/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>55309332
The strong labor market is just app based side gigs people are picking up.

I've been unemployed for 4 months now, going on 5 and the job hunt has been fucking brutal. A little over 130 applications and out of that bunch maybe 5-6 actual interviews.

It could also be based on industry/job role but I like to think I've got the experience to back up my claims to get hired. Last summer I was getting recruiter reaching out nonstop for cushy WFH jobs and now empty, the few I get are contract to hire or just contract roles with shit pay and worst of all is the absolute dogshit attitude these recruiters have. They know they got me by the balls so I can't even call em out on it.
>One showed up almost 30 minutes late to our scheduled call, didn't apologize, didn't acknowledge the tardiness...

I fucking hate corpos, HR, recruiters and the job hunt so much its unreal....

>>55309349
Every headline news outlet seems to be running some kind of disinformation campaign. Looking at the data there’s been a loss of 300k ppl in the workforce. Yet there all saying the complete opposite.

>>55309332
The entry level and shit jobs are getting harder to get because of the open borders. If you have a useful skill you should be fine

>>55309332
Just add random syllables to your bank name. Not even shitting you. Pretend it's a typo when they question it.

>>55309409
I’ve talked to 4 ppl who can’t get work and they have advance degrees. I may be paranoid schizo but it seems like someone/thing is running a massive disinformation campaign on the state of the labor market.

>>55309409
>4 months
>brutal
>over 130 applications
Well there's your problem. When I was unemployed I filled over 2000 applications over 7 months. Maybe if you actually tried you could get better results instead of sitting on your fat ass bitching about it.

>>55309332
I don't know about you guys, but I get recruiters messaging me almost daily on LinkedIn asking me to switch jobs. I'm a project manager in consulting.
Also we are continuing to hire here.

Oilfield in Odessa/Midland Texas still highering, show app go to work next week

out of work for 5 months, animator with 8 years experience. feels bad man.

>>55309409
>One showed up almost 30 minutes late to our scheduled call, didn't apologize, didn't acknowledge the tardiness...
Well this is regular recruiter behavior. Time to use your network to bypass interviews

>>55309332
I just got an offer to be an unarmed do nothing security guard at a mall for $30 an hour OP. It is pretty good. Any Me here shop at malls? What is it like?
Preferably homeless people or ghetto customers

>>55309462
How the fuck are you finding 2000 different jobs in 7 months without spamming nonstop for just about everything? Maybe people are applying for specific things instead of everything from dishwasher to lead underwater basket weaver.

>>55310273
>How the fuck are you finding 2000 different jobs in 7 months without spamming nonstop for just about everything?

Seriously.when I was jobless, I did like 8-10 a day. Dude probably applied to every job from entry level to senior

>>55310273
>>55310289
It's cause its a larp.

>>55310181
I don't know anyone with enough pull to get me interviews. All of my friends are in different industries or about the same corpo level as I was. The few handful people I do know that are higher up can't/won't pull the strings to save my ass.

>>55310164
I'm in the pit as well fellow unemployed fren.
>t. digital marketer but with 5 years exp

>>55310273
All of them were engineering jobs.

>>55310289
Nearly every job site let's you filter by industry, position, exp level. A single application takes no more than 15 minutes. Your lazy ass only applied for two hours a day, my not lazy ass treated getting a job as a job.

>>55310326
Not everyone is abstaining from changing location to get a job you lazy fat fucks. Cry more you lazy bitch.

>>55309425
Because people getting the app jobs usually have to sign up to multiple apps and get tallied as multiple service jobs.

jobs here have 200 applicants within a few hours of being posted. all hindus and punjabis. I got to stage 2 of a job I had 2 masters degrees for ... literally asked the panel questions they couldnt answer because theyre morons. Didnt get the job.

>>55309332
The job market died in 2008. The only people that have gotten good jobs since then that don't pay 2005 wages are people with connections, tech workers, children of business owners. Every other young person either died from drugs or works a soulless, dead end job praying that their meme investments will save them. And now even that small group of people that had good jobs is getting fucked too with all of the layoffs. Sorry, but technology has decided that you're worthless and obsolete.

>>55309629
>recruiters
Recruiters cannot GET you jobs. They're literally just there to filter out all the shit applications using a special software and then they just forward your application to the firm looking for new employees.

>>55309425
It's called propaganda. What are they gonna do? Tell you that the game is over? Lol

>>55310513
Why tf would I MOVE when I can wait a little longer and get a comfy WFH job.

Sounds like you where desperate af to get any gig.

Seethe more sweetie.

>>55309629
>recruiters
Look at this faggot and laugh.

>>55310513
engineering jobs be like
>entry level, 2+ years experience MINIMUM
>pay 65k for 5 year experience role
>"hybrid"
>pride flags all over office
>strong communication skills required
>3+ interview rounds: 1st is initial job review, 2nd is technical questions, 3rd is HR shit tests

I just settled on working at Wendy's. Literally working to buy the dip, I don't think I could push through otherwise.

>>55309332
Because they can't say we have to raise rates in a weak labor market to stop the inflation we created.

>>55309425

Yes.

>>55309459
for what its worth there are actually less open college level jobs than there are college graduates. The ones that are constantly understaffed are the fields that no one majors in and don't just want a generic degree. Underemployment has been a big thing since the last decade. Go talk to any retail manager even from the recovery and see how many of them had advanced degrees.