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
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