Hey everyone kindof a loser here. I'm in my late 20s and I've only ever worked as a dishwasher and in the years 2018 and 2019 I hardly worked more than 4 or 5 months. When covid hit I was really nervous about leaving my house but now months later if I don't leave my house I'm going to blow my brains out, fortunately I have $0 in my bank account so I can't afford a gun. Wondering if anyone has advice, on job hunting that is not suicide, I think I can manage that by myself

  • Neckbeard_Prime [they/them,he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Ignore the job requirements that they post. No one who’s ever been hired has actually met all of them. You can get hired without meeting any of them.

    The one exception is public sector jobs. State and Federal government, especially -- if they say they want an Associate's or a Bachelor's and you don't have it, your application gets rejected outright. If they say "or equivalent experience," that's another story, but for the most part, they are hard-asses about that if you're surfing your state's job board site or usajobs.gov. With municipal and county stuff, it can vary depending on the area. But with private sector postings? Fuck it, go ham.

    Edit: Also! If you're going to submit a resume for a Federal job, make goddamned sure you match the keywords from the job posting. They use a keyword scanning service that ranks you based on relevancy, not unlike Google or a word cloud generator. The higher your match percentage, the closer you are to the top of the pile for interviews.