This Is Why You Can’t Find A Job

It's amazing how many loopholes you have to jump through to get a job that you actually qualify for.

"no one wants to work" says the employer that won't interview 99% of applicants

I miss the 1980s where you’d walk in and just fill out a paper application. Sometimes you’d get an interview that day and land the job on the spot. Ah the good old days.

But my grandpa told me that all it takes is a firm handshake😢

Im fully convinced these companies are just taking your applications, and then selling your personal data off of them.

There's also the documented fact that a large proportion of the jobs advertised aren't actually available.

Entry Level Job Requirements: - Bachelor's - Five years experience

"how to steal a house" 💀😂

Imagine how much talent gets tossed in favor of people who know how to farm keywords.

“Everywhere is hiring, you’re just too lazy” Everywhere:

Out of all the bs reels and tic tok videos and mindless material we consume, thank you for making something truly important

I was in Recruitment for 4 years. I advocated our department heads hard to prevent automated screening like he’s describing. I initially let it be automated, then pulled resumes only out of the discarded bucket. When we hired enough people, and the dept head mentioned the automation, I said I’d actually pulled them from the ones it discarded. We then tried to tighten it up, but nothing was able to catch what a human was looking for. The automation was turned off after a while, and is still not in use today. It does take the Recruiters a bit more time to find great resumes in the hundreds (sometimes thousands) of apps we get, but we don’t lose quality.

I like how humans have literally innovated ourselves into making life harder than it needs to be.

Hot tip: if you're struggling to fit all their shitty keywords into your CV, just make a transparent textbox and put all those words in white/background colour behind all your main text. Landed me too many recruitment calls when I did it 😂

imagine being a company and thinking this kind of system results in your getting "the people we want" rather than incentivizing people to lie to actually reach a set of human eyes.

I was on a training course once, and the Guy leading the thing was telling a story that a busy boss once asked his secretary to sift through all the job applications that were on her desk and bring him the best ones. She chose all the ones on coloured paper because they were pretty!!

you have to tailor your resume to fit the job description. now do this 50 times a day just for a chance of being interviewed. incredible

APPLYING FOR A JOB SHOULD NOT BE IT'S OWN FULL TIME WORK! DO YOU WANT EMPLOYEES OR NOT?!

What the hell happened to the old days when you could mail a paper resume to a company and it would land on the desk of someone who would at least read it?

Wow that's some great info. Someone also told me that if the job asks for ie.. 5+ years and you indicate 7, it may not register. Keywords seem to be most important aspect of online applications. I suppose even the least qualified candidate could get their resume through the systematic screening and onto the hiring persons desk just by using keywords well.