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...reasons it may be hard to find a job after you've been laid off is hugely unfair

Re: ...reasons it may be hard to find a job after you've been laid off is hugely unfa

Employers would rather hire a foreigner and pay them less with no bennies?
 
Re: ...reasons it may be hard to find a job after you've been laid off is hugely unfa

It is not that hard to understand - unless the layoff was due to a total business failure then the prospective new employer may well assume that the previous employer had valid reason to layoff that particular employee over others that they chose to retain in similar positions.
 
Re: ...reasons it may be hard to find a job after you've been laid off is hugely unfa

radcen said:
One of the reasons it may be hard to find a job after you've been laid off is hugely unfair

One of the reasons it may be hard to find a job after you've been laid off is hugely unfair - Yahoo Finance
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There is no such thing as "fair" in the real world. That's something for playground lawyers to argue over. :shrug:

New research suggests that finding a job may be difficult for those who have been laid off because of the stigma they may encounter among potential employers.
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This is surprising to anyone?

The job market is shrinking while the population is increasing.

Employers can choose from the best and brightest of an ever growing pool of potential employees. So why would they bother with anyone who was laid off; since those are typically people with either the least seniority and experience, or the worst workers that the prior employer is trying to get rid of?

It's just one more issue prospective employees must learn to deal with in this troubled job market.
 
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Re: ...reasons it may be hard to find a job after you've been laid off is hugely unfa

So.....there was a study on this?



Mayhaps......we should start by laying THOSE people off?
 
Re: ...reasons it may be hard to find a job after you've been laid off is hugely unfa

ttwtt78640 said:
It is not that hard to understand - unless the layoff was due to a total business failure then the prospective new employer may well assume that the previous employer had valid reason to layoff that particular employee over others that they chose to retain in similar positions.
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Logic would suggest that the better employees are retained, and in a pure ideological world they would be, but that isn't always the case. Seniority, favoritism, etc., sometimes play a role, too.

That being said, it's not an unfair presumption, though too just because the person let go wasn't "the best" doesn't necessarily mean they're flawed or bad, either. A company might have 25 great employees but only need 20, so 5 great employees get the shaft.
 
Re: ...reasons it may be hard to find a job after you've been laid off is hugely unfa

radcen said:
One of the reasons it may be hard to find a job after you've been laid off is hugely unfair

One of the reasons it may be hard to find a job after you've been laid off is hugely unfair - Yahoo Finance
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I don't think it's necessarily unfair. If one left a job because of a layoff, unless they work in a union environment, the employer can pick and choose. Being "picked" in this case, isn't a good thing. Resume writers need to amplify from "laid off due to u foreseen circumstances" to, "Due to economic conditions, my company elected to cut three people from the production staff. Those cuts were made on the basis of employment length."

Now that employers are reluctant to give reference checks little more than, "Yes, those employment dates are correct," reference letters from employers and/or supervisors are all the more important.
 
Re: ...reasons it may be hard to find a job after you've been laid off is hugely unfa

I never felt a stigma as to why me in 2002 when I was laid off. The company was trimming the payroll to prepare to sell our division so the layoffs began by departments, whole departments. Since my job was in the science and engineering group for process improvement & innovation and the company was not going to improve anymore before sale it was a easy choice for them. It was actually the companies loss as they were the top chemists & lab techs and the companies problem solvers when production processes went wrong.
 
Re: ...reasons it may be hard to find a job after you've been laid off is hugely unfa

radcen said:
Logic would suggest that the better employees are retained, and in a pure ideological world they would be, but that isn't always the case. Seniority, favoritism, etc., sometimes play a role, too.

That being said, it's not an unfair presumption, though too just because the person let go wasn't "the best" doesn't necessarily mean they're flawed or bad, either. A company might have 25 great employees but only need 20, so 5 great employees get the shaft.
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The bigger the company the less true any of this is.
 
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