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'Unemployed Will Not Be Considered' Boycott UPDATE X2!
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A new Huffington Post article focused on a disturbing trend in hiring.
In multiple job ads, one criteria was listed as: the unemployed need not apply.
In a current job posting on The People Place, a job recruiting website for the telecommunications, aerospace/defense and engineering industries, an anonymous electronics company in Angleton, Texas, advertises for a "Quality Engineer." Qualifications for the job are the usual: computer skills, oral and written communication skills, light to moderate lifting. But red print at the bottom of the ad says, "Client will not consider/review anyone NOT currently employed regardless of the reason."
In a nearly identical job posting for the same position on the Benchmark Electronics website, the red print is missing. But a human resources representative for the company confirmed to HuffPost that the The People Place ad accurately reflects the company's recruitment policies.
"It's our preference that they currently be employed," he said. "We typically go after people that are happy where they are and then tell them about the opportunities here. We do get a lot of applications blindly from people who are currently unemployed -- with the economy being what it is, we've had a lot of people contact us that don't have the skill sets we want, so we try to minimize the amount of time we spent on that and try to rifle-shoot the folks we're interested in."
There are about 5.5 people looking for work for every job available, according to the latest data from the Labor Department.
Sony Ericsson, a global phone manufacturer that recently announced that it would be bringing 180 new jobs to the Buckhead, Ga. area, also recently posted an ad for a marketing position on The People Place. The add specified: "NO UNEMPLOYED CANDIDATES WILL BE CONSIDERED AT ALL." When asked about the ad, a spokeswoman said, "This was a mistake, and once it was noticed it was removed."
Ads asking the unemployed not to apply are easy to find. A Craigslist ad for assistant restaurant managers in Edgewater, N.J. specifies, "Must be currently employed." Another job posting for a tax manager at an unnamed "top 25 CPA firm" in New York City contains the same line in all caps.
A company's choice to ignore unemployed applicants and recycle the current workforce ignores the effect of the recession on millions of highly-qualified workers and could prolong the unemployment crisis, said Judy Conti, federal advocacy coordinator for the National Employment Law Project.
"In the current economy, where millions of people have lost their jobs through absolutely no fault of their own, I find it beyond unconscionable that any employer would not consider unemployed workers for current job openings," she said. "Not only are these employers short-sighted in their search for the best qualified workers, but they are clearly not good corporate citizens of the communities in which they work. Increasingly, politicians and policy makers are trying to blame the unemployed for their condition, and to see this shameful propaganda trickle down to hiring decisions is truly sad and despicable."
As one commenter, Downix, posted, "...if you cannot move someonefrom the unemployed column to the employed, there will be a reduced pool of potential customers for whatever your product or service. Moving a person from one employed column to another keeps the pool of unemployed larger for no reason, resulting in diminished long term profitability. While it is within their right, so is bundling up unstable financial product in to bonds and then pawning them off as good investments. It gives you a short term view for it."
This practice should not be tolerated - not in today's economy. If these companies want to employ these practices (pardon the pun), then these companies should "not be considered" when we open up our wallets, deciding where to spend our meager dollars.
I would say that anytime anyone comes across an employment ad that states that the unemployed will not be considered, the company name should be put on a boycott list. That is, if it's not a blind ad.
I am making a plea to all who discover any of these ads to post the company names in the comments below. Please be sure to provide a link to the offending ad. If at all possible, be sure to take a screen shot and email to me at the link on the sidebar. I will post all screenshots of any ads that require this disgusting (dis)qualification (provided that the company name is clearly visible in the screen shot).
This will not happen without YOU, dear reader. Please... spread this far and wide. Send to your friends. Repost on other websites. Let's refuse to "hire" these companies with our wallets.
UPDATE: The original, offensive job posting, courtesy of WABE newscast, Public Broadcasting.
Thanks, dobleremolque! Just the right amount of humor we need for such an outrageous topic!
Be a better human.
In multiple job ads, one criteria was listed as: the unemployed need not apply.
In a current job posting on The People Place, a job recruiting website for the telecommunications, aerospace/defense and engineering industries, an anonymous electronics company in Angleton, Texas, advertises for a "Quality Engineer." Qualifications for the job are the usual: computer skills, oral and written communication skills, light to moderate lifting. But red print at the bottom of the ad says, "Client will not consider/review anyone NOT currently employed regardless of the reason."
In a nearly identical job posting for the same position on the Benchmark Electronics website, the red print is missing. But a human resources representative for the company confirmed to HuffPost that the The People Place ad accurately reflects the company's recruitment policies.
"It's our preference that they currently be employed," he said. "We typically go after people that are happy where they are and then tell them about the opportunities here. We do get a lot of applications blindly from people who are currently unemployed -- with the economy being what it is, we've had a lot of people contact us that don't have the skill sets we want, so we try to minimize the amount of time we spent on that and try to rifle-shoot the folks we're interested in."
There are about 5.5 people looking for work for every job available, according to the latest data from the Labor Department.
Sony Ericsson, a global phone manufacturer that recently announced that it would be bringing 180 new jobs to the Buckhead, Ga. area, also recently posted an ad for a marketing position on The People Place. The add specified: "NO UNEMPLOYED CANDIDATES WILL BE CONSIDERED AT ALL." When asked about the ad, a spokeswoman said, "This was a mistake, and once it was noticed it was removed."
Ads asking the unemployed not to apply are easy to find. A Craigslist ad for assistant restaurant managers in Edgewater, N.J. specifies, "Must be currently employed." Another job posting for a tax manager at an unnamed "top 25 CPA firm" in New York City contains the same line in all caps.
A company's choice to ignore unemployed applicants and recycle the current workforce ignores the effect of the recession on millions of highly-qualified workers and could prolong the unemployment crisis, said Judy Conti, federal advocacy coordinator for the National Employment Law Project.
"In the current economy, where millions of people have lost their jobs through absolutely no fault of their own, I find it beyond unconscionable that any employer would not consider unemployed workers for current job openings," she said. "Not only are these employers short-sighted in their search for the best qualified workers, but they are clearly not good corporate citizens of the communities in which they work. Increasingly, politicians and policy makers are trying to blame the unemployed for their condition, and to see this shameful propaganda trickle down to hiring decisions is truly sad and despicable."
As one commenter, Downix, posted, "...if you cannot move someonefrom the unemployed column to the employed, there will be a reduced pool of potential customers for whatever your product or service. Moving a person from one employed column to another keeps the pool of unemployed larger for no reason, resulting in diminished long term profitability. While it is within their right, so is bundling up unstable financial product in to bonds and then pawning them off as good investments. It gives you a short term view for it."
This practice should not be tolerated - not in today's economy. If these companies want to employ these practices (pardon the pun), then these companies should "not be considered" when we open up our wallets, deciding where to spend our meager dollars.
I would say that anytime anyone comes across an employment ad that states that the unemployed will not be considered, the company name should be put on a boycott list. That is, if it's not a blind ad.
I am making a plea to all who discover any of these ads to post the company names in the comments below. Please be sure to provide a link to the offending ad. If at all possible, be sure to take a screen shot and email to me at the link on the sidebar. I will post all screenshots of any ads that require this disgusting (dis)qualification (provided that the company name is clearly visible in the screen shot).
This will not happen without YOU, dear reader. Please... spread this far and wide. Send to your friends. Repost on other websites. Let's refuse to "hire" these companies with our wallets.
UPDATE: The original, offensive job posting, courtesy of WABE newscast, Public Broadcasting.
Was this job posting the fault of Sony Ericsson or The People Place, their online job posting agency?
UPDATE 2
Here is a FABULOUS idea from HP commenter dobleremolque: I sense an entrepreneurial opportunity here. Let's see...I'll create a social networking site called "Employmentbook", and hire you! You fill out what your duties and skills are. We pay you no salary or benefits, but file all the paperwork for employer payroll deductions at a salary of $0, and give you $0 sum W-2s each January.
And when you apply, you don't have to lie. Yes, you are currently employed and when they contact us to verify, we tell them ONLY employment start date and nothing more. Just like in the real world.
Now...lemme register that web domain...
And when you apply, you don't have to lie. Yes, you are currently employed and when they contact us to verify, we tell them ONLY employment start date and nothing more. Just like in the real world.
Now...lemme register that web domain...
Thanks, dobleremolque! Just the right amount of humor we need for such an outrageous topic!
Be a better human.
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