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Of the many barriers employers put in front of job seekers, at least two of the barriers strongly encourage lying and cheating.
#1 - Gaps in Employment History
Seriously!?
As of 2014, there has been six, straight, years of chronic, long-term, unemployment in America.
According to the Labor Participation Rate, just shy of 100 million, able-bodied, working-age
(16 to 64 years of age), Americans are unemployed.
That is a third of the entire US population, or put another way -
30% unemployment!
Thirty percent is closer to the true unemployment figure of the US, not the phony, B.S., 5.8% that the government desperately wants you to believe.
With numbers like that, gaps in employment history are
guaranteed. And quite often those gaps in employment are
very long gaps.
In this global, economic, depression it is unreasonable for employers hold gaps in employment against job seekers but, unfortunately, that is exactly what employers do.
If you can't come up with an elaborate excuse, as to why you haven't been able to get another job in less than a day, you won't be hired let alone have an interview.
An elaborate excuse, a sugar-coated story, stretch the truth till it breaks... whatever you want to call it, it is fundamentally a lie.
Employers who demand you explain gaps in your work history are basically demanding that you lie to them.
If you can tell a good enough lie, you just
might get the job.
That means employers are, effectively, looking for employees who are good liars.
#2 - The "Personality" Test
If you ever had any doubts that employers only see you as a disposable number, job application "personality" tests prove it.
A computer algorithm literally reduces you to a score; a number.
After you have fabricated lies to explain gaps in your employment history, you still have to cheat to score well enough on the personality test just to,
maybe, have chance at being interviewed by another human being.
No guarantee of a job; just a slim chance that you will have an interview!
The farce goes farther when
not even current employees can pass the personality test!!
These job application, personality tests have become so commonplace that seasoned job seekers know, if they really want the job interview, they have to cheat on the test.
Employers have overused personality tests to the point where it is encouraging cheating.
Employers that use these personality tests are, effectively, looking to hire cheaters.
If you look at the job application process of today, it
really does seem like employers prefer to hire liars and cheaters.
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