More Bad News for 99ers
For the 23.1 million unemployed workers out of work here comes some more bad news, if you are long term unemployed you are worse than someone with a criminal record if you are applying to a job.
Employers ranked on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the hardest the ease of placing a candidate with a criminal record or someone unemployed longer than two years. Criminals (it did exclude felony’s) ranked at 31% and long term unemployed 44% for difficulty in hiring.
There is some good news depending on your age.
The good news for many of the 23.1 million workers that are unemployed, underemployed and the 8 million with part time jobs looking for work? Age is a factor too the easiest to place:
- 30’s – 70% of recruiters said that it was easy to place workers in this age group
- 40’s –
- 20’s – good luck college graduates
- 50’s – 1% of recruiters said it was easy to place workers in this age group. You have a chance if you were steadily employed prior to being laid off
- 60’s – no one thinks these are easy to place in jobs
Your best bet is to close your employment gaps with a part time job. However to really climb out of the Career Purgatory you’ll need to find a job you can stomach for 1 year to build up your work history again. Staying at jobs less than this will look like you are a serial job hopper, and you’ll be less attractive again.