I am a technologist and technical manager with 40 years of experience. I’ve been looking for a job for more than six months. It is my experience that companies don’t know how to hire people, and the work ethic among Americans is non-existent.
At the hands of today’s hr you will never be hired. Sorry.
I work for a Fortune 500 company. One year ago HR operations were shut down in the US and sent to India. Imagine the worst CF that you've ever seen and then make it three times worse. It got so bad that they were forced to hire a recruiting firm stateside to help bring the India team up to speed.
I did manage to hire an experienced Systems Engineer back in April, but it was not easy. I personally recruited him, and rode herd on the HR boobs while they did everything in their power to piss my guy off with their incompetence. The contracter's recruiter who was assigned to the position walked off the job immediately after extending the offer. No goodbye, no FU, no nothing. Just gone. I had to drag our CTO into the conversation to get HR moving on it again.
That job offered a six-figure income, and the HR dept could not have cared less about it!
And companies are scared to hire people with a ton of experience. They don’t want a professional, they want someone very inexpensive to hire and train....its a result of the lockdowns nearly bankrupting some businesses