There’s two things here:
“How is only a 100 news? That’s nothing.”
And:
“It’s absolutely fucked up that our reaction to this is that it’s nothing.”
That reaction shouldn’t exist, and it’s even more fucked that most people who have that reaction don’t realise that’s a bad thing in the first place. No one should have to go through all that just to be able to survive.i did this pre-covid, and it wasnt even easy then, its just worst under AI.
Sad to say, 100 is rookie numbers, especially for someone likely junior or maybe mid-level in their field. I"m senior in mine, and I applied to 54 before even getting a single phone call.
He’d like to move into construction — siding, roofing, interior work — but the sector’s downturn has narrowed his options at the worst possible time.
That we have a housing crisis and a construction sector downturn and people wanting to work in it and struggling to find work tells you everything you need to know about the insanity of the profit-first economic system we have.
There is a widespread social need, there is infrastructure, and there are people ready to work to fulfill the need. The only hiccup seems to be that some ghoul can’t make enough of a buck out of it. This is market failure. The government should be stepping in, and hiring and training people to build non-market housing.
What a fucking waste capitalism is.
Right, business should be booming right now. This is a big recession indicator. Fuck.
Before getting tje job I have now, I sent like 50 applications a week for six months at least… Im 19.
100?! Those are rooky numbers, the wife has been applying for about a year with no leads.
She’s probably in the high thousands.
Lol 100 makes the news? I think my partner has like 3-4x that on a spreadsheet, she’s been unemployed for two years and has two masters
i did something similar, spend 8+hrs applying a day, then i started getting diminish returns over months, which became years , because at some point the EMPLOyer/ company recognizes your RESUME even if its on a different job, they auto-reject. or the same job listing that never RESPONDS to you at all. some months i was so exhausted from applying i stopped for weeks or months.
Yeah he sounds overly qualified, sorry.
That’s unironically a response she’s gotten numerous times
How about, you have exactly the skill that we need, because of your studies, but we can only afford an internship wage, would that be ok with you?
education does not guarantee anything. If she has an unsuitable personality (no offense), then she won’t get a job.
As far as I can tell, it is quite rare to send hundreds of serious applications and not land a job. I know, you read all the time about it, but no one in my vicinity ever experienced this.
It’s real easy to judge the quality of someone else’s glass of water if you don’t have to drink it.
You are out of touch. Go try to land a position and report back to us how your winning personality and firm handshake got you the job.
And yet you were not able to explain what the real problem is. Go ahead and please tell me. As I and all my social contacts do not have that issue, I can only end up guessing.
But what I know is the view of HR. Seeing that 95% of all applications land in garbage, because it is so utterly obvious this person did not even remotely read the job description. Having 2 Master degrees does not change this.
sounds like you never applied online, pre-covid you would pretty much spending a fulltime jobs worth of time applying , first you have to craft your resume, cover letter for that job each time. you are probably making stuff up. if you are going for min wage jobs, you can expect an offer very quickly, because they are often desperate for workers.
try doing this in stem, or a masters level field. i have tracked people through linkedin from my college, and they take a long time to find a job even with experience, one person i was noticing was lying about his experiencing.
I had 4 jobs the past 6 years, all on senior level in a technical field. All of them AI or space industry.
I usually don’t apply at all and if I do, I use rezi.ai.
Now I switch to my own company, cause I am annoyed by all the employer/hr bullshit.
What is your field? Maybe yours is wildly in demand.
Maybe HR should try reading the job description too, then maybe they’d realize it’s impossible to have 35 years experience with dotnet core.
If the company isn’t going to take honesty in writing the requirements seriously, why would the applicants bother when applying?
as someone with a personality, let me tell you a lot of Americans reallllllly don’t like you to have one at work. Especially if, like me, you are from another, non-American culture.
I am kind, funny, conversational with people - I ask about their weekends, I say good things positively, I say bad things seriously but gently. I am constantly in trouble for not “leading with the executive voice” in meetings.
Thanks for speaking up. What I have learned is, that a lot line managers have a weak personality themselves. This leads to them cutting off heads of anyone with a bit of confidence. Happened to me all the time and that was in the DACH region.
I on the other hand absolutely love confident people, because they don’t shy away from telling their own opinions. Those opinions are crucial for me to keep in touch with reality.
It’s not just personality, it’s also deportment, looks and sometimes your name. I can get a job wearing a god dam burlap sack yet my wife can’t find shit even though she has a proven track record of increasing sales by double digits anywhere she goes.
Thank fuck for nepotism! Or we’d all be fucked 😂
Thanks for elaborating and it is very sad to hear, that so many people still have issues with factors that have absolutely no influence on the job. I couldn’t care less about origin, looks, gender. If the personality is right and matches the team, not even the productivity of this person matters, as long as they are a big help for the team.
100 seems kinda mild? I think it took me closer to 1500 to get a job.
What field would that be? I changed jobs some time ago and all it took was calling the recruiter who found me the job before the one I was holding, one interview and I had a proposal. Industrial automation.
This is not encouraging for myself.
Lol last time I needed help my boss paid to put out an ad on indeed, got like 200+ resumes then just said fuck it and hired a friend’s kid rather than go through them because he didn’t feel like it.
100 only?
I’m at 200 and had a single introduction interview with no results.
5 years ago I had 20 applications and got literally 30 interviews as the word spread that I was available somehow. Recruiters were relentless.
Now? 5 years later?
Nothing
What profession
Kamala Harris campaign manager
lmfao
What it Reza and other Canadians were paid some sort of universal income?
I know, crazy talk. Let’s keeping giving corporations and billionaires tax cuts, sell off natural resources, and privatize everything. Surely, neoliberalism economics will get us out this mess.
handsome state handouts for the rich and rugged individualism for the rest of us
This is somehow more insulting than if they hadn’t written a story about the shitty job market at all.
yes, because it’s bullshit designed to depress you
Them are uncertain times now. It might get worse still in this global political and economic climate.
Given that we haven’t even hit peak oil shortages, that’s pretty much certain.
Over 1000 for me. Fuck AI.
100? Those are amateur numbers.
