I spent 15 years working as a telecommunications network tech. I have a varied and long work history in multiple industries. I recently applied for a county job at the local landfill as a gate attendant. Today I received an email from HR stating I'm not qualified. To work at the dump sitting in a booth. Not qualified. This is the real economy.
Many years ago, when I started my career after 5 years of university, the job market was bad, so I ended up applying for jobs out of my field. One of them was a gardening role like watering plants and picking up fruits for minimum wage. I applied on site and had the opportunity for meet the team. There was a dozen people and they were all very welcoming and looking forward to work with me, except the person in charge of hiring who was looking at me like I was an alien. I don't exactly remember what they answered me for not giving me the job, but it was a clear case of being overqualified. It's not as trash as your story though.
Also on the hardware side of big tech. Can confirm, they don't know the difference between an electrician, electrical engineer, or quantum computing researchers. An jouneyman electrician w/ a HS diploma can or a fresh EE out of uni can w/ 4 weeks OTJ training can preform in roles but they won't hire them w/o a master electrician license, 15 YOE, & PhD in the natural sciences to mostly manage password changes and lost data/power outages.
I once saw a job listing for a tobacco shop cashier. The pay was minimum wage BUT WAIT THERES MORE they actually said they only wanted applicants who had a bachelor’s degree or higher
I finally got to the point where in my career where I’ve told recruiters I’m not doing anymore tests. I have a resume with decades of experience and plenty of references. Anyone who wants me to do a test isn’t serious and is a waste of my time.
There will be a bunch of desperate sobs in poor countries looking for a chance to get a visa that will jump through the hoops if you don’t. This ain’t right, but it is what it is.
@@Amaliya-fi3zj got my dream job! More money than I’ve made in my entire career, work from home, flexible hours, great benefits, and growth potential. I got my first promotion 6 months after joining the company and I’m up for another one.
January to November to hire someone? That makes the government hiring process look fast, well almost. I applied for a job once and got an email TWO YEARS later saying that I had moved past the first phase and that I was interested in moving on to the next level.
Government Jobs processes are bullshit!! I work for the government in IT/Tech and it's the worst decision I have made in reference to getting a job in several years!!
In a similar vein, I got a phone call (not a text, ugh) after three years (back when I was applying to schools) saying I had been accepted to an online university. I had already done three years of in person classes at that point in the Midwest and they wanted me to move all the way to California. Get this- I hadn't even applied to their online nor their in person school so that was so out of left field.
**Update: I did more digging around with "The Tax Goddess" and found out their CEO, very very VERY recently (June 4 2024) has been disciplined and placed on a probationary period with Arizona's A Board of Accountancy. Apparently, she messed up someone's tax filing and cost her client lots of money.
B. Please keep calling this garbage out in today's job world. It needs to be done. Your latest video that states all rules have changed sir is the truth. You are also correct that you have worked harder then the competition. Effective personal branding, local networking, etc. I have been telling people about your channel for a long time. Keep up the good work.
These were beyond cringey. The one for personal assistant working 24/7, 365 a year was basically an application to become a slave. That one should get the attention of the state's Attorney General.
Kinda surprised you didn't react to the personal assistant role demanding you work 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Sure it's "only" 6 hours but having literally no scheduled days off for the entire year, and having to rely on them "figuring out" when you can take a holiday to get any time off, seems utterly soul crushing. Especially since, if they give you two weeks of holiday per year, that's them demanding you work 351 days a year, for not even 12 $ an hour.
Hiring process is beyond absurd in many companies. Asking for too much compromise or sensitive information, but not guaranteed to be hired, not guaranteed to last in the company. Hiring should be based on professional and legal backgrounds, not wasting applicants time and frustrating with stupid games or useless tests that looks more about "social engineering" or politics rather than for a real job.
Thank you for posting this video. I applied for a job in March and the response was thank you for application, the job wont start until September lol what!? I recently got an email from them (middle of May) saying they are now interested in talking to me. Come on people almost 3 months later ...yes still looking for work but not that one. Red flag for me.
I would only do a max of two interviews. One is to meet the Manager who is hiring and the second interview would be get a job offer or meet your Managers Manager.
I once got a 7-step either: 1) Headhunter 2) HR 3) Manager 4) Manager’s Director 5) HR again 6) Compliance 7) Final offer & Salary negotiation Worked there for almost 4 years, then resigned to move abroad. Pretty decent global company, in the Healthcare industry. Good salaries and great benefits.
I was a supervisor for many years for a home care company and staff worked off site in client’s homes and the geo location is a great addition. We’d get clients complain that staff never showed but their location proved otherwise...Or vise versa. It was very helpful in protecting staff and preventing fraud as well. Although the verbiage is still a little too enthusiastic. 😂
Some bosses will put out job postings for a "temporary volunteer" with educational and work-related experience. Even worse is when they post an APB where they need "temporary" volunteers due to their high turnover rate of paid employees. The boss may even ask their friends and family to come volunteer for them until they're next able to fill a paid employee position. But asking people to be an interim, "temporary" volunteer is ILLEGAL.
I once heard back from a job I applied to in April in October. It was a government job. I told the person that I had assumed that I’d hear back in May/June & that I had returned to school. Like - hello?! 🥴🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Government is on a different time scale. My current position working for USDHHS took 120 days from when I filled out my application USAJOBS to when I reported to work. And my position does not require a security clearance beyond safe/ reliable. If you were to apply to a national security related job/ intelligence that required a high level security clearance, seeing a year or more go by between initial application and starting work is a thing.
16:11 This list looks like the list of Uline's expectations when I applied there in 2012 8am to 4pm fill out application, take reading test, math test, spelling test, 100 questionaire personality test, 1st interview and 2nd interview and then get the job offer. "Oh yeah, we know the add was $17.00 on our add but we want to offer you $10.00 hr because of your qualifications. Do you want the job now?" 😲 "Um like no. That's why I wanted the job because it was $17.00 hr. Spent all that time, all day getting screwed around and had to leave with no job for the pay I wanted.
I’ve had job interviews like that many years ago I ended up wasted hours of my day doing absolutely nothing related to the job then you find out later there is no job at all as they’ve already given the positions away internally. Looking back now I wish i had got up and walked out telling them they’re full of crap and you’re just deliberately wasting my time.
In that Personal Assistsnt posting, you missed that the workdays are 6 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year! Who the hell thinks that's actually acceptable? Just because it's not an 8 hour shift doesn't mean people don't want days off. And the vague part about discussing vacations is a telltale sign that your request would very likely be denied if they can't even properly give you regular days off. Oh my god, that person is beyond delusional 😂. That is a job from hell if I have ever seen one! And then I'm proven that it gets worse with that next post about Gaza and Isreal 😬. And then the bottom of the page just has a suggestion to upload a resume, that it was optional. If their experience has zero bearing on them getting the job, that's disturbing. Even someone with no experience should still be required to upload something showing what they've been doing, be it school, extracurricular activities, community support/charity work, whatever. That job sounds like the owner is trying to form an "old boys club".
Resumes are considered optional on most job applications because it's assumed you entered all the info from your resume on previous pages of the application. Uploading of the resume is usually just to either get all that info parsed from it so you dont need to enter it yourself, or to account for info the application didnt ask for.
I looked up the Tax Goddess website...it's seriously sketchy: "We understand that tax strategy isn’t one-size-fits-all. That’s why we’ve coined our unique “Aggression Scale,” ranging from 0 (the IRS never calls) to 10 (we all go to jail). Tax Goddess herself is an *8/10 on this scale*, and we make sure any strategies we apply align with your comfort level." *Not only that, but a lot of the employees listed are not even tax preparers or accountants. There's a lot of data, admin, bookkeeper, support staff. Not only that, but it looks like a lot of the employees on their website are not even based in the US - why would you want to get tax advice from people that might not even LIVE in the US? There's a possibility they don't even know US or specific State laws regarding taxes. I also couldn't find a "brick and mortar" location, which means their business is likely all online and their employees work from home. The only address on the website is a PO Box. Super super sketchy.
I went for a job as a software developer at a trucking company and they sent me for a "physical" which was really a drug screening. I guess they send their drivers so they send everyone but that was really strange to send a software developer for a drug screening. PS: I quit that job after a week.
And they will fight you tooth and claw when you try to execute the ideas/plans. Three-six months later: "Things aren't working out. And it's all your fault. Sorry."
Been there, done that. Worked for a "family business" for and with a bunch of "ideas" guys. What a circus. My role kept expanding for no extra pay, while bosses' kids kept goofing off on the clock, and the boss kept rationalizing it all to me as if I was supposed to nod my head and agree with everything he said. After 1 1/2 years I just refused to do any more OT (it was salaried/OT exempt) then 7 months later I got let go. The company was "running out of money:, but of course he hstill had the money to pay his two sons to come in and do nothing.
The personal assistant job and the volunteer job should be reported as illegal to the job site owner. Those employers who posted such ridiculous hiring requirements and steps must have never worked for someone else, most likely lifetime small biz owner or startup founder fresh out of school. That’s insulting especially for mid and senior career individuals.
9:52 The personal assistant posting is obviously written so this person spends practically nowhere away from anyone in the company (I mean, you have to work every freaking day of the year here?). This looks like an Indeed posting, so as it has many times for me so far, it surprises me just how much spam crap appears on these platforms. It's the last type of thing someone really in need of a job needs to see in any amount of abundance. I don't have to mention the poverty-level wages this particular job offers.
The videos I see from this channel when they pop up in my feed are quite honestly the best motivation I have ever had to try and figure out a way to work for myself and I say this as a member of Gen X
Exactly. I'm working on the same thing, especially after a massive covid layoff and it taking 3 years to find something permanent (which turned out to be a joke). I'm also working on leaving the US to start said business
Anyone who has ever online dated can related to this... you can read as much of someone's dating bio, preferences, etc and spend weeks on the phone talking or texting. But the truth is that either it will work or it won't. and the only way both sides are really going to find out is if they meet and/or start dating and see if both sides feel it's a fit. I feel like too many of these potential employers spend so much time and energy trying to get the perfect fit, they'd be better of- at least as far as the average position is concerned=just hiring someone that feels like a solid fit and taking it from there. My step daughter (who just graduated from college) went through 3 interviews for one job, over the period of 6 weeks- for what is pretty much a cookie cutter position to test samples in a lab for $16 bucks an hour. Give me a break.
Once I was told in an interview that they are a very relaxed company because they don't ask employees to sign out and sign in when they have to go to the bathroom and you don't have any limited time if you have to go to the bathroom. It wasn't a call center.. The position was for a project manager. After I heard that comment I thought to myself where should I add that information that I just heard? As a benefit? Funny that they sent me an offer later which obviously I decided 😅
The route driver one is done by AI. I got one the other day. I was thinking wow! Someone actually read my resume..oh wait it's not a human...go figure. Funny how AI can read resumes, but humans can't...lol
Yes! I came to say this. I get such messages too, but more relevant to my actual profession but figured out that they're not from actual human recruiters. They're just AI messages.
I recently prodded my LinkedIn after a long hiatus and immediately, like less than a minute, got personal messages from what initially looked like people, but after a small bit of digging turned out to be fake personae run by chatbot. I bounced immediately, but they were probably going to try to sell me services, harvest my info, or both. They both wanted my resume ofc.
Do not participate in any interview process that has a work assignment thing. I've learned this the super hard way. No job is worth working for a company that is basically legally ripping people's ideas off. Acco I am looking at YOU MAAM!
It depends on the job. For me personally, I'm newly graduated, so had no relevant experience when I applied into a controller role in the municipal management. So I went through a first interview, then they asked me and one another candidate to write a short paper and present the municipality's costs. After those steps, I got the job and it was all worth it
The choose your conflict one is rich too. On that note, I even came across a posting on Indeed where someone actually had to gall to ask whether you were from either the millennial or gen z generation. This is obviously some nefarious crap to say the least.
The layoffs are ridiculous. Spent 19 years 4 months at the same job. Same schedule for five years. Suddenly they tell me to be available Friday Saturday and Sunday. They know I can only do Monday Tuesday and Wednesday. Suddenly this is a problem? wtf
Ah yes... the 'ten job descriptions in one' is familiar. Employers moved from specialization to a juggling act. How many hats can that person wear?!? That volunteer position on a resume would look excellent if they actually gave out a realistic, attainable list of responsibilities.
I feel like it's very much field related too. I'm a graphic designer but (thanks to hat stacking) I also do editing and tech writing. When I look at GD listings, they ALWAYS suffer from role packing, wanting someone that does layout, illustration, web design, HTML, Javascript, video editing, doing the boss's taxes, the list is just endless ... I applied for a tech writing job? They wanted a tech writer. Period. They seemed surprised and a little confused when mentioned I could do other things too...
I gotta say thank you for sticking up for me and other candidates. Its really frustrating and competitive in this market and it's not going to get any better. Thank you for sticking up for the little guy. It's just been very depressing for me and a bunch of other people job hunting.
Company listed a job. Then several months later listed it again with an additional note: ‘If you applied last time, don’t bother applying again.’ I wonder if anyone at all applied for the second round.
lol that 3rd one with the Route driver position reminds me of what i got out of the military. "we see your experience as an avionics technician and we have this great position as a valet if youre interested"
In my line of work, I get outreach for IT/SysAdmin jobs even though I have no experience and nothing in my background or resume says otherwise. I started answering the phone "I don't have an IT background" when I was actively job hunting.
First one kind of reminds me of the Navy Shipyard job postings in Philadelphia. The shear size of the job ad is laughable and the amount of hoops to jump through is a great display of bureaucracy cancer
Issue is even with these entry jobs, not everyone can have a full history/background in every sector. So you end up having to use most of a current main CV eg: Customer Service, and trying to totally re-design the entire thing which even using a Functional design, it's still going to have older, untargeted roles, just displayed in a different manner. Ok, so you might have placed old sector roles in a less targeted way and highlighted any new experience/qualifications/training etc - but it's still going to have the same old untargeted stuff you're trying to hide - so unless you can quickly score 7 new sector posts, then such methods will always be detected by recruiters and used to de-select anyone trying it - difficult to win however you disguise previous roles.
As for the "Geo Validation". I was an accountant for a commercial cleaning company. Our payroll lead turned on the Geo for our timekeeping app, without notifying employees. Almost no one could clock in that weekend. Because they had been routinely clocking in from home, and falsifying their time sheets. It was a week of havoc. Until the staff finally got it they had to already be within a 2 mile radius before they could clock in.
2:40 - it is a clearly a typo in the job req. I think that position was originally opened with "complete your application by November 22" , so "by the end of November": makes perfect sense. Sounds like that nothing happened by the end of November (Thanksgiving, X-Mas, etc), so they have updated the job req "by January 22", but FORGOT to update the later part in the job req.
I’m currently holing a director level role in tech, my experience is well documented on LinkedIn. The last 2-3 recruiters reached out all asked if I would be interested in an entry level developer position 😂
I saw a documentary of a guy in France putting out fake job postings, buying office furniture for a space someone allowed him to stay at and then sexually harassing the women he "hired". They thought it was a real job. People need to be safe out here.
That spamming thing is what zip recruiter does all the time when they say they "reach out to qualified candidates". They just spam everyone with every job.
When I freshly laid off. I was offered a job at a real estate company. He wanted me to help build an internal dbs and other IT work which is aligned with my major. He also wanted me to work for free. He said he'll buy me food and I can live in a basement room he has with other coworkers in his office. He also will drive me to work. My thoughts.... (This is an office position? ... not a migrant farm job? or a day job? They called and ask if I was interested.... lol
Exploitation I'd alert human trafficking hotline. They use people who are down on their luck, like being laid off, for a phoney job offer. Real concerned that this individual has other people in his basement as you said.
I research a job but there was no job description. I didn't understand why. Does this mean they want to hire within the company or they want resumes for later?
Applied for a Government position on USAjobs and it took them 50 days from the application closing date to get my interview and then about 38 days to get an offer letter THEN about 70 days to offical offer and start date. I was half a year trying to get this job and inbetween the tentative offer and start date I had to turn dow other job offers while waiting months. That said, Govt work is cushy. TSP, good pay, best benefit options, free financing assistance and advising, cant be sued and it practically takes an act of congress to get fired or laid off so job security is top notch. If you fit through their screening process and stomach the wait, goverment positions are pretty swell
16:30 "We have no shortage of ideas, but our greatest weakness is execution." In other words, you will work massive hours to make our fantasies come true, and it's all your fault if you don't. I worked for a company like this once. Boss would have this new great tool invention that he wanted to patent. I'd ask a few "but what happens when..." questions, and h'ed say "Oh, that's easy, it's just "chhhhhhsssshhhhh" - the wierd fluid sound effect was his answer. A week later, the magic "chhhhhhsssshhhhh" machine was buried the in the pile of shit in the bosses' office.
I spent about a year out of work after quitting my news job (probably the worst job I've ever had). Really only got a job after applying to hundreds upon hundreds of listings, got to the point where I just simply didn't care anymore whether or not I was remotely qualified or if my resume was tailored to the listing. That being said, just lie, tell them what they want to hear, and apply to every job as if you're never gonna get it and move on. This is the shitty game they forced us to play, might as well make it as simple as possible for yourself.
I had a the county call me for a interview for a mechanic position a year and a half after applying. This was a large city too. I wasent chosen, then 6 month later they asked me to come in for another interview. Told them no, I'm leaving this clown city for a multitude of reasons.
Application Questionnaire: 1) I got one that I was to complete and mail back. They made a big point that it must be handwritten. Hmmm. Handwriting analysis? 2) I filled one out on site for another job. They had the race, gender, disability section that said it was voluntary. I skipped it. When I turned it in, the HR rep said I'd failed to complete that. I said it was voluntary and I didn't choose to complete it. She did not take that well. I think my application went straight in the trash.
The first job has a fundamental flaw that would make the process much faster: the contribution culture interview is at the end instead of the beginning, where it should be. Switch that out for another one and you go from 11 months to maybe less than 3!
13:24 I still think this is better from a transparency standpoint. Incompetence from a CEO shouldn’t be hidden behind a wall of gatekeepers to begin with. If an HR recruiter would’ve filtered out that question people would have gone into that job never knowing from day one their politics determined their quality of life at that company and not their ability or work ethic.
When I was in college, they offered a degree in "human services" which many of my classmates laughed at thinking it sounded sketchy. So what exactly is human services? Why couldn't it have just been worded as human resources (HR)? That would've been easier to understand getting such a degree that's linear to a career.
Human services is not human resources. It's more similar to social work - for example, administrative work that helps people with government benefits, working on abuse or neglect cases, etc.
I cant believe they would put a political question on the application. I was actually asked a political question at an interview on what I thought of a tweet of a political candidate. I couldn't believe it. I tried to answer it as neutrally as possible, but still didnt get the job. It just seemed like they wanted me to take a stand on it and were disappointed in my answer. Looking back, it might have been a toxic work environment and its a good thing I didnt get it!
Depends on the industry I’ve seen law enforcement especially at the state and federal level and some of the major local level like the New York City Police, the Los Angeles Sheriffs Department, etc. take about a year or so. So it just depends.
I saw a post about pay would be future equity meaning they wanted people to build it, hope they could sell it, and then maybe you would get paid for the work after.
The CDL outreach was mega cringe. This is absurd nonsense that I've seen before too. Literally stuff around completely different professions I've never done or will ever be interested in.
I spent 15 years working as a telecommunications network tech. I have a varied and long work history in multiple industries. I recently applied for a county job at the local landfill as a gate attendant. Today I received an email from HR stating I'm not qualified. To work at the dump sitting in a booth. Not qualified. This is the real economy.
Many years ago, when I started my career after 5 years of university, the job market was bad, so I ended up applying for jobs out of my field. One of them was a gardening role like watering plants and picking up fruits for minimum wage. I applied on site and had the opportunity for meet the team. There was a dozen people and they were all very welcoming and looking forward to work with me, except the person in charge of hiring who was looking at me like I was an alien. I don't exactly remember what they answered me for not giving me the job, but it was a clear case of being overqualified. It's not as trash as your story though.
@Ced3kGama I was just highlighting a recent experience. Obviously, I'm overqualified, but it's still insulting.
@@UnitedCorporationsOfAmerica Yeah, I know that way too well.
Was this "gate attendent" job position as a volunteer? 😅😂😊
Also on the hardware side of big tech. Can confirm, they don't know the difference between an electrician, electrical engineer, or quantum computing researchers.
An jouneyman electrician w/ a HS diploma can or a fresh EE out of uni can w/ 4 weeks OTJ training can preform in roles but they won't hire them w/o a master electrician license, 15 YOE, & PhD in the natural sciences to mostly manage password changes and lost data/power outages.
I once saw a job listing for a tobacco shop cashier. The pay was minimum wage BUT WAIT THERES MORE
they actually said they only wanted applicants who had a bachelor’s degree or higher
I read that "But wait theres more" in Billy Mayes voice for some reason. lol
Same😭😭@@CT-yc4gd
Wow 😅
Bachelor's degree in fire science, no less ?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I finally got to the point where in my career where I’ve told recruiters I’m not doing anymore tests. I have a resume with decades of experience and plenty of references. Anyone who wants me to do a test isn’t serious and is a waste of my time.
Yeah! You tell em!
There will be a bunch of desperate sobs in poor countries looking for a chance to get a visa that will jump through the hoops if you don’t. This ain’t right, but it is what it is.
@@qawsedrf-j6e lol. Not in my profession.
how did the work out for you? genuinely curious
@@Amaliya-fi3zj got my dream job! More money than I’ve made in my entire career, work from home, flexible hours, great benefits, and growth potential. I got my first promotion 6 months after joining the company and I’m up for another one.
They're just farming data.
January to November to hire someone? That makes the government hiring process look fast, well almost. I applied for a job once and got an email TWO YEARS later saying that I had moved past the first phase and that I was interested in moving on to the next level.
I imagine that ad was a typo.
Government Jobs processes are bullshit!! I work for the government in IT/Tech and it's the worst decision I have made in reference to getting a job in several years!!
why is it the worst decision you've made in reference to getting a job?@@izamalcadosa2951
In a similar vein, I got a phone call (not a text, ugh) after three years (back when I was applying to schools) saying I had been accepted to an online university. I had already done three years of in person classes at that point in the Midwest and they wanted me to move all the way to California. Get this- I hadn't even applied to their online nor their in person school so that was so out of left field.
Nah bro they most likely hired someone on Jan and realized the new hire is not a good fit, so fired them on Nov and refilled the position
These employers are the equivalent of trolls
**Update: I did more digging around with "The Tax Goddess" and found out their CEO, very very VERY recently (June 4 2024) has been disciplined and placed on a probationary period with Arizona's A Board of Accountancy. Apparently, she messed up someone's tax filing and cost her client lots of money.
I love these because they show how broken the job market really is right now. You should do a lot more of the light-hearted side.
Agreed!
Employers have become extremely disrespectful to employees. Time that someone calls them out!
@@Matt-YT the job descriptions have become really low quality using AI to spit out multiple jobs with no thought.
It's not broken. It's doing exactly what the overlords want it to do.
It is doing what it was designed to do.
That first one is a doozy - you will have to wait for basically a whole year to find out you probably won't even be hired.
Then they should be paying YOU for all that waiting!😊
B. Please keep calling this garbage out in today's job world. It needs to be done. Your latest video that states all rules have changed sir is the truth. You are also correct that you have worked harder then the competition. Effective personal branding, local networking, etc. I have been telling people about your channel for a long time. Keep up the good work.
These were beyond cringey. The one for personal assistant working 24/7, 365 a year was basically an application to become a slave. That one should get the attention of the state's Attorney General.
Kinda surprised you didn't react to the personal assistant role demanding you work 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Sure it's "only" 6 hours but having literally no scheduled days off for the entire year, and having to rely on them "figuring out" when you can take a holiday to get any time off, seems utterly soul crushing.
Especially since, if they give you two weeks of holiday per year, that's them demanding you work 351 days a year, for not even 12 $ an hour.
Hiring process is beyond absurd in many companies. Asking for too much compromise or sensitive information, but not guaranteed to be hired, not guaranteed to last in the company. Hiring should be based on professional and legal backgrounds, not wasting applicants time and frustrating with stupid games or useless tests that looks more about "social engineering" or politics rather than for a real job.
Thank you for posting this video. I applied for a job in March and the response was thank you for application, the job wont start until September lol what!? I recently got an email from them (middle of May) saying they are now interested in talking to me. Come on people almost 3 months later ...yes still looking for work but not that one. Red flag for me.
So happy to see another “Worst Job Postings” dropped. Keep them coming! Love the channel.
I once went through a 7 step interview process. Never again. I ask upfront now and if it’s more than 4, I’m out.
4?? Don't do more than 1.
@@nickrazes2720 You must not work in tech 🤣
@@susanoakeshauf lol. you're right, i don't.
I would only do a max of two interviews. One is to meet the Manager who is hiring and the second interview would be get a job offer or meet your Managers Manager.
I once got a 7-step either:
1) Headhunter
2) HR
3) Manager
4) Manager’s Director
5) HR again
6) Compliance
7) Final offer & Salary negotiation
Worked there for almost 4 years, then resigned to move abroad. Pretty decent global company, in the Healthcare industry. Good salaries and great benefits.
I was a supervisor for many years for a home care company and staff worked off site in client’s homes and the geo location is a great addition. We’d get clients complain that staff never showed but their location proved otherwise...Or vise versa. It was very helpful in protecting staff and preventing fraud as well. Although the verbiage is still a little too enthusiastic. 😂
Some bosses will put out job postings for a "temporary volunteer" with educational and work-related experience. Even worse is when they post an APB where they need "temporary" volunteers due to their high turnover rate of paid employees. The boss may even ask their friends and family to come volunteer for them until they're next able to fill a paid employee position. But asking people to be an interim, "temporary" volunteer is ILLEGAL.
I once heard back from a job I applied to in April in October. It was a government job. I told the person that I had assumed that I’d hear back in May/June & that I had returned to school. Like - hello?! 🥴🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Government is on a different time scale. My current position working for USDHHS took 120 days from when I filled out my application USAJOBS to when I reported to work. And my position does not require a security clearance beyond safe/ reliable. If you were to apply to a national security related job/ intelligence that required a high level security clearance, seeing a year or more go by between initial application and starting work is a thing.
16:11 This list looks like the list of Uline's expectations when I applied there in 2012 8am to 4pm fill out application, take reading test, math test, spelling test, 100 questionaire personality test, 1st interview and 2nd interview and then get the job offer. "Oh yeah, we know the add was $17.00 on our add but we want to offer you $10.00 hr because of your qualifications. Do you want the job now?" 😲 "Um like no. That's why I wanted the job because it was $17.00 hr. Spent all that time, all day getting screwed around and had to leave with no job for the pay I wanted.
Make more money cutting grass
I’ve had job interviews like that many years ago I ended up wasted hours of my day doing absolutely nothing related to the job then you find out later there is no job at all as they’ve already given the positions away internally. Looking back now I wish i had got up and walked out telling them they’re full of crap and you’re just deliberately wasting my time.
That’s crappy. I hope you told them to f$&k off.
In that Personal Assistsnt posting, you missed that the workdays are 6 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year! Who the hell thinks that's actually acceptable? Just because it's not an 8 hour shift doesn't mean people don't want days off. And the vague part about discussing vacations is a telltale sign that your request would very likely be denied if they can't even properly give you regular days off. Oh my god, that person is beyond delusional 😂. That is a job from hell if I have ever seen one!
And then I'm proven that it gets worse with that next post about Gaza and Isreal 😬. And then the bottom of the page just has a suggestion to upload a resume, that it was optional. If their experience has zero bearing on them getting the job, that's disturbing. Even someone with no experience should still be required to upload something showing what they've been doing, be it school, extracurricular activities, community support/charity work, whatever. That job sounds like the owner is trying to form an "old boys club".
Resumes are considered optional on most job applications because it's assumed you entered all the info from your resume on previous pages of the application. Uploading of the resume is usually just to either get all that info parsed from it so you dont need to enter it yourself, or to account for info the application didnt ask for.
I'm also pretty sure that it is illegal to force someone to work all of those hours, especially in the UK where they actually have worker protections
It'd be a shame if someone wrote a script that created thousands of fake resumes and sent them to these employers to waste time going through.
I double dog dare you to find someone to do this!!!! 😁😄😆😃
ATS would likely screen those out and not waste anyones time. But might tank their website for a while with all the submissions.
Not a single human will look at these. Even a robot will be doing the phone calling / emailing.
I can do that.
I can spot a fake resume a mile away. Maybe focus your energy on being employable.
I looked up the Tax Goddess website...it's seriously sketchy: "We understand that tax strategy isn’t one-size-fits-all. That’s why we’ve coined our unique “Aggression Scale,” ranging from 0 (the IRS never calls) to 10 (we all go to jail). Tax Goddess herself is an *8/10 on this scale*, and we make sure any strategies we apply align with your comfort level."
*Not only that, but a lot of the employees listed are not even tax preparers or accountants. There's a lot of data, admin, bookkeeper, support staff. Not only that, but it looks like a lot of the employees on their website are not even based in the US - why would you want to get tax advice from people that might not even LIVE in the US? There's a possibility they don't even know US or specific State laws regarding taxes. I also couldn't find a "brick and mortar" location, which means their business is likely all online and their employees work from home. The only address on the website is a PO Box. Super super sketchy.
Ya!! F*** That!! That company is a real scam!!
A scam, no doubt.
I went for a job as a software developer at a trucking company and they sent me for a "physical" which was really a drug screening. I guess they send their drivers so they send everyone but that was really strange to send a software developer for a drug screening. PS: I quit that job after a week.
The British apprenticeship/assistant position sounded like something out of "Bridget Jones' Diary" lol
Ridiculous. I recently had an interview and it was nothing like these scams. I didn’t get the job, but I appreciated the chance and simplicity
And they will fight you tooth and claw when you try to execute the ideas/plans. Three-six months later: "Things aren't working out. And it's all your fault. Sorry."
Been there, done that. Worked for a "family business" for and with a bunch of "ideas" guys. What a circus. My role kept expanding for no extra pay, while bosses' kids kept goofing off on the clock, and the boss kept rationalizing it all to me as if I was supposed to nod my head and agree with everything he said. After 1 1/2 years I just refused to do any more OT (it was salaried/OT exempt) then 7 months later I got let go. The company was "running out of money:, but of course he hstill had the money to pay his two sons to come in and do nothing.
The personal assistant job and the volunteer job should be reported as illegal to the job site owner. Those employers who posted such ridiculous hiring requirements and steps must have never worked for someone else, most likely lifetime small biz owner or startup founder fresh out of school. That’s insulting especially for mid and senior career individuals.
9:52 The personal assistant posting is obviously written so this person spends practically nowhere away from anyone in the company (I mean, you have to work every freaking day of the year here?). This looks like an Indeed posting, so as it has many times for me so far, it surprises me just how much spam crap appears on these platforms. It's the last type of thing someone really in need of a job needs to see in any amount of abundance. I don't have to mention the poverty-level wages this particular job offers.
This honestly feels like 'indentured servant' more than a PA...
If it’s geolocation why do I need to continue physically clocking out.
20:42 I simply can't believe that anyone would actually make a technical job posting for an UNPAID position. That's an automatic HELLNAW!
The videos I see from this channel when they pop up in my feed are quite honestly the best motivation I have ever had to try and figure out a way to work for myself and I say this as a member of Gen X
Exactly. I'm working on the same thing, especially after a massive covid layoff and it taking 3 years to find something permanent (which turned out to be a joke). I'm also working on leaving the US to start said business
Watching this video was infuriating.
Not because of you (you are great), but because of how vile recruitment process has become.
Anyone who has ever online dated can related to this... you can read as much of someone's dating bio, preferences, etc and spend weeks on the phone talking or texting. But the truth is that either it will work or it won't. and the only way both sides are really going to find out is if they meet and/or start dating and see if both sides feel it's a fit. I feel like too many of these potential employers spend so much time and energy trying to get the perfect fit, they'd be better of- at least as far as the average position is concerned=just hiring someone that feels like a solid fit and taking it from there. My step daughter (who just graduated from college) went through 3 interviews for one job, over the period of 6 weeks- for what is pretty much a cookie cutter position to test samples in a lab for $16 bucks an hour. Give me a break.
Don't online date. Just go out and meet a person
Honestly shocked I've been watching you this whole time without being subscribed.....lemme just fix that ❤
Once I was told in an interview that they are a very relaxed company because they don't ask employees to sign out and sign in when they have to go to the bathroom and you don't have any limited time if you have to go to the bathroom. It wasn't a call center.. The position was for a project manager. After I heard that comment I thought to myself where should I add that information that I just heard? As a benefit? Funny that they sent me an offer later which obviously I decided 😅
The route driver one is done by AI. I got one the other day. I was thinking wow! Someone actually read my resume..oh wait it's not a human...go figure.
Funny how AI can read resumes, but humans can't...lol
Yes! I came to say this. I get such messages too, but more relevant to my actual profession but figured out that they're not from actual human recruiters. They're just AI messages.
I recently prodded my LinkedIn after a long hiatus and immediately, like less than a minute, got personal messages from what initially looked like people, but after a small bit of digging turned out to be fake personae run by chatbot. I bounced immediately, but they were probably going to try to sell me services, harvest my info, or both. They both wanted my resume ofc.
I've gotten those emails, but for medical positions that require specialized education and training, none of which I, as a paralegal have.
Do not participate in any interview process that has a work assignment thing. I've learned this the super hard way. No job is worth working for a company that is basically legally ripping people's ideas off. Acco I am looking at YOU MAAM!
It depends on the job.
For me personally, I'm newly graduated, so had no relevant experience when I applied into a controller role in the municipal management.
So I went through a first interview, then they asked me and one another candidate to write a short paper and present the municipality's costs.
After those steps, I got the job and it was all worth it
The choose your conflict one is rich too. On that note, I even came across a posting on Indeed where someone actually had to gall to ask whether you were from either the millennial or gen z generation. This is obviously some nefarious crap to say the least.
I went out for pizza recently, and the Gen Zs behind the counter couldn't even figure out how to switch the TV from golf to baseball.
The layoffs are ridiculous. Spent 19 years 4 months at the same job. Same schedule for five years. Suddenly they tell me to be available Friday Saturday and Sunday. They know I can only do Monday Tuesday and Wednesday. Suddenly this is a problem? wtf
Ah yes... the 'ten job descriptions in one' is familiar. Employers moved from specialization to a juggling act. How many hats can that person wear?!? That volunteer position on a resume would look excellent if they actually gave out a realistic, attainable list of responsibilities.
I feel like it's very much field related too. I'm a graphic designer but (thanks to hat stacking) I also do editing and tech writing.
When I look at GD listings, they ALWAYS suffer from role packing, wanting someone that does layout, illustration, web design, HTML, Javascript, video editing, doing the boss's taxes, the list is just endless ...
I applied for a tech writing job? They wanted a tech writer. Period. They seemed surprised and a little confused when mentioned I could do other things too...
I don't know why, but I love these so much. lol
I gotta say thank you for sticking up for me and other candidates. Its really frustrating and competitive in this market and it's not going to get any better. Thank you for sticking up for the little guy. It's just been very depressing for me and a bunch of other people job hunting.
And I thought three weeks at my last company was a long process!
Company listed a job. Then several months later listed it again with an additional note: ‘If you applied last time, don’t bother applying again.’ I wonder if anyone at all applied for the second round.
Are they going to contact everyone who missed out last time?
@@dhenderson1810 ‘don’t bother applying’ as in ‘we don’t want to hear from you again’.
lol that 3rd one with the Route driver position reminds me of what i got out of the military. "we see your experience as an avionics technician and we have this great position as a valet if youre interested"
This episode was the perfect entertainment wrt job market . Serious points also taken side by side 😂
That Tax Goddess website is a wild ride... 😬🚩🚩🚩
In my line of work, I get outreach for IT/SysAdmin jobs even though I have no experience and nothing in my background or resume says otherwise. I started answering the phone "I don't have an IT background" when I was actively job hunting.
You just gotta love a job posting that is offering minimum wage and requires workers to handle a high stress work environment. Yeah I rather not. ✌🏾😂
First one kind of reminds me of the Navy Shipyard job postings in Philadelphia. The shear size of the job ad is laughable and the amount of hoops to jump through is a great display of bureaucracy cancer
@20:18 That sounds like they literally are offering to pay you with exposure 😂
Issue is even with these entry jobs, not everyone can have a full history/background in every sector. So you end up having to use most of a current main CV eg: Customer Service, and trying to totally re-design the entire thing which even using a Functional design, it's still going to have older, untargeted roles, just displayed in a different manner. Ok, so you might have placed old sector roles in a less targeted way and highlighted any new experience/qualifications/training etc - but it's still going to have the same old untargeted stuff you're trying to hide - so unless you can quickly score 7 new sector posts, then such methods will always be detected by recruiters and used to de-select anyone trying it - difficult to win however you disguise previous roles.
You should a start a show called "America's Funniest Job Postings." 🤣
Love your channel, bro!!!
These days, most job descriptions are cringy: 20 bullet points of responsibilities and very low pay.
That timeline in the first posting is even worse than academia, where the typical timeline is September-November deadline, with March-April decisions.
As for the "Geo Validation". I was an accountant for a commercial cleaning company. Our payroll lead turned on the Geo for our timekeeping app, without notifying employees. Almost no one could clock in that weekend. Because they had been routinely clocking in from home, and falsifying their time sheets. It was a week of havoc. Until the staff finally got it they had to already be within a 2 mile radius before they could clock in.
As for "bad actors"....several of the field managers, just kept "filling out their timesheets for them". Further propagating the nonsense.
I don't mind that expression of interest post, at least they told you.
2:40 - it is a clearly a typo in the job req. I think that position was originally opened with "complete your application by November 22" , so "by the end of November": makes perfect sense. Sounds like that nothing happened by the end of November (Thanksgiving, X-Mas, etc), so they have updated the job req "by January 22", but FORGOT to update the later part in the job req.
I’m currently holing a director level role in tech, my experience is well documented on LinkedIn. The last 2-3 recruiters reached out all asked if I would be interested in an entry level developer position 😂
'Entry level with 5 years of experience in AI and full-stack engineering'. Should see that one showing up soon.
I saw a documentary of a guy in France putting out fake job postings, buying office furniture for a space someone allowed him to stay at and then sexually harassing the women he "hired". They thought it was a real job. People need to be safe out here.
That spamming thing is what zip recruiter does all the time when they say they "reach out to qualified candidates". They just spam everyone with every job.
Hey Bryan.
Can you give your insight on the Data Annotation Tech job. Thanks.
I've seen spray and pray- primarily from recruiters located overseas.
Sorry, I sold my 1080p camcorder 15 years ago. I guess I’m SOL
Great way to steal peoples identity. Anybody can post a job listing.
The process has now taken precedence over the actual work. This what what happens when employment looked like Tinder.
Report fake job postings, get their asses sued for their crimes
When I freshly laid off.
I was offered a job at a real estate company. He wanted me to help build an internal dbs and other IT work which is aligned with my major. He also wanted me to work for free.
He said he'll buy me food and I can live in a basement room he has with other coworkers in his office. He also will drive me to work.
My thoughts.... (This is an office position? ... not a migrant farm job? or a day job?
They called and ask if I was interested.... lol
Exploitation I'd alert human trafficking hotline. They use people who are down on their luck, like being laid off, for a phoney job offer. Real concerned that this individual has other people in his basement as you said.
I research a job but there was no job description. I didn't understand why. Does this mean they want to hire within the company or they want resumes for later?
13:47 I guess these folks will be surprised when exactly zero completed applications show up in their system.
It's frustrating enough to have appreciation for the skills that you acquired. Thats why I am scared about looking for a job if i go through college.
Applied for a Government position on USAjobs and it took them 50 days from the application closing date to get my interview and then about 38 days to get an offer letter THEN about 70 days to offical offer and start date. I was half a year trying to get this job and inbetween the tentative offer and start date I had to turn dow other job offers while waiting months.
That said, Govt work is cushy. TSP, good pay, best benefit options, free financing assistance and advising, cant be sued and it practically takes an act of congress to get fired or laid off so job security is top notch. If you fit through their screening process and stomach the wait, goverment positions are pretty swell
Loved this! I had to laugh so much 🤣
16:30 "We have no shortage of ideas, but our greatest weakness is execution." In other words, you will work massive hours to make our fantasies come true, and it's all your fault if you don't.
I worked for a company like this once. Boss would have this new great tool invention that he wanted to patent. I'd ask a few "but what happens when..." questions, and h'ed say "Oh, that's easy, it's just "chhhhhhsssshhhhh" - the wierd fluid sound effect was his answer. A week later, the magic "chhhhhhsssshhhhh" machine was buried the in the pile of shit in the bosses' office.
I saw a posting for a Lead Java software developer for 68k
The route driver one was a real hoot!
I spent about a year out of work after quitting my news job (probably the worst job I've ever had).
Really only got a job after applying to hundreds upon hundreds of listings, got to the point where I just simply didn't care anymore whether or not I was remotely qualified or if my resume was tailored to the listing.
That being said, just lie, tell them what they want to hear, and apply to every job as if you're never gonna get it and move on.
This is the shitty game they forced us to play, might as well make it as simple as possible for yourself.
I would do an 11-step hiring process...if the job paid me 7 figures!!
I had a the county call me for a interview for a mechanic position a year and a half after applying. This was a large city too. I wasent chosen, then 6 month later they asked me to come in for another interview.
Told them no, I'm leaving this clown city for a multitude of reasons.
Application Questionnaire: 1) I got one that I was to complete and mail back. They made a big point that it must be handwritten. Hmmm. Handwriting analysis? 2) I filled one out on site for another job. They had the race, gender, disability section that said it was voluntary. I skipped it. When I turned it in, the HR rep said I'd failed to complete that. I said it was voluntary and I didn't choose to complete it. She did not take that well. I think my application went straight in the trash.
The first job has a fundamental flaw that would make the process much faster: the contribution culture interview is at the end instead of the beginning, where it should be. Switch that out for another one and you go from 11 months to maybe less than 3!
I once responded to a job posting in the newspaper. The job ended up being a pyramid scheme. I certainly hinted at how old I am!😊
13:24 I still think this is better from a transparency standpoint. Incompetence from a CEO shouldn’t be hidden behind a wall of gatekeepers to begin with. If an HR recruiter would’ve filtered out that question people would have gone into that job never knowing from day one their politics determined their quality of life at that company and not their ability or work ethic.
When I was in college, they offered a degree in "human services" which many of my classmates laughed at thinking it sounded sketchy. So what exactly is human services? Why couldn't it have just been worded as human resources (HR)? That would've been easier to understand getting such a degree that's linear to a career.
Human services is not human resources. It's more similar to social work - for example, administrative work that helps people with government benefits, working on abuse or neglect cases, etc.
January to November, huh? That checks out.
Why would anyone apply to the one that lets the company stalk you? 😒
My fav: For future job position.
I cant believe they would put a political question on the application. I was actually asked a political question at an interview on what I thought of a tweet of a political candidate. I couldn't believe it. I tried to answer it as neutrally as possible, but still didnt get the job. It just seemed like they wanted me to take a stand on it and were disappointed in my answer. Looking back, it might have been a toxic work environment and its a good thing I didnt get it!
lol that last job be like “apply for slavery” 😂
Wow the last one did take the home run didn’t it? People need to be compensated with $ whether they are volunteering or not. These were funny!
Depends on the industry I’ve seen law enforcement especially at the state and federal level and some of the major local level like the New York City Police, the Los Angeles Sheriffs Department, etc. take about a year or so. So it just depends.
How he tried to maintain his demeanor, 😂
I saw a post about pay would be future equity meaning they wanted people to build it, hope they could sell it, and then maybe you would get paid for the work after.
What, like a shark tank pitch? 🤨
Who needs holidays when you can chill at the boss’ place?
I'm 38. I've never been laid off. I've had the same job for 16 years. I'm a talented chef in a small town though.
Geovalidation is for “safety and security” lmao no it’s for catching and proving time clock fraud
The CDL outreach was mega cringe. This is absurd nonsense that I've seen before too. Literally stuff around completely different professions I've never done or will ever be interested in.