With all the dismal unemployment statistics, it is difficult to understand why, as an employer, we are unable to fill professional (albeit highly specialized) and very unspecialized entry-level non-professional positions with ease. The non-professional openings require that candidates pass a junior high school level test of spelling, math reasoning, and speak English clearly and properly. Passing this brief test disqualifies many candidates before they ever get to the hiring stage. Maybe the job seekers and the statisticians should look at the employability of the unemployed before blaming the economic situation for their unemployment. In this economic climate, those behaving as though they are uneducated and/or unmotivated can't skate into employment and reemployment drifting from one position to another like they may have in the past. Eventually unemployment compensation runs out (if available at all) and the numbers of those "giving up" increase exponentially.

How exactly does one "give up" their job search? When you "give up" your job search, does that mean you're never going to work again? This rhetoric generated by the Obama administration is nothing more than a ploy to make us feel sorry for those who've "given up" their job search and thus entitle them to more benefits for NOT working. Or, it could just be to justify creating more government jobs for those poor souls who've "given up." Suck it up people, life is tough, the economy is sluggish and no one is entitled to a free ride.

Go look at www.jobcuts.com and see the numbers. It is not encouraging!

With all the dismal unemployment statistics, it is difficult to understand why, as an employer, we are unable to fill professional (albeit highly specialized) and very unspecialized entry-level non-professional positions with ease. The non-professional openings require that candidates pass a junior high school level test of spelling, math reasoning, and speak English clearly and properly. Passing this brief test disqualifies many candidates before they ever get to the hiring stage. Maybe the job seekers and the statisticians should look at the employability of the unemployed before blaming the economic situation for their unemployment. In this economic climate, those behaving as though they are uneducated and/or unmotivated can't skate into employment and reemployment drifting from one position to another like they may have in the past. Eventually unemployment compensation runs out (if available at all) and the numbers of those "giving up" increase exponentially.

How exactly does one "give up" their job search? When you "give up" your job search, does that mean you're never going to work again? This rhetoric generated by the Obama administration is nothing more than a ploy to make us feel sorry for those who've "given up" their job search and thus entitle them to more benefits for NOT working. Or, it could just be to justify creating more government jobs for those poor souls who've "given up." Suck it up people, life is tough, the economy is sluggish and no one is entitled to a free ride.

Go look at www.jobcuts.com and see the numbers. It is not encouraging!

Is it really that people stopped looking for work, or that many more were laid off prior to September 2009 and are no longer on the unemployment rolls?