Its story time folks….
     There I was at a little meeting with about a dozen or so other businesses in attendance, and as usual, the conversation turns towards employees, employee issues, and hiring issues. Today’s complaint came from a business owner who has a higher hiring demand than most in the area. He was going over applicants from that month and he had less than half the usual number. He wondered why. As this point came up, others chimed in. He wasn’t alone. If unemployment is up, the number of applicants should be up too right? Apparently not.
     So I did some research and found, after talking with several job seekers, what I believe is the answer. It is a two part problem, and they feed each other. The news says the economy is starting to show signs of recovery, so business owners are looking towards the future, and many of them are starting to run help wanted ads, and in anticipation of hiring are trying build a applicant pools. The problem is, it leads to frustration on the part of the job seeker when there is no one calling for interviews, but that are advertising openings.
     The bigger problem is what I am worried about here; laziness! This frustration leads to laziness and the assumption that no one is hiring. This is just not true, people are hiring. You want that new job, laziness is just going to further deepen that pit of wallowing despair you are laying in…get up off the couch, and start beating the streets…you will be surprised to find how many people are still looking for eager candidates who aren’t lazy!