What....?!?!
Take a look at this article and the quote below.
"Summer months may be the best time for job seekers to land a new job"
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/national/summer-months-may-be-the-best-time-for-job-seekers-to-land-a-new-job
"Dick Lippert, a managing partner at Leathers Milligan and Associates Talent 'Management Solutions, says that 25 percent of all individuals hired during the year get hired in July, August and September.'"
First, I understand that the headline has the word "may" in it. However, the tone of the article itself implies "is" instead of "may" to me. And then they use statistics which I find very interesting in an annoying way.
Let's take a look - 25% of the people who are hired in a year happen to be hired in 3 months (25% of a year in terms of time). We don't really know anything about the other quarters of the year, but we can be certain that either 25% of the people hired are hired in each of the other three quarters or one of the other three quarters must have MORE than 25% of the hirees in it, otherwise we can't reach 100% over the year. In other words, summer is most definitely NOT the best time for job seekers to land a new job. It's either equal to the other quarters or is worse than at least one of the other quarters and maybe even worse than two of them. This is the kind of innumeracy that this country thrives on. Come on, it doesn't get any more basic than this!
So, let's look at that July-August statistic. 2 months of one year is 16.67% which rounds to 17% which happens to be the same as the percentage of people hired in those months.
What I do find amazing is that those percentages (time and number hired) are EQUAL. I'd expect at least some variation. I am curious as to where specifically Mr. Lippert got his data and over how many years the data covered because those statistics are unbelievable. And as already mentioned if they are taken a face value prove the headline wrong.
Sigh...
Lastly, why wouldn't you put an article up espousing that the upcoming quarter is the best time to be looking for work instead of the quarter past (even if the statistics are wrong). Let's give people something to look forward to instead of saying, "Hey guys, you missed the boat!"
Sigh again...
"Summer months may be the best time for job seekers to land a new job"
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/national/summer-months-may-be-the-best-time-for-job-seekers-to-land-a-new-job
"Dick Lippert, a managing partner at Leathers Milligan and Associates Talent 'Management Solutions, says that 25 percent of all individuals hired during the year get hired in July, August and September.'"
First, I understand that the headline has the word "may" in it. However, the tone of the article itself implies "is" instead of "may" to me. And then they use statistics which I find very interesting in an annoying way.
Let's take a look - 25% of the people who are hired in a year happen to be hired in 3 months (25% of a year in terms of time). We don't really know anything about the other quarters of the year, but we can be certain that either 25% of the people hired are hired in each of the other three quarters or one of the other three quarters must have MORE than 25% of the hirees in it, otherwise we can't reach 100% over the year. In other words, summer is most definitely NOT the best time for job seekers to land a new job. It's either equal to the other quarters or is worse than at least one of the other quarters and maybe even worse than two of them. This is the kind of innumeracy that this country thrives on. Come on, it doesn't get any more basic than this!
So, let's look at that July-August statistic. 2 months of one year is 16.67% which rounds to 17% which happens to be the same as the percentage of people hired in those months.
What I do find amazing is that those percentages (time and number hired) are EQUAL. I'd expect at least some variation. I am curious as to where specifically Mr. Lippert got his data and over how many years the data covered because those statistics are unbelievable. And as already mentioned if they are taken a face value prove the headline wrong.
Sigh...
Lastly, why wouldn't you put an article up espousing that the upcoming quarter is the best time to be looking for work instead of the quarter past (even if the statistics are wrong). Let's give people something to look forward to instead of saying, "Hey guys, you missed the boat!"
Sigh again...