
By Andy McCue
Published: Tuesday 26 June 2007
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Name
Karen Challinor
Location
UK
Occupation
staring at clouds
Comment
"A shortage of qualified candidates was cited as the main reason for recruitment difficulties."
nothing to do with a total disregard of anyone over 40 as they are too opinionated and difficult to manage plus they need paying more
or the total disregard of the university leaver who lacks basic management skills but is still malleable
or the total disregard of people who put so much as a single none required skill on their CV when applying as they'd get bored and leave
lets face it the number of real genuine exact matches for a position is quite small, try looking at people with more skill than is required, try relaxing the age requirement that you are no longer allowed to acknowledge exists as it's illegal but is still there
on the other hand doing this would kill off the argument for offshoring and the shareholders might have to wait for productivity to fill the coffers rather than downsizing, and we can't have that can we
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