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Originally Posted by whell
No, its not that. It's a prejudice among HR practitioners and hiring managers that "if someone has been out of work a while, something must be "wrong" with them." Its nothing new, and its been around for years.
If anything, when I counsel hiring managers on the advantages and disadvantages of particular candidates, I suggest that they de-emphasize their bias against unemployed workers, particularly in this economy. It's still somewhat of a tough sell.
The conventional wisdom is that if you can get a currently employed worker to move, you might have to pay more to get them, but they seem to have more intrinsic value in the workplace. On the contrary, some folks that we've plucked from the unemployment line are hungrier and more motivated to become productive quickly.
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Yep.
However, you and I are talking about two different things. Macro vs. Micro. At your level, I understand what you're saying and agree completely. Way above you and I, where people choose to shut down entire industries and offshore the work is an entirely different world, with different motivations.
They see the "hungrier" aspect too, and, the hungrier we are, the better. When unemployment is low, wages rise. Do they not? Finding good people to do the work at salaries that are more palatable to them becomes almost impossible. Payrolls swell and cut into profits. So unemployment must rise in order to "correct" the market. Hello, Mexico, China, or wherever. Get it?
Dave
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And before Chas chimes in, NO, I'm not talking about the guy who remodels bathrooms with a handfull of employees, if any. That also is something entirely different.