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Speaker 1: Two fat. You saw the story, didn't you, two thousand,

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Speaker 1: five hundred job applications. There was your headline two and

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Speaker 1: a half thousand job applications. That's got clickbait written all

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Speaker 1: over it, doesn't it? One job two and a half

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Speaker 1: thousand applications, One headline added In fact, company boss shocked

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Speaker 1: OPO is your company, and in the story their job

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Speaker 1: they're looking for is well, there's actually some good news

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Speaker 1: in the story if you actually read it, mainly that

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Speaker 1: the job is here not long ago it wasn't. It's

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Speaker 1: a call center job, and the call center has been

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Speaker 1: relocated back to New Zealand, which is one of those

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Speaker 1: weird job things. I thought we went through this years

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Speaker 1: ago when it was broadly accepted that call centers offshore

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Speaker 1: did save you money. Yes, but language and actual help

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Speaker 1: on the phone generally were so bad they gave up. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: they must have advertised the job globally through international sites, because,

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Speaker 1: as it turns out, only forty four percent of the

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Speaker 1: applicants were actually from New Zealand, So two and a

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Speaker 1: half thousand suddenly becomes a pretty misleading number, doesn't it.

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Speaker 1: Forty four percent still a lot of applicants of course.

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Speaker 1: But here's the other thing you will have learned. In

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Speaker 1: this tight job market of late, A lot of people

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Speaker 1: apply for literally everything, whether they want it, can do

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Speaker 1: it or not. They apply, they waste people's time, they're

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Speaker 1: not genuine applicants, and they're a nightmare for HR. Now,

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Speaker 1: just for the record, this is not to say jobs

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Speaker 1: aren't tight. We all know they are. But the inference

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Speaker 1: in these stories is that times are desperate and they're not.

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Speaker 1: Jobs are available if you're determined, which is the next point.

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Speaker 1: Those who have dealt with call centers, and that's most

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Speaker 1: of us don't get what you would loosely call a

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Speaker 1: world class experience, do we. I mean, like a lot

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Speaker 1: of jobs that are front facing in this country these days,

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Speaker 1: they are filled with, how do we put it nicely,

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Speaker 1: gormless people, people who have bad attitudes, don't want to help,

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Speaker 1: don't know how to help, don't know what you're asking,

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Speaker 1: don't have answers, are not empowered to basically do anything.

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Speaker 1: A lot of useless people have work. Have you noticed this?

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Speaker 1: A lot of useless people have jobs. It's a frightening fact.

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Speaker 1: Are all the people without work better than the useless

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Speaker 1: ones with work? Or are they even worse. Also, tragically,

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Speaker 1: that many applications for a low skilled job tells you

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Speaker 1: the decay of our economy. Sadly, too many people with

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Speaker 1: too little to offer Answering a phone is not a

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Speaker 1: career path, So what do we end up with? Two thousand,

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Speaker 1: five hundred applications and shock see like too many stories

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Speaker 1: not the real story. For more from The Mic Asking Breakfast,

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