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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJobs to Fill, Employers Wait for Perfection (NYT)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/business/economy/despite-job-vacancies-employers-shy-away-from-hiring.htmlMarch 6, 2013
Jobs to Fill, Employers Wait for Perfection
By CATHERINE RAMPELL
American employers have a variety of job vacancies, piles of cash and countless well-qualified candidates. But despite a slowly improving economy, many companies remain reluctant to actually hire, stringing job applicants along for weeks or months before they make a decision.
If they ever do.
The number of job openings has increased to levels not seen since the height of the financial crisis, but vacancies are staying unfilled much longer than they used to an average of 23 business days today compared to a low of 15 in mid-2009, according to a new measure of Labor Department data by the economists Steven J. Davis, Jason Faberman and John Haltiwanger.
Some have attributed the more extended process to a mismatch between the requirements of the 4 million jobs available and the skills held by many of the 12 million unemployed. Thats probably true in a few high-skilled fields, like nursing or biotech, but for a large majority of positions where candidates are plentiful, the bigger problem seems to be a sort of hiring paralysis.
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Jobs to Fill, Employers Wait for Perfection (NYT) (Original Post)
jsr
Mar 2013
OP
They want somebody to code the entire Internet (NO BUGS!) in a femtosecond
2ndAmForComputers
Mar 2013
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TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)1. I have recently discovered that I am not qualified to do jobs
a trained monkey could do, despite 22 years of mostly steady employment and two degrees. I send out applications, and receive not one phone call in return, for jobs that pay 8 bucks an hour, have no benefits, or are temporary/seasonal. I don't know what else to do at this point. Can't afford to go back to school.
2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)2. They want somebody to code the entire Internet (NO BUGS!) in a femtosecond
and work for 10^(-Graham's Number) dollars per eon.
Anything less than that is being a lazy ass.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)3. I wonder . . .
If employers in other countries get away with crap like this. And about the guy who was asked to come up with a strategic plan, and he did, and still didn't get the job: if he gave them the plan, what are the odds they used it and didn't pay him for it?