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<pre wrap="">On 6/4/10, Tom Nowell wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> Adrian also wrote in a different message on the same topic that if people find
themselves without marketable skills, they will retrain themselves until they do
have marketable skills. Again, my reality shows this requires a lot of work and
no short-term prospects of a new job. For all you may study subjects, there's no
qualification employers like more than recent experience in a similar role, so skills
without work experience will put you behind people with experience in the interview
shortlisting.
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And just to cheer you up, there is a new trend emerging. When
employers advertise job offers - even for the lowest paid, boring jobs
- they are swamped with thousands of applicants. So they are now
saying that the unemployed need not apply as their applications will
be thrown out. Their reasoning is two-fold.
1) It gets rid of thousands of applications that they don't have to read.
2) They assume that when employers sacked people, they kept the best
people on. So they want to recruit some of these 'best' people.
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Hilarious. When I was at Apple it was way too hard to find even
reasonable candidates to bother interviewing without throwing out
applications on such bogus reasoning. I always wondered why it was so
hard to find good people with so many out of work. <br>
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Yup. That's the problem.
And saying, 'What! They have no bread? Let them eat cake' is not a solution.
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No jobs? Invent something new or go homeless ultimately. <br>
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