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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: 4, Interesting) by mr_bad_influence on Wednesday August 01 2018, @08:27PM (6 children)
I have heard that in states where recreational weed is legal, employers are finding that people are not applying for jobs that require drug testing. Apparently, it is becoming harder to find qualified candidates who can pass the piss test. This is likely the reason that some are abandoning the testing.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @08:32PM (1 child)
What? You want me to piss into a cup? Fuck off.
(Score: 5, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday August 01 2018, @09:29PM
You don't want to, OK. But there are plenty of girls that will!!!
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday August 01 2018, @09:05PM (3 children)
And then someone will get crushed by a forklift load operated by a guy who smokes weeds during his breaks, triggering a millions-dollars lawsuit, and everyone will ask you to piss in the cup again. Looking at the results will be delegated to a fuse person without true power to refuse hires.
Liability and CYA ... how the US works.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday August 01 2018, @10:53PM (2 children)
Something tells me you've never been around potheads, because the available evidence is they aren't much worse at driving [norml.org], and presumably wouldn't be much worse as forklift operators. And I'd much rather have my safety depend on a stoner than a drunk, but the current tests check for THC but not alcohol.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bob_super on Wednesday August 01 2018, @11:00PM (1 child)
The question is not whether the pot caused the accident, like alcohol would.
The question is what aggravating factor can be used to extract a maximum payment from the company.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @02:33PM
That's what happens when your system of interaction is based around men-with-guns controlled by vote-grabbing politicians. It's arbitrary and capricious, and thus everyone must be treated as a fucking moron who is on the verge of fucking everything up.