reporter: harvard business professor joseph fuller agrees. while ngpplicants may filter out the workers they need. it s very, very easy to end up on the wayside of a candidate who is just missing one attribute and triggered one filter. reporter: nationwide there s more than one job opening for every american who wants to work. but a survey by job search web sited in shows 77% of applicants have had employers stop communication during the interview process, and 28% have stopped communication themselves. one ongoing challenge for employers: a low participation rate in the job market means people are dropping out or looking outside traditional channels. it s very rare that i find an owner of any business that tells me they are fully staffed. reporter: jay johnson is rerantbubba ssthand at his cape s six unfi positons. r evey 10 applications we
we will be back with more local news at five and streaming 24-7 on cbsn bay area. captioning sponsored by cbs o donnell: tonight, president biden s agenda hangs in the balance after weeks of democratic infighting, but can speaker nancy pelosi deliver what she calls a thanksgiving gift for the american people? the bill to repair america s roads and bridges goes up for a vote in congressals the sweeping build back better plan gets delayed. more than half a million jobs added to the economy, but with a hot job market, why so many positions go unfilled. celebrating general colin powell. the final salute to the trailblazer as three presidents honor an american patriot. plus, the spotlight his death put on the 7 million immunocompromised adults living in the u.s. during the pandemic. pill to treat covid?
marrow. reporter: diagnosed with the incurrable blood cancer, multiple myeloma, he went into remission after a clinical trial 19 months ago, and then covid hit. if you were to get covid, god forbid, what would that mean for you? well, it could kill me. reporter: harrison is triple vaccinated. there are seven million immunocompromised people in the united states, but for people with multiple myeloma, the immune system could have a veloh limited protection. i haven t eaten in a restaurant for two years. reporter: colin powell s death from multiple myeloma and covid really hit home for harrison. it didn t make me more fearful. it made me more excited about doing what i can with however much time i have left. reporter: harrison says vaccines and masks are his best defense to stay alive and wishes they were less controversial. i d ask for people to keep their eyes open and their minds open, and wonder about their neighbors and family members
can an experimental pfizer treatment cut hospitalizations and deaths by nearly 90%? aaron rodgers speaks out. why he says he didn t get vaccinated. national day at the ahmaud arbery murder trial. his mother gasps at graphic videos of her son being chased down by three white men who say they assumed he had committed a crime. guns in america: our 60 minutes report on a new missouri law called the second amendment preservation act. andve hartman s on the road, with a high-flying, age-defying poll vaulter. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us. we re going to begin with late-breaking details on what has been a busy day of negotiations here in washington. at stake, president biden s ambitious legislative agenda
monday. norah. o donnell: omar villafranca, thanks so much. america s economy is showing hee pandemic. u.s. companies added 531,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate dropped to 4.6%. but as more americans re-enter the workforce, many are finding that their resumes are falling through the cracks of online hiring systems. cbs manuel bojorquez has more on this. reporter: joey holz s search for part-time work in fort myers, florida, turned into a full-time experiment. he wanted to see what would happen if he submitted 60 online applications for entry-level work over one month. and how many calls back did you get? four of those turned into phone calls where i actually spoke to a person. and one of those turned into an interview. reporter: his post about the experience has gone viral, with people sharing similar stories. by removing humans from the application process, you are removing the ability to find the people that are actually going to be right for the job.