Unemployment
can make it harder to get a job. That sounds strange, but it's a truism
in the placement and recruiting industry. Once you spend any amount of
time without a job, getting one at all becomes more difficult. Even
though corporation have unfilled job openings, they tend to not hire the
unemployed.
According to 36 percent of recruiters, it
becomes “difficult” for an applicant to find a job if he or she is
unemployed for as little as six months. Twenty-one percent say that
spells of joblessness shorter than six months could kill your hiring
prospects. In short, “unemployment can lead to being unemployable.”
In
a slack labor market, many workers survive by hopping from job to job.
But even that makes an applicant look bad. The survey reports that a
55-year-old with steady employment will find it easier to find a new job
than a 30-year-old who has left a company before one year of work. And
that’s despite the fact that 70 percent of recruiters say that
candidates in their 30s are the easiest group to place.
I think I'm starting to see why these job opening go unfilled. Maybe we need some "new blood" in these recruiting positions.
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