Customer service, retail, food industry, hospitality (hotels and the like), and even travel agencies as receptionist and front-facing customer care.
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Customer service, retail, food industry, hospitality (hotels and the like), and even travel agencies as receptionist and front-facing customer care.
Might be worth asking.What qualifications are you looking for in a teller that I don't have?
In my field we're desperately looking for Medical Assistants and Dental Assistants. But that requires some schooling.
"Some" is an understatement.
Side hustles, monetizing hobbies, and other means of self employment that give them more time, freedom and control over their lives even if they aren't as well off financially as before.So what are they living on?
Side hustles, monetizing hobbies, and other means of self employment that give them more time, freedom and control over their lives even if they aren't as well off financially as before.
It's not bad idea. Lately I've been considering refocusing what I used to do and grit my teeth and learn all this internet stuff I don't know (including effectively using social media, which I'm not even on). Even if it's not that much money, being able to say "get up and get started when I want to" when people ask what do you is always nice (but I've never been corporate or career minded).That may very well be. I've never given people in my area enough credit for being that smart. I myself have been thinking about what I could do from home, given that my ability to do physical work is limited.
It's the same in software, at least in Europe. As people can sue for defamation if a rejection is badly worded, employers often skip that step.If you don't mind my asking, what field was that? Reading such things worries me a bit, but maybe it's a field totally unrelated to mine (software).
I am currently hiring research fellows and post-doctoral fellows....We all see signs all over from businesses saying they're hiring. But I wonder if they really are and it's not just a crock of ****. Hear me out.
At the beginning of the pandemic so many jobs were eliminated, so many companies closed and laid off people, so many companies never called people back. Yet after a while every storefront, window, courtesy desk, had signs We're Hiring! Yet virtually any store or business you go into is shorthanded. You hear "people don't want to work". So what are they living on? Unemployment benefits and the federal supplements ended almost a year and a half ago.
Call me a conspiracy theorist but I think companies realized they could still do business with a reduced work force. This happened over 30 years ago in the corporate world. Jobs were eliminated, the remaining employees were now expected to forgo their comp time (usually the new policy was "we don't have comp time"), we were expected to put in no less than 45-50 hours/week. My own former company, for example, eliminated my job but not the work. What I did was parceled out to at least several other people, with their workloads increasing. The company saved my salary, which was at the top of the scale after 23 years, saved my insurance premiums which were going up because of my age. They saved my four weeks vacation time ... almost $8,000 a year for no work in that time.
Oh sure, there is a new employee here and there. It looks good. When I went back to Macy*s before Christmas, I was about the only person hired all through the Christmas rush. And there were a lot of customers. But I have to wonder why businesses are so shorthanded, yet they say they're hiring. Not to mention that they send you to online application sites that go around in circles. They ask what year you graduated high school. That's illegal because they're actually asking for your age. If you try to skip that field you cannot proceed. I've submitted my resumè to Indeed, ZipRecruiter, LinedIn, and others. I do the online applications. I get "offers" that have absolutely nothing to do with my background.
So what is going on?
It's the same in software, at least in Europe. As people can sue for defamation if a rejection is badly worded, employers often skip that step.
And, as you yourself have mentioned, the software industry is one of those which put out openings for PR reasons without really hiring. You wouldn't get a "just kidding" reply from them.
My own experience and that of my friends is not indicative enough to say for sure but it is a long way from the times when mentioning you can program got you multiple job offerings.Is it hard to find a job at all in software, or is this just something only a few companies do?
It's not a conspiracy if companies down-size their workforce.Call me a conspiracy theorist but I think companies realized they could still do business with a reduced work force.
If workers are really so hard to get, we'll expect salaries to go up substantially according to economic theory. Supply and demand. Did and do salaries go up? If not, either the theory is broken or the premise is false.It's not a conspiracy if companies down-size their workforce.
But there is indeed a labor shortage around here.
Example:
Contractor friend has been looking for an additional carpenter
for a couple years. No luck yet. Lumberjack friends shut
down their company because they couldn't even get enuf of
the workers they had to show up (about 50% were willing to
work during Covid. It was outdoor work, & safe from the plague.)
Our local Meijer can't find enuf cashiers, so many registers
are unused.
How could this be some orchestrated conspiracy?
Pay has indeed increased for many jobs.If workers are really so hard to get, we'll expect salaries to go up substantially according to economic theory. Supply and demand. Did and do salaries go up? If not, either the theory is broken or the premise is false.
Some industries are moaning the lack of skilled and willing workers since forever. I'm pretty sure we can rule those as faking their openings. With others we'll have to wait and see.Pay has indeed increased for many jobs.
$65/hour for a skilled carpenter, yet no takers.
But remember that economic responses have
have phase lag, so increases don't follow demand
instantly or proportionately as a function of time.
Why would a company want to fake job availability?Some industries are moaning the lack of skilled and willing workers since forever. I'm pretty sure we can rule those as faking their openings. With others we'll have to wait and see.
If they are really open. If you aren't going to hire anyway, it costs almost nothing.It costs a lot of money to deal with open jobs.
@Debater Slayer listed the benefits. Appearance to be expanding, up&coming to impress (potential) stockholders and customers, building databases for future use, etc.And there's no benefit from pretending to want new
hires.
You don't need a conspiracy theory. Just an understanding of business sense.But I know....conspiracy theories are popular. So the
boogeyman is a massive cabal of businesses
plotting a PR campaign to pretend a labor shortage.