Are the Unemployed unemployable?

This has been a small story for a little over a year now, but are employers not hiring the unemployed?

News Organizations around the country are reporting employers are not even looking at job applicantion of people who list themselves in the current employer field as unemployed.

The first place I read about this was at CNN Money and they reported "Employment experts say they believe companies are increasingly interested only in applicants who already have a job."

There have been many articles and blogs about The Unemployed need not apply.

My first reaction was this is so wrong and unfair......did I just say Unfair? Now I see the word 'Unfair' as a marker word that I should look at a subject from a different angle. So I asked myself why would an employer/recruiter want to do this?

Well let us say an employer has one job opening for an engineer and they post the job opening in newspapers and on the internet. They then receive thousands of applications for that one job. The employer does not have the time or money to review all of those applications, so they need/must reduce as quickly as possible the number they will look at.

People need to look (right or wrong) at unemployment as a negative in their life, because the reality is most people who meet someone who is unemployed ask the question - 'So what is wrong with them'. And employers are no different, they do not want someone elses problem or someone who may be lazy.

So they drop all the unemployed to simply reduce the number of people they have to look at. They may miss out on great people, but lets be honest if you are looking at thousands of people and you need to fill this job quickly you are going to set criteria to reduce the number.

Many in the Real Estate Industry work a part-time job to help with the down cycles. The unemployed may need to look at the benefit of listing a part-time on their applications.