COMMENTARY | According to Reuters, the unemployment rate dropped to a remarkable 8.6 percent, down from 9 percent. The powers that be want to say it's because 120,000 jobs were created in November. That's not accurate. What really happened was 315,000 people decided that looking for a job wasn't working for them, but the official unemployment rate doesn't count all the unemployed. A question and answer by Reuters explains this phenomenon in detail.
In my home state of Indiana, it's no different. We're part of the nation, and our unemployed are just as discouraged. RTV6's Norman Cox quoted one job seeker as stating: " It's very discouraging. It's very difficult to find the proper interview. When you're unemployed, you have trouble with transportation, and you have trouble with the bus system. Sometimes you don't have the money to go and look for what you need to do, and I've exhausted all my benefits ," as reported by the Indianapolis Star.
I'm a Hoosier, and I'm one of the 315,000 people that dropped out of the official workforce in November. My unemployment benefits ran out, and after applying for 700 jobs in three years, I'm done. I'm done interviewing for jobs that pay less than $10 an hour. I'm done dealing with unprepared interviewers. I'm done dealing with companies that think they can treat me badly because they know there are 10 other people who would love to have the high stress, fast paced, work 12 hour day and weekends job.
I'm a person. I'm college educated with two degrees. I have five years of management experience and more than 15 years' work experience. I'm an asset. I'm not a number. I'm not a machine, and I can't do the work of three people and be successful. That's reality, but it's a reality that employers fail to understand.
The last job I interviewed for was for an HR assistant. The average salary for an HR assistant is $15 an hour. The gist of that job involved filling out benefits paperwork, screening complaints, answering HR related phone calls, filling out benefits paperwork, and setting up interviews and new hire meetings. In short, being an assistant HR employee means learning about HR. The company I interviewed with also wanted me to give everyone breaks, answer the switchboard, file non-HR related paperwork, do non-HR related data entry, and clean the office.
I was left baffled. The interviewer didn't need a full time HR assistant; she needed a part time secretary, a part time HR assistant, and a maid. Needless to say, I left that interview annoyed. The woman never should have called me.
That interview was a waste of my time, and it came after a long line of interviews that were similar in nature. The advertised job wasn't what that company really needed, and my skill set and degrees didn't correspond to the actual job. Until the advertised jobs correspond to the positions needed, I'm not interested.
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