By Scott Morgan
Though it may appear to be employer discrimination, hiring of long-term unemployed may be low for a very simple reason: the perception of obsolete skills by employers. Business changes, grows and diverts so quickly that procedures that have been in place in a company at the time of unemployment may have totally new dimensions. Employers would naturally be wary of hiring employees who have been out of the business loop due to long-term unemployment. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean long-term unemployed are “unemployable.”
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