Imagine a world where people that want to work, can work. Imagine a world where businesses that need talent, get talent. Imagine a world where hiring is easy. The Zero Unemployment Movement aspires to push the economy toward its full potential by fixing friction in the labor market.
Why Unemployment
We created unemployment, we can fix it
200 years ago there was no unemployment. Now, almost a tenth of our workforce isn’t producing. The root cause? An inefficient labor market in which finding the right talent is long, hard and expensive. Think about it. What would the economy look like if businesses had easy unlimited access to talent? How many more businesses, projects, jobs would be created?
Recruiting Sucks
3m vacant jobs, 9% unemployment... That sucks
Recruiting, as a process and as an industry, is broken. But we can fix it. We live in a connected world in which hiring should be fast, it should be social, it should be fair… mostly it should be easy. Let’s make hiring easy.
Get Involved
The People vs Unemployment. Make your case.
Why do we accept the very idea of unemployment? How can we make hiring easy? Why isn’t more talent being maximized already? Broadcast ideas of Zero Unemployment on blogs, vlogs, Twitter, Facebook, or by shouting from a mountaintop. Connect with us directly on Facebook’s Zero Unemployment page or join the Twitter hashtag conversation of #ZeroUE.
Unemployment: [uhn-em-ploi-muhnt; adjective] Unemployment is the state of an individual looking for a paying job but not having one. Unemployment does not include full-time students, the retired, children, or those not actively looking for a paying job.
Depart of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis explained her thoughts on recruiting practices toward the unemployment:
“I am very disturbed when I hear that employers don’t want to even look at resumes of people that have been out of work for 6 months or just (are) unemployed. It’s as though people have created this problem themselves, and that’s just not true.”
Unemployment – like labor – is manmade. Simply put: we created unemployment, we can fix unemployment. The unemployed deserve your time. Check out the unemployed.
10 Reasons to Hire the Unemployed by SmartRecruiters CEO Jerome Ternynck
Jerome Ternynck speaks of Technology and Zero Unemployment at an #HRtech Conference
1. The unemployed are hungry. 2. They are willing to work. 3. The unemployed are talent ready to adapt to vision. 4. More willing to give greater commitment. 5. They are not jaded from overworking. 6. Less often, you have to bid against competitors for wages. 7. You get more talent for your buck. 8. Because this world doesn’t need anymore discrimination. 9. To make the economy better. 10. America needs your help.
Let me say, celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Take a moment to reflect on what could be equality and peace.
A lot has changed since the life of Martin Luther King Jr. There has been much progress in social rights, but the socio-economic divide continues to grow, as Paul Krugman points out in “How Fares the Dream?” Remember, this is a day to celebrate his life, and continue his cause. MLK’s mission of racial and socio-economic equality continues at the hands of his disciples, long after his assasination. Happy Birthday Reverend King (the next day we still celebrate).
“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
- Martin Luther King Jr., from “The Domestic Impact of War,” 1967.
Great visions can mold an entire culture. People flocked to Martin Luther King Jr. Venues gave him stages and microphones. TV channels broadcasted his speeches because social good hung on his word. And his audience grew and grew.
In the business world, visionaries create company. Great business models – models to better industries – need support from the right people. Building together. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to the hungry voices eager for change. Together they changed the world. SmartRecruiters gives away the best technology in order to level the playing field of businesses with great resources and business without great resources.
For change to take hold, we must empower the leaders. Surround yourself with the right people.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.” - Martin Luther King Jr., from “Where Do We Go From Here?” 1967.
Sometimes to better the world, normative motives must supersede positive ones. In other words when you see much darkness, that does not mean the light does not exist. On contrary, the light longs to be seen. What is, is not always what should be. What is, is definitely not always what can be.
Along these lines, Jerome Ternynck, asked “Is unemployment a fatality?” And founded the Zero Unemployment Movement in April 2011. The Zero Unemployment Movement believes that unemployment can be globally eradicated with the creation of a more efficient labor market. We believe that if one is willing to work, one should have the opportunity to work. It is a fact that if search friction is reduced in the labor market, more job opportunities will be readily available.
If you adhere to Maya Angelou’s view – “I believe that every person is born with talent” – is it so normative that everyone can have satisfying work?
“Privileged classes never give up their privileges without strong resistance … If we wait for it to work itself out, it will never be worked out.”- Martin Luther King Jr., from “The Birth of a New Nation,” 1957.
Just because you have a better idea, it does not mean that idea will necessarily prevail. Good ideas must be fought for. Existing ideas have inertia. Leaders must recognize what must be done. Then, recruit the people to help you do it.
If you need a skill that is not on staff, that skill will not just magically appear. You have to go out and find the people who can change the world. Hire today.
“Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.”
“We need to leverage technology to bring recruiting back to its roots as a social activity,” said SmartRecruiters CEO Jerome Ternynck.
Everyday, more of the public takes occupation in the streets. More than 14 million Americans are unemployed, actively searching for a job. And 3.4 million jobs remain open, an increase of 22% over the last year.
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 671,000 less private sector jobs existed in the first quarter of 2011 when compared to the previous quarter. This full first quarter report was not published until November 17th…
I’m not relying on the government to put the six plus million workers who have been unemployed for six plus months back to work.
From the tents in the city parks to the debates for unemployment benefits in the federal buildings to police brutality, the frustration with the economy is on the tip of our unsatisfied tongues. Read more »
Great visions can mold an entire culture. People flocked to Martin Luther King Jr. Venues gave him stages and microphones. TV channels broadcasted his speeches because social good hung on his word. And his audience grew and grew.