I’ve been applying constantly, I’ve got references, I have previous work experience, I got resume help what can I possibly be doing wrong
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We need to actually admit that laying off and terminating employees is an act of violence.
Hard agree. Hell, porky just not being in the hiring mood is a form of violence.
What the fuck do you mean I am not allowed to start my life because employers “only hire the best of the best”? What the fuck am I supposed to do to get out of my parents? Hell, what am I supposed to do while I wait for porky to stop being scared of his own shadow and get off his lazy butt and start making jobs?
I tried to frame my layoff this way to everyone I knew while I was unemployed. Suddenly I couldn’t go to the doctor, I was draining my savings to pay rent so I wouldn’t go homeless, and every trip to the grocery store felt like an indulgence. They make you suffer and starve to make their scraps more appealing when you get hired at a shittier job six months later
i have always seen it that way even before i became a communist i thought other people did too?
All the jobs I find on indeed that align with my skills end up being with fed contractors that require clearance and they may or may not bury that bit of information at the very bottom of the post.
Its maddening.
It took me almost 2 years and about 25 apps a week before I found something and I was fired from my last job. I have a BBA and graduated too of my class and now drive a delivery van for Amazon. I’ve been told I should have gotten a more worthwhile degree even though mine is in software.
I tend to always get fired for being autistic so I’m sure I’ll lose this job in the next year or so but this time we don’t have my life savings as a cushion like last time.
Oh, you don’t. There are not enough jobs to go around and there are so few available.
Literally your best bet is to find some rich guy on LinkedIn and just get all buddy-buddy with him and maybe he’ll give you a job out of cronyism.
Hate to say it but you have to meet the right people in non-work contexts :/ it’s all a bullshit game and this is a surefire way to be handed a job
Edit Would also like to add that there are very little guardrails in place for people who struggle socially.
Yet another instance of the world fucking you over if you can’t dance right
I went through a whole-ass final round interview last week. Every step, they clearly all really liked me, even said they thought I was a good fit. I was two of the interviwers’ #1 pick. But then they just rejectred me today because someone else had more years of experience. Why did they waste my time going through that process if they were just going to pick someone with more years of experience?
Youre probably too honest, exaggerate your achivements and straight up lie and say you have more qualifications 🤷
Thats my guess at least
A job search is one of the worst things that could befall a person outside of dismemberment.
trying to find a good partner is about as bad, especially post-app
Getting a partner and getting a job are pretty much the same thing, your require the same skills
Everything’s a market in hell
the last time I was applying for jobs I created a spreadsheet to keep track of all the relevant information. I applied to just shy of 2000 listings. I got 3 phone calls, only one of which led to 3 separate interviews with 12 different people and totaled about 6 hours of my time. they hired internally
jesus christ that’s bleak
I think most job listings are fake. For one, I think most companies set up a job posting service and just ignore it until they actually need someone and don’t have any candidates from in-person referrals. So the jobs get posted repeatedly or updated every few months and that’s it. None of those positions are actually vacant. It’s in the interest of job board companies to make it seem like they have a lot of jobs and information. Part of their model is collecting and selling data about jobs markets. So they’re incentivized to have ghost listings everywhere because they don’t investigate or discount fake listings. It all helps their internal numbers.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the government got lazy and started relying on these job listing companies for market data. Which means there’s a big bomb of shit data rolling around in stats, convincing people that there is more activity in the market than there is.
This isn’t just a theory.
Many, maaaaany companies openly admit to posting fake job listings, ghost jobs, and your explanations of why they do this are pretty much spot on.
https://www.newsweek.com/ghost-jobs-rise-1924351
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240315-ghost-jobs-digital-job-boards
It is of course difficult to get accurate numbers because of regional / industry variance, which platform are you looking for jobs on, and oh of course those job seeker platforms are highly incentivized to not let their users know how prevalent this is…
But uh yeah, between these 3 fairly recent articles, we’ve got somewhere between 20% to 60% of companies admitting they post ghost jobs / number of actual job listings that are fake.
Yeah. Its really fucking bad, obviously for job seekers, and also in other ways (which you also correctly surmised) because it makes many metrics other companies and policy planners and econ data all fucked… normally, job openings are… you know, correlated to actual hirings?
Yeah thats all broken now, has been for years.
This phenomenon really kicked in to high gear during and after covid.
In fact, probably a whole lot of the Dems ‘the economy is fine actually, stop complaining’ rhetoric is because they were too stupid to realize this has been going on and have been relying on bullshit metrics.
Its one thing that they’re unrelatable policy nerd wonks who have 0 charisma, can’t read the room, nor actually do effective messaging… its another thing that they are also incompetent data dorks.
(I am an unsociable autist data nerd with a degree in econ and career in data analytics myself… and thus this is personal for me lol)
you are tailoring your resumes to the exact position, rewording or copying phrases from the job description?
You can do that, or you can apply to five other positions in the same time.
Luck, lying, nepotism
Couldn’t have said it better, myself. I fucking hate the good ol’ boys system for hiring.
just put on your best shirt and walk on in there, ask for the manager and give him a nice firm handshake, look him in the eye and say “You may not know it yet but I’m exactly what this company needs to go to the top!”
but really idk, seems rough
Unironically better than filling out an online form and submitting it into the void. Seriously.
Go to career fairs, stalk hiring manager on linkedin, go to their homes.
Submitting resumes online and expecting to hear your name called is almost akin to placing faith in a nonexistant meritocratic system. What, you think someone is going to read your resume and be more impressed by it than the resume of a guy who bullshitted everything or some person, somewhere with 3 phds in your field?
This is very good advice. But I would note that many career fair booths are glorified billboards that tell you to apply online anyway
