Do you believe it?
In a time when some of the best talent in the world is available (read ‘low hanging fruit’) among the nations’ unemployed, THIS starts to be “policy” in more and more companies.
If you’ve been keeping up with my posts, you know that I have been on a rant about unemployment and the missed opportunity that the Internet offers to many, many people, as a way to reinvent their careers and their lives. But I’m the first to also say that learning how to work online from home as a way to reinvent a life and a career is not for everyone!
NOTHING is a one-size-fits-all.
I just had to blow off some steam and outrage on behalf of the many millions of people who are currently out of work. And you know what? I’d say that those workplaces with policies against hiring the unemployed, are the ones that are really out of luck. Their loss.
The very experience of becoming unemployed, galvanized by the sheer force-of-will that it takes to press on with a job search in the face of such attitudes, makes (IMHO) most of the unemployed far MORE valuable, fresh, and appreciative prospects than those who have managed to hold onto their jobs but are fried (that’s technical lingo) from carrying more than their fair share through the last couple of years.
There is enough work to be done, and enough workers to do it, but not within our current system. We have outgrown the system of working in this era that still expects each worker to “go to work” each day and collect a paycheck from an employer that calls all the shots. That is an industrial era paradigm and we are no longer in that era.
We (as a culture) still hold forth a value and ideal that one “should” go to the best college possible (at extraordinary expense), and prepare for employment (not entrepreneurship), advancement in the same career, and retirement–in that order. It rarely happens that way for people any more (if it really ever did). But still we think that it SHOULD work out that way, and that if it doesn’t something is wrong, not with the system, but with the person whose path takes an unexpected turn (or wipeout).
There’s a problem alright, but the unemployed are not it. In fact, I believe that they are the solution.
Be amazed and amazing–and a little outraged–today,
Thia
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Out-Of-Work-Job-Applicants-Told…What???: A Review
This headline caught my eye just a few minutes ago: “Out Of Work Job Applicants Told Unemployed Need Not Apply.” I urge you to read it for yourself.
Do you believe it?
In a time when some of the best talent in the world is available (read ‘low hanging fruit’) among the nations’ unemployed, THIS starts to be “policy” in more and more companies.
If you’ve been keeping up with my posts, you know that I have been on a rant about unemployment and the missed opportunity that the Internet offers to many, many people, as a way to reinvent their careers and their lives. But I’m the first to also say that learning how to work online from home as a way to reinvent a life and a career is not for everyone!
NOTHING is a one-size-fits-all.
I just had to blow off some steam and outrage on behalf of the many millions of people who are currently out of work. And you know what? I’d say that those workplaces with policies against hiring the unemployed, are the ones that are really out of luck. Their loss.
The very experience of becoming unemployed, galvanized by the sheer force-of-will that it takes to press on with a job search in the face of such attitudes, makes (IMHO) most of the unemployed far MORE valuable, fresh, and appreciative prospects than those who have managed to hold onto their jobs but are fried (that’s technical lingo) from carrying more than their fair share through the last couple of years.
There is enough work to be done, and enough workers to do it, but not within our current system. We have outgrown the system of working in this era that still expects each worker to “go to work” each day and collect a paycheck from an employer that calls all the shots. That is an industrial era paradigm and we are no longer in that era.
We (as a culture) still hold forth a value and ideal that one “should” go to the best college possible (at extraordinary expense), and prepare for employment (not entrepreneurship), advancement in the same career, and retirement–in that order. It rarely happens that way for people any more (if it really ever did). But still we think that it SHOULD work out that way, and that if it doesn’t something is wrong, not with the system, but with the person whose path takes an unexpected turn (or wipeout).
There’s a problem alright, but the unemployed are not it. In fact, I believe that they are the solution.
Be amazed and amazing–and a little outraged–today,
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