June 7, 2010

not so much goin on

Hi everyone this is Duece here, There's much going here on my end just a bunch crap, that I'm not understanding. I had some of my time filling out job applications on the internet, and alot of the things that I think is stupid, but yet alot of companies depend on these functions that everyone is required to fill out while on the companies website: 1. The first thing that I hate as of now is that while filling out applications online, is that there are alot hoops to jumo through some I can understand and then there's some are ridiculous. 2. Why is it that while filing out apps online that the seperate windows keep closing on me, causing me to keep going back, and back to fill out the same crap online, instead of me moving on, I'm spending 5 mins trying to get through one window. 3. Why do these websites have short time limits on them, specially if you're filling a long app on there, not everyone likes goin back and forth filling out apps, of the same page if its not saved on the website. 4. Why is it that when filling a job app online the company has you do assessment tests (long ones I might had) and then by the time your done, and get the results, they are completely false. Like for instance I filled out this one app online, and I did the assessment test on it, and by the time, I was done, and got the results back. The webpage had said that I wasn't not qualified for nothing that they had openings for, but yet my resume that I had uploaded on the site, had mentioned everything that I had done and all the openings on the site, I had mentioned that I had done on the resume. So that was very crazy to me. So after going through all that now. On to the music side of this blog, I had ordered a music software program from this one site, and once I had purchased it. I had downloaded it, everything went find with it, until I was trying to install it on my laptop, well the problem that I had recieved a email with the confirmation of the the purchase, and the daownload and stuff, well also there was a license key, for the product. Now when trying to put in the license key, my laptop kept telling me that I had put in the incorrect license key, well what I had done originally is that I had copied, and pasted the license key. Well apparently thats what f****ed it up, so then I manually typed it in. So that did the trick, but another problem had developed. Now I had just happened to look at my credit card statement and I was billed twice for it. Now I was getting kinda pissed at this time, so I had emailed the company(I had tried calling and this company, couldn't be reached, and worst of all I couldn't even leave a message.) What kinda s***t is that!!!!!!!!! Believe me I couldn't understand what was goin on. The company had emailed me back, and we emailed each other back and forth until most of it was resolved, now I just waiting on when my money is coming back on my card. (hopefully, that won't be a problem.) The program is everything I had exepected it to be. The program is a dj mixing program which I like and everything, but it works kinda odd to me. You can make a mix and have seperated in different tracks and all which I like but you have to jumo through hoops if your trying to make as one track. But after going through all the motions. I had finally done it. So I'm gonna let everyone listen to it, and downlown here. http://www.zshare.net/audio/770012330fe027b3/ Well here it is I hope will enjoy it. Later till next time. Dueces