Vox on the Great Mismatch between employers and job seekers
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https://www.vox.com/recode/22673353/unemployment-job-search-linkedin-indeed-algorithm
Why everybody’s hiring but nobody’s getting hired
Not a lot of hard data, a lot of blame on over-reliance on technology, many points that @Aqua-Letifer has railed against in the past. Still, an informative piece attempting to shine more light on why there are so many who want to hire but haven’t while simultaneously there are also so many who want jobs but cannot get one.
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Sorry, I won’t give Vox a single click if I can avoid it.
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It basically say people don’t want jobs with low pay and benefits anymore.
What it doesn’t address is why people wanted those jobs in 2019 but not 2021.
Is this all due to a collective COVID-induced catharsis on meaning?
Unemployment benefits aren’t mentioned.
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tl;dr for those who don't want to read Vox (which is understandable):
there’s an incongruity between what they are hearing about jobs and what is actually happening.
For some of the jobs available, people don’t have the right skills, or at least the skills employers say they’re looking for. Other jobs are undesirable — they offer bad pay or an unpredictable schedule, or just don’t feel worth it to unemployed workers, many of whom are rethinking their priorities. In some cases, there are a host of perfectly acceptable candidates and jobs out there, but for a multitude of reasons, they’re just not being matched.
There are also workers who are hesitant to go back — they’re nervous about Covid-19 or they have care responsibilities or something else is holding them back.
The result is a disconnected environment that doesn’t add up, though it feels like it should.
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Through the pandemic, I've quit my job, been unemployed, and found a new one. My experience is solely in office work, but here's my $0.02:
- COVID's a big problem. There's a massive spectrum of employee expectations—everywhere from "I demand to work from home" to "I demand to work with others in an office." The disconnect here is that companies are by and large inflexible—either they're demanding everyone come in, whether you're immunocompromised or not, with no health and safety protocols whatsoever, or they're going all in on remote work and alienating those who want to be in-person.
- I've spoken to many, many recruiters. Most of them are helpless. Only when the economy is doing really good do companies reach out to them to help with placement. (Makes sense; "why waste the money" they'd likely say.) When things are just picking up, companies are preferring to go DIY on placements. So, recruiters are SOL and so are those who rely on their expertise.
- Also, many people have tried remote work in the past year and like it so much they don't want to settle anymore. (And in this area, when 90-minute commutes are commonplace, that's understandable.) Others have compromised their needs for decades, for security that fell out from underneath of them during the pandemic—in other words they put their head down and got laid off anyway. So now they're demanding more from their employers. Combine this with a hiring process that's more and more impersonal, inflexible and automated, yeah, no freaking wonder both sides are presently unhappy.
The article reads a little hand-to-mouth to me, though. People are still doing the resume/interview thing when last year's disruptions made other options available to them. Folks should think a little more laterally. New arrangements and opportunities are forming out there.
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@xenon said in Vox on the Great Mismatch between employers and job seekers:
It basically say people don’t want jobs with low pay and benefits anymore.
What it doesn’t address is why people wanted those jobs in 2019 but not 2021.
Is this all due to a collective COVID-induced catharsis on meaning?
Unemployment benefits aren’t mentioned.
Climate change. That's it. Climate change.
