Jobs Jobs Everywhere, How Come I Can’t Get One?

As the job market continues to soften (depending on who you ask), and job postings increase on sites like www.AllPinkSlips.com, how come I can’t get an interview or even a response?

Great question, the answer is the divide between the unemployed and the companies hiring continues to grow as well. There has always been a valley between companies hiring practices and identifying and selecting the right candidate for a position thus the reason staffing companies exist and are successful (at least the good ones). Companies fundamentally in most cases are not set up to effectively hire candidates properly. In many organizations, companies leave hiring to HR who are typically not worldly in the ways of recruiting rather then an actual recruiter or recruiting department. Not to mention that they (HR) are usually inundated with other responsibilities too! Also fueling the problem is that HR typically does not possess the training or the skills to indentify candidates by evaluating their specific career experience outside of going through their background for inconsistencies and evaluating their personality and potential cultural fit. To make matters worse there is also a stigma still associated with a company cold calling a candidate they find on the internet even given the fact that most job seekers are more then happy to get such a call.

So what happens? HR gets lots of resumes and tries to weed through them and since they are overworked and buried, they can very well and frequently do overlook qualified candidates or do not have time to indentify and present the right ones to hiring managers. Now since the great decline of 08 (that continues today) companies have cut down on expenses such as recruiting companies, this divide continues to grow. So it is not surprising when companies indicate that they get lots of resumes and only interview a few candidates as recently reported on cnnmoney.com, http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/03/news…open/index.htm. This is even further fueled as indicated in the article by companies trying to under pay (in some cases ridiculously low) for highly marketable and valuable skills that command greater salaries and are still in demand, taking advantage of perceived market conditions, and really not very successful. Are you surprised companies are not having much luck?

While it seems this is a negative rant, it is not, just more insight into why hiring processes are the way they are. Ok so this is all bad so is their any hope? Yes, absolutely. Since things have slowed down and cost containment is key, many companies have used the down time to rethink hiring strategies and take a new approach to hiring. In some cases more focused on behavioral hiring techniques, some have increased training for HR professionals and other companies have hired recruiters and begun recruiting departments. Many companies have reevaluated the way in which they receive candidates and streamlined the hiring and interviewing decisions and the flow of information internally within companies has improved dramatically as well. So while the valley of hiring disconnection remains, improvement has been made and will continue to happen in the coming months and years. However as with searching for a new career opportunity it takes time. That’s today thoughts and insight for what it’s worth…

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