I have been unemployed since age 18 (now 20). I have applied constantly for jobs since then and have had no success, while all my friends have and tbh it's starting to feel personal. One week last year I applied to 35 jobs in one day (i counted) and not a single one even told me I didn't have the job. This is humiliating and stressful and it just makes me feel depressed
I just wanted to rant. I hate this fucking hamster wheel of society we live in. I am a good worker and no one will fucking hire me
What can I do to even get a job in this fuckin hellscape
the only bit of practical advice i can give (other than that its not you, its them, and your worth is not defined by some hr shitbag), is to have someone else have a look over your resume
part of the whole dehumanising process is that they absolutely have a very specific set of expectations about what should be in there and how it should be worded etc etc, and they wont tell you what those expectations actually are but they will absolutely still judge you on them
its very possible that theres something in your resume that youre not aware of that is causing them to instantly bin it cos it doesnt meet their criteria of exactly how they want you to beg for it. it may not be that, the whole process sucks even if youve got a perfect resume, but its one relatively easy thing to try
oh and of course make sure you lie and exaggerate on your resume as well, but that probably goes without saying
Yes definitely lie, say you're doing gig work right now and for the last year. There is no one to call to confirm your "employment " super easy to bullshit and has the benefit of making you seem like you are self motivated and actually work
big fuckin bingo thats amazing advice :marx-goth:
I used self employment a few times historically. You can literally make up whatever the hell you want and employers, especially small companies, will eat that shit up because they are self employed themselves and probably are only a few years away from the time when they were just a 1 person business themselves.
As part of this, make sure you restate the job description- using as many of the specific words they use as possible- in the resume. I even know some people who put the entire job description in unreadable text on their resumes because the first round of sorting out resumes is typically having a word filter that filters out resumes that don't seem "relevant" enough, which usually boils down to "did you use the specific words we flagged in our job description?" The word filter will still work on that unreadable text
my impression is that most places have caught on to the invisible-text trick and now have measures to get around it (the crudest of which is the whole ridiculous thing of making you also paste your whole resume into a bunch of text boxes on their application form)
Oh shit, that's why they do that. I never put two and two together