Monday, September 30, 2013
GET A JOB ... EVEN WITH BAD CREDIT! APPLY TODAY!
GET A JOB ... EVEN WITH BAD CREDIT! APPLY TODAY!
Does bad credit really equate to your skills as an employee?
It seems this is where the South African Job market is at the moment. There are
millions of people, extremely capable people who are skilled, maybe even multi
skilled, and they just can’t get work in this country due to a bad credit
rating against their name and that’s the unfortunate truth. Ironically, how
does one pay up or fix their bad credit scores if they can’t get a job to earn
the cash needed to pay up their debt?
Now don’t get me wrong, that in itself is not the only barrier
here. It seems companies have now turned to the newly outsourced Human Resource
Agencies to employ people rather than doing it internally. It seems like every
graduate of any Human Resource certificate, Diploma or Degree now turns to the
safety in numbers strategy by joining these agencies. Kudos to them! The
problem however is that when these people interview any candidate they’re
honestly thinking of the payoff should they get someone employed into whichever
company they’re screening for.
At the end of the day money talks and that’s the God’s
truth. I have sat at many of these interviews myself and one thing I’ve picked
up consistently is that these Human Resource Agencies don’t really know much
about the jobs they’re interviewing candidates for and it’s almost as though
their eyes glisten with dollar signs in them and no real care for the person in
front of them or the company they’re providing a service to.
So it’s money, money, money right? Isn’t that what makes the
world go round? Now when these Human Resource Agencies see that you have the
skill they will hunt you down but let them sniff out that you have bad credit,
you can almost see the sadness and they give up. You realise deep inside you
that you will never speak to any prospective company and no matter how you’d
like to plea that door is now shut.
Perhaps companies in a country like this should have their
own Human Resource / Personnel department who can determine for themselves a
future employee’s worth based on their skill levels and not just their credit
ratings. The dreadful South African job market and the huge amount of
unemployed people should make government relook their strategies and reconsider
whether or not bad credit should be a deterrent to anyone getting a job.
My question here is why not employ people regardless of
their credit scores as you would be ignorant to believe that employees in any
company don’t have bad credit themselves. Whatever reason anyone gives you for
that would just be redundant. Perhaps when these Human Resource Agencies do
their interviews and screw up their noses at you for having bad credit should
flash their own individual credit scores and imagine the surprise then.... just
a thought.
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