Thread: Small question about Job sites.

The job may have been filled and the employer has neglected to notify the agancy.

A number of applicants may have been referred and nothing further heard from the employer. The CES used to refer up to six suitable applicants and wait to hear back from the employer if the job was filled or more applicants were required.

The job may be primary listed with another agency and multi-listed with others and the primary agency has not kept the others up to date.

The job could have been filled and the new employee left/was sacked or another employee left and another new one is needed.

Could be absolutely s****y work or poorly paid and there is a regular turnover of staff.

Boss is a first class icehole and there is a regular turnover of staff.

Many reasons why what is apparently the same job is listed for long periods.

Private sector agencies more interested in getting their fat commission from higher paid salaried positions than attending to details. Not much interested in the grubby end of unemployment. The CES did this better but the runt's government dismantled it in one of their first acts in office, 1996/7.

A trial was held in 1993/4 of private agencies taking on some of the CES long term unemployed. After some six weeks the high profile proprietor of one of the agencies concerned gave the CES regional manager concerned a real mouthful about the clients referred to her agencies. She asked him to stop referring all these "dead s***s" and send people she could place. He was delighted to inform her that the real "dead s***s" had been pruned from the list so the private agencies would not be frightened off. The clients referred to her agencies were the better ones amongst the long term unemployed.

"Welcome to the real world"

As someone who has been involved in employing staff it is often hard to find people. Most of these positions have been in retail, rotating day roster 7 day trading. Above award wages, in aircon with reasonable conditions. It is often a case of picking the "best" of the worst in the hope they will work out, or employing people simply because you need the staff... sometimes this works out but often it doesn't. Or alternatively your chasing 6 staff and maybe get 2.