Census finds no shortage of job-seekers

[The Straight Story]

Census finds no shortage of job-seekers


WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. Census Bureau says it is having little trouble finding census workers for its 2010 survey in a struggling economy.

With temporary jobs that pay between $10 and $20 per hour, applicants with advanced degrees and years of professional experience are flocking to sign up for the positions, which will give U.S. labor market a slight jolt next year, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.

"What we're seeing now is blowing our socks off," Wendy Button, the decennial recruiting chief for the bureau, told the newspaper. "We're seeing a huge response to very little media."

Census officials told the Journal that when they hired address canvassers last summer they had to cut off applications two months earlier than planned due to the overwhelming response -- in Charlotte, N.C., for instance, about 40,000 people put their names on waiting lists to take the census' employment test.

The newspaper said the final number of hires won't be known until the number of U.S. residents who return their census forms is determined. The forms will be mailed out early next year. But California's census offices told the Journal they plan to hire about 110,000 workers between January and June.

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2009/11/21/Census-finds-no-shortage-of-job-seekers/UPI-16121258815564/

[Mari333]

1. reality: people have no frigging jobs

the economy is only rebounding for wall street, and outsourced jobs are to blame. They are making money hand over fist with slave labour, while workers in the USA are watching their kids go hungry and losing their homes.

[Jimbo S]

2. I took the exam this week and in 1989.

In 1989 it was myself and half the people in the room were idiots. The economy was better and smarter people had jobs.

I took the test again this past Monday and the overall IQ of the group was superior to that of the 1989 group. Too many overqualified people out of work.