Unemployment is down; job opportunities are up. Then why are we reading so much about the long-term unemployed?
A sizeable contingent of talented professionals who are out of work are not counted among the unemployed, because they’ve simply given up. If you’ve been in a long-term job hunt, or are close to someone who has, you understand, because you know the roller coaster of emotions. High: “Hey! I have an interview!” Medium: “I think it went well…” Low: “Sigh…another rejection.”
A sad fact: The longer that someone is out of the so-called “traditional” workforce, the harder it will be to land a job. Why? The usually incorrect assumption is that there is “something wrong” with the individual.
