OK so here I am at 33 still in the ranks of the unemployed. I am doing everything I can to make some thing happen. I have been not called, called back, told(through email of course) not the right fit, over qualified, under qualifiied, or a close match but not what the company is looking for at this time.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury I submit to you that companies are happy with the way things are. What I mean is this; our economic down turn is the perfect excuse to excuse corporate bad behaviour. No i don't think that every company should hire just any one if they apply but i think they do need to look past a piece of paper or an email and get to know the person applying. Keywords do not a person make. Just by looking at resume you can't tell how some one will be as an employee.
I wonder what would happen if the President really took an interest in the job market and made a law saying that every 10th interview had to be a hire...regardless of qualifications. Well I can speculate what that would do and any one with an imagination can too. My point here is this is how companies are treating the unemployed American public. There is a blanket assumption that unemployed means undesirable. Some people don't fit the jobs they choose to do. I have taken a few of those and I was not happy in them. I could do the work but the job didn't fit me. Just because we are unemployed does not mean we won't can't or should not work.
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