it is looked at for
7.4s
thirty recruiters wore eye trackers for ten weeks so that somebody could finally put a number on it. in 2012 the same study said six seconds flat.
ladders inc, eye tracking study, 2018
everything sent from this page has been read for 0 seconds, all in.
he is one of
250
resumes for one corporate opening. four to six of them get a phone call. one gets the job. a 2026 count came back with 242, so nothing has moved.
glassdoor, corporate hiring averages
this page has now sent 0 openings worth of paperwork.
he stops being unemployed in
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to be counted as unemployed you have to have made one specific active effort to find work in the last four weeks. miss it and you are not unemployed. you are not in the labor force, and the rate goes down.
us bureau of labor statistics, current population survey
this counts
- contacted an employer directly
- sent out a resume
- answered a job advertisement
- asked friends or relatives
- went to an employment agency
- checked a union register
this does not
- read the job advertisements
- took a training course
a passive method cannot end in an offer on its own, so the four weeks keep running while he studies.
the clock goes back to four weeks every time somebody does that.
the other side of the clock
not in the labor force
he wants a job and he is available for one. neither of those is on the form. the one question that decides it is whether he applied in the last four weeks.