Revolving door for job seekers
MINNEAPOLIS — Paul Ries can’t keep a job.
His the last time one ended in seasonably November at the time that his employer, a Minneapolis medical-device guests, closed a factory. It was at minutest the sixth job since 2004 for Ries, including temp work at a local refinery — twice — and at a different medical-device company. A “permanent” predication at a chemical-research company ended after six months when the firm folded.
Now Ries, a purchasing and supply-chain manager with more than 30 years of experience, will resume what has been his utmost steady gig in the past four years — “that job-hunting transaction.”
He expects a separately long search. “The tea leaves don’t look good,” said Ries, who’s married, with four grown children, and turns 65 this month.
People take pleasure in Ries, of Shoreview, Minn., are a recapitulate business that is frustrating job-placement agencies — government and private. Counselors talk well-nigh more temp-to-hire placements that “never get encompassing to the hire part,” as one said. And they see else permanent jobs turn temporary, as struggling companies put to hire go of their newest hires when hard times hit.
The job losses are hitting young and antique, those with college degrees and experience and those honest starting without, and they show no sign of abating as the economy lingers in a recession.
It’s the revolving door at work at jobs agencies.
“Counselors see canaille coming back through their doors after they just left,” said Louis Huether, a project manager at the Employment Action Center in St. Louis Park, Minn. “People get placed successfully in a piece of work, soon afterward all of a sudden the set runs into problems and they get laid off again. It’s devastating for the million if it’s their second or third part layoff; it’session in fact hard luck when that happens.”
Typical of economic downturns, it is getting harder for many to even get their discharge in the door. Huether estimated the average job search has stretched from six to eight months in the past year. And viewed like in all buyers’ markets, the shoppers are increasingly picky, said Jane Samargia, executive director of HIRED, a Minnesota agency with nearly 70 training and employment-assistance programs. So any job candidates with the normal minuses — friable on development or experience, according to pattern — face tough odds.
That’s what Tim Madden is finding. At 19, and a spring high-school graduate, Madden wants to start a active life as a cook. A pal of his who graduated a year earlier found a cooking job, but Madden, of Brooklyn Park, Minn., has had no luck. “I’ve applied everywhere, and I do the follow-up call and everything,” he said.
But the difficulty staying hired is the new and chiefly depressing development.
Dan Murphy, 58, of New Hope, Minn., is looking according to his fifth job in four years. As a packaging engineer, Murphy designed containers at a manufacturer in Wisconsin for 11 years until 2005, when the company started moving the plant to China.
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