The research says it, but we know it. Businesses routinely screen out job applications and resumes from unemployed job-seekers, while employed job seekers get all the breaks.
For starters, a 2017 Federal Reserve Bank of New York study states employed job seekers:
- are more likely to receive an unsolicited contact from a recruiter,
- have a response rate from employers four times that of unemployed applicants, and
- they get twice as many interviews and three times as many offers per application.
"...companies are less likely to hire unemployed people because personnel hold a bias against them. The prejudice against the unemployed doesn't just apply if someone has been out of work for a while; instead, it can come up even if someone recently quit or lost their job."
The article also suggests that telling potential employers you were unexpectedly laid off doesn't lessen the bias.
- lower motivation
- low productivity
- lack of intellectual and social skills
- lack of knowledge regarding technological changes,
- diminished ability to be trained, and
- rejection by other recruiters/hiring managers (suggesting others have already determined they are un-hire-able)
The truth is, unemployed people are just as qualified, motivated, trainable and socially savvy as their employed peers -- they're just under-accessed.
Unfortunately (for the business and the candidate) hiring manager biases get in the way of their ability to make sound and profitable business decisions about who they recruit and select.
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