Feel free to rage about finding your job search in this thread.
Hearing it from people at the gym, friends, younger family members, and generally online. It sounds so awful. I have a “safe” and “secure” job at MEGACORP but goddamn I hate seeing folks just thrown into the torrent that is unemployment. The only thing worse than having a job is not having a job.
It seems to be every position, every skill level (but predominately starter/entry-level), every industry, it all seems so bad. I really feel like the job-seeker gets such a raw deal. You need to already have the skills as so many jobs don’t do any on-the-job training. You can’t get a job because you don’t have experience, and you don’t have experience because humans aren’t even looking at your resumes/CVs anymore. So many of these website have some script that processes resumes for keywords from what I’m hearing.
Recruiters are either straight-up scammers or are looking you to have advance skills but offer car wash part-timer wages. It all seems so bad, you are actively engaging with the system you’re supposed, and you get punished for it. It seems like a real drag. The endless stream of web forms all just seems like a bureaucratic black-box too.
The worst part of it all is the ticking jigsaw reverse bear trap that’s around your neck that is your rent. It’s all so very awful and I feel for you.
Best of luck to all the job seeking comrades out there. Whatever it is you’re looking for I hope you find it.
I was just reading about how a lot of job listings are just silly little prank fake listings to gaslight other workers, build up a reserve of potential new workers in case of emergency, build a facade of growth for investors, or really for any reason besides actually fucking hiring people, which is just wonderful! So now you have to spend 30 min per application filling out all their bullshit to have a 0% chance of ever getting any sort of reply because they never intended to reply to anyone in the first place.
The whole thing is so sickeningly dehumanizing.
