Opportunity is knocking for insurance agents seeking to bring new blood into their agencies. All they need to do is not follow the shortsighted and discriminatory practices of which some employers are being accused.
The discrimination I'm referring to has nothing to do with gender, race or sexual orientation. It's the policy some employers have of seeking to hire only people who are already employed.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently held a hearing examining the impact of this policy where several experts discussed how the practice hurts people looking for work. “Some employers may use current employment as a signal of quality job performance,” testified Helen Norton, associate professor at the University of Colorado School of Law. “But such a correlation is decidedly weak. A blanket reliance on current employment serves as a poor proxy for successful job performance.”
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