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.
The thing that always blows my mind is the number of hurdles you have to jump through to even send off an application at this point, sometimes you'll straight up have to write a long essay where you organically outline everything on the job brief and why you quality for it (without making a list) just to apply for a minimum wage data entry job or whatever, then you still have to go through several phases of interview before being shortlisted. I guess it's so HR departments can justify existing, but still. I've known people who have applied for positions that have pointlessly sadistic job interviews where they start with all the candidates and then make them go through some weird, vaguely humiliating tasks and exercises, whittling the number of people down over the course of a day which just seems like some Stanford Prison Experiment shit to me, thankfully this seems to be a fairly extreme example but the fact they can even get away with it is disturbing.
It's an extra kick in the teeth when you look at the job application process a few decades ago which seemed to consist of a ten minute conversation and a scotch with the manager and then you get a decent paying entry level office job or whatever lmao (I'm generalising here of course, but it's undeniably getting more pointlessly complex).
Another thing is how unemployment benefits work in the UK, you often get set a completely arbitrary quota of jobs to apply for per day and if you don't reach it they'll cut off your money for a week or more. Back when I was signing on I found myself having to fake jobs I'd applied for on my documentation because they were asking me to apply for more jobs than were available, which obviously cut into time I could have spent actually putting effort into applications I stood a chance for (they also kept trying to pressure me into enlisting in the Royal Navy which speaks volumes, haha), the whole thing would be comedic if people's kids weren't going hungry because of the inefficiency and cruelty of the thing. I can only imagine it's worse now.
Similar process with the unemployment benefits in germany, but afaik they also tell you specific postings you have to apply to. I've heard from multiple people, that they were made to apply to jobs they were completely unqualified for, just because it's "something" in IT. Since neither the clerk from the state nor the HR from the company know anything more, than "it's IT, that's what you do right?" sometimes they set up interviews, that go on for all of 2 minutes, because the department head will immediately realize that the applicant can't do the job, but needs confirmation that they applied. It's so much wasted time and stress, really fucked up.
Yeah, that all sounds familiar, sad to hear it's basically the same on the continent