Unemployment rate somewhat misleading

[wabashwonders]

http://www.theworkbuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/help-wanted-HS1.jpgThere's an interesting dynamic going on in the job market right now. Despite the fact that millions of people can't find jobs, millions of employers can't seem to find the right employees, either.
In case you missed it, last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy created no jobs in August, and that the unemployment rate held steady at 9.1 percent.
At the same time, however, the BLS also reported that nearly 2.7 million jobs went unfilled in August, and, according to CareerBuilder's 2011 Q3 hiring forecast, 26 percent of employers report having difficulties filling open positions -- a 4 percent increase over 2010.
To help close this employment gap, and match job seekers in need of work with companies in need of their services, we've put together a list of employers that are hiring in large volume right now.
The following 14 companies have a combined total of nearly 10,000 job openings -- and they need employees as badly as you need a job.
1. PNC
Number of jobs available: 1,000+
Types of jobs: Mortgage loan officer, bank branch manager, software engineer, part-time teller, relationship manager and financial advisor
2. AON
Number of jobs available: 1,390+
Types of jobs: Risk management, insurance brokerage services, benefits outsourcing, human capital consulting and actuarial
3. U-Haul
Number of jobs available: 1,575+
Types of jobs: General manager and trainees, shop manager, customer care representative, programmer, web designer, traffic control manager, storage team manager, structural engineer, production manager and transfer driver
4. Yellowbook
Number of jobs available: 1,000+
Types of jobs: New media specialist, client service representative, entry-level customer service, finance, it- engineering, developer, programmer, entry-level production and entry-level field distribution management
5. Comfort Keepers
Number of jobs available: 900+
Types of jobs: Caregiver, home health aide, LPN, personal care aide, registered nurse, community relations and marketing director
6. Motorola Solutions
Number of jobs available: 600+ globally
Types of jobs: Various IT and engineering roles: product manager, systems engineer, information security specialist and software engineer
7. Red Ventures
Number of jobs available: 500+
Types of jobs: Inside sales, web developer, online marketing, sales trainer, corporate recruiter, php developer, sales recruiter, human resources and copywriter
8. Bridgestone Retail Operations
Number of jobs available: 400+
Types of jobs: Retail management trainee, retail sales (full-time and part-time), automotive technician (full-time and part-time) and automotive maintenance technician (full-time and part-time)
9. Earthlink
Number of jobs available: 300+
Types of jobs: Account executive, major account executive, national account executive, system sales, channel sales, sales engineer, field technician, NOC technician and branch manager
10. UniTek Global Services
umber of jobs available: 400+
Types of jobs: Cable installer, satellite installer and wireless installation project manager and foreman
11. Certified Payment Processing
Number of jobs available: 400+
Types of jobs: Outside sales
12. Pilot Flying J
Number of jobs available: 500+
Types of jobs: Retail and restaurant managers
13. Senior Helpers
Number of jobs available: 400+
Types of jobs: Certified nursing assistant, caregiver, scheduling coordinator, marketing manager, client services manager, community relations coordinator
14. Harbor Freight Tools
Number of jobs available: 500
Types of jobs: Field positions at all level within our stores, nationwide. Corporate positions in all functions: finance, legal, marketing, sourcing, category management, etc.



http://msn.careerbuilder.com/Articl...bmsnhp42765&sc_extcmp=JS_2765_home1&gt1=23000

 

[billhill999]

It's always misleading.

 

[wabashwonders]

Just because people are not working does not mean there are not plenty of jobs out there. Its more like our laziness rate is 9.1%...

 

[snoop]

why would any of them want to work when they know more UE benefits are coming?

 

[wabashwonders]

why would any of them want to work when they know more UE benefits are coming?

exactly!!! so, why are most of you complaining that Obama is not creating jobs and the rising unemployment rate is his fault? There are plenty of jobs out there, but most are too lazy to go work when they can sit on their ass collecting for as long as they can.

 

[bodyforlife]

Of course there are only 311 million people in the United States, but who's counting.

 

[wabashwonders]

Of course there are only 311 million people in the United States, but who's counting.

what does that have to do with anything?

 

[bodyforlife]

what does that have to do with anything?

Well let's see 10,000 divided into 311 million...hmmmm. But in fairness only about half are in the working force. Still doesn't change the point though.

 

[snoop]

exactly!!! so, why are most of you complaining that Obama is not creating jobs and the rising unemployment rate is his fault? There are plenty of jobs out there, but most are too lazy to go work when they can sit on their ass collecting for as long as they can.

But Obama promises more UE benefits is coming their way, in case you don't know, extended of an extension of an over extended of UE benefits is one component in his new "American Jobs Act".

Now that's misleading.

 

[wabashwonders]

Well let's see 10,000 divided into 311 million...hmmmm. But in fairness only about half are in the working force. Still doesn't change the point though.

First off, there 2.7 million jobs unfilled, not 10,000. And not everyone is out of work so you made no point.

 

[wabashwonders]

But Obama promises more UE benefits is coming their way, in case you don't know, extended of an extension of an over extended of UE benefits is one component in his new "American Jobs Act".

Now that's misleading.

true, and this is the first time in history that UE benefits were extended, right? I don't disagree that extending UE benefits is wrong, but its no like its never been done before. And it stiil does not take away from the fact that all people do is complain there are no jobs out there when there really is...

 

[bodyforlife]

First off, there 2.7 million jobs unfilled, not 10,000. And not everyone is out of work so you made no point.

Oh I made a point alright. You come up with a list on a job site and say "look everyone...jobs galore...not Obama's fault". And I call bullshit! First off there will probably always be some jobs out there. In the climate we're in now, people go on interviews and instead of going up against 5 -10 people, they're up against 100's. Many jobs are undesirable (hence they stay unfilled). And there are plenty of people working in jobs they are completely overqualified for (that would be the underemployed) because they can't get in the job in the field they were laid off from. There are also jobs in undesirable locations (i.e. North Dakota). Somehow I don't think a California boy like myself is up to living in sub-zero temperatures in the winter...but what the hell, it's a job, right? In addition, what do you think would happen if we didn't keep extending unemployment rates to infinity? Gee, maybe those people that are collecting unemployment might think it's time to get to work. Of course, I'm not necessarily blaming the person who chooses to get the unemployment benefits if the work they can find is essentially the same amount. But who's enabling that? Hmmmm....could it be Obama? I do feel for the people that are taking those unemployment benefits and pounding the pavement everyday trying to find a job. Your claim is illogical.

 

[snoop]

true, and this is the first time in history that UE benefits were extended, right? I don't disagree that extending UE benefits is wrong, but its no like its never been done before. And it stiil does not take away from the fact that all people do is complain there are no jobs out there when there really is...

it's been extended for 3 yrs, next year will be 4th,

extending more ue benefits would make them lazier, your words, not mine,

Obama & Co should realize UE benefits has negative effect on jobs, yet they're spewing misleading to the public that UE benefits would help the economy.

 

[vitterd]

First off, there 2.7 million jobs unfilled, not 10,000. And not everyone is out of work so you made no point.

Welcome to BFL world. He never has a point. I've seen him have 4 paragraph posts that say absolutely nothing. Guy is a complete waste.

 

[bodyforlife]

Out of curiosity, does anyone have a figure on how many jobs are being lost due to Union compensation packages being unsustainable? Just wondering. Surely Obama has nothing to do with that. What about those people working in those dirty energy jobs. How many jobs will be lost to them? Obama has nothing to do with that (nor did Barbara Boxer in California as thousands of jobs left the state)

I'm sure it's easy to just get re-trained in a couple of months though.

 

[superbeets]

Benefits UK STYLE

one area of UK , 900 people of working age in Rhyl West council ward, and 68 per cent were living on benefits


George Osborne, the Chancellor, has chimed in with a proposal to cap benefit payments at £26,000 a year per household, equivalent to the average income of a working family. Some 50,000 households could be affected by the change, planned for 2013. Benefits included in the calculation are job seeker’s allowance, income support, housing benefit, council tax relief, child benefit and child tax credit.



None of this sounds good news to Melanie Nicholas, who is 38, from Rhyl, and mother to six children – Damien, 19, Grant, 14, Paris, five, Katie-Leigh, three, Jaret, two, and McKenzie, nine months – by two partners. Save for a brief period behind a bar when she was a teenager, Miss Nicholas has never had a job. The same is also true for her partner, Andrew Ballinger, 35 years old and father to the five youngest children, who collided with paid employment only once, as a bricklayer at the age of 18. Miss Nicholas underwent major heart surgery as a baby and cannot perform manual work. Clerical work, she says, would also be beyond her because of factors like office dust. Mr Ballinger cites his inability to read or write as the main reason for his inactivity.



The couple’s income would be regarded as enviable by most British wage earners. Each week they receive £240 in child tax credit for the five children remaining at home, £70 in child benefit and £90 in income support. Due to her heart condition, Miss Nicholas receives £75 in severe disability allowance, an income support disability premium of £35 and a mobility payment of £50 a week. That’s £560 a week. On top of that, they receive about £115 per week towards the rent of their five-bedroom house. Total weekly income: £675 per week. Oh, and there is council tax relief as well. But Miss Nicholas has “no idea” how much that is.

Estrangement from the workplace is an undoubted problem. Figures for the three months to June of this year show that 5.4 million people aged 16 to 64 live in workless households, a 26,000 increase on last year. Just over 16 per cent of children live in homes devoid of a wage earner.

 

[superbeets]

Benefits UK STYLE

one area of UK , 900 people of working age in Rhyl West council ward, and 68 per cent were living on benefits


George Osborne, the Chancellor, has chimed in with a proposal to cap benefit payments at £26,000 a year per household, equivalent to the average income of a working family. Some 50,000 households could be affected by the change, planned for 2013. Benefits included in the calculation are job seeker’s allowance, income support, housing benefit, council tax relief, child benefit and child tax credit.



None of this sounds good news to Melanie Nicholas, who is 38, from Rhyl, and mother to six children – Damien, 19, Grant, 14, Paris, five, Katie-Leigh, three, Jaret, two, and McKenzie, nine months – by two partners. Save for a brief period behind a bar when she was a teenager, Miss Nicholas has never had a job. The same is also true for her partner, Andrew Ballinger, 35 years old and father to the five youngest children, who collided with paid employment only once, as a bricklayer at the age of 18. Miss Nicholas underwent major heart surgery as a baby and cannot perform manual work. Clerical work, she says, would also be beyond her because of factors like office dust. Mr Ballinger cites his inability to read or write as the main reason for his inactivity.



The couple’s income would be regarded as enviable by most British wage earners. Each week they receive £240 in child tax credit for the five children remaining at home, £70 in child benefit and £90 in income support. Due to her heart condition, Miss Nicholas receives £75 in severe disability allowance, an income support disability premium of £35 and a mobility payment of £50 a week. That’s £560 a week. On top of that, they receive about £115 per week towards the rent of their five-bedroom house. Total weekly income: £675 per week. Oh, and there is council tax relief as well. But Miss Nicholas has “no idea” how much that is.

Estrangement from the workplace is an undoubted problem. Figures for the three months to June of this year show that 5.4 million people aged 16 to 64 live in workless households, a 26,000 increase on last year. Just over 16 per cent of children live in homes devoid of a wage earner.

 

[bodyforlife]

Hey beets...why don't you actually make a comment for a change. I know it's a novel concept but join in with the conversation. Oh and btw, this is about the U.S.

 

[superbeets]

'On your bike' was a prophetic phrase of Lord Teb
bit's

"Get on your bike" was the advice Norman Tebbit gave to millions of unemployed people in the 80s.



He believed they should move from areas experiencing severe economic declineto places where work could be found, or found more easily.

 

[superbeets]

Hey beets...why don't you actually make a comment for a change. I know it's a novel concept but join in with the conversation. Oh and btw, this is about the U.S.

thinking the US will follow the UK to a benefit culture that breeds negativity and actively discourages work.