Why is it so damn hard to find a job these days

I have been looking for work for two years and I have had some jobs but none of them have been full time, I've wanted to get an apartment with sum friends for a long ass time and it hasn't ever worked out for me.

 

yeah it's tough to find a job. I've gone through a few jobs this past year and they all sucked (except for 1) and they were either seasonal or temporary, or I ended up getting fired. now I finally have another job interview today.

There should be plenty of jobs opening for the holiday season.

 

Been looking for one since beginning of April, with no luck

 

well good luck to all...

 

I've been looking for awhile now its sucks

 

there's these guys on CL giving away jobs all the time.. I heard they even pay sometimes..

 

Well, technically its not. Unemployment rates havent changed all that much. And each country in the west has certainly gone through worse periods of unemployment.

But there has been a huge shift in industries, bottom has fallen out of retail and manufacturing sectors, but quadrupled in service industries especially anything computer related.

The trouble with skilled work, Uni/College is that everyone pics the degrees they want to do or the ones they think will earn them the most money, not actually what is the reality. So you get an oversupply of law, accounting and marketing graduates and an undersupply for all things engineering / healthcare / teaching degrees

In my country, you get paid more driving a truck for a mining company than almost everything else, the catch being you have to move to the middle of nowhere, but still $1K for your HC license to earn $150K a year vs $20K for your uni degree to earn $70K a year...or more things sold over the internet means more containers, more port work, again $500 for your forklift license to end up earning the same as an accountant makes

The jobs are there, just that theres now a lot more shitty tedious jobs no one really wants to get into or think dont pay well enough- data processing, data mining, call centres, transport, container terminals.....most of which you'd have to move to a regional centre to get into.

Like with call centres, those that havent been offloaded to india, most companies will put them in regional centres to cut costs, no job security as you dont know when / if the company is going to send the operation offshore, and its a tedious job....so not all that attractive, even though if employed at the time you end up making above average salary, a salary better than a lot of more desirable inner city jobs.

It all does suck, but overall employment rates havent changed that much, the jobs are there, but the market is too fluid, far less security - a lot more stupid shit to get a job, more drastic stuff required, like resettling for a job in a regional area that you dont know if you are going to be able to hang on to in 12 months, and a higher proportion of jobs nowadays that will bore the fuck out of you

But you have to find someway to get yourself skilled, or you are fucked

 

I know what you mean man, I havn't been able to find a job in almost 2 years, small ones on and off but either wasn't getting enough hours to make any real money or I got fired, I used to think it was because of my felony that I couldn't seem to find one but I've had that off my record for about a half a year and still can't seem to get a good one.

 

I'm thinking about doing a summer work thing where you get hired in another country, but you don't get paid, just room and board

I need a job bad

 

I would say as more people are born to utilize this planet's natural resources, and as technology develops to do this faster, we will see less jobs.

I used to work for Sara Lee Foods, and we processed a LOT of food for how many people were hired. There's just so many gadgets.

And think about it, a big one, global depression. What do sad people do? Sit around and do nothing. This isn't backed by statistics, but I bet people were a lot happier to work. There were so many inventions and new things to do to conquer this continent, like cars, radio, tv that people just naturally worked.

Then China and many other countries started making even MORE stuff for us to piddle with and get fat/lazy. Now there's no room for our stuff. We probably have blueprints for a warp drive hidden somewhere, but instead there's a Toys 'R' Us selling pokemon stuff where there could be a research facility or plant.

One last thing, we as the people of the world need to stop having visions of money. It's just finely woven cotton. We need to have a world vision of peace and increasing the safety and well-being of life.

 

Not enough employers. Not too many want to become an employer. No, everyone wants to be an employee. THAT'S a problem.

 

never thought about it that way. perhaps I shall start my own business now haha.

 

I hired four of the seven folks I interviewed last Monday... two of those came to work on Tuesday (one was 25 mins late), a third called saying that his wife had a dental appointment -- it must have been a really long procedure because I haven't seem him since the interview. The fourth... who knows.

 

what kind of job is it??? dang people must not take that job serious haha. but hey I am sure its not hard to find replacements since unemployment is like 12% in some areas.

 

The jobs were/are in the construction industry and provide wages of more than $25 per hour with benefits after a probationary period -- and apparently weren't taken seriously. The 10%+ unemployment rate in the area seems to have little effect on the availability of replacements -- most of those interviewed spoke of "really needing" a job. After several cycles of interviewing and hiring as an unsuccessful effort to add 7 to 10 people to my workforce the better option seems increasing the hours of those who have proven they are interested in having a job.

 

the question : why is it so damn hard to find a job these days "
the answer : it's not hard to find a job, it's hard to find a job that pays enough to live on ! any fast food place is hiring at any given time, but you can't live on min. wage. so, perhaps the question should be : why is it so damn hard to find a job that pays enough to live on !

 

less and less jobs in UK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15715460

 

Damn 25 bucks an hour I would have worked for you...I'll pretty much take any job for 25 bucks an hour.

 

come to alberta. man....lotsa jobs, everywhere.

 

That would be nice I wish I could haha.