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Recession is here. Jobs are hard to come by. Employers and Companies have an EXTREME upper hand. What we are seeing are people with 15 years experience looking for jobs that require 7-8 years experience. We are getting a truncation of candidates taking lower level positions.

This is great for companies. They get to obtain some amazing candidates at a discount. The frustrating part is the lack of courtesy by these companies. For anyone going on interviews should understand this.

First, you are shoved into a database (such as monster.com, hotjobs.com, etc). When you are able to get an acutal interview (many of which are taking 3-4 hours), don’t expect to get an email or phone follow-up. There is ZERO communciation from corporations these days towards candidates being interviewd. Its apparant that they moved on to a different candidate, but not even a simple denial email.

What we need is the shift in marketplace back to the employee. Its going to take some while, but the lack of followup is ruining the system!