re: Does any one of you know of someone who is unemployed and actively seeking a job but can't

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we can't find qualified workers.

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Why don't companies train people any more? The same people who complain that schools don't teach kids real world skills own places that also don't want to take the time to teach real world skills.

You clearly don’t work in tech…it’s a blood bath.

We just hired a girl in marketing who was unemployed for months as well.

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It's amazing how hard it is to get people who are willing to sell.

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Good salesmen are almost impossible to find period. The ones who can really sell end up starting their own business (at an early age too). Why work for someone else when you can actually sell?

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We have an over abundance of “highly educated” individuals that are as dumb as rock. They do not want to start off low and work their way up. The worst thing is that they think sporting a worthless degree in under water basket weaving guarantees them an easy office job. Furthermore, you have the blue collar workers with no skills other than their muscle that do not want to use their muscles. That is where we are at.

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Where we are at in the workforce is everyone playing “cover my arse”. How does anything get done if everyone is afraid to try?

I know this is beside the point, but a few months ago I went to Lowe's and had a hard time finding help (to get pinestraw). Long story short, I spoke with 3 employees, two of which I obviously disturbed them from their phones. Waited a total of 30 minutes. Finally called the store from my truck and spoke with the manager. He told me they were out of pinestraw. I was certain at least 2 of the previous employees knew this and were just seeing how long the old white guy would wait.

Sent a concise email to the regional manager telling him I'd much rather deal with a 60 year old, slow moving employee that was cordial and wasn't on his phone than deal with what I had to deal with. Told him I knew it was hard to find employees in Monroe that had an IQ greater than a can of soup, but they had to do better.

So, I understand it is very hard to find good employees! I've had employers tell me they had to choose between soup can IQs or drug users. Its rough out there. Thats why I'm frustrated about my friend not being able to find a job.

That's my daughter. She has a speech and hearing disability, but graduated magna cum laud and literally top of her class in statistics. Covid hit after that, and she got her masters.

Now, she's just frustrated.

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Where? My son needs a new job. He's a hard worker.

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Camden, AR. Apply to all of them. Aerojet/L3 Harris doing to most hiring, but General Dynamics is about to really ramp things up.

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If she can sell, she can get a job. I could hire her right now.

You'd be surprised at how many kids starting out refuse to take a sales positon. Or if they do, they want to be order takers instead of true salesmen. They will answer their phone (sometimes) but they don't follow up. They won't make cold calls. They won't engage with the potential customers.

It's amazing how hard it is to get people who are willing to sell.

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if the job is in Austin area she would be interested

Austin was flooded with tech sales and marketing people and as they got laid off they ended up spilling over and taking sales and marketing jobs in other fields

the problem with a sales job is nobody is hiring entry level sales because they have nuked their training programs

so a 24 year old with no sales experience interviewing for sales jobs is tough because she has very little training, no track record and little prospects

if companies are hiring it is economical and proven sales and marketing people, not Gen X and definitely not entry level

Gen X are becoming too expensive and Gen Z are unproven or untrained

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Actively trying to find a job but no one will come close to what they were making.

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Company went bankrupt

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Do you think a bankrupt company was right on their market salaries?

Maybe they were paying their office workers too much?