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: 5, Insightful) by c0lo on Thursday August 02 2018, @12:15AM (4 children)
Wages that don't pay the living cost mean any person working in that job actually brings money from home to pay their employer.
For the employee, it must be he's purchasing something - e.g. work experience - but that shouldn't last long. He''ll be dead, a destitute or someone else is paying for his living (e.g. parents or the society as a whole - like food stamps and such)
For the employer to continue the practice on long term... sounds to me like a charity-in-reverse. Why would an enterprise need charity money to survive, doesn't the capitalism require unfit enterprises let die so that the society as a whole can progress?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @01:11AM (1 child)
How can your parent be clearer? We're talking about NEW people.
It's crazy how the left thinks that children's jobs are supposed to support a wife and 2 kids these days. CRAZY.
(Score: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Thursday August 02 2018, @02:34AM
Can you read and understand that: "For the employee, it must be he's purchasing something - e.g. work experience - but that shouldn't last long."?
Should I generalize and say "It's crazy how the right has comprehension problems" based on your answer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Thursday August 02 2018, @08:24AM (1 child)
In a country built on slavery, the answer to this should be fairly obvious.
Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @12:21PM
Try again.