[jsfg_cinti] Re: There is a trend developing.

Very eloquently and well put.

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From: "Stephen St" <stephenst@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [jsfg_cinti] There is a trend developing.


> In my sporadic or semi-unemployed state, I am finding myself very
> disheartened by the current employment climate.where a trend has
developed.
> I see many job orders for professionals requiring exact-match skill sets.
> These criteria make these people being sought a rarity.
>
> Many companies have found this methodology of seeking people with an exact
> fit to be a perceived benefit to them and are asking, nationally and
> internationally, for very specific skills.  I guess this might be OK
except
> for the fact that company loyalty to its people is at an all time low.
>
> As many personnel resource agencies are finding, corporate concerns are
> hiring people and then letting them go after one or two years.  Most
> consulting firms hire people for six month to two year contracts of
working
> long hours and then not rehiring them when their skill sets become
obsolete.
>
> It was said by one well-known recruiter, "Companies are merely using
people
> and throwing them away after they are done with them.  Then these laid-off
> people have to go through another stint of unemployment while seeking
> another job in another city. Basically they have to starting over.with new
> friends, schools for their kids and a loss on their homes they purchased
> when they started the new job with hopeful intentions."
>
> I have heard of many technical and professional people being uprooted and
> torn from their almost established place in this mobile society.  With
> increasing Infrequency do I find highly skilled people working in the city
> of their childhood.  Oh I'm sorry, I forgot; it is not posh to retire in
the
> city of one's birth, especially this one.
>
> All joking aside, I feel that this movement sadly has little room for deep
> bonds or friendships between higher paid professionals.  Most of the
> upwardly mobile don't know their next-door neighbors.  Most have "close
> friends" in other cities far away while having few or no friendships in
the
> city of their current assignment.  Many are divorced by age 45.
>
> There seems to be a trendy air or mystique about professionalism.  One of
> its tenants being: a willingness and, most often, a necessity to transfer
> one's life to another location while seeking a new opportunity.   Another
is
> the overriding dedication to one's profession including working long hours
> for a fixed salary.
>
> In the prevalent strata of our country, lower income jobs are more common
> and the prospective employee seems to need less specific skills.
Employers
> know that if they ask for an exact match in an hourly paid job, they will
> not get anyone to relocate to that job.  Yes, these hourly time-and-a-half
> for overtime people can afford to have extended families close by, be
> involved in hobbies, and have lots of free time to raise their children
and
> pursue relaxing activities.
>
> Well, all sarcasm aside; to verify what I am talking about, one can read
all
> of the ads posted here for professional people.  These ads describe very
> unique and specific criteria and are not from around here.  This is not
> unique to this website.  These types of professional postings are on all
the
> job sites in every city.
>
> Currently on temporary assignment,
> SteveS.US <http://steves.us/>
>
>
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