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posted by chromas on Wednesday August 01 2018, @08:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-will-I-do-with-my-25-years-experience-in-Swift? dept.

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/


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by c0lo on Thursday August 02 2018, @12:15AM (4 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 02 2018, @12:15AM (#715985) Journal

    People feel better when they contribute to society (to family, or whatever) and you'd ban them from that because they just aren't worthy in your eyes.

    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?

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @01:11AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @01:11AM (#716000)

    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

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 02 2018, @02:34AM (#716035) Journal

      It's crazy how the left thinks that children's jobs are supposed to support a wife and 2 kids these days. CRAZY.

      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?

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  • (Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Thursday August 02 2018, @08:24AM (1 child)

    by Dr Spin (5239) on Thursday August 02 2018, @08:24AM (#716114)
    Why would an enterprise need charity money to survive,

    In a country built on slavery, the answer to this should be fairly obvious.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @12:21PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @12:21PM (#716160)

      Try again.