Job-seekers ‘scare’ employers

Press, 7 May 1980, Page 6

Job-seekers ‘scare’ employers

Employers were becoming “too scared” to advertise vacancies for jobs because of the experience or being unable to handle the big response, said Mrs Leone Richardson, the coordinator for the Aranui employment centre, yesterday. . She told a meeting of the Christchurch branch of the Institute of Personnel Management that employers often telephoned her directly and told her of a vacancy because of their experiences after advertising. A bank in Christchurch had advertised a vacancy and had 63 applicants, all with University Entrance. Amalgamated Batteries,

Ltd, had 163 people on its I waiting list. , Mrs Richardson said she 4 would like to see more : communities set up centres ; similar to the one at Ar'anui, so that vacancies could j be filled locally by un- ? employed persons. Mr B. White, a senior 1 employment officer in the ? Labour Department, told the meeting that he wanted J to correct the popular •! image of the unemployed - being dole-bludgers. j “I believe the 6000 people si in Christchurch looking for jobs are a cross-section J of society,” he said. “Sure, > a large section are un-‘ skilled, but they are living, | breathing human beings.” '