Another Blow To The Unemployed
7/30/2010

There are many companies out there that have been following a practice that should be illegal:

...by Becky Mease 7/30/2010

There are many companies out there that have been following a practice that should be illegal: denying an unemployed job seeker the opportunity to interview for a job.  While the majority of us believe this to be unethical and highly unprofessional, companies continue to post job listings for candidates who are employed; unemployed candidates are not eligible.  Like the unemployed masses haven’t dealt with enough already, now they have to contend with this.

The companies that practice this absurd course of action believe that employed candidates are the prospects with the best skills and experience.  They are not considering the extreme recession our country is experiencing with businesses closing, divisions being cut, and so forth.  They are not looking at unemployed candidates as victims of the recession- just the waste at the bottom of the barrel.

What these companies fail to see is the enormous opportunity that is right in front of them.  There are so many brilliantly skilled unemployed professionals that are hunting for a job right now, whose job loss had nothing to do with their abilities.  These folks might have taken risks in a new company that faltered with the economy, was a victim of the infamous downsizing, or has even taken off time to raise a family.  The point is, just because a job seeker is unemployed, doesn’t make them less worthy, skilled, or promising.

In the end, these companies only hurt themselves.  How dare they say an unemployed candidate is ineligible simply because they are unemployed?  It truly has to make a person question if they wish to work for them in the first place.  What happens if that company needs to downsize after you’ve been working for them for a while; what are the chances of being hired back by them?  This narrow minded thinking on companies behalf is a negative mark against them.

Financejobz.com does not support or back this type of practice and urges folks to stay clear of employment with them.  It is a monumental form of discrimination and the unemployed already face too many obstacles trying to find a job:  they don’t need this to add to it.