An article about having trouble filling jobs; but there is no indication that the hiring manager made any effort to determine why he is having trouble getting people to show for interviews.<p>Makes me wonder if he knows why and just isn't saying.
Small town? Too far from major cities? Wages that are an insufficient draw for the type/location/work schedule?
I don't see the struggle.<p>tl;dr: A factory, way out in the sticks, offering low-moderate wage jobs requiring minimal skills but sometimes high responsibility, attracts numerous candidates. Some don't show, some are awful, a couple are good, and one seems fit for management. This takes a day.
Why so many no-shows for the interviews?<p>Is it a sign that the economy is doing well and applicants (for these types of jobs in this area, at least) have multiple good offers on the table?<p>Or that the applicants are so worn down that they don't bother to turn up because they think they have no chance of getting the jobs they're apply for?
> <i>Bernie likes to think of his job as if he’s building a baseball team. (...) Can the guy who applied for first base play right field instead? What about the pitcher?</i><p>Please don't do this. This makes this part of the article incomprehensible for a non-American person. First base? Right field? I have no idea what this means and will never learn (even if one told me today what it means, I would have completely forgotten tomorrow).
"Bernie Coyle wants to hire people. In this hopeful moment in the recuperating American economy, he wants to <i>give</i> 40 new employees health insurance, dental insurance, good wages and a 401(k) plan with a company match.."<p>Why do employers think they are "giving" people a job? Would they say the employee is looking to "give" them labor? Its business after all, both parties are exchanging something. Nothing is being "given".
The only puzzle here is why the author of this story thinks these jobs are any good. Maybe because the journalism job market is so shitty that reporters actually think $50k/year is a great salary, and living in the midst of more chickens than people is enticing.