Thursday’s Thought: Discrimination Against the Unemployed

Recently, it's been in the news that companies are discriminating against those job seekers that aren't currently unemployed. They would rather interview employees that are currently working at another company, than bring in talented individuals that have valid reasons for being on the job market. This mentality just further proves the incompetence of many recruiters and hiring managers that are looking for people to come into their company and solve their problems. No wonder they have problems to solve. It's hard enough to run a business where natural problems are bound to surface, but they are complicating the workload with decision making skills like this!

Since the task of changing the mindset of millions of individuals is almost impossible, I suggest you take a much simpler route. LOOK LIKE YOU ARE CURRENTLY EMPLOYED! It is a very simple process to register yourself as a new company. Then, on your resume, you can put your new company name, give yourself a title similar to your desired position, and list the skillsets that you possess. Make it sound like you are a Consultant for whatever profession you are in. They don't know that you do not have any active clients. Besides, the whole purpose is to get them interested enough in your capabilities that they want to contact you. Once this happens, it is your job to convince them that they have made their last call to potential candidates. You need to convince them that you can come aboard - with a 2 weeks notice to yourself :), and make their problems go away.