HappySqurriel on 23 March 2011
While not the most politically correct or polite business practice, and it may not win you any friends, there is a certain amount of logic to it; especially in the current job market.
Personally, I would avoid a blanket policy that avoids hiring the unemployed; but knowing that companies tend to lay off low performers first, high performers who are unemployed tend to be recruited by their networks fairly quickly, and the longer someone is unemployed the more their skills have degraded and they have developed bad habits, I can understand why a company would be reluctant to hire unemployed (especially long term unemployed) people.
