Degree Required, but You Don’t Have One

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Education, Employment, Job descrimination, Job hunting, Job-Hunt, Lifelong Learning, Resume, Unemployed

By PHYLLIS KORKKI, www.nytimes.com

SOME job seekers harbor a secret that prevents them from applying for work they know they could do. Or they worry that if this fact comes to light in a job interview, it will explode and cause them to be led unceremoniously to the door.

Harvard Business Review Blog – How to Job Hunt With a Strike Against You

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Employment, Harvard Business Review, Job descrimination, Job hunting, Job-Hunt, Unemployed

by Maryanne Peabody and Larry Stybel, HBR Blog Network - HBR Blog

On May 28, 2011, the Boston Globe reported that Carney Hospital President Bill Walczak fired its entire staff of 29 health care delivery employees from a 14-bed locked unit for troubled teens. It appears that the hospital had violated patient safety in serious ways. Not all 29 employees were identified as having performed poorly. The president believed, however, that it was in the hospital’s best interest to staff the unit from ground zero.

Given the negative publicity surrounding lack of patient safety, Carney Hospital became an albatross company — a company with a negative reputation in the market. Innocent professionals who were fired had to then engage in a job search with a dead, stinky albatross called Carney Hospital draped around their necks.

Addressing the Albatross in the Room

Recruiters have a simple way of dealing with albatross job candidates: avoid them. Adding such candidates to the pool poses a risk, so most recruiters simply refuse to do so.

Employers finding reliability of older workers refreshing

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Ageism, Atria Senior Living, Employers, Employment, Job descrimination, Job hunting, Older workers, Unemployed

By Anita Bruzzese, Gannett, www.usatoday.com

Gisela Ashley had been a real-estate agent for about 18 years when she decided to take inheritance money from her father and go back to school.

She earned her master’s degree just one month shy of her 50th birthday in 2008, entering what she knew was a very difficult job market.

Her age coupled with the recession and limited experience in her new field of recreation programming for seniors should have added up to tough times for Ashley.

Discriminatory Job Postings Continue; Senators Urge CareerBuilder to Stop

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CareerBuilder, Job descrimination, job opportunities, Unemployment

Discriminatory Job Postings Continue; Senators Urge CareerBuilder to Stop.

Discriminatory practices that exclude unemployed workers in the job market continue, as evidence emerged today of numerous recent job postings on CareerBuilder.com stating candidates “must be currently employed.”  News of the most recent exclusionary job ads comes as the three U.S. Senators sponsoring legislation to ban the discriminatory job market practices have called on CareerBuilder.com to stop posting such ads.

Senators Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York sent a letter today to CareerBuilder CEO Matt Ferguson asking CareerBuilder to “prohibit companies from posting job opportunities that discriminate against potential applicants based on their employment status.”