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- Discrimination in employment is pervasive in the federal sector as well as the private sector. However, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency, fails to effectively enforce civil rights laws. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfIEUEt_Qdo
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- It' a "Catch-22" and extremely difficult to overcome. Most employers won't hire if you are unemployed or have bad credit yet if you were laid-off due to no fault of your own, you're going to be "unemployed" and perhaps have negative marks on your credit. If you're over 50, well ... it's like climbing a mountain made of sand.
So, we have a pool of qualified workers eager to work but are not given a chance. The workers already employed are the ones who are sought after, so it becomes a game of "musical chairs" ... you lose your job, ooops ... you're out of the game. And so on and so on.
I'm in this situation. I wish I would have had the foresight years ago to make a genuine and concerted effort to become self-employed when I had more cash-flow and more energy; at the very least being self-employed, while it doesn't guarantee success or security, it does guarantee that only one person has a say over your life and career: You. - Reply to this comment
- You can't tell companies who to hire. This is not communist country, though Obama would love for it to be, no doubt. The fault lies with Obama for refusing to acknowledge that trickle-down economics in the form of tax cuts is the way to create jobs. The companies are stupid and foolish, but they don't have to hire anybody if they don't want to. The Obama administration is making sure companies don't want to hire people. In his sick, twisted mind, capitalism is evil and corporations are evil (unless they are contributing to his campaign). It really is Obama and his communist, socialist friends in Congress who are to blame for the environment.
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- I've been off work for a year from an illness. I caught Lyme last year, it was so bad it paralyzed me for several months. I was in hospital for 2 months, rehabbing at home the last year. I'm finally walking again and ready to return to work but no on will hire me and they've said right out it's because I've been off work for a year! My old job fired me because I was ill. I'm a nurse and I can't find work because I was sick, seems so unfair.
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- If someone truly can't get a job because they're unemployed there are resources to help. You can hire a service that will fake employment at a fictitious company. You can always say you were self employed and give yourself any skills you want. Dirty tactics? You bet and in this economy with the way companies operate if I was unemployed I would have no problem employing them.
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- how about the excuse the government gives you if they don`t want to hire you for a specific job,application denied"over-qualified"
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- I live in Connecticut and personally applied to be a part of this program. There needs to be more funding for projects like this. I am waiting to find out if I will be called for an initial screening interview that is used to pick potential candidates for the mid September 2012 session. There are so many people that have applied that I have no idea whether i will be called. This is a great concept and even greater if you are picked for the program, however due to the fact it relies on private funding, there are only so many candidates that they can take. Unfortunately I feel this may be another dead end for me.
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- So... the government uses my tax dollars to set up job centers and extend unemployment benefits ... but doesn't have a law against discriminating against the unemployed ???
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- Gosh, almost all of them are over 50. That is ageism, and there is a law against that. It seems they go hand in hand -- older workers are top candidates for layoffs so companies can avoid paying out pensions, then discriminated against for not being rehired.
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- The employment gap is not usually used for hiring a person . What the employers want is Skills for the job . Lets say you want a administrative clerk job , well you have to have the microsoft office skills(excell,powerpoint, word etc.)
If these skills are not currently used then you have to go back to doing the trainning yourself to come up to speed on these skills!! If you can show the employers you can currently do the skills for the job, you are then put on the short list of being hired, regardless of how long you have been out of work! Most of them will test you to see if you are currently up to par with the requirements for the job.
I have had 30 years with a major corp. and had experience with customer service and had applied for a job with Nicor. They looked a my resume and called me for a customer service / sales job . I went there for the interview and guess what it was a 2 hour test with the computer on math, customer service, and simulated voice resolution problems. Nicor is trying to see if I currently have the skills after being out of work for 8 years!! There not going to take the chance with a person who does not have the skills .
It is important that our country has specific trainning for our citizens for various job skills at a nominal and reasonable cost that everyone can afford. I gurantee you that our unemployment would not be 8 to 9 percent if the American work force can get the right trainning that would be subsidized by the government!! Just imagine if the trilion dollars that was spent on the Iraq war was spent on my idea of job skill trainning for Americans. When you focus in on war for 10 years you forget about the resources needed to train the American work force for the 21st century!!!
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