Florida worker applied for 60 jobs and received only one job interview

In September, a Florida-based worker applied for 60 entry-level jobs and received one job interview. news.yahoo

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Companies in the US say they find it difficult to find employees, especially for hourly jobs.

Joey Holtz decided to test their claims by submitting two bids a day in September.

Holtz received one interview and his rundown of the experiment went viral on many platforms.

Joey Holtz recalled the first time he heard complaints of labor shortages last year, when he called a clinic near Fort Myers, Florida to donate plasma to needy patients.

"This guy went on a rant about how he couldn't find help and couldn't find anyone to work at his medical facility because they all left because of federal pandemic payments," Holtz told Insider. -And I'm like, 'Your healthcare providers bounced checks over $1200?' This is weird ".

Over the next several months, he watched a growing chorus of companies declare they couldn't find anyone to hire due to government financial aid from the pandemic.

It was so ubiquitous that he joined the Nobody Wants to Work Facebook group, where users made memes poking fun at frustrated employers.

He said he finds it hard to believe that government money is keeping people from accessing jobs, especially when the end of extended federal unemployment benefits did not appear to have triggered a spike in employment. The extended benefits ended in September, but 26 states ended in early June and July.

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“If this extra money that everyone is supposedly living on stopped in June and it’s now September, obviously that’s not what’s stopping them,” he said. Workers say companies trying to hire employees are not offering competitive wages and benefits.

So Holtz, a former food service worker and crew member of a charter ship, decided to experiment.

On September 1, he sent out job applications to a couple of restaurants that were particularly public about their staffing problems.

He then expanded the test and spent the rest of the month applying for jobs—mostly when employers said they were short of workers—and tracking his applications in a spreadsheet.

After two weeks and 28 applications, he had just nine email responses, one follow-up phone call, and one interview with a construction company that advertised a full-time cleaning job for $ 10 an hour.

But Holtz said the construction company instead tried to offer the Florida minimum wage of $ 8,65 to start work, although it was slated to raise wages to $ 30 an hour on September 10.

Holtz said that he did not apply for any vacancies that he did not qualify for.

Some jobs “wanted a high school diploma,” he said. “Some people need retail experience,” he added. “Most of them either said ‘probationary period required’ or ‘minimal experience,’ and none of them offered more than $12 an hour.”

He said, “I did not apply for anything that required special education. I have not applied for vacancies that say that "the applicant must have six months of experience in this business."

Holtz is not alone. Others also talked about their problems finding work, despite the seemingly limited labor market.

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In a September 29 Facebook post that went viral on Twitter and Reddit, Holtz said, "58 recruiting applications say you desperately need workers and you just miss your slaves."

“I think this is a familiar story,” he added.

By the end of September, Holtz had sent out 60 applications, received 16 email responses, four additional phone calls and one interview.

He shared a pie chart showing his results: in one month, Holtz submitted 2 applications per day for vacancies that suited him.

As a result, with 100% of his applications:

• 73,3% of applications remained unanswered;
• employers responded to 20% of applications by e-mail;
• employers answered 5% of applications by phone;
• employers scheduled an interview for 1,7% of applications;

Holtz acknowledged that his findings may not reflect the country's broader labor concerns, as his search was local and aimed at the most outspoken critics of federal payments in connection with the pandemic.

He added that despite claims that some companies are struggling to recruit, his boss had no staffing problems during the pandemic.

“Nobody leaves these positions because they care about their employees,” Holtz said, referring to his boss.

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