My manager constantly talks about how it is impossible to fine good new employees. I keep wondering If he just pretends or does he not see the real picture.
I mean who would want to work at such a company where people are overworked to the maximum, where nobody cares about them, where pay is below the industry standards and much lower that the competition and where significant raises are considered wishful thinking.
People that apple for new jobs are not crazy and in these days where it doesn't take more than a google search to find out how things are at a certain company how do they expect new people to come here and give their best.
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People need to eat and provide for their family. Some companies leverage this to crack the whip harder. “We’ve get them right where we want them. They won’t leave they NEED this job.” So they preach in meetings and emails about work life balance and on the back end pile on the work in such volumes that “work life balance” is out the door.
I would amend to your statement. It’s not that its impossible to find good new employees but rather as someone from HR has said “You’re not going to find the caliber of employee you are looking for for the pay that is being offered.”
The Citi ask is always the implied same regardless position. They want an expert level in all areas in all things with 20 yrs experience for the pay of 50K.
This is even more so if its a technical role. Know at an expert level 5 different coding languages, expert level scripting, might as well throw in project management expert level on ITIL, agile, waterfall, scrum, also expert pen testing, and all various forms of cloud such as expert level in Azure, AWS. At least 20 years experience in all of these even if they have not been out for 20 years. All for the pay of 50K. If someone takes such a role its usually just a place holder until they find something else elsewhere.