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Originally Posted by DrPhil
Obama employment bill would prohibit companies from turning down unemployed applicants**
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44836466...iness-careers/
**But we know that it really only prevents companies from overtly discriminating on this basis.
**Should the government be intervening in this regard, though? There are pros and cons to everything and I see some cons to an employment bill that prohibits companies from (admittedly) turning down unemployed applicants. There are occupations and careers where being unemployed for a number of years (for whatever reasons--are they also going to say that all reasons for being unemployed are equal?) means that you need to be retrained, re-educated, etc.
What say you, GCers?
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Enacting this kind of legislation is going to accomplish nothing.
IMHO, the only thing that the government can do to encourage corporations to prefer the unemployed over the employed in their hiring practices is to show them the money by offering some short term tax break for hiring an unemployed worker. It may not change the mind of a person who thinks that the only reason that someone could possibly be out of work is that the job seeker is somehow unworthy, but it couldn't hurt.
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Originally Posted by DrPhil
That is why people have more than one resume`/c.v. You market yourself based on the positions.
Why would someone give Walmart a resume` with an MBA on it for a cashier position? Save the MBA for a Walmart corporate position that requires that education level, experience, and has a much higher salary.
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I'm pretty sure that you don't have to bring a resume to Walmart to apply for a job. You do, however, have to complete an application that gives your prior education and employment.
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