Getting a job doesn't feel impossible, getting a job that you enjoy and pays enough to pay for essentials feels impossible. If you want a job that treats you like a subhuman slave, no problem.
Ummm no? I mean sure, you're tech guys and marketing/business majors are gonna have to go work for the shit companies (Blizzard) because all the good ones are full up (Riot, I guess?). But if you enjoy manual labor, and using your back instead of your fingers, there's plenty of great companies hiring. You want a fulfilling job that pays the bills, there's plenty of avenues through the trades. Also people would be very surprised by trying a job they think they would hate for a couple weeks/ months and see what happens. People (specifically new college kids) just think they know what they want when they have little to no experience in life in general. Also, there's something to be said that the job you work isn't supposed to be what you want, so long as it supplies for the life you want. I'm not excited to go to work everyday, but it lets me go to Jiu Jitsu class, play videogames, and support my wife and dog. I couldn't ask for more than that, even if I want my boss to suddenly lose control of his vehicle on a highway.
@@King_of_Faerghus Bruh I'm a union journeyman pipefitter, and it sucks. I make descent money when I'm working but every other aspect of the jobs sucks. Crazy long hours, wildly uncomfortable working conditions, and most of the people I work about are dumb assholes.
Not always, my team had spots open for many months now, but we are looking for a perfect fit, not a somewhat good fit. We already had to fire 2 people because they weren't good at what we are doing
@@Greggie1 Id imagine that at somepoint you might wanna ask if it's eventually smarter to train someone good fit to be perfect fit instead of keep hiring constantly new people in hopes of perfect fit. I might be totally wrong and bit stupid but just an first thought.
30 applications and 4 callbacks? That’s a pretty good ratio from what I’ve experienced. Edit: I guess this must be for basic minimum wage jobs cause there’s no way you’re getting that ratio for skilled labor salaried job applications.
The problem seems more to me that finding the job isn’t the issue, it’s finding one that pays enough for you to do anything more than simply exist to work. Car insurance has gone up, renting/owning have gone up, foods going up. The only thing that isn’t are our wages.
Yep, and 55% of that price increase in car insurance, rent, food and other things we call inflation is the result of corporate profits, i.e. companies paying more to executives and shareholders. But the system is working, "capitalism" makes companies compete and offer cheapest product 🤣Also, US corporate tax as share of GDP been declining since 1950s (wink-wink good times) from 6% to 1% under Trump. Average in G7 is 2.9% and average in OECD is 3.1% (which is further brought down by US since how big US is). Requires few economic degrees to put two and two together.
@@Zakeamass in white Christian country run by men of good character it's a system that elevates both poor and rich and gives fair chances for people to prosper. In atheist, multicultural hell hole it's a system of exploitation of the masses
You should always have a job even when you are looking for one. This waiting for the perfect job while you live off others needs to stop. Grow up. Guess what? You may never get your dream job. So how are you going to live?
Holy cow. I was the job seeker in this video, it's so cool that this video was engaging enough to get a live stream reaction from you! Thank you for sharing!!
Not hard to give Fast Food, Retail a chance. With a Degree comes a much difficult chance to find something because you are competing against the world. But if you take 1 day to visit every fast food, restaurant, basic jobs in your avergage city, it's not impossible to find something that will say "We are hiring". You don't get stuff like that with a Degree, and look at an office for a white paper sign "We are hiring" those are in the know jobs. Just walk outside and find the white papers on doors, and there you have it. Walmart and Target has a lot of old people working in the food departments, they will eventually die out. So, lower your standards or ....starve.
You know what it is even saddest than applying and not getting the job ? it is knowing that the company might still sell your data application to advertizing companies. So even if you never got the job, never got contacted. They still profit from you.
Maybe in US. In EU we have strict laws and you are not allowed to do that. All data regarding employment can be used only for that purpouse and deleted afterwards. You must ask if you may keep the data for use in future employment actions.
In over 80 applications, I've gotten exactly 3 responses and 1 interview. 2 of the responses were rejections and the interview revealed the position wasn't what was advertised.
Show me your resume. What did you type. Im a multi glad, multi M+ gamer. who loves video gaming. I have no other skills but i need a job..This is why no one calls you back. You wasted your life learning absolutely nothing.
Can confirm all this is true. I’m part of the hiring and interview process for a popular computer and device repair brand as well as the supervisor. We recently opened up a part time consultation tech position at 16 per hour. We received 160 applications and conducted all of 5 interviews so far. Part. Time. We have applicants coming from full time tech jobs, a lawyer, two nurses, a med school student, etc. It’s at the point where people with experience and skills are not gainfully employed and apply for multiple part time jobs, leaving those with just entry level skills out in the rain.
I would agree if these kids actually worked and showed up for work. But they don't. It's like pulling teeth just to get them in to interview. Let alone work a full week without calling in or showing up late.
I experienced the same when I graduated from college with an engineering degree. I applied to everything in my area, and barely got any callbacks. I ended up working on the floor in a factory for a year. I actually had to beg to get that job because the factory didn't want to hire me due to my qualifications.
I think the biggest problem is the fake job listings where they put it up with no plan to ever hire someone UNLESS there's a crisis Understaffed-> a buncha people eventually quit being overworked -> they have to hire a whole crew to get back to full productivity -> some of them quit first couple weeks -> back to step 1
I was just at wal mart and the off brand cheap shampoo bottles are like $12, they used to be $3 just a few years ago. I legit don’t know how most people are even getting by.
Everyone I know made mad money through investments so they don't give a single shit. I mean specifically during covid. There are 25M millionaires in US vs 37M in poverty. So most people are getting by just fine. But the ones who are screwed vehemently enjoy their position anyway, so not sure why that is the problem. You vote a guy in that cuts corporate taxes and screws you even more, and you want more, lol.
Agreed, prices are too high even in my country. Im loosing weight cause I don't have money to eat enough each day. I fear I will soon become homeless and starve to dead.
@@bc9554"dey took our jerbs" type of argument. It can happen, but do you really see Indian people running registers. Or some American high school girl named Britney lol.
A big part of the problem is just how many of the job postings are fake. As in, companies are not actually intending to fill the roles they are supposedly hiring for. If you want to get a better idea of why that happens, watch How Money Works's video on ghost jobs
In a hospital lab, even if the lab is super understaffed, if they've been that way for several years then the directors just close the vacant position because "they've been doing it like this for years so they can obviously handle it." Forget the fact that if people's lives were not literally on the line, nobody would work through those conditions, and those people have been begging for more co-workers to help alleviate the load for the whole two years. Then they hear the position is closed and a bunch of them decide to retire all at once, making the problem worse. Some places partially close their lab and do send-outs, where they give all the non-urgent samples to another hospital to run, spreading the problem out to a whole area. All this because they won't pay a decent wage for a specialist with 4+ years of schooling. Not every industry is like medicine, but I think a lot of them share similar symptoms.
@@TheSolitaryEyeHospitals are horrendously understaffed except in areas like RNs. But Hospitals outright refuse to fill CRITICAL jobs because they do not want to increase compensation. There are so many jobs that offer close to minimum wage for high stress and/or knowledge based jobs. As an example, Pharmacy Technicians are certified and must pass a test along with a required continuous education to maintain long term employment. Highest pay? Around $20 per hour. They do 80% of the work for a Pharmacy! Meanwhile actual Pharmacists(hospital, not self employed). Collect 100k a year and sit around most of the time.
1. Have a room full of MBAs making 7 figures look at a graph of growth trends for the company in the past 2 years. 2. Use that growth trend to predict what the growth will look like over the next two years with no consideration to other factors (market saturation, sustainability, etc…). 3. Go on hiring spree to demonstrate to investors that the company is prepared to meet the labor demand of the projected growth. 4. Use those predictions to generate investor excitement and pump the stock price. 5. Execs receive nice dividend payouts with the increase of stock price 6. Company comes nowhere near hitting the projected growth. 7. Stock falls 8. Company buys back the stock. 9. Lay off everyone the company hired during step 3. 10. Rinse and repeat
The problem is that nearly every job that an American is doing right now ( in tech at least) can be done by a contractor in India right now, for 1/5th the price, wihtout benefits, and no job protection. Overseas contractors are replacing MILLIONS of us tech workers right now and theyre basically slave labor. On my eCommerce team, one of my analysts cost between 60-80k salary ( ~ 110k with benefits / taxes). We can get Indian contractors to do the same exact position for 12,000 USD a year. Thats whats happening and no ones talking about it.
I think an important thing to point out when talking about contractors is that often times there are cultural and communication gaps between stakeholders and overseas contractors which normally results in a less quality product or a product that doesn't meet all the requirements of the stakeholders being delivered. Most companies go through a three to five-year cycle of increasing their contractor pool heavily, watching quality suffer, and then reducing it and hiring locally to bring quality back up. This ebb and flow have been apparent in every company I've worked for in my 20-year tech career. It is because of these communication and cultural gaps that overseas contracting can only effectively be used for the actual "labor" portion of tech. For example, in software engineering they're going to be the code monkeys usually. If local tech professionals are losing their jobs to our overseas tech brothers, it really just means that the local tech professional offered nothing else in their skillset other than the "labor" portion of that work. No significant decision-making abilities, no large-scale project management or planning, no business-sense. Tech is more than just knowing the tech. It's knowing how the tech can affect business. If you're a tech professional, you need to understand that tech is ONE tool in a toolbox of things that can be used to generate revenue. Don't just study tech. Again, I've had a 20-year career in tech. I've never been laid off and have never feared being laid off or not being able to find a job. Mostly because along with my engineering skillset I've always focused on the business aspects of implementing that technology first.
@@chinundercover More so from our situation, we got a new CIO who was tasked with cost cutting. Coming from Nike, he came in and just decided all of operations would be better served at 1/5th the price. That included the service desk, ecomm analysts, the noc, and all tier 2 support roles. Completely agree on the quality, they are horrible in general. Its one of those things forced on mid and low level management and we have no say in it. Go fire all your guys and heres the trash were allowing you to replace them with.
what i noticed that was dehumanizing when i was trying to find a job is that no one is accepting in person or drop by interviews, and everyone requires you go through their online system. this means you can't actually talk face to face with anyone and i think this is intentional. It's easy to dismiss away with a person when you don't see their face and only have a pile of paperwork before you written out as to why one candidate is better than the other. The technology to do this in this case is what i think is causing the problem as people aren't meant to find work by being disregarded like a product on a catalogue for hire. Companies like it but this is where the demoralization comes from due to the 'ghosting' rejections. Its literally a catalogue dismissal of human beings like ignoring products on a shelf so it should be no wonder people hate the current state of the market.
Which is ironic considering the truest thing asmon touched on, the fact that interviews end up just being about the vibe. Your resume has all the info. The interview is a personality test. You would think they would interview more candidates.
I think one of the best pieces of advice I ever received was you are no longer competing for a job with people in your area you’re competing against the world for that job. Due to Internet access as well as being able to work remote it’s important to be competitive.
@@defaq5557 This is true. My employer has transitioned much of its IT/Programmers to oversea offices where they make half my income. All of the job postings are for overseas. Most of that happen after WFH.
I mean, a bricklayer is a bricklayer anywhere in the world. In my country the medium wage is around 3000 USD/year. So if you can import someone to do the job for half of what you would pay normally they would be pretty happy overall.
@SanityTV_Last_Sane_Man_Alive I feel like anytime these type of discussions come up It seems people Only think in terms of White Collar Office jobs. Which are not the majority of jobs.
Not just the world, but also bot farms, thier are bot farms dedicated to overwhelming specific job types with literal millions of applications the goal is to elevate staffing agencies and pre selected applicants. The worst thing a company can do when hiring is hire exclusively electronically, or use ai's to sift through the mountains of what are in many cases bogus applications. Thier are a lot of old school ways to prevent these problems, but most employers today refuse to try
Personal experience: laid off last March, conservative estimate of 700 applications until finally landing a job in December. It was a horrible experience. I landed the job I was laid off from in less than a week of casually searching. This was less than a year apart, crazy how fast it changed. In the broader sense, the economy is so, so bad for us, and I don’t see how it gets better. A lot of the lower end jobs are either being automated or outsourced. Asmongold is right when he says the lower quartile of people are seeing their jobs evaporate. It used to be you could get a factory job and support at least yourself, if not a family. Now those are automated or shipped overseas. So what happens is you get a group of people who quite literally cannot get a job that correlates with their intelligence or education. Where do they go? What do they do? And to make matters worse, those lower skilled and lower paying jobs are not keeping up with inflation and cost of living. Why would you work for $18/hour when you can barely afford to make basic ends meet? Average home in the US is 400k, 2x that in a lot of places like LA, NY, etc. Why would an individual bother working when they can’t even save to buy a home, something previous generations could easily attain in their mid 20s with modest jobs! Unfortunately, I don’t see this problem being solved anytime soon until all of the older generations either die off or finally see the light on how hard people 40 and below have it. By that time, our population pyramid will be completely upside down and even more stress will be put on the few young people who do work to not only contribute their tax dollars, but their time to take care of older people. It’s gonna get real bad folks.
@@seraph6758 this isn’t about education it’s about public and private entities working in concert to move the manufacturing base offshore for cheap labor while the federal reserve depreciates your currency by funding Congress ridiculous trillion dollar deficits every year. It’s destroying this nation and it will have to stop soon or you can kiss it all bye bye. 👋
The crazy thing is that this goes all the way down to retail and fast food tier jobs. I've been stood up at scheduled onsite interviews, aplied to the same places/positions 10+ times, interviewed with someone who clearly isnt actually urgently trying to fill any roles, and ghosted for everything else for 4 going into 5 months. Ive had to postepone finishing off a generic business degree education because i cant even get a paycheck to take care of my damn rent
I did 7 years of college. got a major in computer graphic technology and a minor in computer science. i specialize in video game design, namely level design. Despite all that, getting into the industry is infuriating. developers want employees with multiple years of experience even on ENTRY LEVEL JOBS, but no one will hire you to GIVE you that experience. a friend in the industry told me they do that just to make their company look better for having "higher standards." this crap needs to stop. livelihoods are not some game to play with. either hire people or don't, but quit clogging up listings with positions you don't intend to fill.
Try a non gaming company. They need technical support jockeys or engineers to help developers on hte service desk. Yes it maybe meh but do that for 3 years and now you can get past HR later on.
My advice is find a programmer and start your own company. Maybe do a Kickstarter to get some money upfront. You might be really successful and even if it's not a huge success it will look good on a resume. I know it's easier said than done but it's not impossible so consider it.
You're paying the passion tax. There's always been more people who have wanted to get into the game development industry compared to the number of jobs available. Because of this, game development companies can pay less with worse benefits. Take your CS knowledge to something mundane like writing CRUD applications for a run-of-the-mill company and you'll have a much easier time finding a job, much better pay, and much better benefits.
@@chinundercover That is the issue. If you have a gf and kids it is especially a problem as a man her needs for a man with money and abvility to provide overide our own passions. There is good money in IT but top talent is hard to come by without risk and doing boring tasks and certs for well over 40 hours a week. If you have a passion in the techno,logy part it makes it tolerable even if you are not making games. I worked at Blizzard as help desk a long time ago to get my foot in the door but moved on with other companies that treat their employees better even if I do not interact with gaming. I work in green energy doing ITish things I learned building pcs and help save teh world. Good enough for me.
most places now post jobs but have no intention of hiring. They are so far removed from knowing how much of their job is trainable that they forgo hiring so they can stretch their small workforce even farther just to say that they are trying to fill the position.
Seeing the workforce stretching right now. Were already not able to keep up with all the maintenance tasks and have a big new production line starting work in the near future. Expensive new machinery thats going to be working basically 24/7 - but there is not enough of us to do the mainenance quickly and keep the rest of the factory running. They say they are looking for more technicians but if I search the CV sites there is nothing. During the pandemic we got orders from up high to tighten the belt -> coworker got fired. A month later they discover that we have to start working night shifts and overtime for a year to make all the products we owe our clients due to the chip shortage.
We have seen kids come to work and do the bare minimum. You have to learn and work hard to get paid. We have seen kids who call in weekly and show up late often. Hard to find good help these days. MY ADVICE, START BEING GOOD HELP!
On point man. There is so many job posts that are asking for that education and that previous workexperience. Yet the job won't make any use of that and they anyhow gonna train that hired person.
My whole lifeexperience whenever I looked for a job Market: *_" Huh?! You want a job?! HUH?! Who are you even!? Piece of sh°°!! What makes you think you're good enough, HUH?! "_* ... and it was never otherwise.
Same as it's always been. These kids just don't take rejection as well as the older generations. They all want a trophy for participating. They throw temper tantrums when they don't get their way. It's no different from 20 years ago. We just didn't cry about it. You get back out there and keep looking. What else are you going to do?
I rarely comment on YT videos, but this hits me. I’m 48 years old, with an extensive career in the legal industry, I’ve been searching for a job for 2+ years, and can confirm this video is accurate regarding the frustrations of the job search process. Only recently have I begun looking into leaving the private sector and going to work for the government. It’s so frustrating.
Jesus dude no offense but just got to swallow that pride at some point 48 lives home with elderly parents like bruh if you are Paralegal become a Lawyer or whatever you can do to either train into a better job or think of a new route. Oh well sorry for saying crap you already know thank you for your honesty and imput.@@schmiggidy
You gotta look for work outside the field you’re experienced in as well. Sorry to say but companies don’t wanna hire somebody at that age who is gonna command a high wage plus be aged out of the job in less than 20 years
"You mean like Peeky Blinders?" Yeah, dude. I used to walk into a business 30 years ago, talk to the manger for 10 minutes and I either had a job or I was told to keep looking. You didn't even fill out the application until you got the job. You'd solve all that in the talk, fill out the paperwork, then talk about the hire date. They didn't even do drug tests hardly at all back then. You had to make middle-class money to get drug tested. Shit has gone DOWN HILL, my man.
Due to HR being parasitic at its core by being useless in the jobs it insists on doing. Instead of interviewing with the hiring manager, you have to go through the procedure with HR while they are checking off irrelevant boxes and have no clue about the jobs they're hiring for. Some call backs i got were directly from the hiring manager after they purged HR and decided to do the job themselves. A lot times you get ghosted is due to HR handling things absolutely terribly.
Honestly, in my area as a current college student for IT, I've been applying to 30-60 jobs a week for the past 8 weeks, unemployed for 6 weeks and I've been getting nowhere. In IT, outside IT, retail, full-time, part-time, office jobs, warehouse, delivery, you name it I've applied to positions in said field within the nearest ~40 miles of my home. It's incredibly demoralizing to not hear back from FAST FOOD PLACES. the job I said I'd never go back to for all the BS I went through. The industry I always assumed would welcome anyone to chew them up and spit them out. Rejecting me. How do you come back from that? How do you give them everything they wanna hear, get rejected, and come back for more? Day in and day out. week after week. How many times being ghosted do I have to go through before I've suffered enough? how many times do I have to reach out again and again only to be burned before it's enough? This is the longest I've been unemployed in the last 10 years and it's hell. I'm desperate to work. But even my desperation isn't enough. Dunkin Donuts ghosted me. Is there any further I can fall?
@@plushquasar653 If the position is open for 3 months maybe they're asking for too much in qualifications instead of being willing to teach? Otherwise, maybe its one of those fake job positions that they never intended to fill.
@@plushquasar653same thing has been happening to me and i have an associates degree and can’t even get hired for a retail job haha. Just got denied without even an interview to like 3 retail jobs.
I've worked for many hospitals that keep lower tier jobs like CNA, janitorial, and tech positions open on their listings even though they are not currently hiring. The reason is because the turn over rate for these jobs are so high that it's hard to keep the hospital constantly staffed but the hospital also doesn't want to over staff either. Another reason is that they fire ppl in lower tier positions on a rotational basis when their annual increase in pay becomes too high. Since these jobs are highly repetitive and don't require a high level of skill, it's just cheaper for the hospitals to hire new people after a few years since a new hire can do the same job for less pay but during that year or two gap, these hospitals will STILL keep the job listings up just in case which gives these applicants false hope. What they tell applicants is simply sorry we're not hiring right now but please contact us again later in the year or next year. It's a really messed up system. They are starting to do that with travel nurses at my hospital right now and it's heart breaking to see.
This is why in hospitality industry (not just hospitals, but also hotels, restaurant, etc) they always push "company is family" bullshit. I worked in retail for 6 months back in 2019. I have tons of respect for the worker, but pure hate for management and the retail company
@@reivelt3715 when a company says that BS of we are like family here... Never talk to HR about ANYTHING and start finding another job ASAP. It's a trap and they will use you until you're no longer of use to them. You're right, this form of business is in every industry.
@@Centurion305 yea. The moment that shit rub the wrong way, i jumped ship. I switch job the moment i got one, it has worse working condition (as in you work in the jungle, mosquitos, snake and all) but the pay is better and the company treat me like a human being (compared to others in the same industry at least)
I've heard companies also post job openings even though they have no intention of hiring because they want to show the illusion that they are a growing company. Also companies have to open up job offers even though they are just internally shifting personnel. A while ago, I applied for a video editing job at the local newspaper. I found out I didn't get the job because they never intended to give it to anyone but another employee.
Internal positions generally need to be exposed to outside applicants. I used to work for a company that recently opened hundreds of positions because they needed to appear to have 1000s of people working in the state. After 10 years of constantly cutting the governor was going to remove their tax credits and they were going to owe a ton of money. Turns out they suddenly had more money than you can imagine to open positions. Now from what I hear from those working inside is while they do have plenty of open positions it only seems like they fill they fast enough to keep their tax credit.
Another take from why people feel like they are getting ghosted is because they're apply to dead job posts. From my own personal experience, if you look on job boards, you may see a post for a job that's 2 weeks old. Well it turns out, that job post may be inactive. But you have no way of knowing. Sometimes what happens is companies will post a job listing then realize there is something wrong with the description, so they post a new job posting but they don't remove the old one. In essence people may think they are applying to jobs but are just sending it to a wall.
The job market is arguably the worst its ever been. My fiance has been looking for a new job for ages with no luck. She has 2 degrees! I havent had such a hard time but im in EMS so there will always be a need for me somewhere.
First question, 1.) What are the degrees 2nd, Where is she applying? Is she "too good" for other jobs? Entitlement really limits your prospects. The market almost calls for us to settle on something that may be uncomfortable in the short term. Life will be full of sacrifice. The work should be the least that worries you.
@nickf2657 2 bas. 1 in general business and 1 in english. Her settling is her current job. She is looking for a higher paying position with better benefits. In the meantime, she will stay where she is at. She asked for a raise last year and got a whopping 40 cents. My main point with my previous comment was that people should get training in areas of need with the current job market. I make significantly more than her with a 4 month emt course/cert.
@@DavidH98 I feel for your fiance. But unfortunately, she has earned two of the most commonly held, out-of-demand, and low barrier-to-entry degrees out there. 🤷♂ The competition for even the least desirable jobs requiring those degrees is insane. Currently, even my own areas of study are having incredible difficulty getting jobs. I can only imagine how difficult it would be for English and Business majors.
Job applications are like healing items in JRPGs. Companies collect and horde them and don't use them cause you never know when the next boss fight / walk out or quitter will happen. Then you beat the final boss with 80 plus max restores / go out of business.
TundraCrow this concept you describe has an officially recognized name, it's "Too Good To Use Syndrome". Most of the time this occurs while playing J.R.P.G.s
Immigrants are cheaper, plus the PPE funding they were getting as long as they advertised they were hiring during the pandemic, let alone the economy sucks and we're are throwing printed cash around uncontrollably like the U.S. was at an international strip club. Some places don't want to hire people they feel are over qualified or smart cause they are a threat or at least so I've heard.
Asmon is incredibly successful and would be an ideal candidate in many cases so unfortunately I don’t think he would get the same experience if he did try
My most recent job hunt was my most bullshit experience with finding a job ever. I'm doing uber eats/door dash as i go to college but wanted something more concrete, so I saw a nighttime stocker position at my local harbor freight. I'm overqualified, didn't put up a fuss about the pay, the guy who'd be my direct manager liked me from the second i introduced myself, excellent references, yet I didn't get the position despite wasting my time on 2 hours worth of online bullshit and a questionaire interview, an in-person interview with the supervisor, and a second in person interview with the store manager. No email, no call, position still "open" on the store window. I don't fucking get it, and the worst part of job hunting is you never ever get feedback to improve, the best you can do is listen to the "experts" and follow their advice, which is sometimes completely different from person to person.
My mom is overqualified for every job she applies to, she’s a clinical social worker with a law degree that is currently trying to leave her job she’s had for 2 decades because of a new and very abusive boss. She’s gotten only TWO callbacks of 30 applications, one was simply to have the chance to be interviewed (put on a waitlist to interview) and when she finally went she said she was treated like cattle. The second was for a defense attorney’s office - and she got offered a job….for $20 an hour…which is nothing to what she’s worth or makes now. When she countered for $30 which is still under what she’s paid they told her they’d like to rescind their offer. AND they wanted her to work crazy borderline illegal hours. It’s absolutely crazy.
Why does the job market and tinder sound the same when talking about being rejected and having no hope because thousands of others are also going after the same thing as you 😂
@@CapriciousKittyif they ask you to download an app like signal or if they ask to interview on any app ogher then google meets or Microsoft teams. Still be careful but for a fact majority of scammers i applied too would then ask me to download signal.
Who else feels like this all has also changed the resume writing game. I grew up learning I’d need to have a resume to show PEOPLE the skills I have and a background of my accomplishments and now that I’ve had a few jobs it feels like it’s now just about cramming key words everywhere and tricking robots and then doing that to as many applications as possible to brute force your way past the bot wall into the forbidden kingdom of potential employment.
The last decade, at least, has been about cramming keywords. You want to have a point related to every job requirement. The skills you "want to show" are mostly irrelevant if they don't match exactly or aren't strongly related. You will get filtered by HR/AI if you don't match the job description - not even the people hiring. I thought this was common knowledge, my university hammered that nail a lot and it turned out to be brilliant advice.
One other aspect not mentioned is that jobs with similar requirements like a college degree or medical school does not give you the same financial power as it used to because wage growth hasn’t increased at the same rate as the cost of living or most goods. Maybe a starting salary with a bachelors degree has 2x over the last 30-50 years but the cost of living has gone up by more. You could get a Cheeseburger for $1 now it’s $3. Gas was $1.5 a gal now it’s $4. The value of your house was 100k. The same house is 300k+ today. Obviously numbers change depending on where you live but the concept is true everywhere.
I lost my job in late 2020 and from then until mid 2022 I sent well over 1000 applications - followed up with over 100 - contacted by less then 50 - had a grand total of 3 interviews - finally called my previous employer one last time and they were going to be looking to fill my old position and I was re-hired and back to work the next Monday. I consider myself incredibly lucky this happened and don't take my job for granted anymore.
I applied to a Walmart. They had set a "we're hiring" sign outside when I went in. I asked a random employee about it, they were the head hiring manager. Said they could hire me. I applied online, and it still took 2 months before they got back to me.
Walk in and ask to speak to the hiring manager so you can follow up on your application. Did exactly that a week ago. They will speed the process up fast if you have a little charisma and willingness to come in
I failed their stupid "personality" test too because I was being honest and not answering like a robot would. I had to wait 6 months to apply again, fuck that 😂
@@DayWalker745True, people have more in their savings than 3 years ago. Give me a break 😷🤣 The economy is soooo great Then you call out CNN or MSNBC and Biden then the story becomes “The economy is broken, it’s been broken for a very long time” Or “Old people just won’t leave their jobs” “American is just fundamentally flawed” “People are having too many kids” “Not having enough kids” They will keep lying, then “admit” it was bad, then it becomes “republicans never admit they were wrong” These people man
@@DayWalker745 True, its soooo great, people have more savings in their bank account. Give me a break. When people have been calling out CNN or MSNBC and Biden for years, then it becomes “The economy is broken and has been for a very long time” “Old people are holding onto job’s because the economy is so bad” _but it was just booming_ “America is fundamentally flawed” “American people don’t feel represented” These people man Typing this again because it vanished the first time
My husband applied as a full stack developer [1000 $] outsourcing sht for a no name company. He had multiple interviews, rounds, tests for over 2 month. At the final interview, test, checks, questioning they were very positive etc. At the end they forgot him after 2 weeks passed to tell him that he didn't make it to get the job. Disrespect on a high level.
Guess I'm the lucky one here. I work tech for traditionally non-tech companies. Entry level back in the day was hell, 200+ applications and no responses, got an apprenticeship position due to a friend of a friend of a friend thing. 10+ years later and a new job is essentially a call to former co-workers and contractors what they're doing right now and if their employer might have an opening. Usually a good worker going and asking "Hey boss, a mate of mine is looking for a new job, he's good" does open a lot of doors, especially when HR is not involved. That does mean though you got in once and are good at your job and have kept at least decent relationships with your, partially former, coworkers. Personally I haven't found shotgun networking to be useful at all. But yeah, at a former employer the tech department was looking for new people and HR was pre filtering 95% of the applicants, and the tech bosses only learned that after some of their employees were asking the bosses why their friends got rejected without any listed reason. Let's put the fallout of that this way, HR is no longer allowed to look at applicants for the tech sector in that company.
Yeah, it's always easier to get a job when you have connections from a previous job. I'm similar to you, i have people asking me if i want to quit my job and go and work for them. If my company folded tomorrow I have people i could call. But it takes a while to get to that position.
reminds me of that story where a guy was ineligible for a job because it required 10 years of experience with a certain tool, even though he himself was the creator of that tool and it was only even conceptualized like 6 years prior, or something like that. Absolute joke
They need to change this stupid expectation. Have a system where ppl can prove their skills. If they pass, hire em, if they fail, you avoided a red flag. If they’re willing to learn give ‘em a time frame and have em try again.
Adding jobs and decreasing unemployment isn't impressive when the jobs worked are crap. You have to wonder if the official stats haven't been cooked in some way to appear more optimistic.
I love being a truck driver, companies are always hiring, theres no interview process. They just look at your driving history and send you to get a drug test and then you start right away after passing it.
Yea I want to get my cdl rn I'm ganna work a warehouse jobs that pays 17.75 in texas but in the meantime I'll save money ik some companies pay for cdl training I'm ganna ask mine
@@JesManVP great man! It's worth it. After 6 months to a year of OTR you can find a local gig easily if that's something you wanted. It's a bit less money but at least you get to go home every day
@@JesManVPI actually never did OTR out of school I worked for swift on their Walmart account overnight sharing a truck with someone as a slip seater. I left after 7 months and found a day position. Only about 200 less a week but I have my sanity
I think one of the roughest things is.. that corporations are outsourcing their job searches to contracting agencies constantly. It's absolutely insane how hard it is to apply to a job that doesn't get you directed to a contracting agency, and then those contracting agencies low ball the crap out of you with little to no benefits. Then there's people that do get approved for jobs, but the corps are offering so little that people are essentially earning just enough to go to work.
Just finished a CS degree at probably the worst time in history to do so. Pretty discouraging considering the time and effort I had to put in to complete school while working a full time position plus my side gigs. Feels like it all was a waste of time. It could be worse considering I make decent money as a prototype mechanic but it feels like a slap in the face after the sacrifices I had to make to finish my degree.
The shift to 1099 “jobs” has allowed companies to extract labor while skirting labor protections. I work in a 1099 position, where well over half of all employees make under 2K per month. We aren’t compensated by the company, we are only paid commission. This allows the company to avoid providing benefits or fair pay, and also you can’t file for unemployment, because you don’t pay into UI. These people are underemployed, yet “working hard” doesn’t guarantee that you can pay your bills. The “contractor” economy has nullified the labor movement. People who fail to realize this don’t understand how hard 1099 workers push to earn a living, but they’re viewed as “lazy” for complaining about making less than a living wage. There is far too much wealth in the country that is distributed to investors, rather than workers. Investing is the ultimate welfare. No need to produce, or work, just sit back, and collect a check.
One of the most sickening things I have seen was while I worked in the E-commerce department at Goodwill when the executives came up with the "genius" cost-cutting strategy of paying our disabled clients a commissioned wage. For those not in the know Goodwill is a charity that collects donations to "help" disabled people by giving them a "hand up rather than a handout." So these are severely disabled people and it was our mission statement to help them. They had originally been giving these poor sods minimum wage to work some of the most banal and grueling jobs in the entire organization as part of their hand up. Since they are severely impaired, these people work much slower than an average person so the execs realized they could cash in by paying them on commission instead. After the change we had severely mentally and physically disabled clients doing the jobs nobody else could stand and some were getting paid less than a DOLLAR an hour for it. These are the people we were supposed to be helping. Not only were the jobs terrible the work environment was incredibly dangerous. At another branch we had a blind client lose his life in the garbage crusher for instance. At my store we had internal combustion engine forklifts being run constantly in an unventilated warehouse. I ended up losing my job for bringing in a carbon monoxide detector that hit as high as 400ppm at one point which is like 8 times higher than Osha requirements. I informed OSHA and "coincidentally" was fired 4 days later. My buddy tells me they tore out the carbon monoxide detector I installed the same day I was terminated. The best part is not only did I lose my job for whistle-blowing, it also became a huge black mark on my resume and nothing changed.
@kirbyjoe7484 ..savage. I worked at a Value Village for a bit. I had no clue how .... long pause... fkin sick the company was, or how nasty by association I would feel working there. All profit all up to the top, squeezing employees for maximum effort on minimum wage.. all the while claiming to donate to help people..
Ive done almost 100 job applications in two months and ive snagged two interviews. I had a reputable consultant give my resume a facelift to work with job search algorithms, and still just crickets.
100 with 2 interviews is good. I've been at it since the beginning of 2021. I graduated with a BS in Computer Science and applied for 2 years landing only 5 interviews. I eventually gave up to pursue a Master's in Business Intelligence. Needless to say, I'm still applying to jobs 3 years later and do a minimum 5 applications a day.
@@Rikidybones Not that I'm taking pleasure in your lack of success (I'm not, believe me), but it does make me feel just a bit better about graduating in December 2022 and still looking. I feel like such a failure sometimes, and knowing that other people are struggling makes me feel less like one.
Higher end tech job that paid 65k/yr 5 years ago advertised for 36k (18/hr) now. Gas station clerks are offered 18/hr for part time work here. Half of the tech jobs are offering so little pay so they can tell the govt "See? Can't find anybody to take the job. This is why we will outsource now."
Zak, few months back, my wife had a offer for a job . After going through numerous stages of interviews, they didn't give a response back. I dug through the company history via glassdoor and some previous interviewers suspected the company of idea harvesting. Also some of them mentioned they were giving a project idea prior the interview to promote a product or maybe their own product..
Oh, that's devious. I've always believed that putting together some kind of work sample to demonstrate skills is beneficial, but I never considered that was a thing.
@DominicGreene72 oh yeah it's a thing, the company contacted the wife directly via LinkedIn with a offer, I search so hard on who or where to make a complaint.. all the info say make a complaint with the ftc... really wtf... sadly this had happen to my wife 2 times now, the risk being a leader product manager
Trade jobs are in high demand (eletrican,plumbers,mechanics etc) I am in avation, and airlines are hiring mechanics straight out of A&P school because they cant find any candidates. There is a large amount of boomers retiring soon and its a perfect time to go to school/apprenticeship. If you are interested in this field, it cost approximately 30k for schooling. Airlines are offering to pay for your schooling to get more workers. Or you can call local flight schools and work as a shop hand and accumulate training hours under a licensed A&P mechanic and bypass schooling altogether and test out. It takes two years to become aircraft mechanic and make 100k in 2yrs and 5-8 make 120-140kyr. AI is not gonna go out and change tires/brakes or componets.
He’s not bullshitting I got out of the military seven years ago and still receive emails and calls to work A&P. It’s too bad my back is shit or I’d do it in a heartbeat.
Yeah all the paper stuff sounds great until you actually have to be trained by people who don't want to teach you because "they don't pay me enough to work and babysit". Then complain about how they're going to have to work until they die on the jobsite, how the new guy doesn't know anything and he is not worth what they're paying him. Boomers have manufactred all of the problems facing the youth and expect them to fix it while barely scrapping by while saying things like "invest for the future". As they bought a house and cars they couldn't afford at my age and now expect us to pay for it. And don't forget the big companies(Boeing) are more focused on diversity and inclusion instead of who is willing to learn or qualified. Its not the youth in CEO positions making things luny its old people trying to prove they're not out of touch.
@@Cunashi009 >And don't forget the big companies(Boeing) are more focused on diversity and inclusion instead of who is willing to learn or qualified. really now? This new orientation was encapsulated by something that Harry Stonecipher, who had been CEO of McDonnell Douglas and was CEO of Boeing from 2003 to 2005, said: “When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm.” Boeing's focus is on running like a business, i.e. making as much money for executives and shareholders as possible. The fact that they use diversity and inclusion as a label to receive more money from diversity and inclusion initiatives doesn't make them pursue diversity and inclusion; it makes them rentseek more profit for executives and shareholders.
I have had a few surgeries past few years. I have permanent restriction and I am disabled. But not disabled enough for disability. What trades are available for someone with lifting restrictions and little to no bending, lifting or twisting? Genuinely curious. I have heard trades are good. I been in factories most my life. But my body paid the price.
I wouldn’t say impossible but more like lacking, quarantine basically screwed every aspect of applying for a job online. And the annoying part is trying to apply for a specific job online and it takes you to a whole other website just to upload a resume/application.
Oh and don't forget to fill out all the fields, and put your whole past into their database, because they sure as heck not gonna lock at your CV. But if you have so diligently put everything into their database, they might give you a hola if and when you pop up on some internal search. Even better, write a personalized cover letter please. We aren't gonna read it, but you know. You should just do it. Peasant. The whole process is a big waste of resources for everyone.
Job market is shit atm, another factor is allot of companies have one employee doing 2-3+ position for a fraction of the cost and do not want to fill those other position. I've delt with this in two companies last few years, and a 3rd, my friend was complaining about.
It took me 7 months of heavy searching and interviewing to get my first engineering job after graduating college, and many years later, it took 3 months of light searching to get a new engineering job.
This is something that I think is often overlooked. People hear from articles and other news sources that there's a shortage of jobs in healthcare, or in engineering, or in tech, etc. and they immediately think they can just go to school, get a degree in that area, and that it will be simple obtaining a job after graduating. What they fail to realize is that those job shortages are more so positions that are on the senior end of the experience spectrum that are going unfilled. As an example, I've been a software engineer for nearly 20 years - a new graduate trying to find their first engineering job may have to apply to hundreds of different job posts just to get an offer or two. They're applying to job posts that may have thousands of other potential entry-level candidates competing for it. Meanwhile, the jobs I apply for as an experienced candidate may have a dozen or so applicants and I'm fairly confident if I lost my W-2 job today I'd have hits on interviews by the end of the week. Experienced professionals in in-demand industries with a good resume and a diverse skillset do not have trouble finding jobs. For everyone else, it's the Hunger Games.
hate to break it to ya but data is everything or maybe im biased because im a data scientist. you can litterally predict and prevent upcoming problems with high accuracy etc which a human cannot or not as fast. using a pc for data has way less bias then a human do so that point also makes no sense
@@sanane66543 Even if one uses a computer, a human still looks at it at the end of the day, so there is still bias. Also yes, there is bias in this comment because your job is literally dependent on that data.
@sanane66543 2 humans can look at the same set of data and come to wildly different conclusions. There will always be bias even in fields all about finding the truth lol.
@sanane66543 all it takes is for a data set to be hidden. For instance, Jet exhaust is not water vapor, yet the insistent "hyper informed" news media and wiki gate holders will not allow any information (data) that proves it. We could talk about the most recent round of injections, and all the obscured data points. Or maybe weapons of mass destruction? How about data regarding whom 💣 the nordstream pipe? Or how many people are illegally crossing the southern boarder.. this very long list keeps going.. I'll spare myself.
The leader of the FED straight up said that he want unemployment to go up in order to punish workers and no, I'm not embellishing. People need to start talking about this portion of the conversation. There is a concentrated effort by our government with the cooperation of major ceo to increase unemployment in order to slow down labor advancements and achievements.
@erestorhalfelvan7676 Also massive inflation, rich profiteering by giving jobs to illegals and legal immigrants. Basically every western government treats people like cattle they will just bring more in and replace host population. There isnt really a solution that doesnt require things getting much worse.
19:23 I say this as a SRE. Mechanics, Plumbers and Electricians are engineers with bad spawn RNG. They analyze, troubleshoot, solve problems, and often create new processes with the same level of aptitude and similar thought process of any other technical engineer Ive met.
For publicly traded companies, theres a big trend of posting ghost jobs; they never intend to hire any applicants for these positions, but they are able to turn around and show investors what a good job they're doing and how they're actively expanding with x-amount of new positions. It's horseshit.
Actors and Writers strike cost me my job of 6 years. Been unemployed for 6 months straight now. I've applied to 500+ jobs over half a year. Gotten about 4 call-backs, 3 interviews, the rest completely ignored. I'm not a nervous person and can talk to people very easily, nor am I egotistical or 'over the top'. Interviews don't make me nervous. I'm fully educated with top marks, and 8 years in total experience in the working world, plus 4 years doing 'retail' / 'first time jobs' when I was young. I'm 30 years old. I can't find a single job.
@@dmt472 Nah, just reality mate. If I didn't know how to write a CV/job application I wouldn't have been working for Marvel, HBO and Netflix for 6 years. There are people who were directors for 15+ years currently working as a Mail Man. Others who still have no job as well, because none of the skills are transferable, and those low-brow jobs either don't pay enough money to survive on (which is why they're still looking for people in the first place) - or they want to hire people who are dumb / they can manipulate, not people who will obviously leave ASAP / can hold their own. That's how it is.
Agree with Asmon it's not a problem that jobs are being filled it's that you have everyone being told to go to college and universities because you'll get a piece of paper to earn yourself 100k+ a year then find out everyone has that same piece of paper so you're fighting over a mcdonalds job because there's only a handful of 100k+ jobs a year and millions of applicants coming out with degree's each year. The reality is if you forced everyone to sign up to a job centre after they left education and that centre placed you in a job you have no say in, you'd find the vast majority of service and low end jobs filled but people would be miserable about it because it's not what they want. That's all that's happening now, people are realising they have debt and an education that's resulted in going for a nothing job still so it was all wasted time and money.
The new tech isn't to get a BA it's to get a trade school certificate. Those job fields are high paying and looking for a lot of people right now due to how the job complexion has changed with society. If you want 6 figures, then working a trade in a densely populated area is the ticket. Source: I have several part time soldiers and friends who are electricians, plumbers or construction workers that are making double my federal government salary.
@@King_of_Faerghus Agreed trade is where it's at now as the job market has shifted but generally trade is looked at as these manual labour grimey jobs people don't want to do, so money aspect of it becomes irrelevant when people want to sit in a AC office chilling around the water cooler talking about the weekend sports than earning 5x more doing some form of manual trade job.
yup it's actually a net negative and inefficient for the economy to send everybody to a college. Most basic jobs out there you can literally learn in 2 weeks, you don't need college education at all. And you are not using 99% of what you learned in college when you are just cleaning tables at mcdonalds. So going to college was literally waste of money and time for that person.
I seen so many jobs on indeed and linkin where they want a master degree and 2-8 years of experience with 45k as pay. I was making more than that at some trailer factories.
I spent the entire summer applying to entry level jobs while I have 2 years of retail, I had no callbacks and had to resort to nepotism to get a 2 week temporary min wage job
@@hollyd8989 yea that's what I thought too so I also had my cousin who works at Indeed help me with it and he said it was good so it shouldn't be the problem. Recently I got a government internship so maybe it's more to do with the companies itself, but seriously someone with 2 years retail isn't good enough good for "entry-level" jobs? Like cashier and linecook 😭
@@hollyd8989 That's what I thought too but I had a cousin who works at Indeed look over it for me and he said it was good, I think it's more to do with the companies itself since I recently got a government internship, but seriously 2 years of retail isn't good enough for "entry-level" jobs like cashier and linecook, I was really scraping the barrel with what I applied to. :c
@@hollyd8989I thought that too but my cousin who works at a hiring agency looked over it for me and said it was fine. I think it has more to do with the companies itself since I got into a government internship recently. Like seriously 2 years of retail isn't good enough for entry-level positions like Cashier and Linecook? I really wasn't being picky either. :c
Just went in to Walmart to follow up on my application for part time work. They listed the job for 17-23 $ and the hiring manager told me they pay all new hires $15. Da fug
Some jobs have a probation period, where they pay you less for the first 3 months or so. The mentality is, "Why pay a bum full wages when they might show up 2 days, do basically nothing, and then no call/no show and never see them again?" I'm sure that situation is rarer the higher the age bracket is, but if they're hiring from all age brackets, then they have to apply that rule equally to everyone.
@@danielmaster8776 its also because for a while you are practically useless until you get trained on how they want you to work which means they are not only investing in you during your training period but also splitting the labor of someone else to train you. so until you can actually do the job that they are hiring you for then they cant realistically be expected to pay you for that position the full amount.
I have an undergraduate degree and close to ten years of experience in my field. I graduated with a 3.9/4.0 GPA. I worked in a helpdesk role for six years and telecommunications for almost 3. I haven't had a job since Jan 2023. The job market has changed significantly over COVID for people in IT helpdesk positions. The only job callbacks I receive are for half my pay that I used to have before 2019. A fast food cook workers would earn as much as I'm being offered. I don't have a problem with others making more. I have a problem with my wage decreasing by 50%. All these companies are moving their entire help desk departments to India. Why pay two or three competent people to staff a 1,000 person business when you could hire an entire Indian department for the cost of two american employees? Its a massive problem.
Also, the fact that there are STILL sooo few remote jobs is VERY annoying. Especially in fields where yearly layoffs are very common, as it likely means you have to often either uproot your whole life and move OR you "settle".
Work isn't about your comfort. Nor is life. People are concerned with everything being comfortable. They want stuff given to then without earning it. It has always been hard to get a good job. You just have to stay hungry. Even when you're burnt out, you keep going. If this is hard for you, life is going be damn near impossible. People also think they're too good for certain jobs. There are jobs everywhere.
@@nickf2657 half of me agrees with you as I have seen people who are simply not driven enough, but also the other half of me wants to scream "boooomerrrr" because some things really are just worse right now, but because of this exact "ignore and deal with it" mentality, its been building pressure.
@@nickf2657i mean, with all the pleating these companies do about "sustainability", remote work is a no brainer way to lower carbon emissions. its also proven to make workers MORE productive. but companies want people in their expensive offices to prop up their real estate prices. it just goes to show that the "values" of ppl in this society are completely fungible depending on a vibe.
I've done the same thing!!! I just made $22/hr building self driving forklifts... applied at a job for $16 to build wires.... no callback. And when you get an interview you'll get asked about gaps in your employment... like bro everyone is pretending to hire!!! I just had a job that decided to not hire me reach out to me and say "you seem like a good candidate for this position!" Like.... dude you rejected me a year ago, what happened to the guy you hired? If they left... I know I don't want to work for you. Seriously, I interviewed with this company about a year ago, they rejected me, and now they're looking for a new hire... These companies don't have a single god damn clue what they're doing anymore.
I applied to a call center job with about a decade of varied and versatile call center experience. I landed an interview, they gave me a tour of the location, talked to me about what I could expect in terms of training and benefits… They passed over me for the job. I literally could not have been more qualified. No criminal record, no bad blood with past employers. Nothing but detailed job experience that was directly applicable to what they said they expected.
Im finishing a PhD and looking for jobs. Its BRUTAL. Basically nowhere is investing in their departments/expansions and a lot of hiring freezes occurred. Won't change until interest rates lower. Too many variables going on but this is the major one and seemingly rarely talked about
Could be because you have no experience in your industry, that PhD means fuck all if you aren't trained to do the job. You are just simply educated. (If you are studying to be a doctor then ignore my comment as a PhD is necessary)
Molecular biology and computational biology. Many have been laid off in tech & science. A PhD is experience, since you are unaware (whoever made that highly regarded comment) since the whole point is publishing papers and working in a lab for years.
@@locmarii think that in order to get a PhD you gotta do a dissertation which is a paper of your experience and research in your chosen field. I don’t think a lack of job experience could be apart of the issue but that’s just my thought
13:50 That's incorrect. Labor typically makes up less than 30% of gross revenue. No matter how many other sub-categories you make so that it's the "largest expense", and "leaving room for profits", it would be incorrect to define as a majority this way.
I think part of the burnout is knowing that almost any job a person can get will almost certainly afford less quality of life than the same job in 2019 would afford. It is just depressing knowing that you are sliding backwards when the expectation most of your life was to climb the job ladder and gradually improve your quality of life. In some sense that's how I feel. 7 years of school. A decent engineering job. And then I get a 10% raise over a couple years while food prices have doubled and cost of owning a home has doubled over that same time period. Strictly financially speaking, I think I would have been better off skipping the master's degree and getting a job with 40% less pay but buying a house as soon as I could.
I had the magic unbelievable luck 3 years ago when I lost my job of walking into a business with my resume, getting an interview that day, and having the job that afternoon. Admittedly, its because I was a skilled labour commercial class 3 driver. I'm fucking terrified right now because on January 3rd of this year I got diagnosed with Epilepsy was told I will never be allowed to drive again. So now I'm staring down the barrel of this job search market gun without even having the skill I've been using for 20 years.
@@francestaylor9156 my epilepsy has a super specific trigger. It's well documented, if rare type of epilepsy, and is not effected in any way by diet, exercise, weight, narcotics, etc. It's primary source was either something happening in birth like head squeeze, or hitting my head very young.
I have applied to just about everything from IT to grave digger to care home worker. And they don't even reply most of the time. This is something that is happening across the world right now.
@@plushquasar653No. I specifically gave those 3 examples as those are things I have qualification for, or experience in. And not one company for any of those jobs replied.
Looking back, every job I've had, someone got me in. I entered the workforce in 2019. Searching on my own has never really worked out. I just get told I didn't get it if they respond at all
Currently working nights but it’s not enough to provide for my family. Went thru this year long process with a apprenticeship school in San Diego, took the aptitude test, passed it, got great scores on the interview conducted by a table of about 15 high level representatives of the school. Only to be thrown in a two year “pool of apprentices” where if they don’t select me within the next two years I have to start the process over. Big waste of my life.
I walked into my most recent job (as a wrlder) and asked for a job. They game me a weld test and hired me 2 days later. I'm the youngest guy there by 2 decades at least. People aren't going into trades, everyone is trying for the same tech jobs and office stuff and are shocked that it's competitive. I would for sure recommend people to explore if they can do a trade job or find something they can do. Learn to pick locks, build stuff, wood working.
Growing up in a smaller town it was so easy to find jobs then. Id just walk into the building and ask if they were hiring, then get hired right on the spot. I moved to the city for college, and experienced how much harder it was to get responses from online applications. Sometimes they would call me months later for the position.
As a Gen X kid back in the day, yeah, getting hired for anything was so easy compared to now. Now, you have to take three personality tests and fill out 1,000 page document just to get ghosted for months...
A lot of companies list job openings they have zero intention of filling. Lots of insolvent companies use this tactic to make it look like things are on the up and up, that they're flush with business opportunities and are growing when the truth is they're an empty husk of a company or aren't doing well.
It happens a lot ._. it waste most of our time while we put effort into it but in the end they are just collecting resumes for a job listing that doesn't exist.
This is also a common policy for companies who have an internal filling. They are required to post the job application even though it has already been filled by an internal hire!
I have a degree in mechanical engineering with a specialty in biomechanics. I've been job hunting for the last 10 months. No responses for months. Only got interviews when I started doing it old-school last November by going in person and knocking on doors. I've heard things from the people interviewing Me like They posted a job offer online, and in 48 hours They got 325+ candidates. Two people work HR, They got completely overwhelmed. Probably going to move across the province to get anything. I have about every headhunter agency on it.
While you’re at it you can apply for a Walmart job where you’ll not be needed either even though you’re overqualified, because you’re competing with people who need it as a career. Good luck brother
Wow 325 is a lot. I work in a travel agency, we recently posted a job and had 60 applicants in 5 days before we closed it. It's absolutely overwhelming for sure. And it's quite sad because when you shortlist it down, everyone we brought in for an interview was hire-able and you have to say no.
When we were hiring a developer (IT) - we received like 20 applications, 5 of those valid (returned solution to a test task), 5 interviewed, 1 hire. All done within a week. When we were hiring some support role (assistant to director, basically secretary): 400 applications. All looked valid to my developer eye. All with BA at least. Couldnt send any "task" to weed out stragglers. Ofc we didnt have time to let everyone know they are were not considered. Specially in smaller companies where HR is not a distinct person. CEO just came to me - dude, IDK how to process these in timely manner, plz help out. Yea, sure, like I know how to select a girl for the secretary position... but hey. It took us a month to actually get this settled and it was a drag.
As a recent marketing graduate its quite hard to find a job within my career field. Especially having no money to move to areas where they are, rather I am fighting for remote jobs vs 500 applicants. 2 interviews (local) out of 50+ apps.
Regarding interviews, my workplace does 3: One on the phone, another with senior members of the team they're applying to (to make sure the applicant knows their stuff), and the last is with HR to make sure they're a good fit for the company (the vibe check). Anything more than that just seems like overkill. Our process works pretty well the vast majority of the time. To date, my department has never let go of anyone after they've been hired (fingers crossed). We're a technology company though, so we pretty much only hire really high-level technical people, and they don't even have to be super experienced either. Sometimes minimal work experience means they're easier to train on our workflows. In addition, our company has embraced AI as another tool in our arsenal; it won't be replacing anyone any time soon. It's only made our existing workflow easier to manage.
Don’t forget that companies don’t mind putting an ad out for positions that they have no need to fill. It creates the illusion of growth and good times for the existing workforce, and allows them to have a net out to capture any exceptional talent that comes their way.
Companies will sit there wondering "Why doesn't anyone want to work?!" while requiring years of experience for entry level positions. It's a fucking joke.
i was laid off dec 6th 2023 with my middle management job being removed form the company i was at, i sent out 412 resumes in 59 days had 47 phone interviews 14 in poersons and ONE job offer. i took that offer today in a NON management role after 20 years in management. I had my first day at my new job today
Bruh retail stores aren't even hiring fuck a salaried position its hard out here right now and I'm broke as fuck hell jobs didn't even hire for seasonal this past holiday 😂
Applying for so many internships and entry level positions, can’t seem to get anywhere anymore. It really is a struggle, especially with lack of business connections
Same boat. Lost my job in november. On the lookout ever since. 40 applications, 3 interviews, rest never called or declined. The interviews yielded nothing.
Been applying for work over the last 3 months after transitioning out of my previous job. This has not been my experience. Almost everyone responded back to me. What I do have issue with is the amount of bullshit you need to do to simply apply for a job. Companies somehow feel the need to ask for my entire life history before I even walk in the front door for a first interview. I skipped out on applying to 3-4 jobs solely because of their online application process.
Congratulations, you're a regular person who understands they need to be professional and qualified to land suitable jobs and thus are correctly a desirable candidate. People think they can work low effort jobs, or their "dream job that they enjoy working so much" and expect the world to just let them live without putting in the extra effort. It's crazy.
@@Qwantopides Mixed bag. Few years of work in security, a year and change in pest control, and then some odd jobs(fedex, retail stores, landscaping). No college. I am 30 yrs old.
I am an experienced professional in a very nitch field. I found what looked like my literal dream job, spent lots of time on my cover letter and resume, applied immediately and felt like I really nailed it. Like even if they didn't want me, surely they would want to talk to me due to my enthusiasm and qualifications? Nope. Not a word. They never said a thing. That one really broke my spirit.
30 applications for 4 callbacks??? Bullshit! What for like McDonalds? I was an operations manager at my last employer and I applied for over 100 business analytics jobs before I got one interview. Then I got hired… just took one place to actually speak to me and I proved my value. It sucks it’s so hard to get past the initial resume review algos
Getting a job doesn't feel impossible, getting a job that you enjoy and pays enough to pay for essentials feels impossible. If you want a job that treats you like a subhuman slave, no problem.
Ummm no? I mean sure, you're tech guys and marketing/business majors are gonna have to go work for the shit companies (Blizzard) because all the good ones are full up (Riot, I guess?). But if you enjoy manual labor, and using your back instead of your fingers, there's plenty of great companies hiring. You want a fulfilling job that pays the bills, there's plenty of avenues through the trades. Also people would be very surprised by trying a job they think they would hate for a couple weeks/ months and see what happens. People (specifically new college kids) just think they know what they want when they have little to no experience in life in general. Also, there's something to be said that the job you work isn't supposed to be what you want, so long as it supplies for the life you want. I'm not excited to go to work everyday, but it lets me go to Jiu Jitsu class, play videogames, and support my wife and dog. I couldn't ask for more than that, even if I want my boss to suddenly lose control of his vehicle on a highway.
@@King_of_Faerghus Bruh I'm a union journeyman pipefitter, and it sucks. I make descent money when I'm working but every other aspect of the jobs sucks. Crazy long hours, wildly uncomfortable working conditions, and most of the people I work about are dumb assholes.
Hire and fire is the motto of these days.
@@King_of_Faerghus u said a whole lot of nothing
Keeping a job is the hardest part.
What angers me the most is most places are not actually hiring. They just keep the listing open for when they do need someone. I don't stand a chance.
its not just that, they also receive tax cuts for receiving applications even if they dont hire
Not always, my team had spots open for many months now, but we are looking for a perfect fit, not a somewhat good fit. We already had to fire 2 people because they weren't good at what we are doing
@jordanm7815 what? I find that hard to believe
@@Greggie1 Id imagine that at somepoint you might wanna ask if it's eventually smarter to train someone good fit to be perfect fit instead of keep hiring constantly new people in hopes of perfect fit. I might be totally wrong and bit stupid but just an first thought.
yes in tn autozone does 24/7 pisses me off
30 applications and 4 callbacks? That’s a pretty good ratio from what I’ve experienced.
Edit: I guess this must be for basic minimum wage jobs cause there’s no way you’re getting that ratio for skilled labor salaried job applications.
To tell you that you didn't get the job lol
I mean it's pretty good if one of those 4 call backs is a yes.
@@nightingale8154 They don't even respond to your calls/emails anymore
Back in 2011 it was like 100-200 applications and one callback.
Right ? If i got that much callbacks i'd pop a bottle of champagne to celebrate that
The problem seems more to me that finding the job isn’t the issue, it’s finding one that pays enough for you to do anything more than simply exist to work. Car insurance has gone up, renting/owning have gone up, foods going up. The only thing that isn’t are our wages.
Yep, and 55% of that price increase in car insurance, rent, food and other things we call inflation is the result of corporate profits, i.e. companies paying more to executives and shareholders. But the system is working, "capitalism" makes companies compete and offer cheapest product 🤣Also, US corporate tax as share of GDP been declining since 1950s (wink-wink good times) from 6% to 1% under Trump. Average in G7 is 2.9% and average in OECD is 3.1% (which is further brought down by US since how big US is). Requires few economic degrees to put two and two together.
@@jaazz90 What even is capitalism to you?
@@Zakeamass in white Christian country run by men of good character it's a system that elevates both poor and rich and gives fair chances for people to prosper. In atheist, multicultural hell hole it's a system of exploitation of the masses
@@jaazz90 europe is same heard germany is terible right now
You should always have a job even when you are looking for one. This waiting for the perfect job while you live off others needs to stop. Grow up. Guess what? You may never get your dream job. So how are you going to live?
Holy cow. I was the job seeker in this video, it's so cool that this video was engaging enough to get a live stream reaction from you! Thank you for sharing!!
He totally dissed you towards the end though 😅
@@haudace Ehh exposure is exposure, I’ll still take it as a win lol. I did get a job btw!
@@astoldby_jenna Good on you for not taking it personally. He disses everyone from time to time, it's part of the appeal.
@@astoldby_jenna congrats on winning and proving him wrong... Awesomesauce!
Not hard to give Fast Food, Retail a chance. With a Degree comes a much difficult chance to find something because you are competing against the world. But if you take 1 day to visit every fast food, restaurant, basic jobs in your avergage city, it's not impossible to find something that will say "We are hiring". You don't get stuff like that with a Degree, and look at an office for a white paper sign "We are hiring" those are in the know jobs. Just walk outside and find the white papers on doors, and there you have it.
Walmart and Target has a lot of old people working in the food departments, they will eventually die out. So, lower your standards or ....starve.
You know what it is even saddest than applying and not getting the job ? it is knowing that the company might still sell your data application to advertizing companies. So even if you never got the job, never got contacted. They still profit from you.
@SanityTV_Last_Sane_Man_Alive brother if everyone is quitting as soon as they start doing the job that means the damn job is the problem
@SanityTV_Last_Sane_Man_Alive
Takes months? 3 times? wait for management? short staffed for YEARS????
Maybe YOU are the problem.
@SanityTV_Last_Sane_Man_Alive bullshit, you're the problem. what kind of BS screening is that.
Maybe in US. In EU we have strict laws and you are not allowed to do that. All data regarding employment can be used only for that purpouse and deleted afterwards. You must ask if you may keep the data for use in future employment actions.
So, I'm from Denmark.
could you possibly explain this screening process as it seems pretty alien to me. @SanityTV_Last_Sane_Man_Alive
In over 80 applications, I've gotten exactly 3 responses and 1 interview. 2 of the responses were rejections and the interview revealed the position wasn't what was advertised.
Clasic same here in EU ;(
65 this year, 0 interview.
The position not as advertised is happening like crazy
Show me your resume. What did you type. Im a multi glad, multi M+ gamer. who loves video gaming. I have no other skills but i need a job..This is why no one calls you back. You wasted your life learning absolutely nothing.
i got an interview and they canceled it when i arrived, they wasted my fuel driving 40 minutes one way.
Can confirm all this is true. I’m part of the hiring and interview process for a popular computer and device repair brand as well as the supervisor. We recently opened up a part time consultation tech position at 16 per hour. We received 160 applications and conducted all of 5 interviews so far. Part. Time. We have applicants coming from full time tech jobs, a lawyer, two nurses, a med school student, etc. It’s at the point where people with experience and skills are not gainfully employed and apply for multiple part time jobs, leaving those with just entry level skills out in the rain.
16 per hour? Eww im a tradesman and my total package is 70 per hour or 140 on weekends double time.
because of the 160 who applied, only 20 are actually qualified to do the job.
I would agree if these kids actually worked and showed up for work. But they don't. It's like pulling teeth just to get them in to interview. Let alone work a full week without calling in or showing up late.
I experienced the same when I graduated from college with an engineering degree. I applied to everything in my area, and barely got any callbacks. I ended up working on the floor in a factory for a year. I actually had to beg to get that job because the factory didn't want to hire me due to my qualifications.
Which trade do you work in? Most trade jobs seem very bad on the body.@@MikeyPaper
I think the biggest problem is the fake job listings where they put it up with no plan to ever hire someone UNLESS there's a crisis
Understaffed-> a buncha people eventually quit being overworked -> they have to hire a whole crew to get back to full productivity -> some of them quit first couple weeks -> back to step 1
You said the quiet part out loud
And then they still treat you like shit.
Then shame you for not working more overtime.
They might have listed the jobs because the law requires that, yet they have had found the guys they wanted.
Ilegal inmigrant get those jobs
I was just at wal mart and the off brand cheap shampoo bottles are like $12, they used to be $3 just a few years ago. I legit don’t know how most people are even getting by.
Everyone I know made mad money through investments so they don't give a single shit. I mean specifically during covid. There are 25M millionaires in US vs 37M in poverty. So most people are getting by just fine. But the ones who are screwed vehemently enjoy their position anyway, so not sure why that is the problem. You vote a guy in that cuts corporate taxes and screws you even more, and you want more, lol.
Agreed, prices are too high even in my country. Im loosing weight cause I don't have money to eat enough each day. I fear I will soon become homeless and starve to dead.
It must be where you live, I just bought a large bottle of dove shampoo for 9.99
I only buy stuff on sale these days or I take advantage of new account promos.
Dont use shampoo, you dont need it.
A bar of soap is all you need and works well.
"100k + jobs added" majority are fast food and other minimum wage dead ends
and they’re also being held for the 100k Indian visa holders being brought in by their family member who owns the fast food restaurant
They also don't count people working multiple jobs.
Or just part time in general and insufficient to cover even basic needs
@@bc9554"dey took our jerbs" type of argument. It can happen, but do you really see Indian people running registers. Or some American high school girl named Britney lol.
And the rest are in Ukraine
A big part of the problem is just how many of the job postings are fake. As in, companies are not actually intending to fill the roles they are supposedly hiring for. If you want to get a better idea of why that happens, watch How Money Works's video on ghost jobs
In a hospital lab, even if the lab is super understaffed, if they've been that way for several years then the directors just close the vacant position because "they've been doing it like this for years so they can obviously handle it." Forget the fact that if people's lives were not literally on the line, nobody would work through those conditions, and those people have been begging for more co-workers to help alleviate the load for the whole two years.
Then they hear the position is closed and a bunch of them decide to retire all at once, making the problem worse. Some places partially close their lab and do send-outs, where they give all the non-urgent samples to another hospital to run, spreading the problem out to a whole area.
All this because they won't pay a decent wage for a specialist with 4+ years of schooling. Not every industry is like medicine, but I think a lot of them share similar symptoms.
@@TheSolitaryEyeHospitals are horrendously understaffed except in areas like RNs. But Hospitals outright refuse to fill CRITICAL jobs because they do not want to increase compensation. There are so many jobs that offer close to minimum wage for high stress and/or knowledge based jobs.
As an example, Pharmacy Technicians are certified and must pass a test along with a required continuous education to maintain long term employment. Highest pay? Around $20 per hour. They do 80% of the work for a Pharmacy! Meanwhile actual Pharmacists(hospital, not self employed). Collect 100k a year and sit around most of the time.
They intentionally do that so that Biden can report fake numbers
Many companies also have to open positions by law for the public even if they have an internal candidate they intend to promote for the role.
@@jacobruiter592 no no lil bro. as someone who has worked in hospitals, the RN position is understaffed as well.
1. Have a room full of MBAs making 7 figures look at a graph of growth trends for the company in the past 2 years.
2. Use that growth trend to predict what the growth will look like over the next two years with no consideration to other factors (market saturation, sustainability, etc…).
3. Go on hiring spree to demonstrate to investors that the company is prepared to meet the labor demand of the projected growth.
4. Use those predictions to generate investor excitement and pump the stock price.
5. Execs receive nice dividend payouts with the increase of stock price
6. Company comes nowhere near hitting the projected growth.
7. Stock falls
8. Company buys back the stock.
9. Lay off everyone the company hired during step 3.
10. Rinse and repeat
So true...
Lifting comments straight from Reddit.
I see you.
@@FearHAVOK i actually dont care as its relevant for the video
The problem is that nearly every job that an American is doing right now ( in tech at least) can be done by a contractor in India right now, for 1/5th the price, wihtout benefits, and no job protection. Overseas contractors are replacing MILLIONS of us tech workers right now and theyre basically slave labor. On my eCommerce team, one of my analysts cost between 60-80k salary ( ~ 110k with benefits / taxes). We can get Indian contractors to do the same exact position for 12,000 USD a year. Thats whats happening and no ones talking about it.
This. This is the reason right there.
I think an important thing to point out when talking about contractors is that often times there are cultural and communication gaps between stakeholders and overseas contractors which normally results in a less quality product or a product that doesn't meet all the requirements of the stakeholders being delivered.
Most companies go through a three to five-year cycle of increasing their contractor pool heavily, watching quality suffer, and then reducing it and hiring locally to bring quality back up. This ebb and flow have been apparent in every company I've worked for in my 20-year tech career.
It is because of these communication and cultural gaps that overseas contracting can only effectively be used for the actual "labor" portion of tech. For example, in software engineering they're going to be the code monkeys usually.
If local tech professionals are losing their jobs to our overseas tech brothers, it really just means that the local tech professional offered nothing else in their skillset other than the "labor" portion of that work. No significant decision-making abilities, no large-scale project management or planning, no business-sense.
Tech is more than just knowing the tech. It's knowing how the tech can affect business. If you're a tech professional, you need to understand that tech is ONE tool in a toolbox of things that can be used to generate revenue. Don't just study tech.
Again, I've had a 20-year career in tech. I've never been laid off and have never feared being laid off or not being able to find a job. Mostly because along with my engineering skillset I've always focused on the business aspects of implementing that technology first.
@@chinundercover More so from our situation, we got a new CIO who was tasked with cost cutting. Coming from Nike, he came in and just decided all of operations would be better served at 1/5th the price. That included the service desk, ecomm analysts, the noc, and all tier 2 support roles. Completely agree on the quality, they are horrible in general. Its one of those things forced on mid and low level management and we have no say in it. Go fire all your guys and heres the trash were allowing you to replace them with.
what i noticed that was dehumanizing when i was trying to find a job is that no one is accepting in person or drop by interviews, and everyone requires you go through their online system. this means you can't actually talk face to face with anyone and i think this is intentional. It's easy to dismiss away with a person when you don't see their face and only have a pile of paperwork before you written out as to why one candidate is better than the other. The technology to do this in this case is what i think is causing the problem as people aren't meant to find work by being disregarded like a product on a catalogue for hire. Companies like it but this is where the demoralization comes from due to the 'ghosting' rejections. Its literally a catalogue dismissal of human beings like ignoring products on a shelf so it should be no wonder people hate the current state of the market.
Which is ironic considering the truest thing asmon touched on, the fact that interviews end up just being about the vibe. Your resume has all the info. The interview is a personality test. You would think they would interview more candidates.
I think one of the best pieces of advice I ever received was you are no longer competing for a job with people in your area you’re competing against the world for that job. Due to Internet access as well as being able to work remote it’s important to be competitive.
Every big companies are doing outsourcing now, meaning you are also up against people on the same level at you doing your job for half the salary.
@@defaq5557 This is true. My employer has transitioned much of its IT/Programmers to oversea offices where they make half my income. All of the job postings are for overseas. Most of that happen after WFH.
I mean, a bricklayer is a bricklayer anywhere in the world. In my country the medium wage is around 3000 USD/year. So if you can import someone to do the job for half of what you would pay normally they would be pretty happy overall.
@SanityTV_Last_Sane_Man_Alive I feel like anytime these type of discussions come up It seems people Only think in terms of White Collar Office jobs. Which are not the majority of jobs.
Not just the world, but also bot farms, thier are bot farms dedicated to overwhelming specific job types with literal millions of applications the goal is to elevate staffing agencies and pre selected applicants.
The worst thing a company can do when hiring is hire exclusively electronically, or use ai's to sift through the mountains of what are in many cases bogus applications.
Thier are a lot of old school ways to prevent these problems, but most employers today refuse to try
Personal experience: laid off last March, conservative estimate of 700 applications until finally landing a job in December. It was a horrible experience. I landed the job I was laid off from in less than a week of casually searching. This was less than a year apart, crazy how fast it changed.
In the broader sense, the economy is so, so bad for us, and I don’t see how it gets better. A lot of the lower end jobs are either being automated or outsourced. Asmongold is right when he says the lower quartile of people are seeing their jobs evaporate. It used to be you could get a factory job and support at least yourself, if not a family. Now those are automated or shipped overseas.
So what happens is you get a group of people who quite literally cannot get a job that correlates with their intelligence or education. Where do they go? What do they do? And to make matters worse, those lower skilled and lower paying jobs are not keeping up with inflation and cost of living. Why would you work for $18/hour when you can barely afford to make basic ends meet? Average home in the US is 400k, 2x that in a lot of places like LA, NY, etc. Why would an individual bother working when they can’t even save to buy a home, something previous generations could easily attain in their mid 20s with modest jobs!
Unfortunately, I don’t see this problem being solved anytime soon until all of the older generations either die off or finally see the light on how hard people 40 and below have it. By that time, our population pyramid will be completely upside down and even more stress will be put on the few young people who do work to not only contribute their tax dollars, but their time to take care of older people.
It’s gonna get real bad folks.
As sad as this sound, what you described is a real possibility. Hope more ppl see the error in their ways especially the older generation.
You mean to tell me depreciating fiat currency And offshore manufacturing for cheap labor is ruining our economy? Who could’ve predicted this!?
Bump. 👍
Tbh it's jobs asking for experience but no one gives you a chance to gain experience
@@JesManVP Yes because they’re in another country
Basic education could lead to self employment, and a vocational degree. That way, nobody would be negotiating for a minimum wage..
Just a thought. 👍
@@seraph6758 this isn’t about education it’s about public and private entities working in concert to move the manufacturing base offshore for cheap labor while the federal reserve depreciates your currency by funding Congress ridiculous trillion dollar deficits every year. It’s destroying this nation and it will have to stop soon or you can kiss it all bye bye. 👋
The crazy thing is that this goes all the way down to retail and fast food tier jobs.
I've been stood up at scheduled onsite interviews, aplied to the same places/positions 10+ times, interviewed with someone who clearly isnt actually urgently trying to fill any roles, and ghosted for everything else for 4 going into 5 months.
Ive had to postepone finishing off a generic business degree education because i cant even get a paycheck to take care of my damn rent
I did 7 years of college. got a major in computer graphic technology and a minor in computer science. i specialize in video game design, namely level design. Despite all that, getting into the industry is infuriating. developers want employees with multiple years of experience even on ENTRY LEVEL JOBS, but no one will hire you to GIVE you that experience. a friend in the industry told me they do that just to make their company look better for having "higher standards." this crap needs to stop. livelihoods are not some game to play with. either hire people or don't, but quit clogging up listings with positions you don't intend to fill.
Try a non gaming company. They need technical support jockeys or engineers to help developers on hte service desk. Yes it maybe meh but do that for 3 years and now you can get past HR later on.
@@timgibney5590 problem is video game design was my field of study. my division of cgt focused in that.
My advice is find a programmer and start your own company. Maybe do a Kickstarter to get some money upfront. You might be really successful and even if it's not a huge success it will look good on a resume.
I know it's easier said than done but it's not impossible so consider it.
You're paying the passion tax. There's always been more people who have wanted to get into the game development industry compared to the number of jobs available. Because of this, game development companies can pay less with worse benefits.
Take your CS knowledge to something mundane like writing CRUD applications for a run-of-the-mill company and you'll have a much easier time finding a job, much better pay, and much better benefits.
@@chinundercover That is the issue. If you have a gf and kids it is especially a problem as a man her needs for a man with money and abvility to provide overide our own passions. There is good money in IT but top talent is hard to come by without risk and doing boring tasks and certs for well over 40 hours a week. If you have a passion in the techno,logy part it makes it tolerable even if you are not making games.
I worked at Blizzard as help desk a long time ago to get my foot in the door but moved on with other companies that treat their employees better even if I do not interact with gaming. I work in green energy doing ITish things I learned building pcs and help save teh world. Good enough for me.
most places now post jobs but have no intention of hiring. They are so far removed from knowing how much of their job is trainable that they forgo hiring so they can stretch their small workforce even farther just to say that they are trying to fill the position.
They also get money due to a policy made during covid
As long as they're hiring but nobody wants to work they get paid
Seeing the workforce stretching right now. Were already not able to keep up with all the maintenance tasks and have a big new production line starting work in the near future. Expensive new machinery thats going to be working basically 24/7 - but there is not enough of us to do the mainenance quickly and keep the rest of the factory running. They say they are looking for more technicians but if I search the CV sites there is nothing.
During the pandemic we got orders from up high to tighten the belt -> coworker got fired. A month later they discover that we have to start working night shifts and overtime for a year to make all the products we owe our clients due to the chip shortage.
We have seen kids come to work and do the bare minimum. You have to learn and work hard to get paid. We have seen kids who call in weekly and show up late often. Hard to find good help these days. MY ADVICE, START BEING GOOD HELP!
@blitzkrogg2589 nothing wrong with calling out here an there
Weekly is pushing it for sure but once a month I think is good for preventing burnout
On point man. There is so many job posts that are asking for that education and that previous workexperience. Yet the job won't make any use of that and they anyhow gonna train that hired person.
The expression "job hunt" is kind of ironic because you're not the hunter here, you are the prey in the end....
it's more like a groupie hunting down a band type of vibe
Yes if you have no skills
They should make a job hunter game like monster hunter. The player can apply, work for, collect corporate gear, and climb the corporate ladder.
My whole lifeexperience whenever I looked for a job
Market: *_" Huh?! You want a job?! HUH?! Who are you even!? Piece of sh°°!! What makes you think you're good enough, HUH?! "_*
... and it was never otherwise.
Same as it's always been. These kids just don't take rejection as well as the older generations. They all want a trophy for participating. They throw temper tantrums when they don't get their way. It's no different from 20 years ago. We just didn't cry about it. You get back out there and keep looking. What else are you going to do?
I rarely comment on YT videos, but this hits me. I’m 48 years old, with an extensive career in the legal industry, I’ve been searching for a job for 2+ years, and can confirm this video is accurate regarding the frustrations of the job search process. Only recently have I begun looking into leaving the private sector and going to work for the government. It’s so frustrating.
@@schmiggidy How do you survive not working for 6 years? Feels like you would go after a lower tier job after 6 months
Jesus dude no offense but just got to swallow that pride at some point 48 lives home with elderly parents like bruh if you are Paralegal become a Lawyer or whatever you can do to either train into a better job or think of a new route. Oh well sorry for saying crap you already know thank you for your honesty and imput.@@schmiggidy
The economy is fcked and will implode soon. Numbers are fake. It only holds on because money printer goes brrrrrrr
that tought, hope you alll will find something.
You gotta look for work outside the field you’re experienced in as well. Sorry to say but companies don’t wanna hire somebody at that age who is gonna command a high wage plus be aged out of the job in less than 20 years
"You mean like Peeky Blinders?" Yeah, dude. I used to walk into a business 30 years ago, talk to the manger for 10 minutes and I either had a job or I was told to keep looking. You didn't even fill out the application until you got the job. You'd solve all that in the talk, fill out the paperwork, then talk about the hire date. They didn't even do drug tests hardly at all back then. You had to make middle-class money to get drug tested. Shit has gone DOWN HILL, my man.
Due to HR being parasitic at its core by being useless in the jobs it insists on doing. Instead of interviewing with the hiring manager, you have to go through the procedure with HR while they are checking off irrelevant boxes and have no clue about the jobs they're hiring for. Some call backs i got were directly from the hiring manager after they purged HR and decided to do the job themselves. A lot times you get ghosted is due to HR handling things absolutely terribly.
Honestly, in my area as a current college student for IT, I've been applying to 30-60 jobs a week for the past 8 weeks, unemployed for 6 weeks and I've been getting nowhere. In IT, outside IT, retail, full-time, part-time, office jobs, warehouse, delivery, you name it I've applied to positions in said field within the nearest ~40 miles of my home.
It's incredibly demoralizing to not hear back from FAST FOOD PLACES. the job I said I'd never go back to for all the BS I went through. The industry I always assumed would welcome anyone to chew them up and spit them out. Rejecting me.
How do you come back from that? How do you give them everything they wanna hear, get rejected, and come back for more? Day in and day out. week after week. How many times being ghosted do I have to go through before I've suffered enough? how many times do I have to reach out again and again only to be burned before it's enough?
This is the longest I've been unemployed in the last 10 years and it's hell. I'm desperate to work. But even my desperation isn't enough.
Dunkin Donuts ghosted me. Is there any further I can fall?
Don't feel bad. When I was 19 WalMart said I wasn't qualified enough to push a shopping cart. We all go through that shit.
For the past 3 months ive seen the same exact positions that ive applied to multiple times, everyone is hiring, yet noone is hiring
Are you qualified? Be honest.
H1B/J1 Visa fraud. They can't post the real qualifications cause they want to screw Americans for cheaper labor.
@@plushquasar653 If the position is open for 3 months maybe they're asking for too much in qualifications instead of being willing to teach?
Otherwise, maybe its one of those fake job positions that they never intended to fill.
@@plushquasar653same thing has been happening to me and i have an associates degree and can’t even get hired for a retail job haha. Just got denied without even an interview to like 3 retail jobs.
@@ldeez4375if even retail isn't hiring you then I feel like it's a you issue, getting a retail job is piss easy
I've worked for many hospitals that keep lower tier jobs like CNA, janitorial, and tech positions open on their listings even though they are not currently hiring. The reason is because the turn over rate for these jobs are so high that it's hard to keep the hospital constantly staffed but the hospital also doesn't want to over staff either.
Another reason is that they fire ppl in lower tier positions on a rotational basis when their annual increase in pay becomes too high. Since these jobs are highly repetitive and don't require a high level of skill, it's just cheaper for the hospitals to hire new people after a few years since a new hire can do the same job for less pay but during that year or two gap, these hospitals will STILL keep the job listings up just in case which gives these applicants false hope. What they tell applicants is simply sorry we're not hiring right now but please contact us again later in the year or next year. It's a really messed up system. They are starting to do that with travel nurses at my hospital right now and it's heart breaking to see.
This is why in hospitality industry (not just hospitals, but also hotels, restaurant, etc) they always push "company is family" bullshit.
I worked in retail for 6 months back in 2019. I have tons of respect for the worker, but pure hate for management and the retail company
@@reivelt3715 when a company says that BS of we are like family here... Never talk to HR about ANYTHING and start finding another job ASAP. It's a trap and they will use you until you're no longer of use to them. You're right, this form of business is in every industry.
@@Centurion305 yea. The moment that shit rub the wrong way, i jumped ship. I switch job the moment i got one, it has worse working condition (as in you work in the jungle, mosquitos, snake and all) but the pay is better and the company treat me like a human being (compared to others in the same industry at least)
I've heard companies also post job openings even though they have no intention of hiring because they want to show the illusion that they are a growing company. Also companies have to open up job offers even though they are just internally shifting personnel. A while ago, I applied for a video editing job at the local newspaper. I found out I didn't get the job because they never intended to give it to anyone but another employee.
Internal positions generally need to be exposed to outside applicants. I used to work for a company that recently opened hundreds of positions because they needed to appear to have 1000s of people working in the state. After 10 years of constantly cutting the governor was going to remove their tax credits and they were going to owe a ton of money. Turns out they suddenly had more money than you can imagine to open positions.
Now from what I hear from those working inside is while they do have plenty of open positions it only seems like they fill they fast enough to keep their tax credit.
Another take from why people feel like they are getting ghosted is because they're apply to dead job posts. From my own personal experience, if you look on job boards, you may see a post for a job that's 2 weeks old. Well it turns out, that job post may be inactive. But you have no way of knowing. Sometimes what happens is companies will post a job listing then realize there is something wrong with the description, so they post a new job posting but they don't remove the old one. In essence people may think they are applying to jobs but are just sending it to a wall.
The job market is arguably the worst its ever been. My fiance has been looking for a new job for ages with no luck. She has 2 degrees!
I havent had such a hard time but im in EMS so there will always be a need for me somewhere.
First question, 1.) What are the degrees 2nd, Where is she applying? Is she "too good" for other jobs? Entitlement really limits your prospects. The market almost calls for us to settle on something that may be uncomfortable in the short term. Life will be full of sacrifice. The work should be the least that worries you.
@nickf2657 2 bas. 1 in general business and 1 in english.
Her settling is her current job. She is looking for a higher paying position with better benefits. In the meantime, she will stay where she is at. She asked for a raise last year and got a whopping 40 cents.
My main point with my previous comment was that people should get training in areas of need with the current job market. I make significantly more than her with a 4 month emt course/cert.
@@DavidH98 I feel for your fiance.
But unfortunately, she has earned two of the most commonly held, out-of-demand, and low barrier-to-entry degrees out there. 🤷♂ The competition for even the least desirable jobs requiring those degrees is insane. Currently, even my own areas of study are having incredible difficulty getting jobs. I can only imagine how difficult it would be for English and Business majors.
"The job market is arguably the worst its ever been... for my fiance."
Here, fixed that for you.
@@akselmani Did you not watch the video? Youre a genius lmao
Job applications are like healing items in JRPGs. Companies collect and horde them and don't use them cause you never know when the next boss fight / walk out or quitter will happen.
Then you beat the final boss with 80 plus max restores / go out of business.
I'm playing final fantasy 7 remake and this comment is 100% accurate.
TundraCrow this concept you describe has an officially recognized name, it's "Too Good To Use Syndrome". Most of the time this occurs while playing J.R.P.G.s
@SanityTV_Last_Sane_Man_Alive66% percent of younger generations directly disagree with you.
Immigrants are cheaper, plus the PPE funding they were getting as long as they advertised they were hiring during the pandemic, let alone the economy sucks and we're are throwing printed cash around uncontrollably like the U.S. was at an international strip club. Some places don't want to hire people they feel are over qualified or smart cause they are a threat or at least so I've heard.
Money printer goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 🤦♂️👍
First half doesn't surprise me and second half wouldn't surprise me and would finally make sense to me on why that happens.
@whytho1690 they're doin it again to blast cash at Israel right now .. idk if it passed or not but uh things been going sideways hard .. 🤐
I want to see Asmon apply to jobs and do interviews, would be gold.
I'd hire him
Asmon is incredibly successful and would be an ideal candidate in many cases so unfortunately I don’t think he would get the same experience if he did try
He would have some decent skills after running guilds, but I don't think he would be good at marketing himself
He'd probably do good at anything that isn't physical.
@@Vaelandidk. companies dont see twitch streamers as hirable do they? he would have to try to make himself more anonymous
My most recent job hunt was my most bullshit experience with finding a job ever. I'm doing uber eats/door dash as i go to college but wanted something more concrete, so I saw a nighttime stocker position at my local harbor freight. I'm overqualified, didn't put up a fuss about the pay, the guy who'd be my direct manager liked me from the second i introduced myself, excellent references, yet I didn't get the position despite wasting my time on 2 hours worth of online bullshit and a questionaire interview, an in-person interview with the supervisor, and a second in person interview with the store manager. No email, no call, position still "open" on the store window. I don't fucking get it, and the worst part of job hunting is you never ever get feedback to improve, the best you can do is listen to the "experts" and follow their advice, which is sometimes completely different from person to person.
My mom is overqualified for every job she applies to, she’s a clinical social worker with a law degree that is currently trying to leave her job she’s had for 2 decades because of a new and very abusive boss.
She’s gotten only TWO callbacks of 30 applications, one was simply to have the chance to be interviewed (put on a waitlist to interview) and when she finally went she said she was treated like cattle. The second was for a defense attorney’s office - and she got offered a job….for $20 an hour…which is nothing to what she’s worth or makes now. When she countered for $30 which is still under what she’s paid they told her they’d like to rescind their offer. AND they wanted her to work crazy borderline illegal hours. It’s absolutely crazy.
Why does the job market and tinder sound the same when talking about being rejected and having no hope because thousands of others are also going after the same thing as you 😂
God, you just made job searching more traumatic. Thanks.
It took me over 600 job applications to find a new job early 2023. Averaged a callback every 20 jobs, final interview round every 100.
Howd you figure out the scams from the real jobs. Theirs so many scams I can't tell
@@CapriciousKitty good old fashioned sleuthing research on the companies.
Between December 23 and January 24 50 job applications. 4 interviews.🤷🏿♂️
@@CapriciousKittyif they ask you to download an app like signal or if they ask to interview on any app ogher then google meets or Microsoft teams. Still be careful but for a fact majority of scammers i applied too would then ask me to download signal.
Who else feels like this all has also changed the resume writing game. I grew up learning I’d need to have a resume to show PEOPLE the skills I have and a background of my accomplishments and now that I’ve had a few jobs it feels like it’s now just about cramming key words everywhere and tricking robots and then doing that to as many applications as possible to brute force your way past the bot wall into the forbidden kingdom of potential employment.
The last decade, at least, has been about cramming keywords. You want to have a point related to every job requirement. The skills you "want to show" are mostly irrelevant if they don't match exactly or aren't strongly related. You will get filtered by HR/AI if you don't match the job description - not even the people hiring. I thought this was common knowledge, my university hammered that nail a lot and it turned out to be brilliant advice.
Tbh it’s always been this way. No recruiter has the time to thoroughly read hundreds of resumes. Especially at bigger companies.
It needs to look pretty and have buzzwords as bullet points lol. It needs to be understandable by HR people.
@@sanserof7 Considering the level of some HR deps I would also include coloring book, pack of crayons and CV in neon frame.
They found someone more qualified for the position bro get over it
One other aspect not mentioned is that jobs with similar requirements like a college degree or medical school does not give you the same financial power as it used to because wage growth hasn’t increased at the same rate as the cost of living or most goods.
Maybe a starting salary with a bachelors degree has 2x over the last 30-50 years but the cost of living has gone up by more. You could get a Cheeseburger for $1 now it’s $3. Gas was $1.5 a gal now it’s $4. The value of your house was 100k. The same house is 300k+ today. Obviously numbers change depending on where you live but the concept is true everywhere.
I lost my job in late 2020 and from then until mid 2022 I sent well over 1000 applications - followed up with over 100 - contacted by less then 50 - had a grand total of 3 interviews - finally called my previous employer one last time and they were going to be looking to fill my old position and I was re-hired and back to work the next Monday. I consider myself incredibly lucky this happened and don't take my job for granted anymore.
I applied to a Walmart. They had set a "we're hiring" sign outside when I went in. I asked a random employee about it, they were the head hiring manager. Said they could hire me. I applied online, and it still took 2 months before they got back to me.
...Did you get the job?
Did you?
Walk in and ask to speak to the hiring manager so you can follow up on your application. Did exactly that a week ago. They will speed the process up fast if you have a little charisma and willingness to come in
I failed their stupid "personality" test too because I was being honest and not answering like a robot would. I had to wait 6 months to apply again, fuck that 😂
Walmart distribution centers pay better
When it takes having 2 to 3 jobs to survive. I wonder why it’s getting hard for some to find a job now.
But the economy is great.... 🤣
@@DayWalker745True, people have more in their savings than 3 years ago. Give me a break 😷🤣
The economy is soooo great
Then you call out CNN or MSNBC and Biden then the story becomes “The economy is broken, it’s been broken for a very long time”
Or
“Old people just won’t leave their jobs”
“American is just fundamentally flawed”
“People are having too many kids”
“Not having enough kids”
They will keep lying, then “admit” it was bad, then it becomes “republicans never admit they were wrong”
These people man
@@DayWalker745my comment got deleted
@@DayWalker745
True, its soooo great, people have more savings in their bank account. Give me a break.
When people have been calling out CNN or MSNBC and Biden for years, then it becomes
“The economy is broken and has been for a very long time”
“Old people are holding onto job’s because the economy is so bad” _but it was just booming_
“America is fundamentally flawed”
“American people don’t feel represented”
These people man
Typing this again because it vanished the first time
@@DayWalker745 So says joe biden.
My husband applied as a full stack developer [1000 $] outsourcing sht for a no name company. He had multiple interviews, rounds, tests for over 2 month. At the final interview, test, checks, questioning they were very positive etc. At the end they forgot him after 2 weeks passed to tell him that he didn't make it to get the job. Disrespect on a high level.
Happened to me more times than I can count as a software engineer. It doesn't get any better with more experience.
Guess I'm the lucky one here. I work tech for traditionally non-tech companies. Entry level back in the day was hell, 200+ applications and no responses, got an apprenticeship position due to a friend of a friend of a friend thing. 10+ years later and a new job is essentially a call to former co-workers and contractors what they're doing right now and if their employer might have an opening. Usually a good worker going and asking "Hey boss, a mate of mine is looking for a new job, he's good" does open a lot of doors, especially when HR is not involved.
That does mean though you got in once and are good at your job and have kept at least decent relationships with your, partially former, coworkers. Personally I haven't found shotgun networking to be useful at all.
But yeah, at a former employer the tech department was looking for new people and HR was pre filtering 95% of the applicants, and the tech bosses only learned that after some of their employees were asking the bosses why their friends got rejected without any listed reason. Let's put the fallout of that this way, HR is no longer allowed to look at applicants for the tech sector in that company.
Yeah, it's always easier to get a job when you have connections from a previous job. I'm similar to you, i have people asking me if i want to quit my job and go and work for them. If my company folded tomorrow I have people i could call. But it takes a while to get to that position.
Layoffs are happening across the country.. its not good.
Tech moves so fast that you need 5 years of experience in a field or language that was created 6 weeks ago.
Time machine manufacturers: "ez money."
Or the industry is lying to keep H1B scabbin. There's nobody after abuse.
reminds me of that story where a guy was ineligible for a job because it required 10 years of experience with a certain tool, even though he himself was the creator of that tool and it was only even conceptualized like 6 years prior, or something like that. Absolute joke
Real
They need to change this stupid expectation. Have a system where ppl can prove their skills. If they pass, hire em, if they fail, you avoided a red flag. If they’re willing to learn give ‘em a time frame and have em try again.
Adding jobs and decreasing unemployment isn't impressive when the jobs worked are crap. You have to wonder if the official stats haven't been cooked in some way to appear more optimistic.
So very cooked.
I've never collected unemployment and as such have never been counted as unemployed. Just one example.
The books are being cooked
Also, a lot of the "additional" jobs recently are just companies reopening after the covid lockdowns. They're not necessarily new jobs.
It would be more weird if any of these data weren't already way overcooked.
Our real unemployment rate is closer to 30 percent.
Those without jobs and not looking for work are not counted as unemployed.
I love being a truck driver, companies are always hiring, theres no interview process. They just look at your driving history and send you to get a drug test and then you start right away after passing it.
Yea I want to get my cdl rn I'm ganna work a warehouse jobs that pays 17.75 in texas but in the meantime I'll save money ik some companies pay for cdl training I'm ganna ask mine
@@JesManVP great man! It's worth it. After 6 months to a year of OTR you can find a local gig easily if that's something you wanted. It's a bit less money but at least you get to go home every day
@@AuroraGw2 yea that sounds chill my question us how much money we losing compared to driving far like 10 percent or 20
If you work for a good company there is a tremendous amount of freedom too over other lines of work. Modern day cowboys in a way.
@@JesManVPI actually never did OTR out of school I worked for swift on their Walmart account overnight sharing a truck with someone as a slip seater. I left after 7 months and found a day position. Only about 200 less a week but I have my sanity
I think one of the roughest things is.. that corporations are outsourcing their job searches to contracting agencies constantly. It's absolutely insane how hard it is to apply to a job that doesn't get you directed to a contracting agency, and then those contracting agencies low ball the crap out of you with little to no benefits. Then there's people that do get approved for jobs, but the corps are offering so little that people are essentially earning just enough to go to work.
Just finished a CS degree at probably the worst time in history to do so. Pretty discouraging considering the time and effort I had to put in to complete school while working a full time position plus my side gigs. Feels like it all was a waste of time. It could be worse considering I make decent money as a prototype mechanic but it feels like a slap in the face after the sacrifices I had to make to finish my degree.
The shift to 1099 “jobs” has allowed companies to extract labor while skirting labor protections. I work in a 1099 position, where well over half of all employees make under 2K per month. We aren’t compensated by the company, we are only paid commission.
This allows the company to avoid providing benefits or fair pay, and also you can’t file for unemployment, because you don’t pay into UI. These people are underemployed, yet “working hard” doesn’t guarantee that you can pay your bills.
The “contractor” economy has nullified the labor movement. People who fail to realize this don’t understand how hard 1099 workers push to earn a living, but they’re viewed as “lazy” for complaining about making less than a living wage.
There is far too much wealth in the country that is distributed to investors, rather than workers. Investing is the ultimate welfare. No need to produce, or work, just sit back, and collect a check.
Bump. 👍
What the hell are you doing for under 2k a month?
@BockwinkleB at 5 25 an hr a person pulls in 840 a month, before taxes. Easy math. (Idaho if you're wondering).
One of the most sickening things I have seen was while I worked in the E-commerce department at Goodwill when the executives came up with the "genius" cost-cutting strategy of paying our disabled clients a commissioned wage. For those not in the know Goodwill is a charity that collects donations to "help" disabled people by giving them a "hand up rather than a handout." So these are severely disabled people and it was our mission statement to help them. They had originally been giving these poor sods minimum wage to work some of the most banal and grueling jobs in the entire organization as part of their hand up. Since they are severely impaired, these people work much slower than an average person so the execs realized they could cash in by paying them on commission instead. After the change we had severely mentally and physically disabled clients doing the jobs nobody else could stand and some were getting paid less than a DOLLAR an hour for it.
These are the people we were supposed to be helping. Not only were the jobs terrible the work environment was incredibly dangerous. At another branch we had a blind client lose his life in the garbage crusher for instance. At my store we had internal combustion engine forklifts being run constantly in an unventilated warehouse. I ended up losing my job for bringing in a carbon monoxide detector that hit as high as 400ppm at one point which is like 8 times higher than Osha requirements. I informed OSHA and "coincidentally" was fired 4 days later. My buddy tells me they tore out the carbon monoxide detector I installed the same day I was terminated.
The best part is not only did I lose my job for whistle-blowing, it also became a huge black mark on my resume and nothing changed.
@kirbyjoe7484 ..savage. I worked at a Value Village for a bit. I had no clue how .... long pause... fkin sick the company was, or how nasty by association I would feel working there. All profit all up to the top, squeezing employees for maximum effort on minimum wage.. all the while claiming to donate to help people..
Lots of crap jobs, they go nowhere, you are treated as disposable, and you'll never save any money.
Ive done almost 100 job applications in two months and ive snagged two interviews. I had a reputable consultant give my resume a facelift to work with job search algorithms, and still just crickets.
the issue isn't finding a job, its finding a job u want
100 with 2 interviews is good. I've been at it since the beginning of 2021. I graduated with a BS in Computer Science and applied for 2 years landing only 5 interviews. I eventually gave up to pursue a Master's in Business Intelligence. Needless to say, I'm still applying to jobs 3 years later and do a minimum 5 applications a day.
@@Rikidybones Not that I'm taking pleasure in your lack of success (I'm not, believe me), but it does make me feel just a bit better about graduating in December 2022 and still looking. I feel like such a failure sometimes, and knowing that other people are struggling makes me feel less like one.
I had 3 offers in 60 minutes of looking in Australia, maybe move
@ralphjune9798 That's great but not everyone wants to move to a different country so far away from family and friends.
Higher end tech job that paid 65k/yr 5 years ago advertised for 36k (18/hr) now. Gas station clerks are offered 18/hr for part time work here.
Half of the tech jobs are offering so little pay so they can tell the govt "See? Can't find anybody to take the job. This is why we will outsource now."
People lose their minds when they hear 15/hr as a minimum wage. Wait til they find out you can’t even live on 20/hr in huge swaths of the US.
Zak, few months back, my wife had a offer for a job . After going through numerous stages of interviews, they didn't give a response back. I dug through the company history via glassdoor and some previous interviewers suspected the company of idea harvesting. Also some of them mentioned they were giving a project idea prior the interview to promote a product or maybe their own product..
Oh, that's devious. I've always believed that putting together some kind of work sample to demonstrate skills is beneficial, but I never considered that was a thing.
@DominicGreene72 oh yeah it's a thing, the company contacted the wife directly via LinkedIn with a offer, I search so hard on who or where to make a complaint.. all the info say make a complaint with the ftc... really wtf... sadly this had happen to my wife 2 times now, the risk being a leader product manager
Trade jobs are in high demand (eletrican,plumbers,mechanics etc) I am in avation, and airlines are hiring mechanics straight out of A&P school because they cant find any candidates. There is a large amount of boomers retiring soon and its a perfect time to go to school/apprenticeship.
If you are interested in this field, it cost approximately 30k for schooling. Airlines are offering to pay for your schooling to get more workers. Or you can call local flight schools and work as a shop hand and accumulate training hours under a licensed A&P mechanic and bypass schooling altogether and test out.
It takes two years to become aircraft mechanic and make 100k in 2yrs and 5-8 make 120-140kyr. AI is not gonna go out and change tires/brakes or componets.
He’s not bullshitting I got out of the military seven years ago and still receive emails and calls to work A&P. It’s too bad my back is shit or I’d do it in a heartbeat.
Yeah all the paper stuff sounds great until you actually have to be trained by people who don't want to teach you because "they don't pay me enough to work and babysit".
Then complain about how they're going to have to work until they die on the jobsite, how the new guy doesn't know anything and he is not worth what they're paying him.
Boomers have manufactred all of the problems facing the youth and expect them to fix it while barely scrapping by while saying things like "invest for the future".
As they bought a house and cars they couldn't afford at my age and now expect us to pay for it.
And don't forget the big companies(Boeing) are more focused on diversity and inclusion instead of who is willing to learn or qualified.
Its not the youth in CEO positions making things luny its old people trying to prove they're not out of touch.
@@Cunashi009 >And don't forget the big companies(Boeing) are more focused on diversity and inclusion instead of who is willing to learn or qualified.
really now?
This new orientation was encapsulated by something that Harry Stonecipher, who had been CEO of McDonnell Douglas and was CEO of Boeing from 2003 to 2005, said: “When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm.”
Boeing's focus is on running like a business, i.e. making as much money for executives and shareholders as possible. The fact that they use diversity and inclusion as a label to receive more money from diversity and inclusion initiatives doesn't make them pursue diversity and inclusion; it makes them rentseek more profit for executives and shareholders.
Boy, i love you
When other is talk dark future, you give opportunity
I have had a few surgeries past few years. I have permanent restriction and I am disabled. But not disabled enough for disability. What trades are available for someone with lifting restrictions and little to no bending, lifting or twisting? Genuinely curious. I have heard trades are good. I been in factories most my life. But my body paid the price.
I wouldn’t say impossible but more like lacking, quarantine basically screwed every aspect of applying for a job online. And the annoying part is trying to apply for a specific job online and it takes you to a whole other website just to upload a resume/application.
TRUE
Oh and don't forget to fill out all the fields, and put your whole past into their database, because they sure as heck not gonna lock at your CV.
But if you have so diligently put everything into their database, they might give you a hola if and when you pop up on some internal search.
Even better, write a personalized cover letter please. We aren't gonna read it, but you know. You should just do it. Peasant.
The whole process is a big waste of resources for everyone.
@@Qwantopides ain’t that the d*mn truth. 🤦🏻♂️
@@Qwantopides If a company wants me to write a cover letter then i will just work somewhere else.
Job market is shit atm, another factor is allot of companies have one employee doing 2-3+ position for a fraction of the cost and do not want to fill those other position. I've delt with this in two companies last few years, and a 3rd, my friend was complaining about.
It took me 7 months of heavy searching and interviewing to get my first engineering job after graduating college, and many years later, it took 3 months of light searching to get a new engineering job.
This is something that I think is often overlooked. People hear from articles and other news sources that there's a shortage of jobs in healthcare, or in engineering, or in tech, etc. and they immediately think they can just go to school, get a degree in that area, and that it will be simple obtaining a job after graduating.
What they fail to realize is that those job shortages are more so positions that are on the senior end of the experience spectrum that are going unfilled. As an example, I've been a software engineer for nearly 20 years - a new graduate trying to find their first engineering job may have to apply to hundreds of different job posts just to get an offer or two. They're applying to job posts that may have thousands of other potential entry-level candidates competing for it. Meanwhile, the jobs I apply for as an experienced candidate may have a dozen or so applicants and I'm fairly confident if I lost my W-2 job today I'd have hits on interviews by the end of the week.
Experienced professionals in in-demand industries with a good resume and a diverse skillset do not have trouble finding jobs. For everyone else, it's the Hunger Games.
Yeah... But we all know that data is not everything. Data can always be wrong if looked at with a bias.
hate to break it to ya but data is everything or maybe im biased because im a data scientist. you can litterally predict and prevent upcoming problems with high accuracy etc which a human cannot or not as fast. using a pc for data has way less bias then a human do so that point also makes no sense
@@sanane66543
Even if one uses a computer, a human still looks at it at the end of the day, so there is still bias. Also yes, there is bias in this comment because your job is literally dependent on that data.
@sanane66543 2 humans can look at the same set of data and come to wildly different conclusions. There will always be bias even in fields all about finding the truth lol.
@sanane66543 all it takes is for a data set to be hidden.
For instance, Jet exhaust is not water vapor, yet the insistent "hyper informed" news media and wiki gate holders will not allow any information (data) that proves it. We could talk about the most recent round of injections, and all the obscured data points. Or maybe weapons of mass destruction? How about data regarding whom 💣 the nordstream pipe? Or how many people are illegally crossing the southern boarder.. this very long list keeps going.. I'll spare myself.
But if your data isn't reliable data then it doesn't matter, and that was their point.@@sanane66543
The leader of the FED straight up said that he want unemployment to go up in order to punish workers and no, I'm not embellishing. People need to start talking about this portion of the conversation. There is a concentrated effort by our government with the cooperation of major ceo to increase unemployment in order to slow down labor advancements and achievements.
Yep. Biden's stable American economy is all smoke and mirrors. Is anyone actually surprised?
@erestorhalfelvan7676 Also massive inflation, rich profiteering by giving jobs to illegals and legal immigrants. Basically every western government treats people like cattle they will just bring more in and replace host population. There isnt really a solution that doesnt require things getting much worse.
19:23 I say this as a SRE. Mechanics, Plumbers and Electricians are engineers with bad spawn RNG. They analyze, troubleshoot, solve problems, and often create new processes with the same level of aptitude and similar thought process of any other technical engineer Ive met.
Job search is one of the most stressful thing a man can go through. Suddenly your existence doesn't make sense anymore.
For publicly traded companies, theres a big trend of posting ghost jobs; they never intend to hire any applicants for these positions, but they are able to turn around and show investors what a good job they're doing and how they're actively expanding with x-amount of new positions. It's horseshit.
Actors and Writers strike cost me my job of 6 years.
Been unemployed for 6 months straight now.
I've applied to 500+ jobs over half a year.
Gotten about 4 call-backs, 3 interviews, the rest completely ignored.
I'm not a nervous person and can talk to people very easily, nor am I egotistical or 'over the top'. Interviews don't make me nervous.
I'm fully educated with top marks, and 8 years in total experience in the working world, plus 4 years doing 'retail' / 'first time jobs' when I was young.
I'm 30 years old.
I can't find a single job.
ngl but either your job area is screwed (and by the sound of it, it may be) or you don't know how to write a CV/job application
@@dmt472 Nah, just reality mate.
If I didn't know how to write a CV/job application I wouldn't have been working for Marvel, HBO and Netflix for 6 years.
There are people who were directors for 15+ years currently working as a Mail Man.
Others who still have no job as well, because none of the skills are transferable, and those low-brow jobs either don't pay enough money to survive on (which is why they're still looking for people in the first place) - or they want to hire people who are dumb / they can manipulate, not people who will obviously leave ASAP / can hold their own.
That's how it is.
Agree with Asmon it's not a problem that jobs are being filled it's that you have everyone being told to go to college and universities because you'll get a piece of paper to earn yourself 100k+ a year then find out everyone has that same piece of paper so you're fighting over a mcdonalds job because there's only a handful of 100k+ jobs a year and millions of applicants coming out with degree's each year. The reality is if you forced everyone to sign up to a job centre after they left education and that centre placed you in a job you have no say in, you'd find the vast majority of service and low end jobs filled but people would be miserable about it because it's not what they want. That's all that's happening now, people are realising they have debt and an education that's resulted in going for a nothing job still so it was all wasted time and money.
The new tech isn't to get a BA it's to get a trade school certificate. Those job fields are high paying and looking for a lot of people right now due to how the job complexion has changed with society. If you want 6 figures, then working a trade in a densely populated area is the ticket. Source: I have several part time soldiers and friends who are electricians, plumbers or construction workers that are making double my federal government salary.
@@King_of_Faerghus Agreed trade is where it's at now as the job market has shifted but generally trade is looked at as these manual labour grimey jobs people don't want to do, so money aspect of it becomes irrelevant when people want to sit in a AC office chilling around the water cooler talking about the weekend sports than earning 5x more doing some form of manual trade job.
yup it's actually a net negative and inefficient for the economy to send everybody to a college. Most basic jobs out there you can literally learn in 2 weeks, you don't need college education at all. And you are not using 99% of what you learned in college when you are just cleaning tables at mcdonalds. So going to college was literally waste of money and time for that person.
I seen so many jobs on indeed and linkin where they want a master degree and 2-8 years of experience with 45k as pay. I was making more than that at some trailer factories.
@@King_of_Faerghus Trade has always been a open field people just ignore it and look down on it in modern times
I spent the entire summer applying to entry level jobs while I have 2 years of retail, I had no callbacks and had to resort to nepotism to get a 2 week temporary min wage job
Maybe the issue is your CV lol
@@hollyd8989 yea thats what I thought too but I have a cousin that works at Indeed help me with it so that shouldn't have been the problem.
@@hollyd8989 yea that's what I thought too so I also had my cousin who works at Indeed help me with it and he said it was good so it shouldn't be the problem. Recently I got a government internship so maybe it's more to do with the companies itself, but seriously someone with 2 years retail isn't good enough good for "entry-level" jobs? Like cashier and linecook 😭
@@hollyd8989 That's what I thought too but I had a cousin who works at Indeed look over it for me and he said it was good, I think it's more to do with the companies itself since I recently got a government internship, but seriously 2 years of retail isn't good enough for "entry-level" jobs like cashier and linecook, I was really scraping the barrel with what I applied to. :c
@@hollyd8989I thought that too but my cousin who works at a hiring agency looked over it for me and said it was fine. I think it has more to do with the companies itself since I got into a government internship recently. Like seriously 2 years of retail isn't good enough for entry-level positions like Cashier and Linecook? I really wasn't being picky either. :c
Just went in to Walmart to follow up on my application for part time work. They listed the job for 17-23 $ and the hiring manager told me they pay all new hires $15. Da fug
Some jobs have a probation period, where they pay you less for the first 3 months or so. The mentality is, "Why pay a bum full wages when they might show up 2 days, do basically nothing, and then no call/no show and never see them again?" I'm sure that situation is rarer the higher the age bracket is, but if they're hiring from all age brackets, then they have to apply that rule equally to everyone.
@@danielmaster8776 its also because for a while you are practically useless until you get trained on how they want you to work which means they are not only investing in you during your training period but also splitting the labor of someone else to train you. so until you can actually do the job that they are hiring you for then they cant realistically be expected to pay you for that position the full amount.
@@Delantho I asked how long it takes for a raise and they said 6 months. False advertising no matter how you put it.
I have an undergraduate degree and close to ten years of experience in my field. I graduated with a 3.9/4.0 GPA. I worked in a helpdesk role for six years and telecommunications for almost 3. I haven't had a job since Jan 2023. The job market has changed significantly over COVID for people in IT helpdesk positions. The only job callbacks I receive are for half my pay that I used to have before 2019. A fast food cook workers would earn as much as I'm being offered. I don't have a problem with others making more. I have a problem with my wage decreasing by 50%. All these companies are moving their entire help desk departments to India. Why pay two or three competent people to staff a 1,000 person business when you could hire an entire Indian department for the cost of two american employees? Its a massive problem.
Also, the fact that there are STILL sooo few remote jobs is VERY annoying.
Especially in fields where yearly layoffs are very common, as it likely means you have to often either uproot your whole life and move OR you "settle".
Work isn't about your comfort. Nor is life. People are concerned with everything being comfortable. They want stuff given to then without earning it.
It has always been hard to get a good job. You just have to stay hungry. Even when you're burnt out, you keep going. If this is hard for you, life is going be damn near impossible.
People also think they're too good for certain jobs. There are jobs everywhere.
@@nickf2657 half of me agrees with you as I have seen people who are simply not driven enough, but also the other half of me wants to scream "boooomerrrr" because some things really are just worse right now, but because of this exact "ignore and deal with it" mentality, its been building pressure.
@@nickf2657i mean, with all the pleating these companies do about "sustainability", remote work is a no brainer way to lower carbon emissions. its also proven to make workers MORE productive.
but companies want people in their expensive offices to prop up their real estate prices.
it just goes to show that the "values" of ppl in this society are completely fungible depending on a vibe.
@@funicon3689Proven to be more productive? 😂 Riiight. That entirely depends on the job and on the person. It isn’t some set in stone stat.
Mask Up! Keep hoping, bro.
Literally what I'm experiencing. I'm even applying to jobs in over qualified for just to test and see if I get a call back. And nothing
I've done the same thing!!! I just made $22/hr building self driving forklifts... applied at a job for $16 to build wires.... no callback. And when you get an interview you'll get asked about gaps in your employment... like bro everyone is pretending to hire!!! I just had a job that decided to not hire me reach out to me and say "you seem like a good candidate for this position!" Like.... dude you rejected me a year ago, what happened to the guy you hired?
If they left... I know I don't want to work for you. Seriously, I interviewed with this company about a year ago, they rejected me, and now they're looking for a new hire... These companies don't have a single god damn clue what they're doing anymore.
@@slamdanglesMust not need the job.
@@Bustaperizm I just checked and they closed that job 😂😂😂 they too, weren't actually hiring.
@@slamdanglesI'd argue it is you who needs to reflect. A whole bunch of red flags there. I don't know where to start.
I applied to a call center job with about a decade of varied and versatile call center experience. I landed an interview, they gave me a tour of the location, talked to me about what I could expect in terms of training and benefits… They passed over me for the job. I literally could not have been more qualified. No criminal record, no bad blood with past employers. Nothing but detailed job experience that was directly applicable to what they said they expected.
Im finishing a PhD and looking for jobs. Its BRUTAL. Basically nowhere is investing in their departments/expansions and a lot of hiring freezes occurred. Won't change until interest rates lower. Too many variables going on but this is the major one and seemingly rarely talked about
what field?
Could be because you have no experience in your industry, that PhD means fuck all if you aren't trained to do the job. You are just simply educated.
(If you are studying to be a doctor then ignore my comment as a PhD is necessary)
@@locmari and yet they reject you for not having the PHD
Molecular biology and computational biology. Many have been laid off in tech & science.
A PhD is experience, since you are unaware (whoever made that highly regarded comment) since the whole point is publishing papers and working in a lab for years.
@@locmarii think that in order to get a PhD you gotta do a dissertation which is a paper of your experience and research in your chosen field. I don’t think a lack of job experience could be apart of the issue but that’s just my thought
13:50 That's incorrect. Labor typically makes up less than 30% of gross revenue. No matter how many other sub-categories you make so that it's the "largest expense", and "leaving room for profits", it would be incorrect to define as a majority this way.
I think part of the burnout is knowing that almost any job a person can get will almost certainly afford less quality of life than the same job in 2019 would afford. It is just depressing knowing that you are sliding backwards when the expectation most of your life was to climb the job ladder and gradually improve your quality of life. In some sense that's how I feel. 7 years of school. A decent engineering job. And then I get a 10% raise over a couple years while food prices have doubled and cost of owning a home has doubled over that same time period. Strictly financially speaking, I think I would have been better off skipping the master's degree and getting a job with 40% less pay but buying a house as soon as I could.
I had the magic unbelievable luck 3 years ago when I lost my job of walking into a business with my resume, getting an interview that day, and having the job that afternoon. Admittedly, its because I was a skilled labour commercial class 3 driver.
I'm fucking terrified right now because on January 3rd of this year I got diagnosed with Epilepsy was told I will never be allowed to drive again. So now I'm staring down the barrel of this job search market gun without even having the skill I've been using for 20 years.
Do "buddy driving." Some companies allow this. You can keep your job this way.
Timing is everything
Sorry to hear about that man. Hoping everything works out for you.
Have you considered changing your diet to fix your epilepsy? I think keto was initially used to treat children with epilepsy.
@@francestaylor9156 my epilepsy has a super specific trigger. It's well documented, if rare type of epilepsy, and is not effected in any way by diet, exercise, weight, narcotics, etc. It's primary source was either something happening in birth like head squeeze, or hitting my head very young.
I have applied to just about everything from IT to grave digger to care home worker. And they don't even reply most of the time. This is something that is happening across the world right now.
So you apply to jobs you have no experience in, do you honestly think you are qualified or are a competitive candidate?
@@plushquasar653No. I specifically gave those 3 examples as those are things I have qualification for, or experience in. And not one company for any of those jobs replied.
@@nophone9311 you have experience in IT, grave digging, and home care?
Sure you do.
Looking back, every job I've had, someone got me in. I entered the workforce in 2019. Searching on my own has never really worked out. I just get told I didn't get it if they respond at all
Currently working nights but it’s not enough to provide for my family. Went thru this year long process with a apprenticeship school in San Diego, took the aptitude test, passed it, got great scores on the interview conducted by a table of about 15 high level representatives of the school. Only to be thrown in a two year “pool of apprentices” where if they don’t select me within the next two years I have to start the process over. Big waste of my life.
I walked into my most recent job (as a wrlder) and asked for a job. They game me a weld test and hired me 2 days later. I'm the youngest guy there by 2 decades at least. People aren't going into trades, everyone is trying for the same tech jobs and office stuff and are shocked that it's competitive. I would for sure recommend people to explore if they can do a trade job or find something they can do. Learn to pick locks, build stuff, wood working.
Growing up in a smaller town it was so easy to find jobs then. Id just walk into the building and ask if they were hiring, then get hired right on the spot. I moved to the city for college, and experienced how much harder it was to get responses from online applications. Sometimes they would call me months later for the position.
As a Gen X kid back in the day, yeah, getting hired for anything was so easy compared to now. Now, you have to take three personality tests and fill out 1,000 page document just to get ghosted for months...
A lot of companies list job openings they have zero intention of filling. Lots of insolvent companies use this tactic to make it look like things are on the up and up, that they're flush with business opportunities and are growing when the truth is they're an empty husk of a company or aren't doing well.
It happens a lot ._. it waste most of our time while we put effort into it but in the end they are just collecting resumes for a job listing that doesn't exist.
This is also a common policy for companies who have an internal filling. They are required to post the job application even though it has already been filled by an internal hire!
I have a degree in mechanical engineering with a specialty in biomechanics. I've been job hunting for the last 10 months.
No responses for months. Only got interviews when I started doing it old-school last November by going in person and knocking on doors.
I've heard things from the people interviewing Me like They posted a job offer online, and in 48 hours They got 325+ candidates. Two people work HR, They got completely overwhelmed.
Probably going to move across the province to get anything. I have about every headhunter agency on it.
While you’re at it you can apply for a Walmart job where you’ll not be needed either even though you’re overqualified, because you’re competing with people who need it as a career. Good luck brother
Wow 325 is a lot. I work in a travel agency, we recently posted a job and had 60 applicants in 5 days before we closed it. It's absolutely overwhelming for sure. And it's quite sad because when you shortlist it down, everyone we brought in for an interview was hire-able and you have to say no.
When we were hiring a developer (IT) - we received like 20 applications, 5 of those valid (returned solution to a test task), 5 interviewed, 1 hire. All done within a week.
When we were hiring some support role (assistant to director, basically secretary): 400 applications. All looked valid to my developer eye. All with BA at least. Couldnt send any "task" to weed out stragglers. Ofc we didnt have time to let everyone know they are were not considered. Specially in smaller companies where HR is not a distinct person. CEO just came to me - dude, IDK how to process these in timely manner, plz help out. Yea, sure, like I know how to select a girl for the secretary position... but hey.
It took us a month to actually get this settled and it was a drag.
Mailchimp is free. There is no excuse to not send rejection letters these days.
4 million people got laid off in 2020, and we "created" 2 million "new" jobs since then.
Really ain't that hard to see we are still net negative.
As a recent marketing graduate its quite hard to find a job within my career field. Especially having no money to move to areas where they are, rather I am fighting for remote jobs vs 500 applicants.
2 interviews (local) out of 50+ apps.
Marketing grad of like 7 years here... it still sucks
Regarding interviews, my workplace does 3:
One on the phone,
another with senior members of the team they're applying to (to make sure the applicant knows their stuff),
and the last is with HR to make sure they're a good fit for the company (the vibe check).
Anything more than that just seems like overkill. Our process works pretty well the vast majority of the time. To date, my department has never let go of anyone after they've been hired (fingers crossed). We're a technology company though, so we pretty much only hire really high-level technical people, and they don't even have to be super experienced either. Sometimes minimal work experience means they're easier to train on our workflows. In addition, our company has embraced AI as another tool in our arsenal; it won't be replacing anyone any time soon. It's only made our existing workflow easier to manage.
Don’t forget that companies don’t mind putting an ad out for positions that they have no need to fill. It creates the illusion of growth and good times for the existing workforce, and allows them to have a net out to capture any exceptional talent that comes their way.
Companies will sit there wondering "Why doesn't anyone want to work?!" while requiring years of experience for entry level positions. It's a fucking joke.
i was laid off dec 6th 2023 with my middle management job being removed form the company i was at, i sent out 412 resumes in 59 days had 47 phone interviews 14 in poersons and ONE job offer. i took that offer today in a NON management role after 20 years in management. I had my first day at my new job today
The economy is so great restaurants don’t pay their waiters a wage….
Bruh retail stores aren't even hiring fuck a salaried position its hard out here right now and I'm broke as fuck hell jobs didn't even hire for seasonal this past holiday 😂
You put emojis in your resume?
@johnmoore1495 no I do not
@@eliotwildermann just checking lol.
@johnmoore1495 bruh if someone put emojis in there resume I'd hire them cuz they gonna have to be funny 😁
"i haven't looked for a job in 10 years" dude is living the life i wished i had
Applying for so many internships and entry level positions, can’t seem to get anywhere anymore. It really is a struggle, especially with lack of business connections
Are they counting the multiple jobs a single person needs to have in order to make ends meet?
Same boat. Lost my job in november. On the lookout ever since. 40 applications, 3 interviews, rest never called or declined. The interviews yielded nothing.
Goto a temp agency you will have a job in a month
40 job applications since November? That's nothing.
Been applying for work over the last 3 months after transitioning out of my previous job. This has not been my experience. Almost everyone responded back to me.
What I do have issue with is the amount of bullshit you need to do to simply apply for a job. Companies somehow feel the need to ask for my entire life history before I even walk in the front door for a first interview. I skipped out on applying to 3-4 jobs solely because of their online application process.
Congratulations, you're a regular person who understands they need to be professional and qualified to land suitable jobs and thus are correctly a desirable candidate. People think they can work low effort jobs, or their "dream job that they enjoy working so much" and expect the world to just let them live without putting in the extra effort. It's crazy.
What is your experience and in what field if I may ask?
@@Qwantopides Mixed bag. Few years of work in security, a year and change in pest control, and then some odd jobs(fedex, retail stores, landscaping). No college. I am 30 yrs old.
You're extremely lucky then.
You live big or small city,I'm froma small city and it's pretty easy to get a job that pays at least $18/hr.
I've been ghosted by jobs when I tried to find something closer to home. I went in to an interview went well, never heard from them again.
It didnt go well if they haven't called you back, keep searching, king 👑 ✊
@lan_real I have a job just dam tired of commuting lmao 🤣 oh well it worked out at my current job anyways
Usually some employers tells you you're not qualifed instead of ghosting people in my area@@KillingMoon_
I am an experienced professional in a very nitch field. I found what looked like my literal dream job, spent lots of time on my cover letter and resume, applied immediately and felt like I really nailed it. Like even if they didn't want me, surely they would want to talk to me due to my enthusiasm and qualifications? Nope. Not a word. They never said a thing. That one really broke my spirit.
30 applications for 4 callbacks??? Bullshit! What for like McDonalds?
I was an operations manager at my last employer and I applied for over 100 business analytics jobs before I got one interview. Then I got hired… just took one place to actually speak to me and I proved my value. It sucks it’s so hard to get past the initial resume review algos