Job listings say the unemployed need not apply

Wait wait wait, they want to hire someone, that is why they have a job listing, so the question is not, "Will they hire someone or no-one?" It is will they hire someone with good credit in lieu of someone with bad credit. You cannot attribute the fact that there is unemployment to the particulars of a hiring cutoff.

If they hired people who came to the interview in blue pants, and that was the metric, someone would be hired, it just wouldn't be anyone who showed up with non-blue pants. You can't say the company is creating unemployment just because they are using an arbitrary mechanism to do their hiring.
 
Understood. I already had a very good job (even by OT's standarRAB), but I got an even better one 'cause of those things that I listed above.
 
In a job market like this one employers have to put a lot of qualifiers in their offerings just to keep the nuraber of submissions manageable.

They figure that the unemployed person who would decline to submit a resume just because it says not to in the ad isn't the kind of person they want to hire anyway. If you're serious about finding a job and qualified for the position you're gonna submit anyway, and I suspect the majority of the time your resume would end up getting equal consideration.
 
It doesn't really matter if credit scores correlate to job performance or not, they are free to hire people on grounRAB of their choosing. I mean, how do you think they evaluate people anyways? You have 30 people apply to a job, you think they have some sort of qualification matrix? They judge people on intangibles, and those are up to the employer, not you.

What if you employer asked you what your favorite color was? Is that an invasion of your privacy? They are hiring you, it is up to them to ask whatever the hell they want, and you can choose to answer or not answer, and thing you want.

If they say, "What is your favorite activity outside of work?" and you respond "That is my private information, I am not going to tell you that." They have every right to think you are a weirdo and pass on you, you think that it should be illegal for them to ask you questions?
 
keep in mind you're talking to someone who has had three different people try to call his place of employment in the 8 years i've been around here

you've got the wrong idea about me
 
That is actually not correct, there are some sectors that are doing just fine, some sectors which are doing quite poorly. For people who work in sectors that have been hard hit (i.e. real estate/construction/education/etc.) the sky is falling, for lots of other people things are just fine.
 
that's really impossible, especially if they're in a protected class. when i worked in coffee, we used to hire "seasonal" but it ended up being a PITA letting these people go, so we decided to stop doing that and just hire full time employees.

i know some companies hire temps with the idea of bringing them on full time if they like them. i guess that's one way to do it.
 
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