Guy Applies To 60 Places That Said They Were Hiring, Only Gets 1 Interview, Shares How Something Doesn’t Add Up
You’ve probably heard of businesses around the US complaining of staff shortages, especially for hourly work. In the post-pandemic world when businesses are reopening doors and doing everything to attract customers in uncertain times, job vacancies are accelerating like crazy. Or so we are led to believe.
But if there are more vacancies and those willing to fill them up, getting a job should be a matter of seconds. Joey Holz decided to test if that’s the case and submitted 2 applications a day in September. “It was 60 applications, 16 responses by email, 4 emails turned into phone calls, and 1 interview,” Joey told Bored Panda about the underwhelming results his experiment has brought.
On a more solid account, there was 1 interview with a construction company that offered a full-time position on site to clean up for $10 an hour. But according to Joey, the company tried to offer him Florida’s minimum wage ($8.65) to start with, with full-time availability on the worker’s part, although he was scheduled for part-time only.
Scroll down below to see the eye-opening insights of Joey Holz’s experiment that sheds light on this alleged “nobody wants to work anymore” problem, showing that not everything is what the employers would like us to believe.
Businesses around the country have been complaining of staff shortages, creating an illusion that people just don’t want to work anymore these days
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37-year-old Joey Holz told Business Insider that he first became aware of the complaints about a labor shortage last year. It was when he called to donate convalescent plasma at a clinic near Fort Myers, Florida. He recounted: “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. And I’m like, ‘Your medical professionals quit over $1,200 checks? That’s weird.'”
The former food service worker and charter-boat crewman 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. All expanded benefits ended in September, but 26 states—including Florida—ended them early in June and July.
So, Joey Holz did the smart experiment, sending out two job applications a day in September and his results were pretty… shocking
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So in order to find out what’s up, Joey ran a smart experiment. Targeting restaurants that were openly desperate about their staffing shortages, he sent job applications willing to land a position there.From September 1 up to the end of the month, sending two applications daily, Joey had already handed in 60 applications.
Joey’s experiment has gone viral for exposing businesses that openly insist they’re desperate for workers
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Incredibly, all this work didn’t actually pay off as much as one would expect with desperate businesses seeking staff members. From 60 applications, Joey received 16 responses by email, 4 emails that turned into phone calls, and 1 interview.
He then shared an illuminating pie chart that sums up the results from #JoeyHolz’ experiment, although he addressed the fact that the results may not be representative of the larger labor challenges in the country.
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After going viral on social media, #TheJoeyHolzExperiment didn’t end just there. In fact, he’s up and ready for yet another step. “I am now opening the data collection to submissions by anyone who has a personal experience like mine,” he told us. Joey’s goal is getting a full look, not just his, at what’s really happening in the labor market.
“This is how we fight back!” says the slogan of his new campaign. In this form, the respondents are asked to submit details on their most recent job search, the amount of applications submitted, the percent who responded, and the interviews attended.
“There’s no way my story is going to tell it for everybody, but to move the Joey Holz experiment forward, I set up a Google form asking for anyone who wants to submit job search information in a way that we can quantify the data. That’s going to give us a more comprehensive picture of what’s really going on,” Joey explained.
He is planning to collect responses throughout a month and review the data at the end of November. Let’s wait and see what he tells us about the state of the job market right now, which should finally debunk the infamous “nobody wants to work anymore” we have all been hearing a lot lately.
And many people had a lot to comment on this whole situation
Employers are so desperate to go back to their old ways instead of keeping up with demand. Employees want more money, PTO, and to be treated as human.
Don't see why this got down voted. I completely agree.
Load More Replies..."They don't want to work" is a cover for "We want to keep staff low and underpaid and blame the resulting bad service on 'lazy workers'." It's an orchestrated move led by management organizations.
I thought it rather suspicious, given so many Southern states have lifted restrictions unwisely and how many in said states seem quite content to put their lives at risk so casually, that even there these corporations could find no employees. They're basically crab-bucketing because they figure that Average Joe will break first. Sickening.
OMG SAME. i am on the verge of a nervous breakdown every day over this. I get so far- even to be told I am pretty much hired only to be ghosted with ZERO follow up. Doesn't seem to matter if I'm over qualified,under qualified or perfect. I have had my resume looked at by a professional who says it is near flawless. I have had a family friend in HR call my past jobs and professional references. She said my professional references simply RAVE about me as a worker. We can't figure it out. I am even being turned away from fast food. As a person who already struggles with social issues and self this is literally breaking me down more every day to the point of severe depression. It has torn my confidence down to the point I am dissolving the small jewelry business I have been trying to build. It seeps into my dreams and now nightly I have nightmares of rejection by jobs. My family is struggling with money- cars, house, our health-it is all falling apart.
"Hang in there" sounds so trite, but try to hang. Don't let it destroy your confidence, the whole country is in a mess behind this. You are NOT alone. If you can afford to go to a Dr., talk to him about your anxiety and see if he can help. I did.
Load More Replies...I know this is right. My son has put in numerous applications. (he is still in HS btw.) and NO ONE calls him back. But yet EVERYWHERE has "now hiring" signs. It's infuriating. But then they want to complain that no one is working. I remember when I was his age, I could get a job in a day. Now they do 2,3 even 4 interviews and STILL don't hire.
I swear there must be some kind of tax break a company gets for claiming they’re understaffed or that they are hiring. Places that claim to be hiring will interview me and then still be hiring months later. They do t want to take on new staff they just want to look like they’re helping the economy
Doesn't surprise me one bit. This was true long before the pandemic. I once met a small business owner who moaned about how "Nobody wants to work!", but further questioning revealed that of course they didn't want to pay more than minimum wage and they wanted full time hours for part-time benefits. This was nearly 30 years ago. Grifters are going to grift.
My husband applied to about 100 jobs and received 4 interviews over the course of a year looking for a job recently
I remember years ago I was desperate for work and applied at so many entry level jobs and the large percentage never responded. I'd had lots of cashier jobs in my job history couldn't even get hired for those. I was so pissed, for a lot of years there were so many companies I boycotted just because they thought I wasn't worthy of working there.
HR departments need a total overhaul. They need to get rid of those computer programs that review resumes before sending them to actual people. Unless you have certain keywords, which you don't know what they are, you are not getting by. It's so lazy and unproductive
Load More Replies...Meanwhile my job keeps hiring loads of minors and then blames the understaffing on them because of their inability to have open availability. Like no, you'd have a full time adult staff if you gave them enough money and time to support themselves.
Lol I'm doing the same experiment only.. I'm doing it so I can get food and shelter. I've sent out thousands of applications and been on hundreds of interviews since Covid and I don't get responses from a good... 90% of the places I apply to. I started looking for a job as a server just to make ends meet, since they are allegedly so severely understaffed and I even went in person to most places with now hiring signs. At this point I've applied to 30+ restaurants, had 3 interviews at a couple of places I showed up in person. I got hired at one, never heard back from any other one. The one that hired me kept "training" me for 2 weeks on minimum wage, and now, they only gave me 2 days a week as a server and told me that I'm going to have to fill in sometimes as a host(which is minimum wage) for a total of 3 days a week. They have more servers than shifts available, but the servers they have are given unreasonably large sections, so they don't have time to actually provide good service.
Check out Beau of the Fifth Column on youtube. He did a great vid on this. It's not that they're short-staffed. They're stingy.
Hmmm, now I'm torn between whether they are choosing beggars or if their "desperation" is just for show 🤔
I had this problem over the summer. I'm a teacher but need a second job to make ends meet. Except no one is hiring. I get turned down because their "summer job" starts in April and ends in October, or they advertise seasonal but want full time, or they don't want someone too educated, or unwilling to work 11 hour shifts on $2 plus maybe tips, or even the tried and true they think a woman can't handle the physical labor...the list of why they can't hire candidates goes on and on.
My daughter has been dealing with this, we live in upstate NY and there are signs on the vast majority of local businesses about how we need to be patient with them as they are understaffed. Every business in town has a "we are hiring" poster in at least two of their windows. My daughter graduated HS this last spring, and has applied everywhere at least twice, she has gotten 1 interview, as a side note they said that they would give her the job but ended up calling her the day before and telling her that they actually didnt have enough shifts for her, so they couldn't hire her at this time. So yeah, real familiar with this.
From the UK it is interesting to me that so many salaries are so low that working at least 2 jobs is imperative and as you seem to have an appalling welfare system, that people would rather do that than work and lose those pathetic benefits. And yet you seem to see nothing wrong with this. Land of the Free my sweet F*nny Adams
The people that I know personally would love to work. They don't "live" on welfare. Welfare isn't a living. They are only collecting unemployment until they get jobs. The US doesn't have safety nets like the UK has. Without it middle class people would lose everything. Homes, rental and ownership, would be lost, vehicles needed to get to and from jobs, or job interviews would be repo'd, and clothing and food would be something dreams are made of. You have a point, but I think it's based on stereotypes. Yes, we are screwed up, but no, most of us don't live our lives on welfare you daft cow!
Load More Replies...My husband is in the management chain at a "big box" retailer. His store has a giant sign in the front window, "Now Hiring". However he has confided in me that they actually aren't hiring, but that their corporate office requires them to keep the sign up. They aren't even being given enough labor hours to fully staff the store with their current workforce. When someone quits for greener pastures or simply burns out, their labor is actually CUT, so they can't replace the lost worker. Many big box retailers saw that they can run their stores with a minimal staff during the shutdown. Now, they won't increase labor and allow hiring, because, "You were able to do it during the shutdown, you should be able to do it now."
Capitalism requires a small number of people to stand on the backs of the masses and pull almost all of the revenue into their pockets. To do so requires a majority subservient, low wage underclass. Without that underclass, Capitalism doesn't work. And guess what? Raising the minimum wage doesn't help. Doing so causes all prices to inflate such that any gains made from an increased minimum wage are lost in short order. Capitalism is good for what middle class remains, and its great for the economically elite who make the rules and keep themselves in elite status, but its terrible for the underclass who are REQUIRED to live in a perpetual state of poverty/near poverty. That's Capitalism. If you don't understand this then you missed the boat.
There is no shortage of workers - the "shortage" is in the number of employers willing to pay fair wages. Yes, many people have died because of the pandemic, and yes, many others have rethought their career paths, but on the whole, the workers are there - they just don't accept slave wages or deceptive employers anymore.
Friends of mine own a business, they pay $15/hr starting with potential to earn bonuses and offer benefits. They need at least 30 employees to run their business. Right now they have 20. They get maybe 1-2 applications a month, despite advertising in multiple places.
Playing devils advocate, I'd like to know more about the quality of the applications. Right skills / experience / qualifications. I know certain markets won't require much, but it would be interesting additional information. And if the applications were half decent, this story is an utter travesty. Makes me so, so angry. Same in the UK - thousands without work, but transport and hospitality industries apparently can't recruit. What is wrong with the world??
Too many employers have their heads in the 20th Century when it comes to what they think they should be able to pay people to exchange their time for money. The money doesn't go as far as it used to so people have to have more dollars for the same work. The same thing applies to benefits. HR Departments have become for the most part useless cruft, mentally bound by both outmoded thought forms and computer programs that don't effectively screen for qualified candidates but reject many who would be recognized by an actual human screener as qualified. With inflation roaring through the economy at a rate that many have never seen before the out of date ways of doing business are going to force some businesses out of business. Tried and true methods that still work will continue to work, the mediocre "managers" will have to find a different line of work, and when we come out the other end businesses that survive will be leaner and more effective at all levels.
A lot of people who went broke, lost houses, cars, etc. went back to college or found full time non-minimum wage jobs that suited them. I think all this mess gave people a wake up call about their priorities. If you work a 60 hr. a week job at min. wage to pay your bills, you don't have the time or energy to look at your options. I think people did, and went with better options. Hourly min. wage jobs suck the life right out of you. Too bad for the companies wanting things the way they were, they are going to have to change.
Funny, I'm sure someone must have seen the silly "we are short staffed" sign and the typo mistake. Looks like the management is a bit short staffed in spelling skills :-)
My theory is employers will either hire teenagers who've just left school pay absolute minimum wage to, and work until they drop. Or they hire people with a bit of supervisory experience that they can slot into a team lead/supervisor role. There is no middle ground.
I work for a very good company. Good pay. No manager asks their staff to do anything they do not do themselves, me included. We pay a hiring bonus & you can get full time hours almost from day 1. The problem? People go through the entire hiring process then ghost us. I hired a guy & was going to make him one of my assistants almost immediately. He did nothing but stress he needed it from the interview on. Went around me to talk to the store dir. He worked two days. Left early the first. Called in the next two. Then had a family emergency. Continually texting me about how he hoped those things wouldn't affect his opportunity to get the promotion. I told him it wouldn't. Next scheduled shift? NCNS. Finally responded hrs later. Drags this out for two weeks. Sob story so Store Dir puts him in another Dept. Doesn't show. Comes to the store & begs. LAST chance. I txts & asked when he wanted to work. He sent back "I quit" and blocked me. Like wtf? Makes you not want to help people.
This has been exactly what has been happening to my 19 year old daughter. She thinks there is something wrong with her that nobody wants to hire her
If bored panda are in Eastern europe, why is 99% of the content American?
The headline is all over the place, but it doesn't tell the story. Over half of those employers responded to him. Because he doesn't show it, we have no idea what his application/resume looks like. We have no idea what he wrote in his emails or how he performed in the phone interviews. It's possible he tanked those to distort the results, or he lacked the skills employers were seeking, or he was overqualified and they didn't want to hire and train him if he was going to leave for a better job as soon as he could.
Just curious, how do you get to 'over half' with 16 e-mail responses, four phone calls and one in-person interview out of 60 applications? Not saying his experiment is academically solid, but he doesn't claim it to be.
Load More Replies...He starts out saying that he did a blind study and finishes with the fact, at least he was honest in one part, that he specifically targeted one group of employers. Which employers is this? What did his resume look like relative to the position he applied for? How fast did he react to email communication? Did he actually reply to email communication? He's left far too much out of the story, either because so much never truly happened or because the truth would punch holes in his "study".
He said the group of employers were the ones griping on social media that they couldn’t get employees. Maybe you need to re-read it
Load More Replies...Missing from this story, just like when I read it in the news last week, is what his resume and applications look like. Did they essentially say "give me a chance" or "this is not a person you want working for you, even for fast food"?
Exactly this. Most only application programs weed out red flags.
Load More Replies...We got lots of jobs open in mid-Indiana. It's a fact. Maybe your past history is shitty. You may have misspelled to many words on your app. Your over or under qualified. So stop justifying your laziness with BS and go to work. Uncle Sam's tired of your slacker ways.
Did you even read the article? I'm guessing no. You are part of the problem.
Load More Replies...Employers are so desperate to go back to their old ways instead of keeping up with demand. Employees want more money, PTO, and to be treated as human.
Don't see why this got down voted. I completely agree.
Load More Replies..."They don't want to work" is a cover for "We want to keep staff low and underpaid and blame the resulting bad service on 'lazy workers'." It's an orchestrated move led by management organizations.
I thought it rather suspicious, given so many Southern states have lifted restrictions unwisely and how many in said states seem quite content to put their lives at risk so casually, that even there these corporations could find no employees. They're basically crab-bucketing because they figure that Average Joe will break first. Sickening.
OMG SAME. i am on the verge of a nervous breakdown every day over this. I get so far- even to be told I am pretty much hired only to be ghosted with ZERO follow up. Doesn't seem to matter if I'm over qualified,under qualified or perfect. I have had my resume looked at by a professional who says it is near flawless. I have had a family friend in HR call my past jobs and professional references. She said my professional references simply RAVE about me as a worker. We can't figure it out. I am even being turned away from fast food. As a person who already struggles with social issues and self this is literally breaking me down more every day to the point of severe depression. It has torn my confidence down to the point I am dissolving the small jewelry business I have been trying to build. It seeps into my dreams and now nightly I have nightmares of rejection by jobs. My family is struggling with money- cars, house, our health-it is all falling apart.
"Hang in there" sounds so trite, but try to hang. Don't let it destroy your confidence, the whole country is in a mess behind this. You are NOT alone. If you can afford to go to a Dr., talk to him about your anxiety and see if he can help. I did.
Load More Replies...I know this is right. My son has put in numerous applications. (he is still in HS btw.) and NO ONE calls him back. But yet EVERYWHERE has "now hiring" signs. It's infuriating. But then they want to complain that no one is working. I remember when I was his age, I could get a job in a day. Now they do 2,3 even 4 interviews and STILL don't hire.
I swear there must be some kind of tax break a company gets for claiming they’re understaffed or that they are hiring. Places that claim to be hiring will interview me and then still be hiring months later. They do t want to take on new staff they just want to look like they’re helping the economy
Doesn't surprise me one bit. This was true long before the pandemic. I once met a small business owner who moaned about how "Nobody wants to work!", but further questioning revealed that of course they didn't want to pay more than minimum wage and they wanted full time hours for part-time benefits. This was nearly 30 years ago. Grifters are going to grift.
My husband applied to about 100 jobs and received 4 interviews over the course of a year looking for a job recently
I remember years ago I was desperate for work and applied at so many entry level jobs and the large percentage never responded. I'd had lots of cashier jobs in my job history couldn't even get hired for those. I was so pissed, for a lot of years there were so many companies I boycotted just because they thought I wasn't worthy of working there.
HR departments need a total overhaul. They need to get rid of those computer programs that review resumes before sending them to actual people. Unless you have certain keywords, which you don't know what they are, you are not getting by. It's so lazy and unproductive
Load More Replies...Meanwhile my job keeps hiring loads of minors and then blames the understaffing on them because of their inability to have open availability. Like no, you'd have a full time adult staff if you gave them enough money and time to support themselves.
Lol I'm doing the same experiment only.. I'm doing it so I can get food and shelter. I've sent out thousands of applications and been on hundreds of interviews since Covid and I don't get responses from a good... 90% of the places I apply to. I started looking for a job as a server just to make ends meet, since they are allegedly so severely understaffed and I even went in person to most places with now hiring signs. At this point I've applied to 30+ restaurants, had 3 interviews at a couple of places I showed up in person. I got hired at one, never heard back from any other one. The one that hired me kept "training" me for 2 weeks on minimum wage, and now, they only gave me 2 days a week as a server and told me that I'm going to have to fill in sometimes as a host(which is minimum wage) for a total of 3 days a week. They have more servers than shifts available, but the servers they have are given unreasonably large sections, so they don't have time to actually provide good service.
Check out Beau of the Fifth Column on youtube. He did a great vid on this. It's not that they're short-staffed. They're stingy.
Hmmm, now I'm torn between whether they are choosing beggars or if their "desperation" is just for show 🤔
I had this problem over the summer. I'm a teacher but need a second job to make ends meet. Except no one is hiring. I get turned down because their "summer job" starts in April and ends in October, or they advertise seasonal but want full time, or they don't want someone too educated, or unwilling to work 11 hour shifts on $2 plus maybe tips, or even the tried and true they think a woman can't handle the physical labor...the list of why they can't hire candidates goes on and on.
My daughter has been dealing with this, we live in upstate NY and there are signs on the vast majority of local businesses about how we need to be patient with them as they are understaffed. Every business in town has a "we are hiring" poster in at least two of their windows. My daughter graduated HS this last spring, and has applied everywhere at least twice, she has gotten 1 interview, as a side note they said that they would give her the job but ended up calling her the day before and telling her that they actually didnt have enough shifts for her, so they couldn't hire her at this time. So yeah, real familiar with this.
From the UK it is interesting to me that so many salaries are so low that working at least 2 jobs is imperative and as you seem to have an appalling welfare system, that people would rather do that than work and lose those pathetic benefits. And yet you seem to see nothing wrong with this. Land of the Free my sweet F*nny Adams
The people that I know personally would love to work. They don't "live" on welfare. Welfare isn't a living. They are only collecting unemployment until they get jobs. The US doesn't have safety nets like the UK has. Without it middle class people would lose everything. Homes, rental and ownership, would be lost, vehicles needed to get to and from jobs, or job interviews would be repo'd, and clothing and food would be something dreams are made of. You have a point, but I think it's based on stereotypes. Yes, we are screwed up, but no, most of us don't live our lives on welfare you daft cow!
Load More Replies...My husband is in the management chain at a "big box" retailer. His store has a giant sign in the front window, "Now Hiring". However he has confided in me that they actually aren't hiring, but that their corporate office requires them to keep the sign up. They aren't even being given enough labor hours to fully staff the store with their current workforce. When someone quits for greener pastures or simply burns out, their labor is actually CUT, so they can't replace the lost worker. Many big box retailers saw that they can run their stores with a minimal staff during the shutdown. Now, they won't increase labor and allow hiring, because, "You were able to do it during the shutdown, you should be able to do it now."
Capitalism requires a small number of people to stand on the backs of the masses and pull almost all of the revenue into their pockets. To do so requires a majority subservient, low wage underclass. Without that underclass, Capitalism doesn't work. And guess what? Raising the minimum wage doesn't help. Doing so causes all prices to inflate such that any gains made from an increased minimum wage are lost in short order. Capitalism is good for what middle class remains, and its great for the economically elite who make the rules and keep themselves in elite status, but its terrible for the underclass who are REQUIRED to live in a perpetual state of poverty/near poverty. That's Capitalism. If you don't understand this then you missed the boat.
There is no shortage of workers - the "shortage" is in the number of employers willing to pay fair wages. Yes, many people have died because of the pandemic, and yes, many others have rethought their career paths, but on the whole, the workers are there - they just don't accept slave wages or deceptive employers anymore.
Friends of mine own a business, they pay $15/hr starting with potential to earn bonuses and offer benefits. They need at least 30 employees to run their business. Right now they have 20. They get maybe 1-2 applications a month, despite advertising in multiple places.
Playing devils advocate, I'd like to know more about the quality of the applications. Right skills / experience / qualifications. I know certain markets won't require much, but it would be interesting additional information. And if the applications were half decent, this story is an utter travesty. Makes me so, so angry. Same in the UK - thousands without work, but transport and hospitality industries apparently can't recruit. What is wrong with the world??
Too many employers have their heads in the 20th Century when it comes to what they think they should be able to pay people to exchange their time for money. The money doesn't go as far as it used to so people have to have more dollars for the same work. The same thing applies to benefits. HR Departments have become for the most part useless cruft, mentally bound by both outmoded thought forms and computer programs that don't effectively screen for qualified candidates but reject many who would be recognized by an actual human screener as qualified. With inflation roaring through the economy at a rate that many have never seen before the out of date ways of doing business are going to force some businesses out of business. Tried and true methods that still work will continue to work, the mediocre "managers" will have to find a different line of work, and when we come out the other end businesses that survive will be leaner and more effective at all levels.
A lot of people who went broke, lost houses, cars, etc. went back to college or found full time non-minimum wage jobs that suited them. I think all this mess gave people a wake up call about their priorities. If you work a 60 hr. a week job at min. wage to pay your bills, you don't have the time or energy to look at your options. I think people did, and went with better options. Hourly min. wage jobs suck the life right out of you. Too bad for the companies wanting things the way they were, they are going to have to change.
Funny, I'm sure someone must have seen the silly "we are short staffed" sign and the typo mistake. Looks like the management is a bit short staffed in spelling skills :-)
My theory is employers will either hire teenagers who've just left school pay absolute minimum wage to, and work until they drop. Or they hire people with a bit of supervisory experience that they can slot into a team lead/supervisor role. There is no middle ground.
I work for a very good company. Good pay. No manager asks their staff to do anything they do not do themselves, me included. We pay a hiring bonus & you can get full time hours almost from day 1. The problem? People go through the entire hiring process then ghost us. I hired a guy & was going to make him one of my assistants almost immediately. He did nothing but stress he needed it from the interview on. Went around me to talk to the store dir. He worked two days. Left early the first. Called in the next two. Then had a family emergency. Continually texting me about how he hoped those things wouldn't affect his opportunity to get the promotion. I told him it wouldn't. Next scheduled shift? NCNS. Finally responded hrs later. Drags this out for two weeks. Sob story so Store Dir puts him in another Dept. Doesn't show. Comes to the store & begs. LAST chance. I txts & asked when he wanted to work. He sent back "I quit" and blocked me. Like wtf? Makes you not want to help people.
This has been exactly what has been happening to my 19 year old daughter. She thinks there is something wrong with her that nobody wants to hire her
If bored panda are in Eastern europe, why is 99% of the content American?
The headline is all over the place, but it doesn't tell the story. Over half of those employers responded to him. Because he doesn't show it, we have no idea what his application/resume looks like. We have no idea what he wrote in his emails or how he performed in the phone interviews. It's possible he tanked those to distort the results, or he lacked the skills employers were seeking, or he was overqualified and they didn't want to hire and train him if he was going to leave for a better job as soon as he could.
Just curious, how do you get to 'over half' with 16 e-mail responses, four phone calls and one in-person interview out of 60 applications? Not saying his experiment is academically solid, but he doesn't claim it to be.
Load More Replies...He starts out saying that he did a blind study and finishes with the fact, at least he was honest in one part, that he specifically targeted one group of employers. Which employers is this? What did his resume look like relative to the position he applied for? How fast did he react to email communication? Did he actually reply to email communication? He's left far too much out of the story, either because so much never truly happened or because the truth would punch holes in his "study".
He said the group of employers were the ones griping on social media that they couldn’t get employees. Maybe you need to re-read it
Load More Replies...Missing from this story, just like when I read it in the news last week, is what his resume and applications look like. Did they essentially say "give me a chance" or "this is not a person you want working for you, even for fast food"?
Exactly this. Most only application programs weed out red flags.
Load More Replies...We got lots of jobs open in mid-Indiana. It's a fact. Maybe your past history is shitty. You may have misspelled to many words on your app. Your over or under qualified. So stop justifying your laziness with BS and go to work. Uncle Sam's tired of your slacker ways.
Did you even read the article? I'm guessing no. You are part of the problem.
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