Submitted via IRC for Sulla
Americans looking to land a first job or break into a dream career face their best odds of success in years.
Employers say they are abandoning preferences for college degrees and specific skill sets to speed-up hiring and broaden the pool of job candidates. Many companies added requirements to job postings after the recession, when millions were out of work and human-resource departments were stacked with resumes.
[...] "Candidates have so many options today," said Amy Glaser, senior vice president of Adecco Group, a staffing agency with around 10,000 company clients in search of employees. "If a company requires a degree, two rounds of interviews and a test for hard-skills, candidates can go down the street to another employer who will make them an offer that day."
Ms. Glaser estimates one in four of the agency's employer clients have made drastic changes to their recruiting process since the start of the year, such as skipping drug tests or criminal background checks, or removing preferences for a higher degree or high-school diploma.
Source: NOTE: Original submission referenced a paywalled page at The Wall Street Journal; this link appears to link to the same story, albeit with a stock chart for Intel Corp., included: http://www.4-traders.com/INTEL-CORPORATION-4829/news/Employers-Eager-to-Hire-Try-a-New-Policy-No-Experience-Necessary-27016610/
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @08:16PM (6 children)
Technically, I'm now qualified for every job I've been applying to anyway.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Wednesday August 01 2018, @08:20PM
They didn't say they were going to stop turning you down for over-qualification, so now you are in even deeper shit
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @09:18PM (2 children)
Gender and diversity studies will always be a stain on your resume.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @10:44PM (1 child)
Oh please. Me being fired from every job I've ever had - some of them twice - is what stains my resume. Well, that and the fact that my spell checker hasn't worked since the 80's.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @11:39PM
#MeToo [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday August 01 2018, @10:51PM
Yeah, all these requirements were a lot of bullcrap to winnow out applicants. Employers had to do something, as they were being flooded with dozens of qualified applicants per opening.
But, wish they had chosen more honest rejections than the gaslighting claims that the qualified candidates weren't in fact qualified. But if they had, they wouldn't have the excuse they need to hire an H1B. Then they have the nerve to whine that schools aren't providing the training that they need in employees.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @01:25AM
We will (not) miss the bulls!t recruiter ads that demand 5 years rockstar experience in a technology only 2 years old.