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.
