Similar situation at the company I work for, over 200 applications where large numbers are not even applicable – it creates so much noise and it’s tough to work through them.
This is an inevitability when you have a quarter million unemployed being required to apply for a minimum of four jobs per month while there are only 26K job ads. And that’s just what’s required. People with time critical career paths are sending hundreds per month.
The työkkäri “beat the donkey” method of incentive-driven job seeking was never going to work. They’ve choked the system of the air it needs to run on. Now there won’t be job ads and with less money for shorter periods of time for unemployment, the system will burn itself up anyway.
We had a position for senior dev with one of prerequisites of SAP ABAP knowledge and experience. Only 15 out of about 350 applicants fulfilled that specific criteria.
Can’t really blame local applicants when they have to apply for a certain number of positions to keep their benefits.
I very much doubt that anyone would happily live without applying for any jobs if it was not mandated like it currently is (4 applications per month). Every single thing the government has done during the last years has made things worse, and they still can’t stop digging the hole.
It’s also wrong that we’ve paying a lot to a system that clearly doesn’t work. Even with a good salary one is in serious trouble once laid off. There are no jobs, housing is crazy expensive and the assistance is a tiny fraction of a regular salary. Everything is so expensive that the assistance given is not enough for many. I don’t like the idea that people would have to sell their car, house and everything else and live off that until the money runs out to be helped. If we did not pay those world’s highest taxes and insist we have first class social security it would be more understandable.
We are not very far away from a situation where people will have to do crimes to survive, or to get a place in prison. That threshold is high in Finland, but I for one would not want to find out where it is.
Shhh. Take the article down! It goes directly against the government dogma of the common people being lazy and not looking for jobs.
I am unemployed. I am one of the people sending out more than 4 applications per month. I send as many as I can per day. I need a job, and more than 70% of the time I don’t get a response.
Doesn’t help when there aren’t many positions. Thinking of moving elsewhere in Europe.
Finland sucks and has been in a recession for 20 odd years. There is no future or hope for this godforsaken country. Smart people will leave this shithole.
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In Finland, people don’t just hunt for government jobs, the government also hunts for jobs.
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Similar situation at the company I work for, over 200 applications where large numbers are not even applicable – it creates so much noise and it’s tough to work through them.
This is an inevitability when you have a quarter million unemployed being required to apply for a minimum of four jobs per month while there are only 26K job ads. And that’s just what’s required. People with time critical career paths are sending hundreds per month.
The työkkäri “beat the donkey” method of incentive-driven job seeking was never going to work. They’ve choked the system of the air it needs to run on. Now there won’t be job ads and with less money for shorter periods of time for unemployment, the system will burn itself up anyway.
We had a position for senior dev with one of prerequisites of SAP ABAP knowledge and experience. Only 15 out of about 350 applicants fulfilled that specific criteria.
Can’t really blame local applicants when they have to apply for a certain number of positions to keep their benefits.
I very much doubt that anyone would happily live without applying for any jobs if it was not mandated like it currently is (4 applications per month). Every single thing the government has done during the last years has made things worse, and they still can’t stop digging the hole.
It’s also wrong that we’ve paying a lot to a system that clearly doesn’t work. Even with a good salary one is in serious trouble once laid off. There are no jobs, housing is crazy expensive and the assistance is a tiny fraction of a regular salary. Everything is so expensive that the assistance given is not enough for many. I don’t like the idea that people would have to sell their car, house and everything else and live off that until the money runs out to be helped. If we did not pay those world’s highest taxes and insist we have first class social security it would be more understandable.
We are not very far away from a situation where people will have to do crimes to survive, or to get a place in prison. That threshold is high in Finland, but I for one would not want to find out where it is.
Shhh. Take the article down! It goes directly against the government dogma of the common people being lazy and not looking for jobs.
I am unemployed. I am one of the people sending out more than 4 applications per month. I send as many as I can per day. I need a job, and more than 70% of the time I don’t get a response.
Doesn’t help when there aren’t many positions. Thinking of moving elsewhere in Europe.
Finland sucks and has been in a recession for 20 odd years. There is no future or hope for this godforsaken country. Smart people will leave this shithole.
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