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One thing I find kind of funny is how AI is flooding HR inboxes with trash, and how that now means the old boomer advice of showing up to a company and asking for a job in person seems a lot more considerable than it had before.
But 99% will still refuse and direct you to the online application
"AH! Glad you brought that up, because I have FANTASTIC news for you: I've already done it! Because I am productive and prepared. I get things done--and you could really use someone who shows up on time every time right about now. At this time, I'm still a mere potential customer of yours, but employers who accept me into a position also commence receiving the benefits of my following of instructions and due diligence effort to learn my role PLUS as a bonus total insulation from workplace drama: I know how to leave drama at home as well as neither create, nor amplify, nor reflect it in the workplace."
honestly bro if someone showed up in my office with that kind of energy I'd be emailing the owner of the company asking him to hire them right fucking now. people who know how to do the most basic shit AND ACTUALLY WILL DO IT are worth a lot more than any "highly skilled and experienced" diva who never answers their fucking phone when they're on call or totally flakes out from their scheduled shift once a week like clockwork.
and the boomer assumption hasnt been true for like decades already. job sites just eliminated that "in person meeeting". the neat thing about the job sites pre-pademic is you can post, comment, review about certain jobs and industries, they largely eliminated the forums and reviews that are critical of companies because of what happened with glassdoor.
What happened with glassdoor?
Capitalists say the system is working as it should. The poor are civilization's crumple zone and air bags. They get destroyed in the event of a crash to protect the (rich) drivers.
I can get you a job working for Iran. The hours are flexible and the pay is good.
Capitalism, working as it should.
What kind of position are you talking about?
Human shield, but your beneficiaries get the full 42 years of salary, at 26,322,500,000.00 Iranian Rial per year. Paid out yearly over the remaining years.
That's not unattractive. I was waiting until after things calmed down to visit, but maybe I head over earlier.
Weather is getting a bit warm though, will the position still be open in 6 months or so?
I’ve been unemployed since November… of 2024. The job market is the worst in which I have tried to find a job in the over 15 years I have had a full time job.
my bro who was in tech was unemployed during the first wave of layoffs in '23, just heard my other bro who works through tech, from a recruiting companies has been indefinitely sidelined from work.
although i dont think my older is trying too hard to find it, WFH is long been eliminated, he needs to consider In office at the point.
You know it's pretty bad when you can't even find TEMP/CONTRACT jobs!
I know the feeling yet I am about to quit one work from home job for another. Already got the computer ship to me and I have send the another one back. Guess getting my insurance license paid off. Because the new company reached out to me after seeing my resume on Monster. I also been getting hits on Indeed. But anything outside of insurance just not seeing any jobs. And I mean nothing not even temp. Gives me anxiety. Because though I have good paying jobs and plenty offers there all in a feild thought I would like but now hate. But now I am trapped.
one of my bro is contracted/recruited and he said projects have been stalled so there is no more work for him, but i believe he still being partially paid in tech. likely they know the AI BS is busting at some point.
It’s been bad for a long time the gaslighting is just not working. Homeless crisisis don’t happen in great job markets so yea it’s starting to look like guillotine thirty
At the end of the day, it's always the fucking suits who get the most of the cake.
Really? And I thought capitalism gets better and better each year for the common people. Because, you know, higher productivity and progress and such.
/s...just incase
Is that backed up by statistics or just vibes?
COVID saw unemployment peak at 15%. I haven't seen anything remotely that bad.
Archived link: https://archive.ph/TEM72
There are a number of data points discussed in the article, including self-report surveys and BLS data. I would hesitate to riff off any title of a news article, though, they're often not written by the article's author and are purposefully written to drive engagement
Try reading the article.
Paywalled
(not who you're replying to) I read the beginning of the article, it seemed it was going off subjective information. "It feels worse". I tried to go back and got pay walled, so unfortunately I couldn't read it. What information are you suggesting they missed out on? They're asking for objective data, which is totally fair
The article is literally about workers' opinions based on conducted polls, so the title is accurate. Whether or not these agree with labor statistics collected by an increasingly dubious government is a different subject.
CS, physics, biotech, pretty much alot of stems have a hard time finding a job. before pandemic it was bad, during covid,and then with AI its now impossible.
pre pandemic, job sites had links to the company website, but they all use different softwares to immediately reject people, now its just done with AI, which has a higher "rate" of doing it.
I've been in software development for over 26 years now, and I've been unemployed going on 6 months, without a single interview, even though I apply for multiple listings a day. I've got enough savings to be ok for quite a while yet, and am bringing in a little bit of income from my woodworking hobby, but I am starting to get worried. I have no idea how those without the same kind of safety net as me are handling this, but it can't be good.
"Cloud" Engineer here, same, whenever they flipped the stock market on it's head the first time. Even the listed jobs likely don't exist.
Can we pleeeaaase have US news in a US news sublemmy. This is not world news.
Europe job market is fine.
To be fair, no one taught me how to apply for jobs.
It's easy. Just bring your resume in person, and a firm handshake. That's it.
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