[packagingguy]

Thank you! I thought I was alone in seeing this.

The requirements for jobs these days are absolutely insane and no training is provided.

I’ve been looking for a job for 8 months and nothing. 38 years of scientific research experience and 50 years total of work experience.

But even that’s not enough experience.

Entry level jobs require 3-5 years of experience.

There was even a kid on Twitter/X who graduated with a chemical engineering degree who couldn’t find a job anywhere so he went back to apply for a job at Walmart where he worked during high school.

They wouldn’t hire him for lack of experience even though he worked for 2.5 years at that very store just four years earlier.

[ClearCase_guy]

They don’t want to hire older people.
They want AI to takeover as much of the entry level positions as possible.
Anyone seeking an entry level job better already have 5 years experience.
And they’ve already hollowed out Middle Management — “Those guys add nothing to the bottomline.”

Where is the corporate ladder today? No entry level jobs, no middle management jobs, no jobs for people with multiple decades of experience. How does that work?

For now, senior level specialists with an MBA and a lot of specialized technical knowledge can probably get a job (if they aren’t too old). But those people will eventually retire (or die).

Who replaces them? Who is currently rising up that corporate ladder (that no longer exists)? Who is being mentored to become a future leader? Where does the next generation gain that specialized technical knowledge? This doesn’t feel like a self-sustaining economy to me.

[Alberta's Child]

I think the whole system of hiring prospective employees has broken down completely. I've reached the point in my professional world where I wouldn't even consider using an online platform to hire complete strangers.

In my 30+ year career, almost every job I worked was secured through either a direct hire or a personal referral. Basically, I had the job lined up before the employer even had the position posted.

I just went through this with a close friend. I told him to give up on the stupid online application process and make a couple of personal contacts in the place where he wanted to work. He did that, and was asked to submit an application the following week for a position that hadn't even been posted yet. Starts at the new job right after Labor Day.