The company's reputation as one of the best places to work brings in
millions of job applicants a year, yet the company has hardly moved the diversity needle.
Not exact matches
With demand for coding skills stronger than ever, today there are more than 500,000 unfilled programming - related positions across the country, and the US Bureau
of Labor Statistics predicts that by 2020 there will be 1.4
million more software development
jobs than
applicants qualified to fill them.
Since its soft launch in Canada last June, 12,000
applicants and 250 companies including Kik, Shopify, Influitive, Wealthsimple and Wave have made more than $ 60
million in
job offers, with an average salary
of $ 92,000, as
of November.
Now the use
of credit history for
job applicants is especially absurd when you're looking at an unemployment rate
of almost 10 percent and nearly 15
million workers looking for a
job combined with foreclosures and other fallouts in the economic crisis and we've seen plummeting credit scores.
Fox relays how the jury truly felt about EchoStar's treatment
of a blind
job applicant — the jury's foreman is quoted about their decision not to put punitive damages at $ 30
million, their original number — and then lets this drop:
Can you provide a reference for the «
millions» (not thousands)
of jobs that go unfilled right now because
of a lack
of qualified
applicants.
According to a recent analysis
of 26
million job postings by
job - market - analytics firm Burning Glass, about half
of the
jobs paying $ 57,000 or more per year are in occupations that commonly require
applicants to have at least some computer coding knowledge — and
jobs requiring coding skills pay $ 22,000 more per year than
jobs that don't.
This challenge has grown more difficult over the last three years, as the recession forced
millions of people onto the
job market and as employers increasingly turned to
applicant tracking systems to manage all
of their
job openings and the sea
of candidates applying for them.
With Facebook alone having more than 800
million registered members, hiring managers might need only a few mouse clicks to discover a nugget
of information about a
job applicant.
A 2003 study cited by the The CPA Journal included a survey
of 2.6
million job applicants showed that 44 % lied about prior work experience, 41 % lied about their education, and 23 %
of applicants falsified their credentials or made false claims concerning professional licenses held.
We support over 40 languages and dialects and parse
millions of CVs annually for hundreds
of clients including
job boards,
applicant tracking systems, HR analytics firms, staffing, RPO and recruiters.
With quite a low unemployment rate
of 8.3 % from a population
of roughly 40
million people, every single
job which you apply for will result in your resume being scrutinized to ensure that you are a suitable candidate from amongst the other
applicants.
In October 2015, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ordered two
of the nation's largest background screening firms to provide $ 10.5
million in relief to harmed consumers and pay a $ 2.5
million civil penalty for allegedly failing to take steps to ensure the information they reported about
job applicants was accurate, according to a news release on the CFPB website.
Todd's victory over Goertz, 16 other contestants, and more than «1
million job applicants» was hailed as a victory
of the book smarts group over the street smarts group.