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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday August 02 2018, @01:30AM (3 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 02 2018, @01:30AM (#716012) Journal

    I have little experience with HR. The experience I have is with a moron, who doesn't understand people at all. It's all about nepotism. "Oh, but Gary is such a WONDERFUL preacher! He'll make a perfect supervisor!" And, I have to ask, "WTF does preaching and supervising have in common?" Absolutely nothing, of course. This case only helps to prove that nepotism rules.

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  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday August 02 2018, @01:47AM

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Thursday August 02 2018, @01:47AM (#716021)

    My experience of HR is kind of limited, but I have noticed that it is an area of business that doesn't seem to attract the sharpest tools in the shed.

    The current one I have to avoid dealing with combines stupidity with malevolence.

    She is also a toady and spends a fair bit of her time attempting to get credit for things she has no knowledge of or part in.

    Fortunately top management are well aware of what she is and, in an unguarded moment, let slip to me the disdain he holds her in.

    That rant makes it sound like I hate her, but actually, her transparence makes dealing with her quite a fun game.

    Anyway Gary sounds awesome! If he's already a preacher, he is lacking any sort of critical thinking and will fit right in. Send him over.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @03:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @03:27AM (#716056)

    Preachers have fine tuned the ability to collect a tithe, yet have no deliverables!

    And people keep coming back week after week to hear him.

    Three minutes with ME and they simply walk away!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @04:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @04:03PM (#716303)

    If the nepotism is ruling then I'd suggest that your HR person understands people completely. (As in, it's rarely about the tasks that need to be done and entirely about the relationships.) And many people confuse being religiously active as being in possession of superior faculties or skills.