The job signs are a sick joke
Unless it’s fast food or grocery and nobody wants to work with the public
Can’t blame them
I’m not looking for work (I’m retired), but I’m under the impression there is a LOT of work out there, but it’s all minimum wage type stuff. “Real” jobs are harder to find.
The screening stuff is killer. I have a wide knowledge and skill base. I have problems getting past the keyword crap because they set it to rigid standards, and computers can’t extrapolate knowledge. i.e. ability to cnc program (non CAM) is data entry. HR, which is useless as it is, has relegated even its most basic task to a computer that has no power to discern if a candidate might be functional even if the keywords dont exist.
That’s the truth! I’m going to tell this story again, so If you’ve already read it, feel free to skip it. Here goes:
I was in the market and a recruiter for a hiring agency sends me an e-mail with a job description. It’s 100% what I want, I’m completely qualified. I respond with my resume, and a note that I’m the perfect candidate, and that I want this job. NO RESPONSE. When I get no response I call her, voicemail box is full. I spam her daily for about a week, and get nothing. I call the main company phone number and ask for her. I get transferred to the full VMB. I start googling unique sets of words from the job description and I find the job. It was with Continental in Guadalajara Mexico (Not remote work out of Seattle as she had said), and the job in Mexico had been closed for months.
As all this is going on I get another e-mail from a different recruiter with the same company about a remote job based out of Mesa, AZ. I send him my resume, and he responds that it looks great, and he’ll submit me. 2 weeks later, no response. He stops answering e-mails, and never answers his phone (but at least his VMB wasn’t full). I’ve been as patient and honest with him as I can. So I google words from the description and find the company. They DO have an opening, and it’s the one that he’s sent me. I apply on the company’s website and get a call back in just a couple of hours that they’re interested in me. I do the phone interviews and get the job. The first week I have to go on site for training, and while I’m there I reach out to this guy. He says he still hasn’t heard anything from the company. I ask who he’s been talking to. He gives me a name of a guy 2 desks away from. I ask him “Hey, do you know this recruiter named X from Cybercoders?” Nope, never heard of him. Have you dealt with them at ALL? Nope! And if I WAS I wouldn’t have been hiring for YOUR job, I’m the hardware manager. I confront this guy with this info. He says he has no idea what I’m talking about. I step to the lobby of the building and take a picture of me standing in front of their sign. I tell him I applied DIRECTLY for the job you sent me, and got hired. YOU did NOTHING. YOU weren’t approved/retained to hire for this position. Why don’t you tell me what’s REALLY going on?
His response? Congrats! I don’t understand why you’re mad though. REALLY dude? REALLY?
yep lots of fake job ads to pad the stats for the gov.
Job bump.
That explains why Biden hired so many government workers somebody has to keep the seat warm.
NOTHING - ABSOLUTELY NOTHING is a much fun than being slightly hard of hearing and having to deal with some foreign passive aggressive 'customer service' person who can't remember little things like "please speak a little slower' for more than 12 seconds.
The best way to get a job that you actually want is to directly approach those who should eagerly want to hire you based on your skills and employment record. The last time I did that I worked for the same organization for more than twenty years doing what I liked and was good at.
It used to be companies preferred younger workers, so the older ones were discriminated against. They are even some laws against age discrimination.
But now, the old guys are in big demand. They are the only ones who know how to work. The younger the workers, the less job they are doing. The gen-X’ers are not performing at all, but they are really skillful in all kind of demands.
So the age discrimination is now inverted.
I have been looking for different work since March. Getting around the automated tracking system has been difficult, and having a nontraditional career path hasn’t helped. I would agree that the actual job market, at least for good jobs, has tightened considerably.