Many of those job openings are false. Some companies are like the auto parts store close to me that has been known to run an ad in the paper every day for years claiming they need someone to work the counter but when anyone inquires they say they have no opening. There have been numerous examples of that sort of thing around here. Don’t ask me, I don’t know why they do it.
I’ve seen ads that have been online forever and there’s no way they could have waited a year or more to fill some of those positions.
My friends who have great qualifications get interviews that are rather quick and curt and they never hear back.
Whole country’s gone nuts.
I’d estimate that NOW around 30% of all job listings are absolutely fraudulent for either that reason outright or they stick up ridiculous requirements for supposed ‘entry level’ positions.
There desperately needs to be some truth-in-advertising laws applied to job listings.