A day hardly goes by without a news story of how great the jobs market is in Colorado. I agree it's great -- for the employers.
For the average "good paying" job (definition: substantially more than minimum wage), many employers are receiving anywhere from 100-150 resumes. I know this because I have asked them. To me at least, those numbers indicate there are many people looking for good jobs, and the employers have a lot of choices.
For those who have not had to seek new employment for many years, it can come as a shock how time consuming and cumbersome this process has become. Employers (mostly the large corporations) now require you to "register" with their employment database, which includes repeating information that is on a resume, then hopefully an over-the-phone interview, and then an in-person interview. This entire process can take up a total of three or four hours, or more, per application. This is a lot of time to end up just being rejected.
Perhaps it's time that corporate employers realize that job seekers' time is valuable too -- and streamline their process to respect candidates' time as well as their own.
Barb Adams
Parker
from Lakewood Sentinel - Latest Stories http://lakewoodsentinel.comhttp://parkerchronicle.net/stories/Letter-Employers-have-upper-hand-in-process,212096?branding=15
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