Feel free to rage about finding your job search in this thread.

Hearing it from people at the gym, friends, younger family members, and generally online. It sounds so awful. I have a "safe" and "secure" job at MEGACORP but goddamn I hate seeing folks just thrown into the torrent that is unemployment. The only thing worse than having a job is not having a job.

It seems to be every position, every skill level (but predominately starter/entry-level), every industry, it all seems so bad. I really feel like the job-seeker gets such a raw deal. You need to already have the skills as so many jobs don't do any on-the-job training. You can't get a job because you don't have experience, and you don't have experience because humans aren't even looking at your resumes/CVs anymore. So many of these website have some script that processes resumes for keywords from what I'm hearing.

Recruiters are either straight-up scammers or are looking you to have advance skills but offer car wash part-timer wages. It all seems so bad, you are actively engaging with the system you're supposed, and you get punished for it. It seems like a real drag. The endless stream of web forms all just seems like a bureaucratic black-box too.

The worst part of it all is the ticking jigsaw reverse bear trap that's around your neck that is your rent. It's all so very awful and I feel for you.

Best of luck to all the job seeking comrades out there. Whatever it is you're looking for I hope you find it.

  • Tommasi [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Fortunately I have something right now, but the pay is bad so I'm looking through job postings all the time for something better.

    One thing that gets to me is how every job, almost regardless of field or experience level, is always looking for the same type of person. What are the majority of people, who are not "a go-getter, flexible, good at handling multiple tasks at once and likes a fast-paced environment" even supposed to be doing?

    I know the actual answer is to either ignore that stuff or just lie about it, but it's so depressing to have to see that shit in 80+% of job listings.

    • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      but the pay is bad so I’m looking through job postings all the time for something better.

      Same here amigo, I am probably going to go from one MEGACORP to another but hopefully with a pay bump. Also it's so frustrating that none of this job listings are made by people who are actually looking for the job. It's some third-party who turn the sentence "I need a worker who is skilled in X, Y, Z. Having A, B, and/or C would nice too" into some eight paragraph story that makes you forget what you're even applying for.

      “a go-getter, flexible, good at handling multiple tasks at once and likes a fast-paced environment”

      I think about that a lot actually. One of my younger cousins is a quiet dude. A bright dude, a nice dude, and I think he will generally be good at whatever he wants to do in life. However, he's a laid back as they come. Bro just picked the "vibe out" perk at character selection. He's not a "go-getter" but does set goals and do things. He's in his late teen and interested in trade skills cause he just do a job and call it a day. I fear that will be overlooked by employers cause he's not super jazzed up about stuff, even at family gathering where I know he's having a good time, he's just laying in the cut, watching and smiling. He's not "Mr.HustleGrind" and it sucks he may not get jobs because he's not gonna get jazzed up for shit he doesn't care about.