Today’s unemployed may have
failed in nailing a specific job or holding on to one in hard economic times,
but they are learning fast from previous mistakes and have an attitude more in
tune with success than failure. If they don’t get a job, they’ll make one.
Highly successful start-ups are one result. And leaders who think finding
alternative options and problem-solving are sometimes one and the same. Today, fewer people may be unemployed
statistically because rather than be unemployed, they kept plugging away at
re-designing themselves to fit in, but since that didn’t appear to be
happening, they had to do something on their own. So they created.
Do employers really think a
job hunter will be with the company for 30 years with an eye toward retirement?
If they do, they’re out of touch. Especially when it comes to employing the
millennials in the workforce today; a long-term commitment, tied to one place,
is not the life for a millennial. In fact, most millennials would probably
prefer to be unemployed than work for a company that puts itself first. Companies
and organizations are forever complaining they can’t find innovative workers
with problem-solving abilities. However, the real problem is that companies aren’t
hiring employees or even training employees in most cases to be innovative;
instead they hire people, using the same barometer and that barometer has
changed. Experience is still what we
need in business or any organization. The hiring system needs to be more
welcoming as far as candidate failures. Negative candidate behaviours such as
stealing from the company, abusing their position or treating their workers
inappropriately are still not forgivable. But some failures, any failure at all
really, is used to narrow the pool of otherwise qualified candidates.
Aerizo
Group – HR Consultancy
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