Not too long ago, I found myself without a job. Mainly due to me walking out after the my place of employment refused to do anything about harassment in the workplace. And began to make the workplace even more hostile for me (apparently they didn’t want to hear about harassment from one of their higher ups).
However, one of the things I noticed was just how difficult it was to find a new job. It wasn’t difficult because of there being no jobs. Because there was plenty of jobs out there. Although, almost all, were not paying very much for the openings that they had available at the time. But nonetheless there were plenty of jobs.
I suspect a good portion of people who are unemployed and getting a check for it are just not wanting to take a low-paying job that may require them to do a little more work than what they’re used to. So it is a lot easier just to collect a check and not do any work.
What made it a lot more difficult to find a job. And perhaps the most frustrating part of finding a job was how you go about applying for jobs. And that is, that almost all companies (other than perhaps mom-and-pop businesses who almost none were hiring) are no longer giving out paper short applications to fill out. Instead you have to go online to fill out applications for these companies. Making the Internet a necessity and no longer, just a simple privilege.
So now the person looking for employment. Must have a computer with an Internet connection that they have to pay for at a time where they may be desperate for money. Yes, most of these companies do have employment kiosks in their location. However, most of them seem to have been out of order for an incredibly long time. It would seem most feel they don’t need to fix their employment kiosks when they’re already overwhelmed with applications being submitted from somebody sending it from their house computer.
The few that have been working may already have somebody on it. And they may be there for many hours. As the new application systems that have been adopted by employers, include a lengthy psychological profile/test each of the Jewel must take. And when I say lengthy I’m not kidding.
In one case, I spent three hours filling out an applications psychological profile/test. And I still had 89 more pages to go, before I finally threw up my hands and said forget it. Many of them can take on average, about 2 to 3 hours to fill out. Which takes up a lot of valuable time, that one could be spending on filling out more applications.
This process becomes extremely frustrated. Because most of them are all the exact same questions you answered in the previous employers application. The redundancy starts making you want to hit your head against the wall. But is anybody going to say that when they fill out the application’s questions like, “do you sometimes get angry?” Of course not. People are going to lie and say “no.” Because they know if they answer “yes.” They most likely will not have a job. So it just shows how useless this psychological profile/test really is.
They know just how ridiculous it is because they don’t read all the answers. The computer just prints out a very basic idea based upon their answers. For example, it might print out a category saying, “a person’s happiness level…..Good.” So basically all they’ve done is higher bunch of people who have lied to them, in order to get a job with them.
But this process is ridiculous because it is time-consuming. Before this process one only needed to fill out 30 to 40 applications and return them, increasing their chances of finding a job quickly. But now with this new process, one may only get 3 to 4 applications submitted in a day. So because of this new process, it takes longer for a person to get a new job and recover my financial losses.
So in effect because of this new process that almost every employer is now incorporating into their application process. They are in effect making it harder for people to find a new job. I don’t think that that was their intent, and I think the psychological profile/test is just a way to protect themselves from possible lawsuits when one of their employees goes bat-shit-crazy and decides to go on a shooting spree.
But this process instead has created some of the problems we have today. Because, now people are probably so frustrated due to the application process that makes people think, why bother looking for new job and getting yourself frustrated when you can get a free check and relax at home? Adding to that is the low-pay, they can expect and now the system is set up so that people just don’t want to look for jobs anymore.
Why not instead have people fill out the basic application, and if the employer is interested in that person, then later have them fill out one of the useless psychological profile/test? This would greatly speed up the entire process, increasing their chances of getting the job. And help the economy move in the process.
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