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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-11 08:19 AM
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The Help-Wanted Sign Comes With a Frustrating Asterisk
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Source: New York Times

The Help-Wanted Sign Comes With a Frustrating Asterisk



The unemployed need not apply.

That is the message being broadcast by many of the nation’s employers, making it even more difficult for 14 million jobless Americans to get back to work.

Unemployed workers have long suspected that the gaping holes on their résumés left them less attractive to employers. But with the country in the worst jobs crisis since the Great Depression, many had hoped employers would be more forgiving.


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/business/help-wanted-ads-exclude-the-long-term-jobless.html?_r=2&hp
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