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Mr Khan said:
killerzX said:
Mr Khan said:
killerzX said:
Mr Khan said:
 

I've applied for all sorts of fast-food work, and haven't gotten hired by anyone since KFC in 2008 (which i had to give up to go to college). McDonald's, Wendy's, no minimum wage job will hire me, because i'm overqualified, and they know as well as i do that i'll drop them for the first real opportunity that comes up. Meanwhile, i don't have experience for real jobs and don't have the money to get unpaid experience (and even free  internships are hard as hell to get).

It isn't pleasant out there, due to employer greed.

aww... have you come to the shocking realization that running a business isnt a charity?

I have come to the realization that employers have no clue what they're doing when they put out help wanted ads and undertake the hiring process, partly due to greed and partly to ineptitude.

if employers dont have a clue what they are doing, why dont you become one. An employer. It seems you fancy yourself as someone that does know what they are doing, so you should therefore be a much better employer. 

Neither capital nor the desire to do so. And i read a national survey printed in the Sunday paper today that said close to %50 of employers report significant difficulty in filling positions, despite our unemployment rate that's between 8.2 and 20% depending on the metric you use. Clearly there's a disconnect, and i'm blaming them for it.

If there is an extreme misalignment between demands of employers and the ability for a market to supply these demands, then that can happen.  It can also happen when a market has no attempt to coordinate and everyone is left to fend for themselves, based on what they feel is in their own interests alone, not thinking about anything else going on.  Individuals, armed with outdated information, enter the market and find they can't find work.  You then have employers who expect the moon and the stars, who end up believing the market can deliver perfect employees to them, not being able to find acceptable matches.