Jobs

Here is a nice post on the futility of finding work. I take isssue, however, with the 4 workers for each job stat. I just applied for a job that wold normally be the province of high school students, there are, according to the email telling me I have the minimum requirements for the job, 135 equally qualified candidates moving forward to the next step in the hiring process.

Looking For Work

Paul Krugman posted a chart that shows slightly more than 4 unemployed workers per job opening.  The thing is that employed people apply for those jobs as well; it's true lots of people with jobs want different jobs. So unless there is some mechanism that stops the employed from competing with the unemployed for these jobs the statistic is misleading tending toward useless.