Hiring Manager are mad they're getting ghosted by new hires

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https://slate.com/human-interest/202...t-economy.html



This is the kinda irony I enjoy

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https://slate.com/human-interest/202...t-economy.html



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You may find this interesting:

A worker in Florida applied to 60 entry-level jobs in September and got one interview
Business Insider

Businesses across the US say they are struggling to find employees, especially for hourly work.

Joey Holz decided to test their claims, submitting two applications a day in September.

Holz got one interview, and his summary of the experiment went viral on multiple platforms.

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The labor shortage is hitting fast-food restaurants. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Joey Holz recalled first hearing complaints about a labor shortage last year when he called to donate convalescent plasma at a clinic near Fort Myers, Florida.

"The guy went on this rant about how he can't find help and he can't keep anybody in his medical facility because they all quit over the stimulus checks," Holz told Insider. "And I'm like, 'Your medical professionals quit over $1,200 checks? That's weird.'"

Over the next several months, he watched as a growing chorus of businesses said they couldn't find anyone to hire because of government stimulus money. It was so ubiquitous that he joined a "No one wants to work" Facebook group, where users made memes deriding frustrated employers.

He said he found it hard to believe that government money was keeping people out of the labor force, especially when the end of expanded federal unemployment benefits did not seem to trigger a surge in employment. The expanded benefits ended in September, but 26 states ended them early in June and July.

"If this extra money that everyone's supposedly living off of stopped in June and it's now September, obviously, that's not what's stopping them," he said. Workers have said companies struggling to hire aren't offering compe ive pay and benefits.

So Holz, a former food-service worker and charter-boat crewman, decided to run an experiment.

On September 1, he sent job applications to a pair of restaurants that had been particularly public about their staffing challenges.

Then, he widened the test and spent the remainder of the month applying to jobs - mostly at employers vocal about a lack of workers - and tracking his journey in a spreadsheet.

Two weeks and 28 applications later, he had just nine email responses, one follow-up phone call, and one interview with a construction company that advertised a full-time job focused on site cleanup paying $10 an hour.

But Holz said the construction company instead tried to offer Florida's minimum wage of $8.65 to start, even though the wage was scheduled to increase to $10 an hour on September 30. He added that it wanted full-time availability, while scheduling only part time until Holz gained seniority.

Holz said he wasn't applying for any roles he didn't qualify for.

Some jobs "wanted a high-school diploma," he said. "Some wanted retail experience," he added. "Most of them either said 'willing to train' or 'minimum experience,' and none of them were over $12 an hour."

He said: "I didn't apply for anything that required a degree. I didn't apply for anything that said 'must have six months experience in this thing.'"

Holz isn't alone. Others have also spoken out about their troubles finding work, despite the seemingly tight labor market.

In a Facebook post on September 29, which went viral on Twitter and Reddit as well, Holz said, "58 applications says y'all aren't desperate for workers, you just miss your slaves."

"My opinion is that this is a familiar story to many," he added.

By the end of September, Holz had sent out 60 applications, received 16 email responses, four follow-up phone calls, and the solitary interview. He shared a pie chart showing his results.



Holz acknowledged that his results may not be representative of the larger labor challenges in the country, since his search was local and targeted the most vocal critics of stimulus spending.

He added that despite the claims of some businesses struggling to hire, his boss had no staffing issues during the pandemic.

"Nobody leaves those positions because he takes care of his people," Holz said, referring to his boss.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/worker-fl...193423909.html

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Where Did 7 Million Workers Go?

The U.S. economy is booming,

but there’s a mysterious hole in the labor force.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...sappear/620475

[RandomGuy]

Where Did 7 Million Workers Go?

The U.S. economy is booming,

but there’s a mysterious hole in the labor force.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...sappear/620475

The Great Resignation: Reality or myth?
Whenever I hear about trends with catchy names — even those that intuitively ring true to me — I do a little fact-checking. My latest probe: The “Great Resignation.”
I regret to tell my friends in leadership and management that the “Great Resignation” isn’t based on random anecdotes strung together and dubbed a phenomenon. There’s plenty of painful evidence to prove it is the real deal.

Signs of the “Great Resignation”
People are quitting their jobs in startlingly high numbers. A U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report says nearly 4 million Americans quit their jobs in June this year — a huge jump over last year.[1]

And a Gallup analysis says up to 48% — you read that right — 48% of workers are either looking for a new job or actively considering it.[2]

Managers, that’s a challenge.

What’s driving it
Some of it is pent-up demand for change. That’s the view of Anthony Klotz, a business school professor from Texas A&M who not only coined the “Great Resignation” term, he also predicted its arrival. Klotz saw that employees were sheltering in place during the pandemic, choosing not to leave jobs during such an uncertain time. Whether they loved their work or not, they weren’t about to risk their incomes or health insurance to make a switch.[3]

It makes sense that, as we began to see signs of pandemic recovery, people who were already itching for new challenges felt more empowered to make their moves. But so many more things happened during the pandemic that affected workers as never before. For example, employees:

Worked from home and discovered they liked it.
Recaptured time they would have spent commuting.
Helped educate their children in the safety of their homes.
Saved money they would have otherwise spent on vacations and dining out.
Experienced loss and grief.
Missed being with their extended families when COVID restrictions prohibited visits.
Learned new skills via online classes.
Kept greater distance from unpopular managers or irritating colleagues.
Thought about their futures and what really mattered to them going forward.
Any of these experiences may cause people to rethink their current jobs and ask themselves questions. Is my work truly rewarding? Could I do better? What are the economic consequences of a change? Should I work less and spend more time with family? Could I earn more and do a job I love?

Employees may also be reassessing you, their manager, and the culture over which you preside.

https://www.hfma.org/topics/hfm/2021...-or-myth-.html

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But a second issue — we see a lot of anecdotal and survey data on this — is, I think we’ve really met a once-in-a-generation “take this job and shove it” moment.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/sto...t-resignation/

[RandomGuy]

https://slate.com/human-interest/202...t-economy.html



This is the kinda irony I enjoy

First go-around: no qualified applicants

Second go-around: four qualified applicants, only two showed for interviews. Offered the job to both and they declined.

Third time’s the charm, right: We hired somebody and on their third day they didn’t show up to work. Never contacted us and wouldn’t return our calls.

Now we’re in the middle of try number four. We have a conditional offer but the candidate has pushed the start date back twice. We’ll see.

I would expect this may be the year we finally see wages really outpace inflation. If you aren't getting what you need, you aren't offering enough money.