Unemployment

[OWLCITYCYFAN]

simply put companies (even Wal Mart) have a vested interest in hiring people who will stay as long as possible. Recruiting is expensive and time consuming. No one wants to do it twice.

While this is the correct answer, I still got a laugh out of the Catbert, Evil HR Director rant earlier in the thread! If you work for or have ever worked for a large corporation, the Dilbert comic strip is daily gold...

My wife likes to bring up the fact she beat out multiple Phd's for a research job at UIHC in pediatric endocrinology. Her primary function is to recruit family members of Type 1 diabetic children to participate in various test studies. She's great at it because we have two children with Type 1, so she believes in the work and has true empathy for the families of the recently diagnosed kids. She didn't have better credentials than the Phd's who applied, but they were just looking for a stepping stone while she'll retire from there. Easy choice...

 

[Phaedrus]

Wow. That's just the rambling of a lunatic hijacking a thread.

Or someone telling the unvarnished truth. HR departments are satan's spawn.

If you really believe that HR departments are designed to get the best people into jobs, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

 

[iowaboy]

I'm no lunatic. But your quoting the Simpsons speaks volumes about you. Perhaps Homar can help this gentleman get a job? IB

 

[iowaboy]

Cyclone Pride, I wouldn't be concerned about sales experience. Hire TALENT. Skills can be taught, You either have it or don't. Talented people will learn very quickly. I am sure you can teach these talented people with your background in sales.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Cyclone Pride, I wouldn't be concerned about sales experience. Hire TALENT. Skills can be taught, You either have it or don't. Talented people will learn very quickly. I am sure you can teach these talented people with your background in sales.

That is certainly true (my last hire came from WF and worked out extremely well), though all things being equal, I'll take talent with experience. Luckily, I'm getting some of those as well.

 

[ketchupnmustard]

Nepotism seems to work pretty well in most cases.

 

[HtownCyclone]

You have to play dumb with being overqualified. No company will think positively about someone applying for a job who is greatly overqualified

1.) They think the person will be a short term hire and leave at the first better offer wasting training (if you have a college degree and apply at Wal Mart that is the case unless you are talking at the Alabama head office)

2.) They either won't care about the job as much since it is beneath them and usually bringing a higher-then-though attitude with them. Or the opposite which I have seen a bunch where they will cut everyone else’s throat to move up even though they just got there.

3.) They will think that there is a reason why no one else will hire them for the job they should be going after.


It sucks though. I have been in construction since high school (even most of the time I was in Ames) and with the economy going to crap a few years ago my division closed down which was a dream job. I have been running a buddies office for him till I find something down here more towards what I like. The company that last interviewed 3-months ago (there are no construction jobs even in Houston) was lo-balling me like no other saying that they have had guys that have been in the business 10-20 years more then me who where the vp's of divisions that tanked going for the same job I am asking 33% less then me. Which I believe since those guys where dropping like flies this time a year ago, every time I called one about a project a new guy was taking over his place till the division closed down.