You’re Hired! No Interview Required in Tight Labor Market

  • 📰 WSJ
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 16 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 10%
  • Publisher: 63%

Business News News

Business Business Latest News,Business Business Headlines

The tight labor market has spurred employers including UPS and Home Depot to offer hourly and temp jobs without first interviewing the applicants

Keontae Starks worked loading trucks at the UPS facility in Tupelo, Miss.Some employers racing to snap up workersUnited Parcel Service Inc.

has bulked up its staff without conducting job interviews for package handlers and seasonal drivers. Home Depot Inc. has sent job offers as quickly as 24 hours after candidates apply, in some cases eliminating the interview process. Gap Inc. has dropped job interviews for some warehousing positions.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

But like the film on the waterfront

Bad benefits - long hours - find another job

Seems like they’ve been doing that for years

A common problem in socialist societies when one can get paid not to work.

Hummmm

What could go wrong

Yeah who cares, welcome aboard.

Last week a FedEx driver kidnapped and murdered a child while on the job. Not vetting employees sounds like a great idea. 😑

I work for THD, guess what, most of these applicants never show up.

Yeah, more temp jobs with zero benefits.

Not a bad idea. Or even just to do a very light interview process, and get just people in. There are people that WANT to work!

Now if only those UPS temp jobs could transfer directly to full-time union positions...

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 98. in BUSİNESS

Business Business Latest News, Business Business Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

The Computer Company Raspberry Pi Hired An Ex-Cop And People Are Pissed“I think what we’re looking at is a dogpile that’s being organized somewhere,” a Raspberry Pi co-founder told BuzzFeed News. Is this the kind of behaviour samknows endorses of its employees varjmes? I doubt it...
Source: BuzzFeed - 🏆 730. / 51 Read more »