I'm sick of 'em' how about you?
"The Olsons’ caution illustrates one reason hiring has remained sluggish, even as profits climb and employer confidence grows. With the steep cost of creating a job — especially in a still uncertain economy, and particularly in industries related to construction — employers are thinking long and hard before taking on the long-term costs of additional hiring....
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Yeah, I guess they didn't get bottom-line balancing bailouts and bonuses.
"As the economy sputters back to life, businesses are beefing up their management teams to help stimulate growth. Many small firms that can’t afford to hire executives full time are bringing them in to work a few days a month instead....
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Related:
"The economic recovery keeps defying expectations and getting stronger. Robust consumer spending in March is the latest sign that the rebound is entering a self-reinforcing cycle of improvement"
Can you build up an immunity to bulls*** or do you just get sick?
"Businesses behaving badly — to job seekers" March 29, 2011|By Katie Johnston Chase, Globe Staff
The software company definitely seemed interested in hiring Tom Fleming. It set up breakfast and lunch meetings, then flew the Concord salesman to its headquarters in Virginia for interviews with a half-dozen executives, including the founder and chief executive. But after promising to get back to him in a week, the company never contacted him again.
My guess is he didn't get the job.
“The VP of sales never had the courtesy to e-mail or text or pick up the phone and say, ‘We don’t think you’re the right fit,’ ’’ said Fleming, who was laid off in 2008. “After all that time, you don’t have 10 seconds? I was livid.’’
Why? I never expect a call back, and have never gotten one saying "You didn't get the job." That's the way life is, and one wonders why this whine is front page material for the Boston Globe. Is it because they have nothing else to write about?
No wonder newspapers are dying. If they are losing me they are dead pages walking.
As their searches for employment stretch on, some job seekers are getting a rude awakening from the companies they apply to.
At least banks are doing better than ever.
Nearly a third of the executives surveyed online by search firm Korn/Ferry International said candidates aren’t being treated respectfully by prospective employers.
When were they?
A common complaint: Companies disappear in the middle of the hiring process, failing to let applicants know they didn’t get the job, even after multiple interviews.
Hiring managers sometimes leave job candidates in the dark even in the best of times, but with nearly 14 million people looking for work — some for years now — job seekers are feeling the sting more, employment specialists said.
Can't figure it out for yourself?
If you don't get a call... ?????????????
“There are more and more people who are experiencing the black hole, putting themselves out there and not getting a response,’’ said Michelle Reina, cofounder of the Reina Trust Building Institute, a workplace consulting firm in Stowe, Vt. “That kind of situation has been there all along. It’s just that people are more sensitive to it now because they are more vulnerable.’’
Where all tax loot seem to be sucked.
With human resources departments stretched thin by a cascade of applicants, there may also be less time for politeness.
Well, f*** you!
Just doing my part.
:-)
“We live in a culture right now where everything is done fast and fluid, and I think sometimes good manners are lost,’’ said Beverly Kahn, president of the North Shore recruiting firm New Dimensions in Technology Inc.
Hey, it wasn't my idea. I've been fighting against the thing, and frankly I'm exhausted.
Job hunters can be rude, too. But when companies don’t treat candidates well, it could come back to haunt them, especially as the economy comes back to life....
Yeah, right.
One Southborough job seeker refused to consider a position at a chemical company because of the way he was treated. He was in the middle of an interview — the third of five that day — when he was told there was a problem at the plant and escorted out of the building. The company never called to reschedule his interviews, and when a recruiter called two months later to tell him the same job was open again, the man — who didn’t want to be identified because he is still looking for work — didn’t bother sending in his resume.
What is that called, cutting off nose despite face?
Others are more forgiving. Mark Shachat of Mansfield went on an interview for a computer sales job:
“Money is money.’’
Something you FIND OUT RATHER QUICK WHEN you DO NOT HAVE IT!
That is why the posts are minimal and erratic compared to past months and years. I had to take slave work to survive. ALL the MONEY was GONE!
Sheryl Fleitman of Norwood has had a half-dozen interviews since she lost her executive assistant position last fall, but few calls letting her know she didn’t get the job. “The humanity is being taken out of all this,’’ she said.
You expected humanity from state capitalism?
Ellie Rose, executive director of the Employment & Training Resources centers in Marlborough, Newton, and Norwood, said human resources is often the first department to get cut during a downturn, leading to overworked, and sometimes outsourced, employees dealing with an avalanche of applicants. Following up, she said, “is just a courtesy that employers aren’t extending any more.’’
How IRONIC! HR EMPLOYEES OUTSOURCED!
WakeTF UP, 'murka! Corporations and their MOUTHPIECE MEDIA here do NOT GIVE a DAMN about YOU!
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Some companies are more than rude....
Just like some newspapers.
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