Worker shortage? Florida worker applies for 60 jobs and gets 1 interview.

[East-A-Squared]

A worker in Florida applied to 60 entry-level jobs in September and got one interview
Dominick Reuter
Tue, October 19, 2021, 3:34 PM·4 min read
Businesses across the US say they are struggling to find employees, especially for hourly work.

Joey Holz decided to test their claims, submitting two applications a day in September.

Holz got one interview, and his summary of the experiment went viral on multiple platforms.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/worker-florida-applied-60-entry-193423909.html

[Sherman A1]

1. I read that earlier today on facebook and it rings up as

No Sale to me. I just don't buy the story at all.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. I'm inclined to agree that there's something wrong with this story.

[Kaleva]

4. Holz targeted the most vocal critics of stimulus spending in his local area

"Holz acknowledged that his results may not be representative of the larger labor challenges in the country, since his search was local and targeted the most vocal critics of stimulus spending."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/worker-florida-applied-60-entry-193423909.html

[Decoy of Fenris]

5. Been trying to get a job, -any- job in FL, since May.

I must have sent out over a hundred applications, myself. I've heard back from two, had no interviews. I'm more than qualified for the jobs I'm applying for, and have no troublesome history.

You may not buy it, but it's a pretty big reality for us job-seekers ATM.

[obamanut2012]

6. You may not buy it, but it's real

Like others here have said, it's a lie and grift by the owners.

People who are experienced in that field, flexibility, can pass a drug test, and who will worfk for peanuts are not getting calls back. Walk in and be hired! They do, no go.

So, you may not believe it, but it is happening to so many people.

[Sherman A1]

7. Note post #4

[ExciteBike66]

3. I am a Florida resident, who recently applied for multiple part-time jobs...

My main job is still on furlough, working intermittently, so I applied to numerous part-time jobs from July - Sept. I only got interviews for temporary political petitioning jobs, one of which I accepted.

My applications for other types of work almost never resulted in any contact from the employer, only the general email from Indeed that they had gone with another candidate.

Furthermore, once you apply for jobs on Indeed, you can see how many other people applied. I was not surprised to get no contacts since the jobs I applied for usually had at least 60 other applicants. I will note however that I applied for ZERO food service jobs because those all still offered $10-$12 an hour, which is an insult.

[Hortensis]

8. The writer applied only to hard-right owners who'd loudly and publicly

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claimed to have hiring problems because Democratic policies meant people didn't have to work. Assholes who weren't serious about hiring, and the author was not attempting to get a job. The only lesson from this is that these employers are nasty phonies and the article is entertainment.

The first and last time I applied on line was probably two decades ago. Response rate was extremely poor, the couple of responses I did receive also poor. Turned out the good jobs were being filled with people who applied other ways, usually through personal contacts but also by other more enterprising efforts. Big surprise. It was still the way it always had been. I ended up with 3 job offers, 2 good, after I wrote an article about my work from my viewpoint for a trade paper.

There's not really a national labor shortage, but there's a lot of mismatch between available skills and available jobs. I've read some of the people buying houses in the hot housing market didn't factor in where they'd work and, naturally enough, now don't want to commute, much less move where they're in demand. I've also read that these on-line programs are filtering out good applicants because of words missing in the resume, or ones that are. Some filter out everyone without a four-year degree, even if they've been doing the work for years.