58 applications, one interview - must be a "labor shortage"
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I haven't laughed so hard in ages. Your description of the "real job" process is exactly how I've thought of it for years. Now I have proof I'm not crazy. Thank you.
im glad louis does these videos because alot of the stuff he says were thoughts i had and i thought "am i the only one who thinks this?, is it crazy to think this?" and then he says it
in another one of his videos he was mentioning that the real estate market is going up faster than people earned a living so people saving for houses were effectively earning negative money, and i was literally driving around with my friend an hour or two earlier having the exact conversation,
@@jamesfernick3741 yeah. They can only keep people from noticing things for so long. Some will always be good sheep, but most people see through the BS, we simply get gaslit into thinking everybody else but like us and a few other people we personally know aren't sheep.
@Nubsmcgee And then give them citizenship anyway, making them just as expensive as anybody else overnight lmao
Imagine depending on illegal labor, that suddenly becomes legal and doubles or triples in price pretty much instantly. The workers could turn the employer in for literal enslavement lmao
Exactly. It is SPOT ON
How much duplicate counting of of job posting is there of the two dozen recruiting agancy all posting for the same job.
"i got fired after 5 months working there bc i took a sick day" is the most american sentence ever said
Unlimited sick day is bait and switch
Better than UPS, where you’re told to “get sick on your own time”.
At my work I can just call in sick whenever I want as long it’s not more that twice a month and they never say anything, 17/hour
The work laws in america and the property taxes are probably the only things that keep me moving there, if people can't take sick days then they become less productive at work.
@@marneuscalgar001 and get other people sick which makes more people less efficient and feel like shit or stay home
my sad theory is that 90% of job adverts are just data collection agencys tricking you into giving them your most personal information to sell off for profit
But if you don't have a job and therefore no money, what value would you be to advertisers?
@@9HighFlyer9 they sell the data to marketing companies
@@WilliamBrinkley45 if you owned a marketing firm, what would you be marketing to unemployed people?
Is there a difference?
@@belphe7621 unemployed people have less disposable income.
Basically, all the companies bitching about a labor shortage expect you to work 168 hours a week, have a PhD, and no personal life for $0.75/hr.
Fucking exactly, man.
@@tommybootlegger that’s how much capitalism fucking sucks. and we can do better than what we have now.
A Right to Work Law would guarantee everyone the choice to go to work. That’s just straight fire
@@volume163 Yeah, I don't really agree with pretty much all of what you said, and I also don't feel like debating it either. Have a great day.
@Volume1 Um no. That is the polar opposite of what right to work for NOTHING laws actually do. I moved from a strong union state to a right to work for nothing state and the differences are staggering. 1. States with unions have significantly higher wages. I lived in a right to work state for over 15 years and I still made less than half of what I made, doing the same job in a strong Union state. 2. Companies in the same field in RTWFN states collude on wages, eliminating all competition from other companies. I doesn't matter what company you work for, they all pay the same low wage for any given job, so switching companies won't benefit the worker at all. 3. Most worker protections are eliminated and laws favor companies in those states.
@@volume163 Right to Work laws are anti union. They specifically make it illegal for unions to charge dues and makes it illegal for an entire shop to go union, which makes them toothless
My biggest "wtf" moment of discrepancy between a job and what they want someone to have was years ago when I was right out of highschool (a decade ago next month) and thought I like books and enjoy being at my local library and I looked if they had any positions open, just to like restock the books and what not). But the few positions required a bachelor's in like computer sciences to be able to understand and learn the new computer organization system since they don't do Dewie Decibel anymore. Like seriously if I can walk in and use your computers to find a book I don't think I need a frigging bachelor's degree to restock the books and put them into the system.
You gave WTF to me. For reshelving medium school is enough.
This story scares me 0_0
Employers: We just can't find workers!
Also Employers: Entry level positions require a Master's Degree and 30 years of job experience.
Pay: $25,000 a year.
30 years in a field that wasn't invented until 4 years ago.
Yeah, they seem to be under the delusion that I should accept the same amount of money I would make mixing concrete for a job that requires a 4 year degree.
@@ardentglazier2867 HR where I work advertised for a maintenance electrician and asked for 18th edition wiring regs. At the time these were still on the drawing board and most people were sitting their 17th edition 3rd revision regs courses. 18th edition is only just starting to go mainstream in the industry 5 years after this...
@cowchipsbotme He's from the UK. Anyone from the UK who is familiar with domestic electrical installation will know of the 17th Edition and 18th Edition Electrical Regulations.
"They aren't desperate for workers they just miss their slaves." That is the truth. It hurts to hear.
Workers don't want to return to crappy jobs with crappy pay rates when they can't even expect 'job security' anymore.
Out in California I was told i wasn’t qualified for a job cleaning out animal cages in a kennel. That was during the Obama years about 2012. They also said they had a lot of applications people are desperate for work out here.
This line didn't make any sense with the article since they're still paying a low wage..
The way this line could make sense, is that they deliberately hire or even talk to people who they know they can take advantage of. They for example can filter by name. Have a name that even sounds like the sort of 'class' of people that won't tolerate being taken advantage of, round file the application. Have exactly the right qualifications with a work history that makes sense, maybe your too honest, so won't lie/cover up or eat slave treatment.
Resume looks really professional, perhaps you have yourself together too well, and they figure your not going to be desperate enough to tolerate corporate BS.
The reason it's hard to understand, is that it's hard to understand an employer who it not actually looking for the "best" or more qualified candidate, but rather the "right" candidate they can take advantage of.
Don't even miss em.
They just wanna run skeleton crews (to death) while *looking* like they're trying to hire people.
My daughter and her boyfriend have applied to many places and have received very little response. They’re applying for jobs that they’re quite qualified to do. She finally did just get hired at Dunkin Donuts and she said she hates it. Management is terrible. She’s been there only three weeks and during her second week she was lectured in front of a customer for washing her hands too much. The manager says that washing your hands six or seven times a day (keep in mind this is people’s food and beverages she’s handling) in one day is too much. She also got lectured for taking two bathroom breaks in a seven hour shift. She doesn’t smoke so she doesn’t take smoke breaks. She didn’t have a lunch break. She took two bathroom breaks and got bitched out for it.
It seems to me that businesses do indeed want slave labor. They don’t care about people. They are indeed looking for the perfect slave. Or perhaps they just want the public to think they’re looking for employees so that customers will be more patient with long wait times and poor/little customer service.
Hope your daughter and her bf find better jobs
How was that boss not dragged out by patrons and shamed?
They have to let you go to the bathroom . She should sue them for having an ignorant manager . Also How did all the customers not walk out when a manager was telling an employee not to wash their hands .
@@debrh.b She said there was only one guest in there at the time. Most people go through the drive thru instead of going in. She said he just stood there looking irritated and didn’t say much of anything. Just paid for his stuff and left real fast.
@@Reulorics Found the boomer.
This was exactly the problem I've been having over the past few months. Everyone keeps telling me everyone is desperate for workers and that it should be easy for me to find a job. 90% of my applications get ignored. 10% get to a phone call, and then I get ignored. I just went back to school. Thank goodness for my GI bill, or I'd have killed myself by now. Seriously.
I am a five year veteran of the Air Force. I wasn't some grunt. I was an intelligence agent that flew on missions overseas. I was a specialist in radios and comms. I have insane qualifications.
I can't even get a fucking job at Office Depot for minimum wage. I was doing an interview and almost forgot all that. They were asking me about my teamwork experience and I was talking about my short time at Staples and then I realized, holy shit, I FUCKING WORKED ON A JET FOR 500 HOURS OF SORTIES AND COLLABORATED WITH HUNDREDS OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE TO COMPLETE MISSIONS OVERSEAS.
What the fuck? It makes me discouraged and makes me depressed. It makes me want to stop trying to look altogether. I can't commute very far. I'm disabled, so I even have those 'priority' employment things, where I am supposed to be considered more for work. I am so overqualified, that I can't get entry level jobs. But I'm underqualified for the better jobs, because I don't have the degrees and experience they want. I am in a position where I would be a fantastic addition to any team, but can't fit into any of their predisposed expectations of a worker. My time in the Air Force is actually negative experience to them, because they want someone with real 'office work'. You know what? I did office work in the Air Force too. A lot of it. I am convinced at this point that Monster and Glassdoor are data farms, as someone else said.
I did all those tests on Indeed, those qualification tests, and I am in the top 1 percentile on almost all of them. Literally anyone should want to hire me on the spot based on those. But apparently they're meaningless.
Just fuck my shit up, fam. Thank you for saying what I keep thinking. So many help wanted signs around here. Yet no one wants to hire.
Have you tried the Feds?
Good luck. I’m in a similar situation it’s been over a year. “Overqualified” apparently.
Try learning some systems programming- writing the code for the systems you used to use in the military. It isn't too hard to teach yourself enough computer programming skills to be qualified for an entry level job, it pays well, and it will make you an ideal hire for Beltway bandits who love hiring veterans. Especially ones who are going to be very easy to clear for classified work and ALSO help them with the diversity commissars.
I feel that, sort of.
I am "overqualified " for entry level jobs, but underqualified for anything higher. What I did, didn't give me experience for the higher up jobs, but to much for the entry jobs.
I am planning on going back to get my emt certificate and maybe someday combination that with my bs...
Agree, you should look at federal agencies, homeland security, etc. The applications are long and difficult, but worth it. The jobs are secure. Also, you have GI points even for the USPS.
I love when employer's complain about getting ghosted by appliers but they've been doing it for years.
I was ghosted by a lot of headhunter agencies too.
Yes. Recruiting agencies are the worst at that.
Seems pretty normal to me, if they send a poor advertisement, why even bother replying. "Hey your advertisement says nothing about the actual job or your working environment let alone how much you are willing to pay for all this work that you want done. Also there is no mention of relocation support, financial and accommodation availability."
I cant believe companies actually have the balls to complain about that...I just do them like they did me, lol
employers*
The interview process for a minimum wage job is a joke, they want you to act like a CEO for them, be completely in love with their company, be super excited to make the fat man rich while you live in your car
Agreed , most companies want you to pretend like your running the damn place yourself but don’t want to pay anything near a living wage cuz they can’t “afford” to pay
Look me in the eyes and tell me you'll jump on a live grenade to defend this Wendy's
I remember interviewing for Wienerschnitztel and the interview went fairly well. At the end of the interview the manager asked how long I was looking to work here. I told the truth, said I wanted a job while attending college, so around 4 years. He turned me away and said he was looking for someone that was gonna stay longer....
Minimum wage gigs should be for kids in high school who are still getting support from parents. People need to make sure to acquire a marketable skill as soon as possible so they don't need to apply for minimum wage jobs as an adult. College isn't required to acquire a marketable skill, you can teach yourself a skill.
@@hankkingsley9183 yep. I agree, like it was in the 80's. But back in the day it was trendy for high school people to work at the mall, not so much anymore. Most jobs pay minimum wage plus 25 percent, Even working the line at Tesla in the bay area pays that
When I got out of highschool, I tried to get a job at a local burger king among other places. This Burger King eternally has "Now Hiring" signs all over the windows and even the sign out by the road. I put in an application, called back, and even went there in person to speak to the manager to get a follow-up on my application (which was norm at the time, to do a follow-up). The manager refused to come out and speak to me, I never got a single phone call or heard anything from them (even prior to my follow-up visit). They still have hiring signs on every window and the workers there constantly complain of being understaffed. I'm trying to figure out why these companies think they're hot shit and can only hire high end people for minimum wage prices, with no other vision other than that.
Doesn’t help half the “entry level “ jobs want experience and a degree, only to be paying $4-5 above minimum wage
Companies don’t want to take the time to train new hires. Plain and simple.
Hahahaha, 4-5 dollars. That's fucking generous. 1 to 2 at best, in my experience.
@@jenniferclark9842 They wouldn't really have to if they weren't instituting mass layoffs all the time and getting rid of their trained staff for a minor and temporary boost in quarterly finances.
@@Khailward COMPLETELY AGREE. I used to do Pharmacy Technician work and went to trade school for it in 2014 and guess tf whaaaattttt I haven't done that work since 2018 when I quit it. I worked at what I call "Wrong Aid" Pharmacy for 3 years, began in August 2015 & left (quit; 1st job with no notice) in July 2018. I began in pharmacy upon being hired there in 2015 mind you at a whopping $8.60 starting out only 5 cents more than minimum wage at time. By the time I quit, I was making a whopping $9.63 hourly. I was DONE.
@@Khailward and I always will randomly search up pharm tech jobs in indeed while I'm job hunting, like I am currently, and wow what do ya know only paying them like $16-$17 hourly in most cases. They want years of experience too and you to be nationally certified already or $2 bucks more than a target employee is payed; no offense to them of course. But "skilled" jobs as media is always going on about doesn't actually mean shit to them. They pay our being "skilled" as if we're not. And not for nothing but "unskilled" jobs/workers are all so disrespected by media coverage etc. People speak down on people so harshly as if they don't also deserve to live indoors with running utilities and not end up evicted with an empty stomach. So horrific. And also not for nothing, there's technically no such thing as an "unskilled" job. Unless you're like a Kardashian or something.
I worked at a grocery store for 14 years, The term "you're replaceable" was thrown around casually. In August I quit that job without notice or a plan. The same week I had an interview and got a new job at an HVAC company for $6 more an hour starting ($22). Now is the time to learn you're value as a laborer and move up. Side note, my replacement at my former job was offered my position at a $5 pay cut from what I was making. Its not a labor shortage its a game of wage chicken, employers are trying to ride out what they think is a "phase" of people standing up for themselves.
wait do u actually do hvac are do you work for supply vendor?
@@deitybeloved wholesalers. Warehouse grunt
14 years is a long time. curious, what made you wait so long to quit?
@@MJ87808 I enjoyed my work until the pandemic. I was grateful to have work during it all, but as time went on and we just were expected to do more for a very small raise, I think it was like $0.75 or something like that. I was the last of the holdouts, the next most experienced person was about 7 months in, and they quit already as well.
@@Hamonous exactly why I didn’t want to stay at grocery stores. wages are low and I can’t stand the customers. Lol. good luck on your new job though.
They must have a shortage of entry-level job applicants with 10 year experience. Hard times.
The best one I saw was a posting for a "Basic Automotive Maintenance Specialist" that's an entry level technician posting. Except they wanted 7 years of experience in service and an additional 7 years of experience in sales. Those are the typical qualifications you would see posted for an Auto Service Manager.
@@Drilling249 IT is sometimes worse, "entry level" wanting a junior (under 21 here), with credentials it is quite literally impossible to get before you're at least 27 because the degrees alone take 8-9 years because you can't do them concurrently at all or faster.
@@cericat and if you actually meet those qualifications but you are, often necessarily, over 40, heaven help you, because then you face age discrimination, which is rampant.
@@marilynbartlett1850 yep, though it's been tending younger and younger in my experience. Job hunting only got harder when I hit 30, and that was 9 years ago.
@@cericat I believe it. I have an adult child who was just hired for a job at 19, having left college after only one semester (bad experience during covid) and described the other kind of discrimination, where you're viewed as being too young for the position (even with managerial experience).
Getting screwed while maintaining your smile is considered a badge of honor in this country. Then if you have difficulties because of external factors (employers being out of touch for instance), it's commonly believed that it's just your fault as the individual. Funny the level of social conditioning BS we have been fed since birth lol.
True, and when you can't find a job, it's all your fault. Even family look down on you.
i'm mostly suffering from my paperwork not showing what i'm capable of doing ... like i studied for a while but since i was in the military while doing so i'm just showing as "a former soldier" hence i'm equal to someone barely able to talk properly and every boss who's against the military just doesn't even look at me ... so i fall back to be a "mere" former carpenter which i can't do anymore due to dust and asthma being a bad combination but even the employment exchange wants to force me back into carpenting because they can't be bothered to help me find something else
i f*cking hate life atm
@@Laurelinad I'm really sorry you fucking hate life atm, cus ME Too
Here's a take: business liked the gross profit during COVID. Skeleton crews doing the same amount of work as a full time staff, because of the extreme situation. Now business, in promising to come back to full staff, are ignoring qualified applicants to keep that profit.
Agree 100%..I was rehired a week after getting laid off because the hotel I worked at picked up 400 rooms for 4 weeks. Was told I'm required to work 6 days a week 16 hour shifts and if I don't agree they'll let the state unemployment know I refuse work which screws my unemployment insurance while the Guaranteed employment for essential managers work 8 hour shifts 5 days a week no weekends. Bunch of bullshit
"Let's see if we can wing it."
At their own loss... I have been hiring a bunch of people that are qualified. I would rather have talented staff that is paid well than to have whatever is left for cheap.
@@schu220 that's when you go "yeah can I get that in writing and signed by you, with your company name and number please? Just for me, I promise"
Unfortunately this has been going on far longer than just the pandemic
2007 applied to apple. I don't even want to imagine the sad dystopian timeline that would have resulted from you getting that job.
Evil Louis Rossman be like: Apples repair estimates are fair and just.
@@XanVicious "Right to repair is piracy, by the way, are you interested in buying a the new iPhone?"
@@XanVicious Imagine Bizzaro world Louis Rossman. Talking the same way as he does but means the opposite per Bizzaro rules...
Anti Louis Rossman is a terrifying arc in the anime
Louis would have suggested to Apple to seal the inside of all iPhones with a solid glob of poxy so you can't even open it, let alone service it. There's nothing to see in there! lol
A sizeable portion of employers want someone with a master's degree in theoretical physics to do remedial tasks. The "degree required" mentality of the American employer is awful.
Posted requirements are bullshit. It’s a wishlist.
Don't buy into those requirements. Apply anyway to things you think you're not quite qualified for. Like someone else said, it's just a wishlist. They might take you either way.
I agree 100%.
Welp. Here in germany we have up to 13 years of school after which you have to do a grand test that is so massive that it lasts several days and you will be questioned hours about just one topic of just one class each day again and again. If you pass, you're allowed to go to university and successfully finished the best education offered in germany.
Supermarkets will still decline you en mass for basic, entry level jobs.
I have a theoretical degree in physics.
I think it's partially the AI resume screening that's throwing tons of viable apps out
the AI resume checks find keywords. Then categorizes people based on how many keywords they have in their resume.
Calling it an AI is 🤡
@@weareorigin Such a system only accomplishes splitting the job seekers into two groups: those that know the keywords, and those that don't. It doesn't actually result in more qualified applicants, just savvier process navigators.
@@redlion145 yea when the app process asks me questions I usually lie about years of experience if I don't have any just because I'll probably get filtered out if I don't have any and the person interviewing me probably hasn't seen anything I said until I sit down with them.
That definitely does play a factor in some companies; I was told they couldn't hire me at a retail outlet because the position they needed me for they couldn't because the system only alotted x number for that position.
I applied for Target for a seasonal position and did the interview and never heard back. Even though they have signs all over the store saying they're hiring.
yea wtf my mom had the same thing. i have no idea what they are doing
They're doing this for a political play. They are trying to convince the people that the workers are at fault and not them.
They want the financial desperate people to sign up so that they can manipulate/ pay what ever wages they want.
You seem too educated and levelheaded for the position and for them to manipulate.
@@007kingifrit Neither do they.
I only last at Target for about two weeks. HATED it! I’m not a bridge burner but I just stopped showing up.
"shortage" means people aren't crawling on all fours for a job anymore.
They just want an excuse to increase immigration and cheap labor.
It's like "they" are trying to empty the cities to make room for the imported replacements.
@Unite for RIGHT TO REPAIR hey mate, shouldn't you be mad at the companies hiring the cheap labor of immigrants and not at the immigrants who told to come here for work?
@Unite for RIGHT TO REPAIR yeah if not for jobs immigrants wouldn't come. They should fine companies lots of money if found they use illegal workers
@Unite for RIGHT TO REPAIR we arent stretched thin. Employers just make it sound like that so they can pay you less. And immigrants are usually employeed in pro republican states, which incidentally have the lowest wages.
See, this is why I'm satisfied as a humble janitor.
No matter the state of the world, someone always wants someone else to clean up their messes.
The real heroes, the ones behind the scenes keeping this fucking mess from spilling over. It's such a shame we've been taught to look down on professions like that in America. It's honest work, It's necessary work, and often times it requires a professional to do. I've been working in Auto repair for the last 15 years. We get shit on all the time too.
@@Drilling249 aaah, you lot take my money, but respect what you do, and get me to work!
@@rickmartin6817 they quit
I was once a custodian. I did it to get my foot in the door.
Ironically if you own your own business, you can make ok money. My dad used to do it.
I've been applying for jobs since before the pandemic. I've easily put in over 400 applications and of those i've had maybe 10 interviews. Most of which didn't get past the first phase since they offered minimum wage compared to their advertised 10-12 an hour. Never mind the local average for my line of work being between 20 and 25 an hour.
Family does not understand, they all think "Oh no one wants to work, they just want welfair checks." no... We want and need work, but no one will give us work or a fair living wage.
sadly so true ...
And yet the prevailing consensus across the board is that everyone just needs to shut up, stop complaining, and get back to work as if nothing is wrong.
… even here in this comments section!!
I genuinely think that something needs to seriously break in the way our job economy is structured. We need a wake up call for folks, employer and employee alike, to see that this kind of pressure on the general population to submit to being a wage slave just... isn't sustainable long term. There *was* a time where people figured out how to make a single income household work, so the wife could spend time actually raising her children to be capable adults with a good head for what's right and wrong. It existed, man, and it can exist again.
EDIT: I'm not saying women shouldn't be allowed to work here, rather, I'm saying that we shouldn't have it set up so that people *have* to get married and have both of 'em work full time to afford a shoebox apartment and feed a child or two. We're people, and we should have the flexibility to dedicate ourselves to that daily, full time work mentality... or not focus on it so much, and put energy into our passions. We should be allowed to *LIVE* beyond *just* showing up to work five days a week and barely having our weekends to try and de-stress before we do it again.
@@deleteman900 When women joined the work force it doubled the labor supply. Too many people wanting a job, too few positions to fill. Next thing you know, employers could pay less because there was too much competition to find a job. It was all planned. Companies and Corporations injected propaganda to "encourage" women to join the work force so they could hire two people at one person's wage rate. The only way out of this malicious corporate strategy is to have every single employee demand double the wages or they all walk, leaving the business destitute. Obviously, that's not gonna happen any time soon... Once you include income tax (you have to pay someone money in order to work), then the landscape becomes clear: we're slaves, and we have been our entire lives.
My father experienced that years ago. He got a job where they wanted someone with a very specific certification with an engineering degree. He was the closest they could find. He was willing to learn the new system they wanted for less than stellar pay. They ended up letting him go because they wanted to find someone cheaper- he demanded more money because they wanted slave wages. 2 years later he was on the job hunt again (he did a lot of contracting before he retired) and they were not only still hiring but had never filled the space. He was the only person within 50 miles who had the knowledge they needed and even then they refused to pay his worth.
Wow, instead of just paying the guy the wage they decided to cut their nose off in spite of their face.
This is what happens when Human Resources is put in charge of everything
THIS IS INFURIATING!!!!! F THE SYSTEM!!
Bingo they just want free wage slaves nothing else matters anymore. Getting decent managers and higher ups is so rare.
If they went 2 years without filling the position than they obviously really didn't need the position filled. My job post job ads that are just incase the right person applies.
I graduated from uni in 2009. I remember hearing all about this "skills shortage" that apparently existed here in Australia, across many areas including IT. Unfortunately soon enough I found that the "skills shortage" didn't actually exist - it was just an excuse to allow them to send work overseas or bring in cheap labour from overseas.
Spoke to some old Aussie who mentioned that back then there was this CES Commonwealth Employment Service which was actually competent at finding him jobs in both public and private companies. Then John Howard got in and privatised it and it has been downhill since.
@@mofo78536 Unfortunately the CES was dismantled and replaced with the current useless system when I was still a child, so I never got to experience it, but yeah - I've heard a lot of good things about it. Now its all privatised, and run by job agencies that would rather you not find a job so that you stay on their books for longer and make them more money.
I'd forgotten about this. I worked for a company that pulled that. They wanted a specific candidate from another country but had to post the job locally first and then just claim no one was qualified enough. For tech jobs this seems very likely. Why hire me for Work at Home Tech Support or Reservations when you can pay someone in another country much less.
@@davidshepherd265 Go work for the job agency lol.
Here in the USA the "skills shortage" typically means they want to get someone working for cheap with a Green Card work permit.
I work in compensation analysis, also work heavily with recruiting, I have almost 10 years in both private and government organizations from manufacturing to entertainment... 100% can confirm there is no labor shortage.
Can you see what fields actually have positions available that can support a reasonable lifestyle and are open to intelligent college educated general office admin type workers?
I was essentially in client management and customer support for a tech company and I'm trying to decide if it's worth looking into getting a new corporate gig, or if I should bail and pursue trades like hvac, electrician, welding.
Do you have any opinions as to why the hiring signs are out everywhere? Is it a scapegoat?
@@CognacKidd kind of, what we are seeing is a lot of people at the hourly level have their pick of the litter, younger people just out of high school and college aren’t risking the job market for covid and a lot of families both hourly and salaried are going back to single income family. I have seen some evidence to the hire signs being a ploy, but I work for county government and we are still having trouble recruiting for 15-20 dollar jobs, and out applicant pool is much lower. We also had A TON of people retire due to covid, and the boomer retirement has been looming on the US work force for a long time, that too is a huge factor.
The company I work for has complained about not being able to find hires and that it was the "unemployment money" keeping people away. I pointed out on more than one occasion that our competitors were paying $3/hr more and offering benefits when we weren't. Short time later "We don't understand why we can't find candidates." Listen and maybe you'll figure it out.
Maybe they should actually ASK the people that turned them down. But I’m guessing they’re too good for that.
@@mrshmuga9 that would require people to apply in the first place.
fr fr. My last bosses were equally as clueless 😂😂 Fcking sociopaths
Finding an "entry level" engineering job with graduation in December has been a journey. Everything entry level is expecting 2+ years in industry experience. I've had better success trying to talk directly with certain recruiters at the career fair instead of doing mass applications online.
career fairs are a joke. Its just a bunch of people in rented spaces that are happy they dont have to work in the office and just laugh at the job seekers. I attended some of these and I witness that most of the reps at the tables just goof off and when they receive resumes they just toss it in the trash after the applicant leaves.
2 years for entry level? They clearly don’t want to hire people.
Yup. Must have 10 years Xp for entry level.
I had a hard time trying to find work, but the best opportunity came from talking to a professor of mine. he knew a fairly new startup from a entrepreneur who studied with him back when they where juniors, and was looking for someone. a couple of meetings later and the job was mine =)
Had a head hunter get a hold of me because I have some Aruba network certifications, the app he sent me wanted a bachelors OR 3 years working experience in the field for EVERY ONE YEAR of equivalent education.
Last job used the hiring sign as a carrot stick for employees. Was there for about a year and was severely understaffed the entire time. Actually lost several workers that never got filled, despite many applicants. They were essentially paying everyone to do the work of 3-5 people, while telling them it's only temporary until they hire people. There were weeks I worked almost a hundred hours. As a part time employee. It's worth noting, those were the same weeks I would have almost double the hours of the manager. Because they ended up using me to fill their role so they could take off. Meanwhile I was "lazy" for trying to get back to my agreed schedule. I learned that being a hard worker and reliable was quickly taken advantage of, and in a parasitic way
Typical boomers as usual and it is no wonder why people walked out.
I had a job like that, once I was sufficiently fed up I told my boss I would come in on my day off to cover for him. Then I called and cancelled that morning saying something came up. He told me I had to come in, I replied with "nope, I just fucking quit, right to work functions both ways mother fucker."
@@Drilling249 pretty similar to how I quit. Although they wanted to say they fired me.
@@Drilling249 Good for you! I love that shit.
I've learned the best mentality; Show up and work hard for yourself. Everything else is meh standard.
I feel ya on the bait and switch hourly wages. I applied for a gig that advertised $43k/year (or $21.50/hour). I get through the interview process and they tell me the job pays $18.99/hour and I tell them that they advertised on their website $43k/year. During the interview the interviewer asked me "why are you quibbling over a few dollars an hour?" and I asked them right back "Why are you?"
Did they respond O_O.....? lol
@@sethreign8103 I needed a job at the time, so I kept up with the interview process; I got drummed out over medical issues - which is fine really, I wasn't looking forward to going back into a security detail that was marketed as "tsa" but was a third party contractor. Been there, done that. Don't care for it.
When I graduated College back in the early 2010's there was nothing more humiliating and self evident how useless the degree was than not even hearing back from entry level positions that I could have easily done in High School .
It's not a real job unless you have crippling debt for the rest of your life from college loans
you and my mother must be having lunch together.
The service industry is probably the best example of how employers aren't desperate for workers, they're desperate for the old sheeple that used to work in the industry. When places like McDonalds pay 14-16 dollars an hour in California, I have 0 reason to go work for some place like Red Lobster if my sheer concern is just pay rate and effort, because flipping burgers and taking orders is not very hard but apparently pays very good. To the other end of the issue, if I want a serious and actual career, I'll work for neither of these companies because not only do they not have upward mobility or relevant experience for upward mobility, I know for a fact that they don't value their workers because of how quickly and often their throw their employees under the bus.
During the Covid pandemic I was furloughed by my company. They paid us for a month during the furlough and then stopped. More to the point, when we came back, we were not returning with our full workforce, and we had to undergo lots of training as the business environment needed to change in accordance with Covid procedures. Then they start reopening other portions of the business and I started helping run them. Finally I ask for a promotion, and they say yes. I'm super excited but I have to wait. I wait a week. No promotion. I wait a month. No promotion. I wait for 6 months, and still no fucking promotion. All the while I'm working regularly for 6 days a week at 10+ hours a day, and getting paid less than industry standard. So I finally deliver an ultimatum, and they just ignore it. Never got my promotion, and I never gave notice.
But that sort of attitude and environment is extremely common in the service industry. Employees have been being treated as expendable and non-essential for decades. And now that the entire service industry was essentially put on furlough, lots of people have decided, "Fuck it, I'll change industries" and many are taking the opportunity to negotiate with an upperhand. I didn't negotiate pay with my current employer. But they are still paying me more than I would have at my prior employer. Additionally, if I had negotiated pay or PTO, I'm sure I could have gotten a better deal. The reason I went with my current employer is because it's a change from my normal food service position to a hotel front desk position, and getting out was more important than better pay.
My parents wonder why I'm still washing dishes after almost 5 years and it's quite literally because every other Job I have applied for in town will not get back to me when I fill in an application and provide a resume.
Get yourself a CDL and drive a truck
@@Yandel21ableify You mean accident/death machines lol
@@Yandel21ableify The hours and pay aren't worth it and not to mention taking into account the cost of a truck is astronomical.
You can make 900$ a week with prime inc in 2 weeks that’s the training pay. The job is hell but once you’re out of training 30,000 miles you make more than that per week the job is hell though
Here's an interesting idea:
Companies are all saying "We're hiring! Labor shortage!"
Here's what is actually happening:
1) Companies want to pay out as little as possible. One way to do this is to have a skeleton crew of as few employees as possible.
2) The problem with #1 is that customer service/satisfaction is significantly reduced.
3) To avoid bad PR and customer complaints, company begins "hiring". They offer low pay and have ridiculous requirements to pretty much prevent anyone from actually going through the hiring process and getting a job there.
4) The company's excuse that "nobody wants to work here so we're short on employees, but we're trying our darndest to hire people" placates the customers.
5) they feed that same story to their overworked employees for pity points.
There is so much truth in what you just said that it almost hurts. Well said.
Also, "We've been on a hiring program for 18 months straight" can really please investors, as long as they don't figure out that you're not ACTUALLY filling the roles
Went to Walmart twice in recent memory. Left a cart full of merchandise, twice. Left empty handed because I refuse to wait 40 minutes to check out, oh and don't forget to be detained at the exit like I stole something.
The managers excuse? "We can't hide, when we do they don't show up".
I don't care to hear the excuse, do what you need to do to run your store.
The PPP loans will be forgiven if they can prove they remained hiring throughout.
I've been a manager in retail for over 10 years. The "no one wants to work" bullshit is... bullshit. People want to work, but it seems that people nowadays just refuse to accept a job that has a toxic corporate performance culture environment. I've had less trouble finding people than neighboring stores, but I run my stores a bit differently than traditional, 'old school', corporate store managers. I've given constant pushback on the nitpicking from corporate when they would pick out somebody and want to discipline them for something that had nothing to do with work performance, etc. Like when someone would want to wear shorts in a store during 100 degree heat while stocking shelves instead of jeans.
These big companies wouldn't have to spend an unreasonable amount of money to make their jobs more desirable for people. They could start with changes that don't cost anyone anything.
As someone who has dealt directly with the corporate greed culture for over 10 years, I'm glad people are finally standing up for themselves.
Oh but if people are allowed to wear clothes that are comfortable/easy to work in, how will the customer think we're a professional, friendly(TM) company that cares about people if our people aren't sweating like hogs in the heat because we also don't properly cool our interiors?
I also operated the store I managed/co-managed with a non corporate mindset. If the policy or rollout made zero sense I would find a way around it. I was more interested in making sure my employees were not micro-managed and were trained to do multiple positions rather then just one. To often (besides poor management) people quit because of lack of appreciation, being micro-managed all of the time and feeling like the company doesn't value them. There has also been a big disconnect between corporate and store level because frankly most of them have never worked at the store level to really understand operations. They sit in a board room and create ideas (mostly to increase profits) but don't take the time to ask what is working well and what can be improved upon. I consider myself a proud rebel in the corporate world (aka the death star).
@@Truth-of-the-matter Corporate America thinks all field/store level employees aren't worth listening too. They need to get their heads out of the data and listen to the people.
IVE ALWAYS BEEN A TOP PERFORMER AND I ALWAYS HIT THE GROUND RUNNING SO THERES NOTHING TO IMPROVE TO TRY TO IMPRESS PEOPLE BUT IT DOESNT MATTER, THEY ALWAYS TELL YOU YOU HAVE TO INCREASE PERFORMANCE EVEN IF YOU ARE THE BEST PERSON.. THEY DONT GIVE YOU ANY ADVANCEMENT OR REWARDS AT ALL. THEY STILL TRY TO MAKE UP NONSENSE TO KEEP YOU DOWN..
corporations are ruining our planet and no one seems to care. corporations are the worst to work for but theres not much else out there.
I can't tell you how many stories I hear about IT guys seeing a program they made as a requirement for job. Asked for 5+ experience when the program was made about 2 years ago.
You can only blame HR's here
I worked for a small business after lockdowns shutdown my own.
It was absolutely amazing to see how terrible the owners were at management, often breaking over to illegal in their incompetence.
I explained that things needed to change or I would leave.
They were quite happy to replace me from the stack of resumes they'd been collecting.
I have heard from the inside they are losing money and desperate to sell.
But, *sips coffee* , that's none of my business. :)
A real thing in HR especially in intro level positions is that they do not want someone unqualified or too qualified, having to teach someone fresh out of school how to work is not profitable. If you hire someone who is overqualified you risk them leaving for a better job before you suck out their soul. Entry level job requirements should read something like this.
Must be willing to work for under market value.
Be skilled enough to be dropped right into the job with minimal training.
Have no real hope of landing a better job.
Being afraid to lose your job because you are living paycheck to paycheck a bonus.
Exactly, and they'll also set their wages to be just high enough that you're afraid to leave, but not high enough that you can afford anything but survival.
All of those apply to me and it still hasn't worked out though
@@brentc2411 I would throw my application right at anyone who put that in the job desc
that's true.
This cut to the bone.
Louis - "I got fired for having 1 sick day off"
Sounds like an employer i had about 7 years back. I was told first week "If you are sick we still expect you to work. Bring a bucket in if you have to but you are not allowed to have time off"
I quit like a week later. The expectations of Employers is insane at the moment.
I'm not from the US and I can't believe employers there are allowed to refuse people to have sick days off, and fire them for using them. Do that in my country and you're sued with no hope of winning.
@@adenrius in any Western Country.
I would leave the moment I see you using the bucket. (Because I would think you where joking when I asked you what it's for.) How do they have anyone there still working?
Did they expect you to get your co-workers sick?
@@DonRaynor Good point.
Companies aren't hiring, they have learned they can survive on a skeleton crew that they can work harder for the same pay. If they do hire, they'll have to pay back the ppp loans.
This is pretty much it. My dad and one other lady ran the office for a warehouse for a trucking company, she mostly ran the office, he ran dispatch and planning the trucking routes and such. When my dad announced he was retiring the other lady said she refused to the job with anybody else and announced her retirement as well. The company ran the numbers and realized they would need to hire at least 5 people do to the same amount of work those 2 had done, so they just closed the entire location.
It’s insane how things have been. I’ve been searching for a job for the last few weeks and put in many applications but have had less than lukewarm responses. What’s truly sad is the application process is so long, every place seems to need an hour-long assessment. Hundreds of “I feel that most people are honest. Agree or disagree” questions. Not only that but to do them and to not hear anything back or be told they’ve chosen to pursue other candidates instead. I even had a business tell me I nailed a phone interview, and that I had a video interview and they’ve never scheduled it. Reached out 3 times to ask about scheduling and was told I’d hear back last Thursday about open slots for scheduling this week. Haven’t heard anything.
Oh God, Burger King does that whole "Agree or Disagree" assessment and they still don't want to hire. It's insane
Live in Florida. Went searching for work before the job requirement kicked back in for unemployment. So roughly, searching for about 6 months. Min 5 job appies a week. Only response I have gotten back was an ID theft scam. When I tell you I IDENTIFIED with that guy's reddit story.....
I've gotten the rejected email before the thank you for applying email. Nobody sees my application after all that time.
You have to create profiles and shit lol
I did one of those agree or disagree assessments the other day. Stupid as fuck. I got an email the same day saying I didn't score high enough. A human never even looks at those.
Recently my cousin informed me that his employer had a few positions open that I'm qualified for and that I should apply. I applied for the two positions I had the most experience in and finally got an email nearly a month later informing me that they would pass on me. My cousin was surprised when I told him what went down because the guys they ended up hiring he said are useless; one of them already started calling in even though he's still in the probationary period and some showed up for a day or two and never came back. They probably felt like I was over qualified and would be asking top dollar but in reality I'm just trying to get my foot in the door. I'm thinking at least give me an interview. Oh well, their loss
did you get your cousin to hand in your Resume or go via their HR department, if the latter, that was your mistake. Most HR departments use this method to choose which applications to pass through to the recruiting department/manager: ua-cam.com/video/dvYvQeNeq3A/v-deo.html
Companies tend not to hire family. Also fuck HR, better chances getting an interview if you catch a manager on a meet-up... (in IT at least)
The firm my wife works for never replied to her when she submitted her original application, while their HR department was supposed to hire someone. A few months later the owners got tired of HR not finding someone, so they sent out headhunters. Two days later my wife was working for the firm. The HR department was trying to *shock Pikachu* the whole thing when she told the new bosses that she applied prior but hadn't been contacted.
Her credentials were 100% what they had needed the whole time. Her interview used the original resume she had sent them.
Edit: During the interview she was also able to negotiate a higher salary than what they were offering. In part by being able to exploit their drought for that position but also using HR's mishandling of the entire situation.
"HR is where people go that can't"
HR is where people get paid to be on Facebook.
I've seen many people making an overview of them applying to jobs on Reddit. And often one third are kind enough to let you know that you're rejected. But from the remaining group, 90% or more (!), don't even bother to reply. Companies who don't even bother to reply seriously need to stop complaining that they don't have enough employees. It's their own fault.
Wouldn’t want to work for those companies anyway. If they lack the professionalism to even drop you an email to tell you “thanks, but no thanks” I doubt they’re a decent company to work for.
In my Canadian "bedroom community" I applied, in person, to six jobs that were posted online. Three of these employers denied they had posted the jobs. Of the remainder, one had 17 jobs posted, several of which were 30 plus days unfilled, yet on 2 tries, I never got a response. I can't figure out what their scams are, or how they profit from them, but scams they are!
Hey @PatJackson - they are probably screening you out, could be for illegal discrimination reasons such as age, race ethnicity or they think you are over qualified and they do not want to hire someone that knows more than most people in the office. Could be any of the above plus additional reasons. Net, an employer that ignores your application without a "thank you for applying", you wouldn't want to work there anyway, it's probably a sign that they would take advantage of you,, or be abusive in some manner, eventually. Best wishes!
@@loanokaharbor8303 why would they not want someone who knows more than the rest of the employees already there?
@@positivepenny5477 stupid people are easier to manipulate and cheat.
@@positivepenny5477 Because they want it done their way, not the way a person might know is actually right
@@positivepenny5477 literally because they would feel inferior and being boss to them literally means being superior to EVERYone (even when they don'T know shit about the actual job)
I've seen so many jobs that the employer himself lists as " entry-level" and yet wants the applicant to have experience. That is not what entry-level means. Too many emloyers want too much without making any kind of investment to get it. There is no labor shortage. So many employers have unrealistic expectations and are whining when those unreasonable expectations are not met
This is the perfect example of beggars being choosers
You'll hopefully learn in time that the ridiculous asks of employers especially on these entry level positions are just wishlists and don't mean much.
@@ryno4ever433 the sad part is even when you meet the list or better still nothing.
@@ryno4ever433
I have a friend who at the current company he works for basically said half of the stuff you see on those applications are just fluff to make the company look professional.
What they mean is ‚entry-level salary‘ for mid-career experience.
Another aspect to this "problem" is that the people who do the hiring are, generally, from the HR department. They may be good at conducting interviews, but they do not really know much about the job that they are conducting the interview for.
Why is HR so goddamn bloated these days and why the fuck does management place so much faith in them to make critical decisions for teams of people whose work they don't understand?
Yup. I’ve been trying to hire and I get incompetent applicants but they have all the fancy keywords !
@@rixille What are these people supposed to do? Go get real jobs?
This is such a common issue, some even let HR write the job offers! People who think Adobe Photoshop is 2 programs (Adobe and Photoshop) and want you to know "both", then you go on the job and it turns out it was Adobe Indesign what they needed. Some think JavaScript and Java are the same... Then you see the technical requirements for the job, you get there, start working and it turns out 2/3 of these technologies are never ever needed or used for that job.
I used to bypass the Karens by doing my own search, bring the one candidate forward to "The Boss" and he would have a word with HR.
This was necessary when the best was needed, not a poser that checks the HR boxes.
Based on what I’m experiencing in my current role with my current company, the “labor shortage” is just a way to put more work on the current work force. Just pile on more work and not have to hire more folks to cut overhead cost. Just my experience.
People older than me have told me that in the years shortly before my time, each year, job recruiters would actually come to colleges and universities and offer high paying jobs to students who would be graduating that year, to begin right after they graduated. I suspect the gradual reduction of the power of workers' unions in some parts of the world has contributed to the current dismal job situation in those parts.
The fact that the population has doubled very recently never seems to make it into people's calculations.
Worker's unions have caused this.
@@satouhikou1103 How have workers' unions caused this?
@@PaulMarostica By not uniting workers, but uniting their wallets with union fees.
Ronald Reagans Trickle Down Economics killed the American Dream
Some of the "Help Wanted" signs are on those store fronts as a reminder to their employees that they are easily replaceable.
Trying to make people unreplaceable as automation is getting better is the wrong path forward.
Also, may aren't actually hiring. They have to pretend they're short staffed to get money from the guberment.
Most of those signs have been up for years, long before the pandemic. They're upset that people have finally stopped falling for them.
@@victormendoza3295 People don't realize the shit storm that is going to hit the world soon. We'll see how steadfast the government holds against the concept of a "basic income" when most people are without a job because their job was automated. Especially when entire neighborhoods full of middle class homes are rotting away and those people have to move to countries that haven't yet automated away their jobs. We'll see how well governments are able to function when the 1%, who pay no taxes, are the only ones with money.
If the help wanted signs are there for a long time, then no they are not easily replaceable
"Nobody wants to work" is a true statement. You have to circumvent this obvious fact by offering fair pay and fair hours
Nobody ever wanted to work, that's what the pay is for.
@@chachaguillotine187 Truth. If it was fun, you'd probably be expected to pay to do it.
But that’s capitalism, exploitation of workers at the lowest pay. Capitalism isn’t about fairness or being equitable, that’s socialism
@@Anewuser_6282 bro dont even go there lmao. Every form of economic system exploits workers
the "fair" pay must also fair in the eye of the buyer.
if that future employer can't see where they are making justifiable profit with the transaction they won't do it.
So glad I am not the only one who gets pissy when someone uses the "real job" thing to discredit a job.
The jobs I’ve had that gave me a tenth of the pay I get now were so much harder. The hourly means nothing in comparison to the work loads you’re expected to take on in minimum wage jobs. Fuck anyone who claims they aren’t “real”.
@@sebastiannettles9076 moving boxes isn't a hard job, nice try though
@@stewie4467 I want to see a video of you moving heavy as boxes sir.
Ive had the arguement with my family that working 40 hours at McDonalds is a "real job", they said that it wasnt and was "just a high school job". Never mind that you could ACTUALLY LIVE COMFORTABLY off of McDonalds wages in the 60s, and afford a family of 4, 2 cars, a home, vacations, and change leftover. If any job is worth hiring someone 40 hours per week to do it, regardless of the job it needs to pay a living wage
I believe companies can get tax breaks from the govt if they're "actively hiring" so a bunch of companies always have job openings out there but aren't actually hiring.
Just, no.
Actually this may be true. It was indeed true, around the time Obama was president. If you hired and employed someone for at least 6 months you could get a break on your taxes. I was hired for six months and my boss was honest about why.
Why hire any new workers when you can just use the "Labor Shortage" as an excuse to force your current workers to do double/triple the work load for the pay of 1 employee?
I mean the obvious answer to that is "because they'll quit" lol
I fucking hate this take, not because you're wrong or anything. I hate it because it's correct. God damnit, capitalism plays fucking disgusting games sometimes and it really blows.
happening at my job right now...
STRIKE!
@@Drilling249 Communism is 100% disgusting games. In the USSR some people lived in tents and were considered "not homeless".
Many of the "entry-level" IT jobs in my area advertise they want a BS in Computer Science and 2-4 years industry experience. Pay is less than what convenience store cashiers make.
For a job like that I'd lie on my resume and outsource as much work as possible to either Fiverr or India, especially if they asked me to do any programming. If HR starts having concerns I just threaten them with a discrimination lawsuit while I drag my feet for any "discussions" they wanted to have with me.
@@MK_ULTRA420 You sound like a lovely person.
My friend was in construction making $18 and hour and I was at costco making the same. He commuted an hour to work and back, my commute was ten minutes
@Stephen Anthony Then next time don't lie about the pay lol
Who's job satisfaction was higher?
The real labor shortages are in restaurants/hospitality, retail, nursing/health care, truck drivers and bus drivers. These are all jobs that can be extremely stressful.
And yet these companies are “so desperate” for employees, yet they are more than willing to fire their staff if they don’t have the shot.
@@mrshmuga9
Most aren't firing over the shot, especially since currently you just need proof you aren't infectious. But the lack of a shot also makes you and others around succeptible to infections and possibly even death. Case in point: the police. The number one cause of death for police officers in the last two years wasn't gunshots, or car accidents, or even heart attacks. It was Covid, and it was magnitudes bigger than all the other leading causes of death combined.
Bus drivers were another class who were most at risk before the vaccine, and as a result faced major losses. That's why there's so many job openings in jobs like that, those were occupations where essential workers opted out of being exposed (by not working in those industries anymore) and who's number of workers fell from fatalities from covid infection.
They don't hire and when they do like mrs said they fire you over nothing.
I walked into a place I wanted a job at and told them I saw their advert on the internet and I would like to apply. I got hired on the spot! Found out afew days later I walked into the wrong motel and not the one that had the advert on the internet 🤣. So I walked in the wrong place and still got the job. Very happy here too
Just cant find good help these days = Our pay is shit and we put people in charge who think "its better to be feared than loved" is a management style
Or like Mike Scott says "I want them to be afraid of how much they love me."
'labor shortage'... yeah. No. There's a shortage of employers willing to pay well. People figured out they were worth more.
It isn't that people figured out they were worth more, it's just that the dollar is worth less. When everything almost doubles in price quickly and you were barely holding on at 8/hr you now need 12-15 to continue to barely hold on. If you can't afford to live with or without a job, I'd take no job too and get myself some time to get my own things done, help people out and make money that way.
@@jasonbay13 But where is all of the free money that people are living on coming from? If they are not working then who is providing for them?
@@jasonbay13
Nah, people absolutely figured they were worth more. There's a bunch of people who saw their coworkers being laid off and are bearing more work than they should. They're looking for higher paying jobs.
People are tired of having to work overtime on starvation wages only to be told they can be replaced at anytime, but never actually seeing a replacement.
@@iamperplexed4695 "If you can't afford to live with or without a job" try to keep up.
If you're going into debt either way, why choose to slave away in addition to going into debt?
@@iamperplexed4695 The gig economy is a real thing. People are figuring out ways to earn money while also giving them the breathing room to find better jobs that actually pay what they need or building up their own businesses.
But mostly it's this: A lot of the people who lost their jobs during the pandemic are the ones who aren't coming back to the work force. They already hated their jobs, so when they lost them and had the time to actually find a job they didn't hate, they took the initiative to find a better work environment.
Also a lot of people were already retired and working part time... so instead of going back to the work force where their health might be in jeoparody, they just tightened their belts and didn't go back... or again... the gig economy is a real thing, they found a way to earn the little bit extra they needed without risking their health or working themselves intot the ground. Bus drivers are a big example of this. Most of the school bus drivers were already retired workers. They decided not to come back when schools opened again.
Lots of companies won't train for entry level positions, want 5 years experience for entry level positions, and expect you to be flawless in that position from the start. This has been my experience applying for jobs over the past few years. Even though I have experience, I don't have the paper that gives me my good boy points. All these companies seem to care about is if boxes are checked. Once the bare minimum criteria is met to accommodate new hires and/or long time employees, they just care about squeezing more blood from every stone in their collection.
so either you're a fellow german or germany is even worse because that's the norm here for decades ...
I have a master's degree and a pmp (project management certificate). I got my master's degree 3 years ago and my pmp cert almost a year ago. I've applied to around 1000 positions over the past 3 years. Got around 2-3% resulting in interviews, and almost none resulting in job offers. After a year of having my pmp, I MIGHT for the first time start a job soon that utilizes my skills. (Still waiting to hear back). Point is, the job hunt can be horrible, for both skilled and entry level positions.
Any luck?
What's your degree ?
From personal experience, jobs are looking to hire the bare minimum rather than having a full comfortable staff. They'll overwork the few they have and make them basically work as much as having a full staff. I don't believe there's as crazy of a labor shortage, just companies that want to make as much as possible while hiring as few as possible.
yup. years ago i worked a mcdonald's half staffed. it was bullshit!!!
My McDonald's had a happy hour and didn't bother having a full staff despite long lines and a chaotic work environment
Exactly the case where I am. Getting out as soon as I get my mortgage.
Then they get angry when those underpaid, overworked people quit.
and then they claim to be 'job creators', empty sophistry so that people will ignore the fact they parasitize communities and bribe politicians
During a 'labor shortage' even people who aren't qualified to do the job should get a fair shout. I mean it's not as if people can't learn. After all, it's better to actually learn the job at the job, instead of pre-emptively learning it at college where it'll likely have no resemblance to the actual job in the real world.
If you're at college to learn a job, then you're at a shitty college. What you should be learning is how to learn, how to dive deep into concepts and understand what you're doing, and even when to ask for help understanding things. A degree doesn't mean "I'm a programmer" it means "I can learn programming and calculus and chemistry and the arts, whatever this job I can learn this too." Employers that want schools to put out cookie cutter employees that know a specified programming language are disgusting and harmful to education and the workforce (e.g. just because their company wants Cobol programmers doesn't mean every industry does).
1960: ugh why do I have to waste a year learning by working for free? Please government pay for my education, even if prices go up.
2021: ugh why do I have to be indebted for life to pay 4 years of insufficient education? I hate capitalism! I want free money now!
@@zvxcvxcz You need to be taught to learn how to learn? For $100k? What a fucking crock of shit.
@@zvxcvxcz I guess In that case if you’re interested in a field don’t even go through to collage process in just do it in your own free time and just show your employer that you’re willing to work in the field without incentive and your progress and your goals.
@@CvnDqnrU So, because the government pays for education, education is now super expensive? How does that work?
It’s because of the PPP loans. If they can show they were looking for employees then the loans becomes grants.
That's a serious financial incentive to limp along with an overworked skeleton crew that reduces costs even more.
Precisely
I’ve worked for many small business that needed workers and took applications frequently but never got more workers. It always amazed me, were they clueless or did they just not want to pay for a full staff? I’ve had to leave at least 3 jobs exclusively because of being over worked with a small staff. It sucks to leave a business that is understaffed but it’s not my problem, businesses don’t care for my success so it’s hard to care for theirs.
I’d only be concerned about the people I’m working with, if they’re decent people.
My mom is in this situation. Shes got 10 years in the military as a supply sergeant, multiple bachelors degrees, and an honorable discharge but she can't even get a call back from burger King.
Overqualified , will probably ask for too much money. That's their mindset. Why would someone with that resume want to work at a fast food restaurant.
@@johnrodrigues2018 I mean, she's gotten a job at a hotel at $8/hr. Hurts to hear it, but a garbage job is better than no job.
@@johnrodrigues2018 "Why would someone with that resume want to work at a fast food restaurant." Because no one else seems to be hiring either. I don't think they're worried about employees asking for too much money, everyone applying knows it will be minimum wage, that's well understood on both sides. But you don't credit the diabolicism of fast food chains enough. They're not just looking for someone that will work for them for a while, a few years even (plenty to recoup onboarding cost), they're looking for people they think will work for minimum wage the rest of their lives. Stereotypically jobs for teens, and yet where I am they're filled with old people.
@@zvxcvxcz My little brother was managing a McDonald's while putting himself through community college. It's a lot of crazy hours and learning to motivate and manage people, but it's also WAY more than minimum-wage.
Your mom shouldn't need to look for minimum jobs locally, with her experience she should be looking nationally and even internationally. What's holding her there?
From the moment I graduated, I struggled getting a job. It's been five years, and this week I received my first full-time job offer. For five years, I struggled getting a job, even part-time jobs, and everyone, especially those around me, kept telling me that I wasn't looking in the right places, or I must be applying incorrectly, or my favroite " I shouldn't be aiming too high." I applied to many entry-level jobs that were related to my studies and those that were irrelevant to my degree, and still didn't get calls or interviews. Jobs that didn't ask for a high school diploma didn't seem to want to hire me. And, even when I was working two part-time jobs, people, especially, those that are older, kept telling me to just get a full-time job with some security. Honestly, I don't know how many applications I have sent in the last five years.
You can come across as overqualified too. Like "this person has a degree not related to my position. If they find something in their field they won't hesitate to quit "
I know how frustrating that is though. I'm finally in a "good, non-temporary/intern job" in my field 4 years after college graduation.
It is frustrating. Actually, one of my previous employers agreed with you, when I asked her why I was having difficulties getting a job , she had the same response. But, people should be able to get a full-time job, not the best paying one out of college, but a stable one, and it seems that only those with the right connections get those. Everyone else has to struggle.
Unfortunately, in a biitersweet twist, I did lose the one job offer, so now I'm back to square one. Hopefully, it won't be another year.
@@theartofastory1988 If you've been doing the same thing for five years, maybe format your resume differently, use power words or some other resume gimmick, apply to things you don't think you're qualified for, etc.
There is a lot of experimentation you can do. It's miserable, but that's the game.
If you're using indeed or a job board site, always lie on filter questions about your experience, but don't lie about that when you get to the actual interview. You can get filtered by automatic processes before you get to talk to anyone.
If that doesn't work, find a good friend to be your manager and put fake job experience on your resume. You can pass background checks as long as your friend is reliable, answers their phone, and has preplanned your story with you so they know your start and end times at the fictional job. Do NOT pretend you had some senior level job that you're not capable of. Just put something on there to fluff up your experience like "data entry" or something. If you're like me, you should want to make this story bulletproof and sound confident when talking about it, but don't spend too much time on it.
I had a fake position on my resume until I had enough jobs under my belt to not need it anymore. I'm 25, and I make 70k/yr at an airline. I started with basically no experience.
While there was a huge amount of luck involved, I believe the tips I gave do help because I was applying to jobs for months before I figured all this stuff out. About a month after I overhauled my process, I started getting a lot of phone calls.
All that being said, your location matters too. If you live in a place with a shit local economy, everything is going to be harder. I live near Atlanta Georgia for example, so there are lots of jobs compared to where I used to live. If moving is an option, consider that too.
Needed to pay someone $30 to review your resume to trigger the algorithm. I went through the same mess. After paying I had 3 offers in 2 weeks.
Entry Position: "Requires a master's degree with perfect grades and have had internships during undergrad and have perfect cookie cutter mental health and personality."
...And offering less than 30 thousand a year...
I'm looking for minimum of 4 PhD's.
Employers want perfect candidates but want to pay crap wages.
And can walk on water and turn water into wine.
@@jenniferclark9842 And also has no empathy for their fellow human beings and is 100% loyal to the company
ATS systems. I couldn’t get responses on my applications until I took all the apparent buzzwords from the job posting and hid them in tiny, white font at the bottom. I instantly got several callbacks and multiple interviews without doing much else. This was in mid 2019.
Fast forward to my current job and they’re strapped for resources. My boss pulled up two interviews in 3 months and they were bad candidates. He just wasn’t getting any quality apps…likely because the ATS system was set as “too picky” or something.
I don’t know that this applies across the board, but I swear treating it like a google search instantly produced results for me.
The HR robots are discarding qualified people because HR can’t configure the ‘bots right.
Do you work in HR, Shane? Because that's the most accurate description of my field I've seen today. :-(
In my experience, HR departments themselves are writing unreasonable/ridiculous requirements into their job postings as well. This leads to weeding out highly qualified/more experienced folks and allowing in less qualified people who somehow check the boxes on the list better in a technical sense.
@@phoenix042x7 The less successful hires a business has, the more power the HR department gets.
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@@phoenix042x7 HR requires degrees if only to have fewer applications to sort through, and also shows "higher" quality hires. Checking boxes doesnt mean getting the best though!!
The PPP loans get forgiven as long as you at least pretend you're hiring. A lot of places arent really hiring.
this is my experience as well. Not to mention if they're short staffed and have 3 people doing the job of 4 people, then that's an increase in the profit margin while they can get PPP money. Definitely not the first time a business could value a slightly wider margin over employee stress and well being
Former PPP loan forgiveness agent here. Almost all PPP loans are no longer forgivable unless they’re over $250,000 in principle.
@@venomlink2033 so i will take out a big ass loan. Thanks
@@venomlink2033 that's good. When did that change exactly?
@@justinploskonka6611 you are LUCKY if you are in a place with 3 doing the work for 4 usually its EACH doing the work for 3 or 4.
I've said the same thing for years. When I'd hear (I work in IT) that there is a shortage of tech workers in America etc, I'd always say let me rephrase for that you. There is a shortage of workers willing to work the wages you're offering.
I feel you dude, I’m an IT worker as well and some places I’ve talked to just want entry level people for wages that don’t even cover the cost of living in the area. It’s a bit baffling as they wanted the person onsite vs remote. That position will be open for a while
I’d love to say something about how my job underpays, understaffs, overworks and union busts their people, but they also monitor our online activities.
wtf?
I've been stuck in a room at my moms house for over a year now after graduating with a programming centric degree. I apply and I apply, and get nothing. If I'm lucky and get an interview, its always like at least 3 interviews with tests and everything, even for an entry level job. And at the same time as im experiencing this, i keep reading articles about the tech industry crying for more workers... Yeah, something doesn't add up. And i got good grades and have a fairly impressive github full of personal projects they can use to gauge my competence.
This was my experience 10 years ago. Applied to dozens of places with no reply, had to start my own company.
Yep, it really seems like you must have a connection to get your foot in the door. Ask absolutely everyone you know, don't be too proud to ask, because it is really very few people that are hired by means other than a connection. The tests are all just potential excuses not to hire someone. I remember them them, weird psychology tests, etc...
Maybe try and start your own program or business, or maybe go for teaching?
Keep going. I was ill during my studies and had a hard time finding a job too. Took me 1 year to find a testing job which bored my out. Build your own company many economy graduates need a technical co founder.
The suggestion to start your own business is best. At least that way you start accumulating "real world" experience, probably mostly configuring point-of-sale terminals, working out network bugs, and setting up or modifying businesses' HR, supply, etc. programs. Still counts as experience, and you'll make a lot of contacts.
Graduated college in 2011. Applied for entry level jobs in my field and out of the few interviews I got the only response to why I didn’t get the job was due to “experience”. I’m thinking no shit that’s why I applied for an entry level position.
i get you. some people are so fucking far behind they think they're first.
Unfortunately, having graduated from college is no longer any indication of potential abilities.
@SNES Nes got some phone calls from places. Nothing materialized so far
I think the great resignation is such a gift to employers. They were able to identify the employees who will take all the cr*p, for the least pay. They can now make as few people as possible do all the work. And, at the same time, claim that "I'm trying to get some more help, but no one wants to work."
I applied to not even jobs I'm qualified for but jobs I was OVER QUALIFIED for and nothing. In 11 months, I had a total of 5 interviews. I did thankfully just land the job I actually wanted and I'm happy about it cause they actually wanted to fill a new position, but I do think the "Labor shortage" is BS.
Employers are so out-of-touch with reality. A lot of people are so fed-up that they are starting businesses like you, and addressing real market needs. More power to them. Hope they build a better world.
About time employees stopped boicotting and whining and did something with their own lives. I really doubt it but I hope they did.
@@CvnDqnrU we don't need means testing to be granted basic dignity
@@shineymcshine "dignity" = to deserve something just by being human = free stuff.
There's a communist revolt in my country using that word to justify assaulting people, taking over the city and destroying their small and medium businesses. Don't come near me talking about dignity, you don't know what you're talking about.
@@CvnDqnrU you are bull cap lie
America fucking sucks
Free market has a wonderful way of dealing with labor shortages. It's called wage raise. Works like a charm 99% of the time.
I saw a listing for McDonald's at $20 an hour, my factory job 4 years ago started at $12 an hour. For reference I've worked here 4 years and barely make over $20, wage increases are absolutely real.
@@peaj4812 it will be "up to". $20/hr and only for assistant managers probably
@@undies891 More like average wage, shareholder included.
@@peaj4812 Those signs always say "up to" which, as Louis himself has stated, means "you'll never see that number in your dreams." It's a trick to get the naïve to come in and apply. Don't expect any less from old Ronald.
There is absolutely nothing preventing businesses from raising wages.
If the potential employee has a good resume with lot's of experience, the employer will not call you back. The companies want someone new to the workforce who will take low pay.
Many times companies place ads for jobs with zero intention of hiring anyone.
for the purpose of?
As always, to an employer, any excuse to run as lean of a skeleton crew as possible is a good reason. Never miss the opportunity to keep current staff running ragged and tell them it's not your fault.
I did not have this experience with my managers/employer when I was working at a chain restaurant.
Until one manager started working there… He started enforcing more impractical corporate rules, skeletonizing staff by cutting early, and seemed to advocate for ‘more efficient’ running overall by cutting out the hours for the plethora of staff, including servers. The rule enforcement was especially BS, like not seating the back section until 12pm, never having a waitlist, never having a server take more than 2-4 tables, making sure a host is always present at the front (which in some circumstances is just unenforceable due to the split duties of hosts having to assemble To-Go orders in the kitchen), hosts are not allowed to sit down (he’d confiscate our stool or cut us if we were caught sitting down)
The other managers seemed very upset and made up for us where they could/didn’t , but it was dreadful and there was only so much they could do with corporate seemingly wanting to squeeze us to death. (Mans had me solo-hosting a shift on a damn busy day. And was still enforcing the BS rules, while I was just trying to get people their orders, take calls, assemble and deliver to-go and desserts in the kitchen, help bus tables, and manage the waitlist we “aren’t supposed to have”. Like, I can handle a double shift with only one other host ever present with no problems, but unlike other managers who’s step in to help with BoH stuff, guy sat in the office and didn’t seem to care.)
My (supposed to be) last day there was so terribly staffed (three servers, when we should have had at least 5/6+), once the PM managers swapped in two of the general managers, the district manager, and the other host were all serving. Never seen the DM so livid, hope she squared things better but I only stayed one extra day to help open before I moved out.
@@jdirksen Never ever help one of those bastards. They are carving a bonus out of your life.
And then have them work a month without their appraisal youre "working on" and wonder why they quit...
What a load of horseshit. Some employers do that. Maybe even most. But not ALL. There are lots of good employers out there.
But understanding there are variations in behavior would tax your liberal brain too much. So you resort to the old "paint them all with the same brush".
White/Black, Yes/No, Bad/Good. Liberal brains only operate in binary.
@@NemoBlank PREACH! You've summed it up beautifully. Never help them, because they will NEVER EVER HELP YOU.
From my experience, a ton of entry level job listings ask for years of experience or a bachelor's for $11 an hour. At that point, you'd be lucky to pay off your student loan, let alone bills.
Where I live, that would be eaten up with travel costs to commute to and from work.
A joke
Requiring experience implies requiring someone to have already entered
I have found job openings for engineering firms requiring such and such years of experience and prior government clearances and familiarity with certain avionics systems -- and later found out that the otherwise undescribed job is actually for an assistant at the in-facility day-care center.
@@gorak9000 What the degree is in practically doesn't matter. Had dual degree in Economics and Administration. Couldn't even hear back from McDonalds to flip burgers. It was so damn frustrating I started chopping wood and doing odd jobs just to make some money. Now I'm self employed as a handyman.
I like how the cat is so chill and he is moving his hands and everything .
During college, I was having a bad trip on mushrooms, and saw debt, and lack of jobs as a giant slow moving choochoo train that was going to run me over if I didn't move out of the way.
I halted college immediately and picked up a trade job as a pharm tech.
Odd how during any other "labor shortage" in the last 20 years my businesses were able to find people just fine. Although, we paid over double minimum wage for our starting position. At one point the "new guy" had been with us for 4 or 5 years. Pay and treat your people well and the "shortage" goes away - from a business perspective.
Hire a manager with a bonus structure base on metrics, ease your fat retired azz onto a yacht and watch it all turn to doo.
It couldn't get any simpler than that, you'd think employers would have figured it out by now...
@Andrew ST Apps open to apply!? Decent person looking for decent company right here. 😁
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I have 6 years experience in game development, as both a producer and a game designer. I studied computer software engineering technology (programming) years ago. I applied to exactly 100 positions, mostly entry level, last year before giving up. About 1 in 10 would arrange an interview, sometimes a series of interviews, but I was never hired. The worst ones were 2 studios that took design work I did as part of my application process and applied it to the game but didn't even bother interviewing me.
That's your intellectual property/work, Sue those bastards.
Yeah talk to a lawyer, if you did the same thing to them they would shut down your business in hours. This is a common trick companies do to solve a problem without having to hire a contractor/employee.
Ever heard of Leonard French, the video game attorney?
those job openings on some platforms for developing are the worst. some dude wanted a game engine for 400 bucks or so XD . not that is so difficult to make one for 2d stuff at least but still the time effort is way beyond that XD
Dude, you actually fell for thr bait-and-switch "complete this project.." scam for an interview? If I encounter that, I wont show up. Give me a whiteboard and ask me some technical questions if you want to test my knowledge and skill.
The reason why you're not getting hired is because you're too smart, inquisitive and ask too many relevant questions. Trust me, employers hate it when they know the person they're interviewing is smarter than themselves because they see them as threats. What they really want is a submissive 'Yes man' who never questions anything.
That's very true. One of the laws of power is to not outshine the master. Its sad but true.
@@vigilance4749 Please don't quote that crappy book. It's literally a book of made up "social laws" that have no real scientific or social backed studies behind it. The author, also, has never held any position of authority or leader ship. He just writes pseudo-intellectual pop psychology books.
Cope
My interviews usually end with me being told I'm overqualified and won't be offered the job or I'm overqualified but I'll have to take a less than starting wage and a bogus title while they pay the fresh high school graduate with 0 experience who I will have to train makes more than me
I was working my ass off 58 hours a week. I caught the flu and my employer expected me to keep working with a fever.
I began applying for jobs. Not 1 call back. It's a good thing I didn't quit the job who was understaffed and working me to death.
There is an IT employer lobby organisation in Germany crying about a labor shortage for over a decade. Their solution is always that the Gouvernement should stimulate immigration, ease the laws to employ foreign workers and to push more young people to the IT industry. The wages in this sector are not increasing that much as you would expect when there would be a shortage in workers. Their frequent "labour shortage" press releases with the same content are practically a meme for the workers in the industry. They are seen as an effort to get more workers in the market to keep the wages down.
Immigration, mass immigration, of skilled or non-skilled labor, drives down the price of labor.
I will never understand how it makes sense to bring in foreign people to do a job rather than provide career options or upward mobility to current citizens. Unless the goal is to increase income disparity?
@@alecthenice8115 goal is to "diversify" population who will keep Socialists(Democrats in US) in power, keep original population wages down and cause civil unrest.
@@alecthenice8115 Or, lower the cost of low-skill labor.
@@alecthenice8115 It can make sense if you have a sudden demand in workers who need a long training to be able to do the job. A typical job training in Germany lasts 3 years. You'll be 2 days in school and work 3 days in the company within a week. It's usual beneficial for both. The worker gets a good practical education and the company gets a better qualified worker more specialist for their needs. The issue I described is corporate greed. A lot of companies want low wages for skilled labour and save the cost to train new people. They don't train new employees and want to import already trained employees from other countries.
Also, I recently took a better job and they still haven’t hired a replacement despite asking for 2 extra weeks for me to stay on so they could. They’re obviously a giant business who has plenty of people that could hire someone, they just dont want to. What they want is to hide that they fired a quarter of their staff earlier this year and tell customers that no one wants to work for them at what they’re offering so that’s why they’re short and the customer experience sucks.
Edit for clarity: they asked for two extra on top of the two that I was already giving them, so I stayed 4 weeks to let them replace me but they didn't.
Wait, you mean to tell me that people don't want to work for a place that fired them? Wow. Unbelievable. Those lazy bastards!
Sounds like Best Buy
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This makes more sense. They don't really want to hire, but being short-staffed displeases the public, so they pretend to be hiring. I'm not agreeing with them, but it makes sense along with all the other BS going on that covers certain people's butts from looking like bad guys. On with the show...
Pure greed. 1 worker gets the load of 3 or 4 now.
I've been trying to see what type of benefits a business can get listing job openings like this. When I was in college they constantly had listings for positions but if you asked the staff they were on a "hiring freeze". The rumor going around was that the school got tax breaks for having those listings, but because of the language of the law they weren't required to HIRE anyone, just have the listing to make it appear that way. When I lived in Orlando I had the same trouble this guy did. I got trained to do component level repair in the military just in time for it all to be outsourced to contracts that just replace the entire device rather than do any repair at all and now that's the norm. I've been saying for years that we were going to start seeing the results of automation and outsourcing soon and I think this may just be that being covered up by big business.
My favorite is always when you apply for a job, hear nothing back, and then see the same job reposted weeks to months later. Like, are you actually hiring or just testing the waters on your writing sample? 🙄😤
My cousin had to live off of his savings, sending out several job applications a DAY, 7 days a week, for over a year.
I could count on my fingers the number of times he got a response. Even a few of them said "You've got the job", then ghosted him. This is a man with many years of experience in his field, and has some of the best organizational skills I've seen.
I very much relate to this. If you don't have the network, you are going nowhere.
I went through the process with a studio in San Diego. 4 interviews and 2 tests spread out over 2 weeks. During the last interview, with the CEO, he said "we'll send you an offer by tomorrow. Looking forward to working with you". Since I was really excited for the project they were working on, I cancelled an interview I had later that afternoon. Never heard back from them.
This happened to me when I got out of the military in '91. I was on my way to mailing unfolded resume on a high quality paper with matching envelope by the stack to every telecom company in the metro DC area, figuring that as a former communications NCO I'd land a job somewhere. I got ONE interview out of 120 mailings, but NO offers out of a small fortune spent on postage and stationary. Live and learn...
That sucks ....they ought to make a rule that all applications get a reply ...but then too many rules just mean that people are not respecting each other
Probably considered to be over qualified. Companies don't like the over qualified because they are afraid they will quit when something better comes along. If he is still looking, suggest he tone down his qualifications a bit.
Back in the 70s, the sitcom, All In The Family, had Archie applying for a job, janitor I think, and a desperate, long time unemployed, engineer threatened to jump off the building when he was turned down.
"This is why I started my own business."
And now you're a major thorn in the current industry's dominant players' business model.
This reminds me of the Italian guy who bought a new Ferrari and ended up putting it in the shop 3 times in a month to get the clutch fixed.
The third time, he saw Mr. Ferrari walking by while he waited for the repair to get done and said "Hey, Mr. Ferrari! There's something seriously wrong with the clutch on the new Ferrari."
Because the guy was young, Mr. Ferrari didn't just ignore him; he insulted the guy!
Mr. Ferrari tells the guy....
"There's nothing wrong with your car. You just don't know how to drive a Ferrari."
Unfortunately for Mr. Ferrari, the young guy he was talking to was Feruccio Lamborghini.
And the snide comment pissed him off so much till he took his Ferrari home without getting it fixed and ripped it apart when he got home and then immediately discovered the problem.
And *FIXED it* with old tractor parts his dad had lying around the barn out back....
And thus was born the Ferrari's biggest competitor.
BOSS
They say hubris always gets followed by nemesis. Well, there you go. Meet your future competitor Mr. Ferrari.
so i tried to find this in wikipedia, turns out Lamborghini was already 42 by the time he bought a Ferrari 250 GT and complained that Ferrari's clutches suck
interesting nonetheless [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferruccio_Lamborghini]
@@NutchapolSal Thanks for ruining the magic of the story party pooper fact checker.
@@jjh8367 Honestly necessary so people stop deifying business owners.
I'm reminded of the analogy of how it's more difficult to u-turn a cruise ship than to u-turn a bicycle. The hiring process of so many businesses is based on an employer-favored situation than an employee-favored process. Many businesses don't yet believe they need to change how they recruit their workforce. Time will tell if they need to or if workers will retain their current leverage.
I''m a C1 level english speaker because I didn't learn it in school, I learned it simply from absorbing information about the language as I grew up (I'm portuguese). Sent an application to work as an english tutor. Told me they needed a level C2 (highest level) at the very least. Okay, sure. I knew the guy they hired instead. He did have a little paper with a fancy C2 on it, problem is, he doesn't speak english with anyone. He doesn't communicate in english at all. He simply studies it from the book since he couldn't care less for the language, and just wants another cool fact on his resume. Motherfucker asked if a plain is that big flying vehicle. A fucking plane, bro.
TL;DR: Employers don't give a singular fuck about your personal skills unless you have a fancy paper confirming those skills.
PS: I genuinely feel bad for all the talented passionate mechanics that get fucked over by this. Thanks for fixing my bike, Artur.
Your grasp of the language is really impressive for never having formally studied. Kudos.