Victor Milne replied:
>
> | If you look at the job ads in the newspapers etc. here, there are many more
> | jobs looking for people than people looking for jobs. The problem is that
> | the qualifications of the vacant jobs are different (usually higher) than
> | the qualifications of the unemployed people...
> |
> [snip]
>
> Maybe in Switzerland, Christoph. Here in Canada the "help wanted" section of
> a paper like the Toronto Star appears very formidable. However, I daresay
> that if you added all the help wanted ads in all the papers, etc. in Canada,
> the total would still be far less than the 8% officially seeking employment
> ... not to mention those who are no longer registered but who would take a
> job if they found one, not to mention those who are underemployed and who
> would like to find a better job.
I was talking about the job *ads*... It's clear that most job seekers are
not placing their own "help offered" ads, but are scanning the "help wanted"
ads and replying to dozens of them in their search for a job. Still,
I wonder why there aren't more "help offered" ads... that would be
literally "*looking* for jobs"...
> Underqualification of the unemployed is not the only problem as our
> political & corporate masters would have us believe. Many people are very
> well qualified in fields for which there is no demand. Four years ago I
> heard an interview with a welfare recipient who had been an archivist with
> the Ontario government. He had been downsized when he was in his 50's
Isn't this problem being addressed with retraining programs (i.e. people
with "old" jobs learn "new" jobs; possibly *before* they're 50 y.o.) ?
Then Brad McCormick told this True Story:
> [.......] He survived (but hasn't
> flourished). The corporation survived (but didn't
> flourish). Our society survives using the computer
> software which failed to benfit from the
> contributions he would have made.
It seems society is now using the software of the Big *Competitor* of the
corporation in question. ;-) But considering the "quality" of the former,
I'd bet that this Competitor also made lots of wrong personnel decisions
such as the one you described ! (Worse, these errors were *systematic*:
optimizing for sales pitch and PR "quality" instead of product quality..)
Chris
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