@@DamonCassidyhaha, was probably my cringiest post to date, but did get me an interview with business insider. But definitely agree with a lot of what you said. It is much harder to get a job now for sure and I think methods like networking, job fairs and things like that could help. Also not putting your eggs in one basket.
I struggled to find a decent job for years, constantly getting ghosted every application. So then I decided to just take a temporary job in budget at $18 an hour. 2 months later, they moved me up to a temporary job in IT at $28 an hour which was the field I have experience in. And 6 months after that, I was hired on full time at $34 an hour. And now I currently make $55 an hour. I spent 5 years making $16.50 an hour at a support call center putting in applications and getting ghosted and overlooked. I take a temporary job at $18 an hour and 3 years later I’m past 6 figures. It’s absolutely insane how hard it is to get to a certain point but then how easy it is to move once you break through the barrier.
4-5 years ago, iirc right before covid, I was sitting alone at a bank HQ depressed and angry about job hunting. Funny how I missed that now. At least I was talking to people back then, and most were kind and supportive. Now I’m just talking to copy-pasting drones and it feels like I’m in a Truman Show sometimes. I even have my own scripts for answering dms and calls for first interviews. Humans talking to each other like we’re AI until some corporate manager pushes the “Hire” button. Maybe we’re already in hell, we just don’t know it.
@skillethead15 shit, I applied to a place once and they had a crazy interview process then rejected me and didnt even follow uo with a rejection or we moved on notice. They left me in the dark and never spoke to me again. Nearly 6-8 months later they comtact me and lie to my face taking to me as if I just applied to a position and they had me "on file" and suggest I apply to the same damn role they rejected me on. I emailed her back letting her know they rejected me for the first role despite me being qualified and having done the role before at a different job for someone who had no experience but lived closer. So there you have it. I learned right then that companies will just post job roles just to harvest data and resumes so they cam tuck you away for when they are scrambling and need someone short notice. A lot of these places arent truly hiting at all. Glad you find a position. i Have a job now that I HATE that pays the bills and is easy to travel to and travel from but it took a year to get it.
LinkedIn has the same exact problem of Tinder: if you'll find a job, you'll stop using their site. It's in their best interests for you to never find a job, but make you think it's just around the corner potentially forever. Like a carrot on a stick in front of a donkey.
@HornetLarry that's only because tinder isn't designed to find a life long Partner . If it was good at that people would use it for that but that would mean constantly losing customers
Well most people that have LinkedIn accounts are people currently working a job. You can have a job for many years and still have a LinkedIn account. Also, I've noticed that certain jobs, like HR, usually have LinkedIn accounts, because their name is searched for and they want to be searchable. Mostly young people find value in posting about themselves or just to connect with others that work for them. Anybody who's in a company they like, and plan on just staying there, probably are not on LinkedIn. Although some people do have a LinkedIn, even if they've worked for a company for decades, just for the social media connection aspect of it. But, if they're not interested, then they won't.
I don't think LinkedIn (or tinder for that matter) hires few people because they're focused on the best. There's never a way to know which applicant will even be good. I think the filtering process is misguided and many good workers are not chosen because they don't fit exactly what in the surface they "should" be like. This doesn't mean they're not the top 10% in terms of talent, dedication and love for their career.
@@HersatzThis isn't the oppression Olympics, no one thinks it's impressive that you're being taken advantage of. Regardless, if you had reading comprehension he didn't say that was his experience. He said more than that should be illegal.
Haha job fairs where they send the most junior recruiter or someone from marketing who just wanted to be away from the office and they refer you to the website
@denken7208 I was the only senior developer there among hordes of kids. Many representatives were not prepared to talk about senior positions. But some were.
@@ArgumentumAdHominem were there HM at the fair and they fast-tracked you? Where are you located? Usually it requires rounds and rounds before an offer is on the table. Congrats btw
The new bigotry. Not as much a problem these days being female, or black, or following some less popular religion, but have a "gap" on your resume => tossed out in the cold! Five of Pentacles is your Tarot card!
Me being a vice principal in an online school, the principal asked me to recruit. I decided to apply to our competitiors and see how they recruit and learn from them. I got rejected everywhere, while being a vice principal already, with "lack of experience" or "not what we are looking for." Understand that a lot of recruiting they do is an illusion of work, to show their higher ups they are working to strengthen the company positions, while in reality it's just a clown fiesta. And I can't explain this to my friends who struggle to find a job. They won't believe
That's fucking insane lmao. HR is a fucking clownshow, I just remember the guy who says that he will never talk to HR and openly scuffs at them lol. Extremely based, but I can't find the video, unfortunately.
There seems to be an entire corporate ecosystem at this point built around "the impression" of work. Whole job titles and depts. full of people technically working but not really accomplishing anything or doing anything really meaningful.Inefficiency and waste seem to be the new norm now. Everyone's just going through the motions. It just feels like absolute insanity.
@@Shloggerthe reason we’re in the situation we’re in is bc if decades of laziness and everyone fucking the next person down the line. Now the hens are home to roost unfortunately 🤦🏾♂️
I really appreciate you for sharing. I got rejected from a small cafe even though I’ve worked 4 years at Starbucks🥲 nothing makes sense and it hard not to take it personally
"hey, what's that six month gap in your résumé?" "Oh that's the six months I spent looking for a job." "I don't know, seems sus. Rejected." "And that's a seven month gap...wheeee"
@@kaijuultimax9407i would claim disability, and then sign up for job supports. Basically makes it the county’s responsibility to find you a job while they pay for your rent.
That's my biggest obstacle in job hunting, at least seems so from my point of view. Imagine the twin brother of a certain famous Starship Medical Officer hollering "Dammit Jim, I'm an Professional Electronics Engineer not a Goddamn Resume Writer!"
@@MichelleB022 There's a bit more to it than that, Linkedin also shows how actively engaged you are with the social media platform, ignoring the fact that those without work don't have much they can talk about on a platform built around talking about your professional career. This means that the only profiles that look good are the ones that either find some way to still keep active or those that are pretending they are.
I've been complaining about this to my wife too. The fact that you have to really work on your LinkedIn profile to even get a reply back was so bafflingly idiotic to me. It's like trying to suck up to your bosses just to get fired but you never even had the job to begin with. Does that make sense? No, welcome to LinkedIn!
I hired somebody to do it. She was great. She literally helped me get three jobs. Two of them didn't work out but the last one I've been at for over a month and I love it.
A dear college friend of mine asked me to join LinkedIn because we both owned businesses. He sadly died of cancer a few years ago and LinkedIn continued to send me e-mails from him with his picture for over five years after his death. It was very creepy. I never told his family because they had gone through enough already.
I have lost a friend in the 6th of february earthquake of southeastern Turkey. Was in a similar situation and LinkedIn was acting in a similar manner. But fortunately they have a report system that allows you to report if someone is dead if you can prove it. I did that and they finally deleted her account. I am sorry for your loss.
Not in school to qualify for internships. Not enough experience to get an "Entry Level" job, and going on too long out of school to qualify for a "new grad" position.
@@richardlin2359I don't know man, it's been over a year for me and I'm going insane. I worked my ass off for my bachelor's and it feels like it'd be more worth it to use my degree to wipe my fucking ass at this point
How are ghost jobs not false advertising? If you run a sweepstakes and don’t give away the prize after getting partication, it would be considered fraud. Whats worse is that they are using paid monthly platforms to get consideration.
@Tom-h9j7f Just FYI, if they ask you to do some work for them, like coming up with your own ideas on marketing or improvement, don’t give them anything actually good. Turns out they steal people’s ideas and just end up not hiring them.
It's funny to see companies complaining that so many applications are made using AI, they could easily prevent this by being more transparent and not having insane demands, but they'll never learn
@@uwotm8634 dont forget that they post a job posting and then thake it down 2-3 days later to re post it as a new job posting and the job post is so generic that the candidate can´t tell the different between that and any other job post from any other company. so even if they get the wait I already applied for this they know that they can´t trust that because you know its probably from another company. so they send in there application (they dont get a you already applied) so they start to not trust that gut feeling.
@ thanks for the advice, but I said it just for the comedic effect. I am actually married and I asked my wife out on ICQ, there were no apps by then. So I actually don’t know how many matches I’d be getting. But I do have good looking recruiters reaching on LinkedIn quite often, so I can corroborate that part of the joke.
Connections are definitely 70% of getting the jobs now. 30% is having the minimum requirement to do the job. My first job as a teacher was at a highly undesirable school where I barely squeaked in. Every single teaching job I got after that was because a colleague recommended me or a neighbor offered to pass my application along to their principal. Really is who you know.
@JupiterTarts I don't doubt that this is true, but I find it absolutely disgusting. Since I have no connections, I'm pretty sure my only option is to end things myself.
@@EdwardM-t8p I've been looking for work since I got my master's in applied mathematics in 2021. I haven't been picky either. I've gotten certifications in cybersecurity, data science, and machine learning engineering since then, but I've still heard absolutely nothing. None of my skills are actually in demand enough for me to be able to get a job, so I'm really just an extra person wasting space. I realize that I'm just of absolutely no use to anyone.
@@Langtwthe problem with digital work is you are competing against 3rd world wages. I would recomend looking into aerospace or medical because it has to be done here.
As a recently retired corporate recruiter, I one hundred percent applaud this excellent video. LinkedIn has become a joke, and probably the least effective way to get a job is to apply on their platform. You might as well just toss your resume in the trash (at least there, at least the person emptying the trash will see it). People's comments below are right on as well. In this ridiculous job market, I really think the only way to stay employed is to start your own business.
I miss old times when I could print 5 to 6 copies of my CV and drop them to the companies where I wanted to work and within less than 3 weeks I had an interview and hired on the same day when I had an interview.
I moved about a year ago and printed 30 resumes and snail mailed them to thirty contractors in my area and got zero replies. 😂 My logic was if they don't call me I don't want to work for them. They didn't call so I was quite satisfied to rule them all out.
Same here...My first job was a drop off resume in person, responding to a newspaper ad... An interview followed up in two weeks and I was hired right away. Yes, I agree... that was in 1999...
@@SomeGuyAsWell stealing workers is a thing you can use the talent pools for. Local recruiter likes doing this. Collects data on new workers and then waits a few years before contacting em and trying to pilfer em once they got some skills
Modern corporate culture seems like it's dehumanizing, demoralizing, and degrading in ways that almost certainly aren't good for the long term wellness of our species.
@@Skadongle I agree. They tell us though, own nothing, be "happy". No meat, just ze bugs. No land, just smart cities with a dominos on every corner. no cars, just self driving taxes, and dont forget the tesla bots in your home, hospitals, and policing your community. Its going to be great.... i cant wait... but most of us took a little something back in 2020 that will be activated soon, and will be the end of many. they said they wanted the pop to go from seven billon people to like 1 billon people, so do the math. They also said they wanted to do it peacefully too. anyways, this will probably get taken down or ignored. Much love, stay prayed up and believe in Jesus christ on heaven above sitting at the right hand of the father.
I knew it was beyond crazy when a client had to apply online for a dishwasher position. I volunteered at the state Workforce office helping the unemployed apply for jobs online. A gentleman in his 50’s was over the deep end, he had never used a computer and was barely literate. He stated that he use to walk in, fill out the application and get to work. I had to build a CV for this guy so he could apply for a dishwasher position because it was part of the application. I wondered if the hiring manager ask him where he saw himself in five years?
I have a LinkedIn profile but haven't logged in to the platform. In the UK, it is against the law to put ethnicity, photos, age, or gender on your CV, but LinkedIn provides that loophole. There is incredible competition for good-quality jobs anywhere. I struggled a lot after my university degree (I did sciences). But I worked as a chef before earning my degree, so I had a fallback job while I was looking. The grind can be incredibly disenchanting. I got my first tech job “by word of mouth,” I.e. friend of a friend of a friend (ironically, I worked for a catering company called that). Thank you for encouraging people. Great video.
At the end you hit on something massive. Pounding the pavement isn't handing out resumes in person, it's talking to businesses and getting in touch with people who can make decisions. Back in the day I struggled finding a job, but the second I got one of my first jobs, in engineering, in an industry I didn't study for and attended the first trade shows I had multiple offers I didn't ask for. I remember ending up in an elevator with an owner of a competitor of our company and the guy said if I was ever passing through his state to stop by as they had a home for me. It wasn't because I was some genius, I didn't know what I was doing, but I was a young guy in an industry dominated by people about to retire and many company owners were looking to find people to train for the jobs, they just never received anything because headhunters, recruiting sites, and whatever didn't know how to find anyone for them. You want to go to shows, to businesses, wherever, and talk to people actually at the companies to bypass HR. Pound the pavement, but in the real way.
@@randomkyle3 I've worked in a few different ones, from metrology (no, not meteorology) to mechanical. The specific case in question was actually the construction industry where they weren't really looking for a specific type of engineer but rather someone who could fit in that space between sales, customer support, and R&D. You might have to take a pay cut starting out, I know one of the reasons I got the job was because another candidate they liked more asked for 125k as opposed to the 90k I took at the time, but if you do well you can leverage your position as the industry can have very high turnover and isn't particularly fun. I ended up leaving to start my own business unrelated to engineering, but if I could give any advice to people in school it's to not go after prestige unless you really know what you want to do in particular, and to focus on things like co-ops, internship, and general networking. Also, don't be afraid to take a setback at times and explore things outside your field, take risks like learning A2LA and ISO procedures, etc, have fun in life, the accolades won't get you anywhere.
Every time I could talk separately with HR and the actual owners their goals were not aligned whatsoever. Owners just want decent people, capable of doing the job and if possible that they are interested in the product/service somewhat. HR is given a list, and try to match candidates to that, most of the times not even understanding what they are looking for.
@@juanfp That's the biggest issue, HR usually isn't qualified to hire people if the position requires any skill so they're essentially throwing darts blindly.
What I don’t like is that employers literally refuse a physical resume and demand you apply online. Yeah sure I can do that but that’s how you dont get hired… because bots just automatically disregards your resume at random.
Whoever you talked to didn't like you. You need a social circle overlap. The easiest is sports team. If it's a woman, then dating rules apply- if she isn't interested, you ain't going anywhere
If they tell you to apply online and the job is still open after about 15 days, then you need to read between the lines: they want you to prove your skill and interest in the company by circumventing their website protections. You're supposed to breach their systems and hire yourself.
The AI generated recruiter thing is terrifying. I went back and looked at some of the people I had spoken with... I'm fairly certain I fell for one of them. I had a whole conversation with the guy and then did and phone screening and never heard back, but I remember thinking something was off the whole time, just couldn't put my finger on it. Everything on the profile seemed legit and there was activity on the account commenting on other people's posts and stuff. Looked at the profile picture closer, the guy's teeth are smeared together, eyes perfectly centered, nondescript background...
Given the real recruiters I've interacted with, I'm not surprised they're the first to be replaced with AI anyway. Typically they talk down to me about my skills and multiple degrees, while their profile says they've been a recruiter for less than 6 months, no degrees, and their last job was retail at Target. They never seem to be able to answer any of my questions about the job but just endlessly talk around them saying nothing of substance. And I'm sure the last one I talked to was real, because I met him in his office.
Yeah man. I remember just walking into companies, introducing myself, asking for a paper application. Always got hired pretty much right away. I’ve literally had close to no luck with online applications. I apply for hundreds of jobs and get no call backs or anything unless it’s a scam. I have a ton of experience and degree too. The system is so broken.
I've had entry level jobs where I started right after an interview or the next day getting a call to come in. Now days even with real jobs they want me to go online. Sucky thing is "employees wanted" signs are everywhere.
It so nice to know that I'm not crazy. I've been struggling to find a job for years and everyone tells me that the jobs are on linkedin, but I never get anywhere.
Easy solution. Ten years in prison for posting a ghost job. Ten years in prison for data harvesting job applicants. All job posting must post salary and benefits or ten years in prison.
Missing a parents funeral is absolutely not acceptable. Work or labor market conditions which require such inhuman sacrifices as not having any normal privacy or family life should be abolished.
I missed my mother's funeral due to work--I was so stressed out that I took the 2 days off just to get a breath. Ended up losing that gig about 3 weeks later 😢
The one thing no one ever talks abut with these job boards and the one reason why I have hope for the future: The candidates who do end up getting hired after making it through all the AI filters and recruiting agencies are often sub-par because they aren't actually the best at the job you want them to do, they're just the best at beating the broken job system, and hiring managers are starting to wake up and realize this.
Accurate. Its like those troll videos where people spam keywords/buzzwords onto a resume saying they have 20 years of experience in Al Qaeda. And then getting a 70% callback rate from their resumes cus HR midwits are too braindead to actually do their jobs properly.
I lost my job nearly 5 years ago a literal month before the pandemic. I'm still unemployed. I've just given up entirely. You'd think being poor and homeless would be stressful, but it's been the exact opposite. I haven't been this stress free my entire adult life. No regrets.
This expectation that everyone with an education wants to climb the corporate ladder is assinine. Some people just want to do work and not have a career, but stability. The concept of a career is instability incarnate. Having a family means: No travel. No moving homes. Be at home around 4pm at the least. Be available at any time for emergencies for your family. For at least 18 years. Now what job with a "career" allows for that?
CNC machinist 4 10 hour days 3 days off every week. a union bosses will give out blow jobs to get you to work for them. 2 of my class mates in collage for Cnc machinist had 2 interviews in one day. I had a dude before I started Tell a boss to F off, calls back in increase pay to 21 an hour plus free benefits She screams telling the boss to F off, E** sh17 and die. He calls back again no joke 24.55 plus free benefits vacations time day one. yeah it’s why I’m going to school for it. 24.55 to 32 as an starting wage is upper middle class in Ohio 32 is considered rich, 40 or 45 is is considered filthy rich. mansion that are 3 stories with shit tons of land will cost you 300K in Ohio
It's sad days when you can get a job from your local crime lord with more professionalism and integrity than hiring agencies or just going to a legitimate company's website. Plus he'll give you equipment and training from a seasoned professional with more quality than an actual job. I swear we live in a Southpark episode.
I have over 10 years of call center customer service experience, over 20 years of working with computers, and a compTIA A+ IT certificate and it STILL took me over a year to find a job!
@@yungmentalproblems Ahh yes, just do what everyone else has been told to do for the last 5 years. I'm sure that job market won't be oversaturated by the time you get to it :)
That's rough, since I'm in college atm as a CS major. For a while, like everyone else, I've tried to inform myself as much as I can about anything job-related, and it's been getting noticeably depressing with how things are, and might be in the future
@@drakehashimoto685 Most tech companies prefer a candidate fresh out of college or with 1 year of experience in the field. This is because the skillset is probably up to date and the pay will be minimal compared to an experienced developer. There are companies that upskill candidates at the behest of a company and pay something like $20 an hour during the upskilling process while they position you for a job with one of their partner companies. But you typically have to sign a multi-year contract with one of their partner companies and must accept job offers. It's easier to get intern work and get promoted into that company. LinkedIn is usually not the way to go. You usually need to go through the company directly. You may also need to get creative with companies you search for. Defense contractors in particular have a unique set of qualifications that values low experience candidates with college degrees from a public university. There is also the Officer's Training School route with the military once you have a bachelor's degree. The Air Force is difficult to place with, but the Navy is easier.
I graduated in August with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. I've applied for every job I'm even remotely qualified for and have had no luck, and am now having to turn to food banks and emergency rental assistance just to get by while I continue to job hunt...
That's absolutely crazy. What I'd recommend that you do is consider a career in IT. Get a certificate in either security or networking and doors should open. 🤓
@alphaomega1351 nah no way, if I went back to university or anything else again I'd provly just off myself, was such a miserable half decade. All I want is a starter engineering job...
You’ve perfectly summed up what a lot of job seekers have thought about LinkedIn for a long time. Spurning up your work experience literally gives you the same high as updating your Tinder profile. You feel good and motivated at first, and then the high evaporates pretty quickly
@ of course! I continue to have conversations with former classmates and coworkers who have been affected by recent economic events. Wish I could say things are getting better, but on a macro scale the economy still looks bleak. Stock market shifts are unfortunately not reflective at all of the average joe. It doesn’t matter if you’re working or not, everyone feels the effect of price increases at the grocery store. Regarding your video - 100% agree that the ‘Open To Work’ status reeks of desperation. People are catching on, and it’s quite normal to just not update the end date of your last job. Once the cat’s outta the bag, it’s hard to mask later on (especially if you’re out of work for an extended period of time). Better to clarify when you’re already having the interview than to not get an interview in the first place. Recruiters and hiring managers seem to be empathetic when you’re actually talking to them, and are cognizant of the current job market. Thing is though, you’ve gotta market yourself in the best way possible so that interview can happen first 😉
@@DamonCassidy of course! I continue to have conversations with former classmates and coworkers who have been affected by recent economic events. Wish I could say things are getting better, but on a macro scale the economy still looks bleak. Stock market shifts are unfortunately not reflective at all of the average joe. It doesn’t matter if you’re working or not, everyone feels the effect of price increases at the grocery store. Regarding your video - 100% agree that the ‘Open To Work’ status reeks of desperation. People are catching on, and it’s quite normal to just not update the end date of your last job. Once the cat’s outta the bag, it’s hard to mask later on (especially if you’re out of work for an extended period of time). Better to clarify when you’re already having the interview than to not get an interview in the first place. Recruiters and hiring managers seem to be empathetic when you’re actually talking to them, and are cognizant of the current job market. Thing is though, you’ve gotta market yourself in the best way possible so that interview can happen first 😉
I live in the Detroit Metro area, and talking to a good amount of the elderly population here shows just how much the job market changed. The percentage of the elderly population I'm talking about are usually solidly middle class and financially sound while in retirement, and live in a good home in a good area. If you were to ask them what they did for work a good amount of them say the same thing: They graduated highschool, joined the job market right after, maybe job hopped for a little bit, but they all eventually end up working for one of the automotive companies. They all started off as a grunt worker, where they all eventually climbed high enough up the corporate ladder to live a comfortable life. And a lot of them weren't even that high. Just high enough. This is a life that just sound baffling to me. So many places nowadays either don't bother hiring entry level people, or don't promote loyalty. Almost everyone I know either can't find work with their skill set because they're too green, or job hop constantly because it's impossible to get a raise.
Yup. Tried explaining the work/hiring culture to my great grandma and it looked like she was hearing a foreign language😂 and yeah job hopping for better pay is real. I actually got to manager at a pizza place but it was $10 an hour😑
Easy solve. Make ghost jobs illegal. Make data harvesting through ghost jobs even more illegal. Make salary and benefits a requirement for posting. Fine companies the full year value of the ghost job per county it’s posted in and create a government bounty program in which employees and recruiters are given part of the fine in order to self report the ghost jobs.
I went to my MP last week to propose pretty much this. I talked with her assistant (it’s always an assistant) and was met with a bored stare. I’ll keep trying but I don’t think government is really clued into how toxic the job market is (I’m in month 17 of unemployment as a software engineer).
Usually don’t agree with government getting involved in such things, but I think it’s time they step in. Looking for work right now and the amount of time I have wasted applying to jobs is disgusting
back when i was in high school in my last year our tech computer teacher had us create linkedin account i always viewed it as a way to get employed but with the minimum entry requires being like 5 years of experience when your only 18 and ive heard some video saying the experiences can be exaggerated a bit if you start rounding the years and time spent and add them up to 5 years and land the job talk about integrity and honesty
Was literally just thinking the other day, gen z has to wait for current employees to bite the dust to get a job cus retirement isn’t a thing any more and SS is gone too. Absurd.
LinkedIn sucked when I graduated from college in 2010. If you’d told me it would have such dominance nearly 15 years later, I would have laughed at you. I truly can’t believe it’s still a thing.
I got my six-figure job through LinkedIn, but it took over 300 applications and dozens of interviews to do so. In the end, my recruiter contacted ME, so the applications didn’t even matter.
I cannot stand seeing those posts from LinkedIn employees. In fact, the other posts from members are degrees of separation from instagram narcissism. You know who your are. If you're talking about some serious business topic, then post a pic of yourself smiling or posing and that's it, I always think, shouldn't you be showing a graph or something relevant to the topic? The site has become a giant cringe-orgy.
@@matthewk4912I always felt that people behaved that way on the platform since I was introduced to it about 10 years ago by a college professor. Most of the posts looked like either desperation or covered in sugar and political correctness to not lose any chances of landing a job/scaring future candidates.
I was thinking that it is me that is having these thoughts about linkedin ❤ but here I go...I feel better now knowing that there are so many people sharing this! Thank you!!! I have never liked LinkedIn - it is not matching my personality.
True. I get these posts from people that are always self-aggrandizing like they're the most accomplished person out there. I frequently get requests to connect from people that I knew in grad school that trampled over me to get ahead. They could not care less about helping me find a job! They just want my number to add to their growing list of connections to show how insanely important and beloved they are!!! I love hitting the Ignore button. ❤❤❤❤
Loved your video! I’ve been on LinkedIn for many many years and I think the most powerful aspect of the platform is the network that you build overtime. Sometimes even our ancillary connections are the best way to land your next opportunity. And through the platform, I can easily keep in touch with everyone I have worked with over the last 20 years. Hang in there, my friend it’s not easy being early in your career …especially in today’s job market but what I can tell you is that you have outstanding communication skills, your delivery is perfection! Any recruiter in corporate America would be impressed with the way you communicate…take it from someone who has been in corporate America since 1992…The path you’re on right now is solid. Everyone gravitates towards corporate America because it pays really well but at the end of the day there is zero job security (absolutely zero) regardless of your title or how much money you make or how hard you work, the better path is to go into business for yourself…. It may not be the easy path, but it’s by far the better path. 😊 keep up the great work you have a new subscriber.
Today I am excited to announce my mother has died. This is a pivotal moment in my life🎉because I can finally focus on what is truly important, my 9-5 job and raising shareholder value. I am so happy to be able to truly pay attention to the work now without a nagging distraction getting in the way of projects. This will be a major game-changer in my productivity levels and I have my mother's passing to thank for this. Talk about a positive change!
Recruitment companies are making good money. During the pandemic, my friend, who works as a recruiter, is averaging 10k per month recruiting just swabbers alone. Even after pandemic, he could still earn 5-6k per month
And this is exactly why I can not stand recruiters and hiring managers. They are like leeches sucking money out of the company just to hire a bunch of incompetent people.
Face to face events are golden. Being a genuine person in real life to EVERYONE you meet pays off. I’ve met business owners, CEOs, and senior leaders while flying on airplanes, eating dinner alone at hotel bars, and helping someone on the street when they’re struggling with a box. Try to get out, sitting at home submitting resumes won’t get you anywhere.
Okay, let me leave my 3 kids in a closet with the dog. I just need to figure out how to teach the dog to change diapers. Then I could travel the world and network...
This video really hit me as I'm coming up on the end of my unemployment and I keep on getting rejection letter after rejection letter. I have experience in biomedical engineering and pharmaceutical labs and I'm currently getting my CompTIA A+ certification to become an IT professional. I've been applying to remote jobs left and right but I suspect many of them are fake. If anyone needs an IT helpdesk technician I am open and available. I have customer service experience from multiple retail and call center jobs. I'm resourceful and I have critical-thinking skills.
I'm in the supply chain field and have been a manager for over 5 years, and I'm getting the exact same thing! The job description says they want five plus years as a manager, so I apply, just to be rejected! The crazy thing is I have very pertinent skills pertaining to Walmart Sam's Club and costco. I'm basically a shoe in for any company because I understand those companies so well. I've worked for Walmart internally in their corporate office, and I've worked for a cpg. So I'm very well-rounded and can jump in on anybody's account if it's Walmart Costco or Sam's, but I'm getting passed up like it's nobody's business. And I'm also 33 years old, so it's not an age issue
I was unemployed for 1.5 years. Ive applied over 1000+ jobs on linkedin. You dont know how much i suffered during these period. Just got a low paying job with a 70% cut from my previous salary. Im not even joking. Life sometimes hits really hard. All i can say is stay strong, every dog has its day!
One company I work for gave up on HR trying to hire technical people the relevant manager looks at applications because HR simply does not have the knowledge to be of any use.
I've seen this as well. HR does the background check but not the interview in larger organizations I have worked for. They may be in the room but they are just there to answer questions.
Good. My dad was saying the main reason why technical fields are completely starved of workers while new grads are going homeless, is because HR is always ran by incompetent people that have zero clue about what their doing
Bro I reached out to HR for an internal job I was perfect for. I was ignored by the hr recruiter so I contacted the hiring manager who immediately set up a meeting with me? WTF!!!!
I realized this about HR a year after I graduated. I ended up starting my own business with the skills that HR rejected me for and now I make more money hourly than any of them lol. HR is the most useless department at any company. I don't respect them, they have no skill set but for some reason companies give them all of the power.
I’ve been looking for a job for over a year in these platforms and can’t even get an interview, it’s absolutely insane. I have 1 year left in my degree and 3+ years of experience. Can’t even get a call or email about 12/hr jobs. It’s insane and demoralizing.
Local networking groups, agencies, volunteer work, 40 hours plus a week looking for a job, agencies, Indeed and finishing your degree. ONLY after the degree was Completed did I get a job making double my existing salary. Something about FINISHING the degree. These are just general guidelines--hopefully you are not AI. :-))
Hearing these recruiters talk about candidates for positions they need is disturbing and disgusting. Desperation?!! Yeh people need a job and a place to live like wtf
I've been out of a job in the videogame industry for 2 years now. To the point that I have gone back to school to try and learn how to get my own indie studio started. I now have a tiny team of people who, like me, are out of a job and trying to figure out this game with no prior experience, because no one will give it to us. Hopefully the revenue share model will be worth it in the long run.
By the way, how can I join in or at least look at what you're up to? I'm just beginning to work on my own stuff but if it so happens that this makes more sense or we can share some inspiration or at least make connections.
Yes, he is the left's favorite bogeyman. He caused cancer and stole everyone's girlfriend as well. 😆. Anybody who thinks he broke everything didn't live through the 70's.....when everything broke. In addition, the "final nail" was the inclusion of Chai NA in the WTO under Bill C's administration. American mfg jobs went offshore after this occurred.
All of them riddled with inaccuracies to promote a communist boomer-enabling agenda. Reagan bashing is communism and boomerism and a sign of daddy issues.
It's wild to me that people still recommend keeping your LinkedIn up to date and recommend it for job hunting. The only reason i have mine is because my entire work history is on it
I've been applying for work since July 2024 well over 600 applications in that time, but thankfully finally got an offer recently. The ghost job aspect was something I suspected, but couldn't support. I now believe my time as an independent contractor (billing at 3x my previous hourly rate) was viewed as a liability by hiring managers, instead of showing initiative and resourcefulness. Thank you for quantifying it and confirming I'm not paranoid. Great info and commentary.
I have been dealing with this nonsense forever. I do not exaggerate when I say that, since I graduated, I have applied to *thousands* of jobs over the years. I've seen it only getting worse every year. I'm thankful to have a job now. How long will I have it? I don't know.
I think that's the unkindest cut. The idea was that you'd keep your resume sharp on LI so you had a good place to keep it, then when you felt like moving you'd hit the button.
When I got laid off 6 months ago I naively believed that I will get a job in no time considering my skills and experience. Now I have to keep explaining what motivates me to apply for a job for which I am overqualified.
I got an MBA with an emphasis in Supply Chain, and it's been over a year since I graduated now. Looking for a better job has led to embarrassment, ghosting, and terrible feelings of inadequacy.
Also something to think about the way LinkedIn operates similar to big pharma. Their goal is to NOT connect you to a job opportunity right just like big pharma may or may not give you what you need. Having the "symptom" or in this case need for a job longer and makes it harder to have a job found by increasing the requirements subtly on job postings makes for a great business model. Think about it, why would you make it easier for someone to get hired immediately only to lose the reoccurring revenue that comes from businesses being forced to repost and pay for advertising to be seen by "the best candidates"? This means even in a shitty job market, they stand to gain the most profit right about now. Pretty evil considering that people need to survive and don't give a damn for the most part about these jobs and by doing this it puts people in harms way.
The US, in general, is going through what I call ‘a crisis of middle management’. There are so many people who are in positions that have no idea what they are actually doing. But they succumbed to lifestyle creep and now their entire existence hinges on the continued existence of this job. I truly believe the behavior on LinkedIn, and in real life, is just an outgrowth of people defending their worthlessness. These people have to know how woefully unequipped they are for the positions they occupy. So sucking up to our corporate overlords is the only way to continue to justify their existence. They’ll only bring in people with the same mindset and the problem deepens and continues
Not true dude. Just apply for a regular listing on indeed and it should end well. Also depends on the country. Anglo-Saxon countries have lost all touch with reality. Where I live I actually ask the employer how the application procedure will look. If he/she comes with bull crap of 2 or more interviews I will tell them to take a hike.
I had to subscribe after hearing that you’re from the Austin area. As someone who’s been to networking events in the area and has tried to grind LinkedIn connections to get a chance at even an internship, this video speaks to every frustration I’ve had in the past two years while providing an optimistic takeaway. I hope that more of us start to see the value in connecting with the human being as opposed to the corporate robot.
On one hand TH-cam creators are awesome for reporting on everything wrong in this world. On the other hand, it's pure reporting. Even if everyone knows that something is wrong, no one does anything about it or ever recommends any solutions for the problems they observe. In the end, these reports are then just contributing to people's anxiety and negative feelings about the world they live in, rather than actually changing something. We don't want content (even if we consume it; consumption is a side effect of how we are wired), we want change. Why doesn't anyone invest the time to actually do something about the things they notice to be different than they are supposed to be.
Well it certainly is difficult for a single TH-camr to solve the systemic issues throughout the last hundred years that has resulted in the labor market we have especially with very little resources. This type of reporting allows people to see that what is happening isn’t a result of their inadequacies which helps far more than hurts and also stimulates the conversation of what can WE do to solve this. It allows you to walk away and think about the things that can be done to solve it, instead or burying your head in the sand to never face this issue. With that being said something you didn’t ask was what am I doing about this. I am actually in the process of revolutionizing the recruiting industry using blockchain technology and Ai to create a decentralized and unbiased platform to compete against LinkedIn and indeed. The unfortunate thing is while reading this you almost instinctively believe that could never be done haha so what’s the point in talking about it until it’s actually built?
@@DamonCassidy props to you for trying to make a difference. Otherwise I feel that any movement or change needs two things, people who want it and a person who will lead it. Nothing happens by just thinking about it. To create a movement and create change, one also needs to be quite a good marketer nowadays, i.e., needs to have the skill to reach a large number of people, draw in their attention, keep it, and then guide them towards the correct behaviour, i.e., a way of reaching change. Successful TH-camrs clearly know how to do that, so rather than just reporting, they could start movements regarding the changes they really care about, rather than just keep creating new videos about new problems to avoid habituating their following, i.e., first create a video to make people aware of a problem, then think how to solve it, then create videos about solving it collectively, i.e., what precisely them and others will and can do, to lead to desired change. People who watch videos on TH-cam (especially this type of videos), tend to be observers not doers. TH-cam creators are the doers, so it is more on them than on their following to do something. All most of the following is capable of doing is supporting with likes and subscribes, so that the word spreads around quicker. P.S.: Not sure, I might be different, but when the world sucks, and I realize it is not my fault, it doesn't hurt less, it hurts more, becaue the world sucks and I don't have a solution on how to change things for the better. Overall, not sure whether on average, guilt (of not being good enough) or heplesness (to change things for the better) hurts more. I'd say it's the latter. Anyway, thanks for responding and good luck with your blockchain project! I hope what I wrote makes sense. Was thinking about running it through ChatGPT, then thought this would be more genuine and hopefully, clear enough as well.
We don't. We increase their cyber security budget requirements and simultaneously compromise consumer identities until economic collapse. It's a Venezuelan-style slow-decline but with robots
Gen Z: *working harder than ever, has two bachelor’s degrees, trying to get five year’s worth of experience for an entry level data job* Hiring managers: *disrespects Gen Z, doesn’t pay them enough, is constantly attempting to manipulate Gen Z* Hiring managers: “Gen Z doesn’t want to work, they’re so lazy, god what happened to capitalism”
I got rejected from an internship(!) because the company "couldn't find a 100% match for the job", so in the end they didn't hire anyone for it. Something tells me that NONE of the people that interviewed me several times were 100% matches for their jobs when they started 15 years ago.
@Tuppoo94 unfortunately when a company says they “can’t find a match” 99% of the time they actually found someone else within the company to fill the position, the person who filled the position got it via nepotism, or they delegated the position’s tasks to several other people already within the company so they wouldn’t have to shill out more money. Either that, or it was a ghost position but from what I hear ghost listings don’t normally get to the interview phase ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thank you so much for this. I now understand that bad feeling I have towards LinkedIn which I didnt know how to articulate, but feel them in my guts. You really helped me. Please continue making videos
I think the whole of job seeking and recruiting is becoming pretty dehumanizing. Job seekers are being encouraged to use AI for mass submission and optimize every resume because it's a numbers game. On the opposite end, recruiters are flooded with 1000s of applicants per job each week, so they rely on video screeners, AI scoring, and frequently ghost candidates. We're entering an era where the process for listing and finding a job needs to be rethought.
This rule is almost impossible to follow in 2024, but if you can force yourself to stick to it, it works: Never give your resume to any person you haven't had at least a three-minute conversation with. Sticking to that rule is about as hard as sticking to a healthy diet and also exercising at least five days a week--and it has just as good results.
That does not work either. Plenty of great conversations and job fairs and the person there saying they love my resume. 90 percent go nowhere. You have to be the most qualified and tailor your resume to get past AI keyword scanners and get a referal. Then you have a good chance
Hard disagree. I’m a competitive bodybuilder- you can depend on diet and exercise to give you a positive result. You can’t with capitalism and job markets.
I don't use job listing sites anymore. I use them as a guide to feel out what's happening. I always check the parent site and see what they've listed there as it's usually (not always) more representitive of what they're looking for and what's required. For example, if I'm redirected to a recruiting agency or an agency that profits off of training with no guarentee of a job afterward but you're on the hook for anything that goes wrong or requires a form of payment, etc. These are all red flags from a job seekers point of view.
I have never succeeded in getting a job by trying to convince strangers, I always got a job by someone I knew. “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know”.
Ohh hey, that’s me at 5:25
Holy cow! What are the odds. It’s a legendary post! I hope things have been going well for you
@@DamonCassidyhaha, was probably my cringiest post to date, but did get me an interview with business insider. But definitely agree with a lot of what you said. It is much harder to get a job now for sure and I think methods like networking, job fairs and things like that could help. Also not putting your eggs in one basket.
@@peterrota It was not AI gone wild?
@@kricku no, there was no AI. I don’t use it for any of my posts.
@@SwidrygajlowArek haha, good to know!
Job hunting has turned into a never ending humiliation ritual.
Well said! And perfectly, horribly true.
same with dating apps and dating
I struggled to find a decent job for years, constantly getting ghosted every application.
So then I decided to just take a temporary job in budget at $18 an hour. 2 months later, they moved me up to a temporary job in IT at $28 an hour which was the field I have experience in. And 6 months after that, I was hired on full time at $34 an hour. And now I currently make $55 an hour.
I spent 5 years making $16.50 an hour at a support call center putting in applications and getting ghosted and overlooked. I take a temporary job at $18 an hour and 3 years later I’m past 6 figures. It’s absolutely insane how hard it is to get to a certain point but then how easy it is to move once you break through the barrier.
4-5 years ago, iirc right before covid, I was sitting alone at a bank HQ depressed and angry about job hunting. Funny how I missed that now. At least I was talking to people back then, and most were kind and supportive. Now I’m just talking to copy-pasting drones and it feels like I’m in a Truman Show sometimes. I even have my own scripts for answering dms and calls for first interviews. Humans talking to each other like we’re AI until some corporate manager pushes the “Hire” button. Maybe we’re already in hell, we just don’t know it.
@skillethead15 shit, I applied to a place once and they had a crazy interview process then rejected me and didnt even follow uo with a rejection or we moved on notice. They left me in the dark and never spoke to me again. Nearly 6-8 months later they comtact me and lie to my face taking to me as if I just applied to a position and they had me "on file" and suggest I apply to the same damn role they rejected me on. I emailed her back letting her know they rejected me for the first role despite me being qualified and having done the role before at a different job for someone who had no experience but lived closer. So there you have it. I learned right then that companies will just post job roles just to harvest data and resumes so they cam tuck you away for when they are scrambling and need someone short notice. A lot of these places arent truly hiting at all. Glad you find a position. i Have a job now that I HATE that pays the bills and is easy to travel to and travel from but it took a year to get it.
LinkedIn feels like you walked into the Truman show. Everyone is an actor with over the top fake enthusiasm
Sweet Jesus, that’s an accurate description
holy sht you read my mind
So happy to announce that stonersgym8120 has done the best job with delighting customers in challenging times
Lol exactly it's ridiculous
Or like North Korea, where everyone would violent weep for their dictator as if their life depended on it.
LinkedIn has the same exact problem of Tinder: if you'll find a job, you'll stop using their site. It's in their best interests for you to never find a job, but make you think it's just around the corner potentially forever. Like a carrot on a stick in front of a donkey.
I didn't think about it like that. It also doesn't help that their "premium" plan doesn't work half the time and gives you more reason to stick around
This .
@HornetLarry that's only because tinder isn't designed to find a life long Partner . If it was good at that people would use it for that but that would mean constantly losing customers
Well most people that have LinkedIn accounts are people currently working a job. You can have a job for many years and still have a LinkedIn account. Also, I've noticed that certain jobs, like HR, usually have LinkedIn accounts, because their name is searched for and they want to be searchable. Mostly young people find value in posting about themselves or just to connect with others that work for them.
Anybody who's in a company they like, and plan on just staying there, probably are not on LinkedIn. Although some people do have a LinkedIn, even if they've worked for a company for decades, just for the social media connection aspect of it. But, if they're not interested, then they won't.
interesting
LinkedIn is now tinder.
95% of the jobs are only wanting the top 10% percent of candidates with rarely to offer.
LOL
Remember when it was the reverse Tinder?
Hot girls sent messages to nerds who ignored them.
😂 solid
I don't think LinkedIn (or tinder for that matter) hires few people because they're focused on the best. There's never a way to know which applicant will even be good. I think the filtering process is misguided and many good workers are not chosen because they don't fit exactly what in the surface they "should" be like. This doesn't mean they're not the top 10% in terms of talent, dedication and love for their career.
@@vadim6385 what? When has that even existed?
Studies show that loyalty gets punished instead of appreciated.
Only in knuckle dragger cultures like the American one.
Worse than that. Having no loyalty and switching back and forth between jobs gets results.
Loyalty is rewarded with more work and getting gaslit into thinking you’re worth less than you really are
Data Harvesting job listings NEED to be illegal
It'd be enough if Linkedin gave a shit which they obviously don't
As more than 2x1h interview and assessment should be illegal.
This
@@deefeeeeefeeeeeeeeee
2x1h, damn, you're lucky, in my field we get a hours long homework before having an actual interview.
@@HersatzThis isn't the oppression Olympics, no one thinks it's impressive that you're being taken advantage of. Regardless, if you had reading comprehension he didn't say that was his experience. He said more than that should be illegal.
Was applying for a job for 1 year every day on LinkedIn - no chance. Went to a job fair in person - got two offers. This guy gets it!
That probably gave you a chance to talk with the hiring manager first too. Who you work for matters.
@username7763 it's a small company. I talked directly with the CTO there
Haha job fairs where they send the most junior recruiter or someone from marketing who just wanted to be away from the office and they refer you to the website
@denken7208 I was the only senior developer there among hordes of kids. Many representatives were not prepared to talk about senior positions. But some were.
@@ArgumentumAdHominem were there HM at the fair and they fast-tracked you? Where are you located? Usually it requires rounds and rounds before an offer is on the table. Congrats btw
At this point, LinkedIn turned into a shittier Facebook.
Worse. It’s MySpace.
Stop making it so easy to be replaced, boycott for a better and fairer future. like dating apps. Return to traditions.
With a jobs board
boomers are there, of course it is shitty
"Corporate Facebook", this is how i define Linkedin. I don't have an account on both.
The employment gap thing is insane. The reason why there's a gap in the first place is.. because of these practices
The new bigotry. Not as much a problem these days being female, or black, or following some less popular religion, but have a "gap" on your resume => tossed out in the cold! Five of Pentacles is your Tarot card!
x1000
dont put resume gaps then 😂😂😂 you think they gonna check?
@@platinumpineapple9943 so lie as much as possible? Got it.
Thank you, jews
Me being a vice principal in an online school, the principal asked me to recruit. I decided to apply to our competitiors and see how they recruit and learn from them. I got rejected everywhere, while being a vice principal already, with "lack of experience" or "not what we are looking for."
Understand that a lot of recruiting they do is an illusion of work, to show their higher ups they are working to strengthen the company positions, while in reality it's just a clown fiesta. And I can't explain this to my friends who struggle to find a job. They won't believe
That's fucking insane lmao. HR is a fucking clownshow, I just remember the guy who says that he will never talk to HR and openly scuffs at them lol. Extremely based, but I can't find the video, unfortunately.
There seems to be an entire corporate ecosystem at this point built around "the impression" of work. Whole job titles and depts. full of people technically working but not really accomplishing anything or doing anything really meaningful.Inefficiency and waste seem to be the new norm now. Everyone's just going through the motions. It just feels like absolute insanity.
Ah the human resources industry
@@Shloggerthe reason we’re in the situation we’re in is bc if decades of laziness and everyone fucking the next person down the line. Now the hens are home to roost unfortunately 🤦🏾♂️
I really appreciate you for sharing. I got rejected from a small cafe even though I’ve worked 4 years at Starbucks🥲 nothing makes sense and it hard not to take it personally
"hey, what's that six month gap in your résumé?"
"Oh that's the six months I spent looking for a job."
"I don't know, seems sus. Rejected."
"And that's a seven month gap...wheeee"
Laughed so hard at this
Now try doing that for two entire years. I am unhireable and it's all because of post-pandemic job board chicanery.
@@kaijuultimax9407i would claim disability, and then sign up for job supports. Basically makes it the county’s responsibility to find you a job while they pay for your rent.
They are begging you to lie :(
I can't ever believe stuff like this, how do you have enough money to not work
-Did you hire the guy with the most experience and relevant skills for this position?
-No, we hired the guy with the best looking LinkedIn profile.
That's my biggest obstacle in job hunting, at least seems so from my point of view. Imagine the twin brother of a certain famous Starship Medical Officer hollering "Dammit Jim, I'm an Professional Electronics Engineer not a Goddamn Resume Writer!"
A LinkedIn profile is basically just a resume. So what’s the difference.
@@MichelleB022 There's a bit more to it than that, Linkedin also shows how actively engaged you are with the social media platform, ignoring the fact that those without work don't have much they can talk about on a platform built around talking about your professional career. This means that the only profiles that look good are the ones that either find some way to still keep active or those that are pretending they are.
I've been complaining about this to my wife too. The fact that you have to really work on your LinkedIn profile to even get a reply back was so bafflingly idiotic to me. It's like trying to suck up to your bosses just to get fired but you never even had the job to begin with. Does that make sense? No, welcome to LinkedIn!
More like LickedIn
@@chookitty5219 Take your coat and get out.
I hired somebody to do it. She was great. She literally helped me get three jobs. Two of them didn't work out but the last one I've been at for over a month and I love it.
Don't complain toooo much or you'll be looking at divorce papers 😭😭 I've seen it happen too many times
@@ZomboidManiabro what? Shut up lol
The worst thing LinkedIn ever did was allowing the posting of news stories and the comment section after them
A dear college friend of mine asked me to join LinkedIn because we both owned businesses. He sadly died of cancer a few years ago and LinkedIn continued to send me e-mails from him with his picture for over five years after his death. It was very creepy. I never told his family because they had gone through enough already.
That should be illegal.
I have lost a friend in the 6th of february earthquake of southeastern Turkey. Was in a similar situation and LinkedIn was acting in a similar manner. But fortunately they have a report system that allows you to report if someone is dead if you can prove it. I did that and they finally deleted her account. I am sorry for your loss.
Wht kind of email
Too many job scammers on LinkedIn.
Agreed. As soon as I stopped applying, my inbox and DMs became blissfully silent.
That’s why I only click on listings with the check mark.
The system creates them, its not just bad people abusing the system, its a bad system creating abuse
Also indeed
I just got one of those scam messages. The person said email was not convenient and wanted to chat over WhatsApp. 🫤 I blocked and reported them.
Not in school to qualify for internships. Not enough experience to get an "Entry Level" job, and going on too long out of school to qualify for a "new grad" position.
How do people even get a entry level software engineering role these days?
@@richardlin2359I don't know man, it's been over a year for me and I'm going insane. I worked my ass off for my bachelor's and it feels like it'd be more worth it to use my degree to wipe my fucking ass at this point
@@richardlin2359 They dont.
Are you me? I wonder just how many people have a similar story
@@richardlin2359you dont, switch to a different career.
How are ghost jobs not false advertising? If you run a sweepstakes and don’t give away the prize after getting partication, it would be considered fraud. Whats worse is that they are using paid monthly platforms to get consideration.
Because people aren’t suing or doing anything about it
Cc
You'd have to be able to prove the ghost jobs exist
Because they always have plausible deniability. "Oh it's not a fake job posting, we just haven't found our unicorn candidate yet".
@Tom-h9j7f Just FYI, if they ask you to do some work for them, like coming up with your own ideas on marketing or improvement, don’t give them anything actually good. Turns out they steal people’s ideas and just end up not hiring them.
New plan: let's all start posting "ghost resumes" to totally throw off the entire HR industry
I sort of doing it. I stop updating my profile
"Hello, I would like a job"
"Ew that's pretty desperate huh? I'm not feeling it"
?????
Haha exactly
Prob gonna canibalize itself with "AI" resumes and "AI" recruiter
I hope so
Eventually, 99% of the traffic there will be AI applicants applying to ghost jobs written by AI recruiters LOL
It's funny to see companies complaining that so many applications are made using AI, they could easily prevent this by being more transparent and not having insane demands, but they'll never learn
Let's pray for this 🙏
@@uwotm8634 dont forget that they post a job posting and then thake it down 2-3 days later to re post it as a new job posting and the job post is so generic that the candidate can´t tell the different between that and any other job post from any other company. so even if they get the wait I already applied for this they know that they can´t trust that because you know its probably from another company.
so they send in there application (they dont get a you already applied) so they start to not trust that gut feeling.
Linkedin is basically as worthless as all the other dating apps
It’s the only dating app where pretty girls write to me 😂
Oh you need to try grinder 😅
@@janlanik2660 I have some sad news. They're bots.
Do you have a stylist? No? Get one.
Do you have a wingman? No? Then guess what you are. Scraps is still food
@ thanks for the advice, but I said it just for the comedic effect. I am actually married and I asked my wife out on ICQ, there were no apps by then. So I actually don’t know how many matches I’d be getting. But I do have good looking recruiters reaching on LinkedIn quite often, so I can corroborate that part of the joke.
Connections are definitely 70% of getting the jobs now. 30% is having the minimum requirement to do the job. My first job as a teacher was at a highly undesirable school where I barely squeaked in. Every single teaching job I got after that was because a colleague recommended me or a neighbor offered to pass my application along to their principal. Really is who you know.
@JupiterTarts I don't doubt that this is true, but I find it absolutely disgusting. Since I have no connections, I'm pretty sure my only option is to end things myself.
@@Langtw Please, don't self-delete! 😰
@@EdwardM-t8p I've been looking for work since I got my master's in applied mathematics in 2021. I haven't been picky either. I've gotten certifications in cybersecurity, data science, and machine learning engineering since then, but I've still heard absolutely nothing. None of my skills are actually in demand enough for me to be able to get a job, so I'm really just an extra person wasting space. I realize that I'm just of absolutely no use to anyone.
@@Langtw see you space cowboy
@@Langtwthe problem with digital work is you are competing against 3rd world wages. I would recomend looking into aerospace or medical because it has to be done here.
These hiring managers need to be thrown in prison. This is unacceptable
In perpetuating a dehumanizing system, what can they hope to receive from an increasingly desperate public?
As a recently retired corporate recruiter, I one hundred percent applaud this excellent video. LinkedIn has become a joke, and probably the least effective way to get a job is to apply on their platform. You might as well just toss your resume in the trash (at least there, at least the person emptying the trash will see it). People's comments below are right on as well. In this ridiculous job market, I really think the only way to stay employed is to start your own business.
I miss old times when I could print 5 to 6 copies of my CV and drop them to the companies where I wanted to work and within less than 3 weeks I had an interview and hired on the same day when I had an interview.
Old no bs life
I moved about a year ago and printed 30 resumes and snail mailed them to thirty contractors in my area and got zero replies. 😂 My logic was if they don't call me I don't want to work for them. They didn't call so I was quite satisfied to rule them all out.
The problem with that is that it too easy and efficient
Same here...My first job was a drop off resume in person, responding to a newspaper ad... An interview followed up in two weeks and I was hired right away. Yes, I agree... that was in 1999...
Most of us called them resumes at the time. I did not hear the term CV until the 1990's.
WTF is the point of creating a "talent pool" when by the time you need them, they already have a new job?
It justifies oversized and overpaid HR departments. After all they have to show value beyond just getting people fired over nothing.
@@snaffoo_12gaI won't prioritize companies dragging their feet or expecting me to wait around. These "talent pool" companies won't get good talent.
@@SomeGuyAsWell stealing workers is a thing you can use the talent pools for. Local recruiter likes doing this. Collects data on new workers and then waits a few years before contacting em and trying to pilfer em once they got some skills
@snaffoo_12ga Did you respond to the wrong comment or do you just like to be an asshole out of context?
@@snaffoo_12gahe is not out of touch. It takes such a long time to get a single reply that by the time they open this "pool" people are already gone
Modern corporate culture seems like it's dehumanizing, demoralizing, and degrading in ways that almost certainly aren't good for the long term wellness of our species.
But everything has its limits. Sooner or later it will all come down crumbling.
You live long enough and you hear that too much! I heard that in 2008. Now look at the shape of us
@@NeighborhoodWatchMannwasnt nearly as bad as it is now. Cant even imaging what life will look like in another 20 years
@@Skadongle I agree. They tell us though, own nothing, be "happy". No meat, just ze bugs. No land, just smart cities with a dominos on every corner. no cars, just self driving taxes, and dont forget the tesla bots in your home, hospitals, and policing your community. Its going to be great.... i cant wait... but most of us took a little something back in 2020 that will be activated soon, and will be the end of many. they said they wanted the pop to go from seven billon people to like 1 billon people, so do the math. They also said they wanted to do it peacefully too. anyways, this will probably get taken down or ignored. Much love, stay prayed up and believe in Jesus christ on heaven above sitting at the right hand of the father.
@@AvikNayak_theres already movements called quiet quitting
I knew it was beyond crazy when a client had to apply online for a dishwasher position. I volunteered at the state Workforce office helping the unemployed apply for jobs online. A gentleman in his 50’s was over the deep end, he had never used a computer and was barely literate. He stated that he use to walk in, fill out the application and get to work. I had to build a CV for this guy so he could apply for a dishwasher position because it was part of the application. I wondered if the hiring manager ask him where he saw himself in five years?
I have a LinkedIn profile but haven't logged in to the platform. In the UK, it is against the law to put ethnicity, photos, age, or gender on your CV, but LinkedIn provides that loophole.
There is incredible competition for good-quality jobs anywhere. I struggled a lot after my university degree (I did sciences). But I worked as a chef before earning my degree, so I had a fallback job while I was looking. The grind can be incredibly disenchanting.
I got my first tech job “by word of mouth,” I.e. friend of a friend of a friend (ironically, I worked for a catering company called that).
Thank you for encouraging people. Great video.
"In the UK, it is against the law to put ethnicity, photos, age, or gender on your CV" -- Rubbish. Of course it isn't.
At the end you hit on something massive. Pounding the pavement isn't handing out resumes in person, it's talking to businesses and getting in touch with people who can make decisions. Back in the day I struggled finding a job, but the second I got one of my first jobs, in engineering, in an industry I didn't study for and attended the first trade shows I had multiple offers I didn't ask for. I remember ending up in an elevator with an owner of a competitor of our company and the guy said if I was ever passing through his state to stop by as they had a home for me. It wasn't because I was some genius, I didn't know what I was doing, but I was a young guy in an industry dominated by people about to retire and many company owners were looking to find people to train for the jobs, they just never received anything because headhunters, recruiting sites, and whatever didn't know how to find anyone for them. You want to go to shows, to businesses, wherever, and talk to people actually at the companies to bypass HR. Pound the pavement, but in the real way.
i’m an engineer that just got laid off, what industry are you referring to? Would appreciate any information.
@@randomkyle3 I've worked in a few different ones, from metrology (no, not meteorology) to mechanical. The specific case in question was actually the construction industry where they weren't really looking for a specific type of engineer but rather someone who could fit in that space between sales, customer support, and R&D. You might have to take a pay cut starting out, I know one of the reasons I got the job was because another candidate they liked more asked for 125k as opposed to the 90k I took at the time, but if you do well you can leverage your position as the industry can have very high turnover and isn't particularly fun. I ended up leaving to start my own business unrelated to engineering, but if I could give any advice to people in school it's to not go after prestige unless you really know what you want to do in particular, and to focus on things like co-ops, internship, and general networking. Also, don't be afraid to take a setback at times and explore things outside your field, take risks like learning A2LA and ISO procedures, etc, have fun in life, the accolades won't get you anywhere.
Every time I could talk separately with HR and the actual owners their goals were not aligned whatsoever. Owners just want decent people, capable of doing the job and if possible that they are interested in the product/service somewhat. HR is given a list, and try to match candidates to that, most of the times not even understanding what they are looking for.
@@juanfp That's the biggest issue, HR usually isn't qualified to hire people if the position requires any skill so they're essentially throwing darts blindly.
Go meet Princess Diana at the Alma Bridge
What I don’t like is that employers literally refuse a physical resume and demand you apply online. Yeah sure I can do that but that’s how you dont get hired… because bots just automatically disregards your resume at random.
many demand online and physical resume when you go to the interview, this is stupid
Whoever you talked to didn't like you. You need a social circle overlap. The easiest is sports team. If it's a woman, then dating rules apply- if she isn't interested, you ain't going anywhere
If they tell you to apply online and the job is still open after about 15 days, then you need to read between the lines: they want you to prove your skill and interest in the company by circumventing their website protections. You're supposed to breach their systems and hire yourself.
@@katv4900exactly, it's like I always say "the only way to get ahead in this world is to have connections"
To be fair, I feel very bad directing people to apply online. But my big chain convenience store straight up does not allow in person application
The AI generated recruiter thing is terrifying. I went back and looked at some of the people I had spoken with... I'm fairly certain I fell for one of them. I had a whole conversation with the guy and then did and phone screening and never heard back, but I remember thinking something was off the whole time, just couldn't put my finger on it. Everything on the profile seemed legit and there was activity on the account commenting on other people's posts and stuff. Looked at the profile picture closer, the guy's teeth are smeared together, eyes perfectly centered, nondescript background...
Given the real recruiters I've interacted with, I'm not surprised they're the first to be replaced with AI anyway. Typically they talk down to me about my skills and multiple degrees, while their profile says they've been a recruiter for less than 6 months, no degrees, and their last job was retail at Target. They never seem to be able to answer any of my questions about the job but just endlessly talk around them saying nothing of substance. And I'm sure the last one I talked to was real, because I met him in his office.
It could just be that they are just using an AI profile picture
@@juanfp why would a legitimate recruiter be using an AI profile picture?
Because they're ugly or dont know how to take a real pic, but that guys recruiters def AI@@carson2889
@@112428 But his juul pen is dope and his dad owns a dealership
Yeah man. I remember just walking into companies, introducing myself, asking for a paper application. Always got hired pretty much right away. I’ve literally had close to no luck with online applications. I apply for hundreds of jobs and get no call backs or anything unless it’s a scam. I have a ton of experience and degree too. The system is so broken.
I've had entry level jobs where I started right after an interview or the next day getting a call to come in.
Now days even with real jobs they want me to go online. Sucky thing is "employees wanted" signs are everywhere.
It so nice to know that I'm not crazy. I've been struggling to find a job for years and everyone tells me that the jobs are on linkedin, but I never get anywhere.
Easy solution. Ten years in prison for posting a ghost job. Ten years in prison for data harvesting job applicants. All job posting must post salary and benefits or ten years in prison.
I fucking agree.
Yep. And then give a job building the prison to all the people they ghosted and had their data harvested lol
Let's just imprison all upper management and board members, especially any responsible for outsourcing / offshoring.
Ten years in the joint for all of them
naaah bcus justice only applies to poor people
Missing a parents funeral is absolutely not acceptable. Work or labor market conditions which require such inhuman sacrifices as not having any normal privacy or family life should be abolished.
Corpos want obedient little drones who will live and die for them.
I missed my mother's funeral due to work--I was so stressed out that I took the 2 days off just to get a breath. Ended up losing that gig about 3 weeks later 😢
The one thing no one ever talks abut with these job boards and the one reason why I have hope for the future: The candidates who do end up getting hired after making it through all the AI filters and recruiting agencies are often sub-par because they aren't actually the best at the job you want them to do, they're just the best at beating the broken job system, and hiring managers are starting to wake up and realize this.
Here's hoping they wake up sooner!
Accurate. Its like those troll videos where people spam keywords/buzzwords onto a resume saying they have 20 years of experience in Al Qaeda.
And then getting a 70% callback rate from their resumes cus HR midwits are too braindead to actually do their jobs properly.
Let them reap the rewards of their laziness
>wakes up
>immediately gets fired by HR for asking too many questions
Which hiring manager? The ones in story books?
I lost my job nearly 5 years ago a literal month before the pandemic. I'm still unemployed. I've just given up entirely.
You'd think being poor and homeless would be stressful, but it's been the exact opposite. I haven't been this stress free my entire adult life. No regrets.
400 plus applications submitted on LinkedIn last year. Premium membership. Networking. No legitimate interviews. No job offers.
Same! I got a job from a recruitment company that had my resume from years ago
This expectation that everyone with an education wants to climb the corporate ladder is assinine. Some people just want to do work and not have a career, but stability. The concept of a career is instability incarnate. Having a family means: No travel. No moving homes. Be at home around 4pm at the least. Be available at any time for emergencies for your family. For at least 18 years. Now what job with a "career" allows for that?
4 PM seems early but I agree with the sentiment. I'm not a morning person...
Possibly remote work, but that's just being idealistic
@@professorhaystacks6606 It depends on the starting time.
CNC machinist 4 10 hour days 3 days off every week. a union bosses will give out blow jobs to get you to work for them.
2 of my class mates in collage for Cnc machinist had 2 interviews in one day.
I had a dude before I started
Tell a boss to F off, calls back in increase pay to 21 an hour plus free benefits
She screams telling the boss to F off, E** sh17 and die.
He calls back again no joke
24.55 plus free benefits vacations time day one.
yeah it’s why I’m going to school for it.
24.55 to 32 as an starting wage is upper middle class in Ohio 32 is considered rich, 40 or 45 is is considered filthy rich.
mansion that are 3 stories with shit tons of land will cost you 300K in Ohio
Get a government job. The pay is lower but reasonable. The work-life balance is second to none 👍🏽
Literally got an ad in the middle of the fake recruiter section from linkedin saying "8 new hires occur every minute on linkedin" lmao
Interesting they didn’t mention how 9k apply every minute…
AI recruiter hiring the same AI applicant, over and over.
Two of those were mine
@@Raelven internet zombies
I don't understand how Gen Z are meant to find employment
Through relatives. Look up the term “nepo baby.”
@@MrRoboto81 This ^. I moved states and this was the only way I was able to break through a 3 month streak of unemployment.
@@MrRoboto81 that's how i got my first job 💀
Military
You aren't.
It's sad days when you can get a job from your local crime lord with more professionalism and integrity than hiring agencies or just going to a legitimate company's website. Plus he'll give you equipment and training from a seasoned professional with more quality than an actual job.
I swear we live in a Southpark episode.
Hmm... and where might I find the vacancy postings for this local crime lord? Asking for a friend.
That show enables everything that claims to be satirizing.
I feel like people should be able to sue companies for wasting their time if they had no intention of hiring anyone at the time.
It sure would work the other way around
I have over 10 years of call center customer service experience, over 20 years of working with computers, and a compTIA A+ IT certificate and it STILL took me over a year to find a job!
Call centers are already outsourced in the Philippines.
Find a job as what
Just get in the trades bro
@@yungmentalproblems Ahh yes, just do what everyone else has been told to do for the last 5 years. I'm sure that job market won't be oversaturated by the time you get to it :)
@@kaijuultimax9407 just trade bro
New college graduates also don't get jobs even if they have a long work history, speaking from experience.
That's rough, since I'm in college atm as a CS major. For a while, like everyone else, I've tried to inform myself as much as I can about anything job-related, and it's been getting noticeably depressing with how things are, and might be in the future
@@drakehashimoto685Yeah, I just graduated and boy it's hard to find a job, only through nepotism or relatives we could (Electrical Engineering)
@@drakehashimoto685as long as you keep at it. CS is a difficult industry, and very saturated at this point.
@@drakehashimoto685
Most tech companies prefer a candidate fresh out of college or with 1 year of experience in the field. This is because the skillset is probably up to date and the pay will be minimal compared to an experienced developer. There are companies that upskill candidates at the behest of a company and pay something like $20 an hour during the upskilling process while they position you for a job with one of their partner companies. But you typically have to sign a multi-year contract with one of their partner companies and must accept job offers.
It's easier to get intern work and get promoted into that company.
LinkedIn is usually not the way to go. You usually need to go through the company directly. You may also need to get creative with companies you search for. Defense contractors in particular have a unique set of qualifications that values low experience candidates with college degrees from a public university. There is also the Officer's Training School route with the military once you have a bachelor's degree. The Air Force is difficult to place with, but the Navy is easier.
@@drakehashimoto685 Make your own projects and start a business in your free time in college. You can't rely on anyone these days.
I graduated in August with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. I've applied for every job I'm even remotely qualified for and have had no luck, and am now having to turn to food banks and emergency rental assistance just to get by while I continue to job hunt...
Nah bro. U just graduated in a very saturated supply with low demand
That's absolutely crazy. What I'd recommend that you do is consider a career in IT. Get a certificate in either security or networking and doors should open. 🤓
@alphaomega1351 nah no way, if I went back to university or anything else again I'd provly just off myself, was such a miserable half decade. All I want is a starter engineering job...
@@Tkdmaster1991 Sorry bro, you will get where you need to be in life!
You're doing something very wrong. Theres lots of ME jobs around
If it’s free, you are the product.
LinkedIn is by far the most soulless pit of despair and lies I have ever seen
You’ve perfectly summed up what a lot of job seekers have thought about LinkedIn for a long time. Spurning up your work experience literally gives you the same high as updating your Tinder profile. You feel good and motivated at first, and then the high evaporates pretty quickly
So glad it was able to provide value and really great comparison with the dating market. Great to hear from you, hope all is well
@ of course! I continue to have conversations with former classmates and coworkers who have been affected by recent economic events. Wish I could say things are getting better, but on a macro scale the economy still looks bleak. Stock market shifts are unfortunately not reflective at all of the average joe. It doesn’t matter if you’re working or not, everyone feels the effect of price increases at the grocery store.
Regarding your video - 100% agree that the ‘Open To Work’ status reeks of desperation. People are catching on, and it’s quite normal to just not update the end date of your last job. Once the cat’s outta the bag, it’s hard to mask later on (especially if you’re out of work for an extended period of time). Better to clarify when you’re already having the interview than to not get an interview in the first place. Recruiters and hiring managers seem to be empathetic when you’re actually talking to them, and are cognizant of the current job market. Thing is though, you’ve gotta market yourself in the best way possible so that interview can happen first 😉
@@DamonCassidy of course! I continue to have conversations with former classmates and coworkers who have been affected by recent economic events. Wish I could say things are getting better, but on a macro scale the economy still looks bleak. Stock market shifts are unfortunately not reflective at all of the average joe. It doesn’t matter if you’re working or not, everyone feels the effect of price increases at the grocery store.
Regarding your video - 100% agree that the ‘Open To Work’ status reeks of desperation. People are catching on, and it’s quite normal to just not update the end date of your last job. Once the cat’s outta the bag, it’s hard to mask later on (especially if you’re out of work for an extended period of time). Better to clarify when you’re already having the interview than to not get an interview in the first place. Recruiters and hiring managers seem to be empathetic when you’re actually talking to them, and are cognizant of the current job market. Thing is though, you’ve gotta market yourself in the best way possible so that interview can happen first 😉
I live in the Detroit Metro area, and talking to a good amount of the elderly population here shows just how much the job market changed. The percentage of the elderly population I'm talking about are usually solidly middle class and financially sound while in retirement, and live in a good home in a good area. If you were to ask them what they did for work a good amount of them say the same thing: They graduated highschool, joined the job market right after, maybe job hopped for a little bit, but they all eventually end up working for one of the automotive companies. They all started off as a grunt worker, where they all eventually climbed high enough up the corporate ladder to live a comfortable life. And a lot of them weren't even that high. Just high enough.
This is a life that just sound baffling to me. So many places nowadays either don't bother hiring entry level people, or don't promote loyalty. Almost everyone I know either can't find work with their skill set because they're too green, or job hop constantly because it's impossible to get a raise.
Yup. Tried explaining the work/hiring culture to my great grandma and it looked like she was hearing a foreign language😂 and yeah job hopping for better pay is real. I actually got to manager at a pizza place but it was $10 an hour😑
The difference is in ur great grandma's day, They could be at the bottom tier N still buy a fukn house.
Easy solve. Make ghost jobs illegal. Make data harvesting through ghost jobs even more illegal. Make salary and benefits a requirement for posting. Fine companies the full year value of the ghost job per county it’s posted in and create a government bounty program in which employees and recruiters are given part of the fine in order to self report the ghost jobs.
How intelligent are you? Thinking through all the above is too smart for a typical youtube comment...that comes up with a simple solution.
its not that easy
Is lieing on your resume or lying on your references is illegal well yea but how is data harvesting and ghost job legal
I went to my MP last week to propose pretty much this. I talked with her assistant (it’s always an assistant) and was met with a bored stare. I’ll keep trying but I don’t think government is really clued into how toxic the job market is (I’m in month 17 of unemployment as a software engineer).
The solution is easy, but it's not possible to implement because we live in an oligarchy.
Usually don’t agree with government getting involved in such things, but I think it’s time they step in. Looking for work right now and the amount of time I have wasted applying to jobs is disgusting
❤ Absolutely!!!
This is the way forward!
Love the black-and-white footage of someone getting the job with his firm handshake 😂 reminding us just how bad it really is
legit got an ad for an app that AI generates profile pictures of you for LinkedIn while watching this
Haha what are the odds!
That’s so cringe. Unless you’re 90 it’s so easy to spot these kind of “enhanced” pics, why would that help anyone get a job?
Navigating the challenging job market in 2024, this video couldn't be more relatable.
back when i was in high school in my last year our tech computer teacher had us create linkedin account
i always viewed it as a way to get employed but with the minimum entry requires being like 5 years of experience when your only 18
and ive heard some video saying the experiences can be exaggerated a bit if you start rounding the years and time spent and add them up to 5 years and land the job
talk about integrity and honesty
If you tell the truth, a company is more likely to hire the liar that "fluffed" their resume
Job recruitment is now "swipe left to reject, swipe right to ask on a date". The new Tinder or POF.
Was literally just thinking the other day, gen z has to wait for current employees to bite the dust to get a job cus retirement isn’t a thing any more and SS is gone too. Absurd.
LinkedIn sucked when I graduated from college in 2010. If you’d told me it would have such dominance nearly 15 years later, I would have laughed at you. I truly can’t believe it’s still a thing.
I got my six-figure job through LinkedIn, but it took over 300 applications and dozens of interviews to do so. In the end, my recruiter contacted ME, so the applications didn’t even matter.
Same here. I went through 400 or something applications and only got 3 calls backs. I was hired on the 3rd callback fortunately
I went through 1400 applications before giving up.
@@TM_0153 wow, I’m so sorry to hear that. That’s rough. 😞
Elon will buy it and totally fix the bot problem 😂
You're never getting the time you spent looking for a job back
I cannot stand seeing those posts from LinkedIn employees. In fact, the other posts from members are degrees of separation from instagram narcissism. You know who your are. If you're talking about some serious business topic, then post a pic of yourself smiling or posing and that's it, I always think, shouldn't you be showing a graph or something relevant to the topic? The site has become a giant cringe-orgy.
Exactly. And if you call that out, for some reason there are shills that get super defensive and angry at you. Even when you're telling it how it is.
@@matthewk4912I always felt that people behaved that way on the platform since I was introduced to it about 10 years ago by a college professor. Most of the posts looked like either desperation or covered in sugar and political correctness to not lose any chances of landing a job/scaring future candidates.
Our world was taken over by narcissists without two brain cells to rub together.
I was thinking that it is me that is having these thoughts about linkedin ❤ but here I go...I feel better now knowing that there are so many people sharing this!
Thank you!!!
I have never liked LinkedIn - it is not matching my personality.
True. I get these posts from people that are always self-aggrandizing like they're the most accomplished person out there. I frequently get requests to connect from people that I knew in grad school that trampled over me to get ahead. They could not care less about helping me find a job!
They just want my number to add to their growing list of connections to show how insanely important and beloved they are!!!
I love hitting the Ignore button. ❤❤❤❤
Loved your video! I’ve been on LinkedIn for many many years and I think the most powerful aspect of the platform is the network that you build overtime. Sometimes even our ancillary connections are the best way to land your next opportunity. And through the platform, I can easily keep in touch with everyone I have worked with over the last 20 years. Hang in there, my friend it’s not easy being early in your career …especially in today’s job market but what I can tell you is that you have outstanding communication skills, your delivery is perfection! Any recruiter in corporate America would be impressed with the way you communicate…take it from someone who has been in corporate America since 1992…The path you’re on right now is solid. Everyone gravitates towards corporate America because it pays really well but at the end of the day there is zero job security (absolutely zero) regardless of your title or how much money you make or how hard you work, the better path is to go into business for yourself…. It may not be the easy path, but it’s by far the better path. 😊 keep up the great work you have a new subscriber.
Today I am excited to announce my mother has died. This is a pivotal moment in my life🎉because I can finally focus on what is truly important, my 9-5 job and raising shareholder value. I am so happy to be able to truly pay attention to the work now without a nagging distraction getting in the way of projects. This will be a major game-changer in my productivity levels and I have my mother's passing to thank for this. Talk about a positive change!
Whole LinkedIn in one comment man
And yet another case of social media ruining everything it touches.
Classic 👍
Recruitment companies are making good money. During the pandemic, my friend, who works as a recruiter, is averaging 10k per month recruiting just swabbers alone. Even after pandemic, he could still earn 5-6k per month
And "job influencers"
And this is exactly why I can not stand recruiters and hiring managers. They are like leeches sucking money out of the company just to hire a bunch of incompetent people.
LinkedIn is exactly that, just a way to depress the labor market.
Face to face events are golden. Being a genuine person in real life to EVERYONE you meet pays off. I’ve met business owners, CEOs, and senior leaders while flying on airplanes, eating dinner alone at hotel bars, and helping someone on the street when they’re struggling with a box. Try to get out, sitting at home submitting resumes won’t get you anywhere.
Okay, let me leave my 3 kids in a closet with the dog. I just need to figure out how to teach the dog to change diapers. Then I could travel the world and network...
Everyone is a "CEO" in bars 😂
the irony that I got a linkedin ad right before this video
This video really hit me as I'm coming up on the end of my unemployment and I keep on getting rejection letter after rejection letter. I have experience in biomedical engineering and pharmaceutical labs and I'm currently getting my CompTIA A+ certification to become an IT professional. I've been applying to remote jobs left and right but I suspect many of them are fake. If anyone needs an IT helpdesk technician I am open and available. I have customer service experience from multiple retail and call center jobs. I'm resourceful and I have critical-thinking skills.
Liked and commenting this to hope it helps gain traction in the comment section. I hope you find something soon, sorry this has been your experience
Insert "You guys get rejection letters?" meme here. I would generally just never hear back for 90% of applications.
I'm in the supply chain field and have been a manager for over 5 years, and I'm getting the exact same thing! The job description says they want five plus years as a manager, so I apply, just to be rejected! The crazy thing is I have very pertinent skills pertaining to Walmart Sam's Club and costco. I'm basically a shoe in for any company because I understand those companies so well. I've worked for Walmart internally in their corporate office, and I've worked for a cpg. So I'm very well-rounded and can jump in on anybody's account if it's Walmart Costco or Sam's, but I'm getting passed up like it's nobody's business. And I'm also 33 years old, so it's not an age issue
A Plus is a joke. If you really want to stay in the field, I bet Sales, and only Sales has openings.
I was unemployed for 1.5 years. Ive applied over 1000+ jobs on linkedin. You dont know how much i suffered during these period. Just got a low paying job with a 70% cut from my previous salary. Im not even joking. Life sometimes hits really hard. All i can say is stay strong, every dog has its day!
I saw an AI job opening on linkedin today where the "employee" has to pay $500 a week for access to the AI
That's a clean scam
One company I work for gave up on HR trying to hire technical people the relevant manager looks at applications because HR simply does not have the knowledge to be of any use.
I've seen this as well. HR does the background check but not the interview in larger organizations I have worked for. They may be in the room but they are just there to answer questions.
Good. My dad was saying the main reason why technical fields are completely starved of workers while new grads are going homeless, is because HR is always ran by incompetent people that have zero clue about what their doing
Bro I reached out to HR for an internal job I was perfect for. I was ignored by the hr recruiter so I contacted the hiring manager who immediately set up a meeting with me? WTF!!!!
@@dangerzzzone2925 Did you get the job??
I realized this about HR a year after I graduated. I ended up starting my own business with the skills that HR rejected me for and now I make more money hourly than any of them lol. HR is the most useless department at any company. I don't respect them, they have no skill set but for some reason companies give them all of the power.
I’ve been looking for a job for over a year in these platforms and can’t even get an interview, it’s absolutely insane. I have 1 year left in my degree and 3+ years of experience. Can’t even get a call or email about 12/hr jobs. It’s insane and demoralizing.
It gets even worse after you graduate. I have a mining engineering degree from fall 2023 and im still unemployed, and only got one interview.
Local networking groups, agencies, volunteer work, 40 hours plus a week looking for a job, agencies, Indeed and finishing your degree. ONLY after the degree was Completed did I get a job making double my existing salary. Something about FINISHING the degree. These are just general guidelines--hopefully you are not AI. :-))
Hearing these recruiters talk about candidates for positions they need is disturbing and disgusting. Desperation?!! Yeh people need a job and a place to live like wtf
Right! Really sick
I've been out of a job in the videogame industry for 2 years now. To the point that I have gone back to school to try and learn how to get my own indie studio started. I now have a tiny team of people who, like me, are out of a job and trying to figure out this game with no prior experience, because no one will give it to us. Hopefully the revenue share model will be worth it in the long run.
Hey I think it’s incredible to hear you and your team are taking the reins and paving a path. Let me know if there’s anything I can do to help
this seems like the only strategy that retains a shred of dignity
Godspeed to yall. Spitball ideas like crazy and get that snowball rolling downhill, and get a good virtual marketplace to sell the games 👍
By the way, how can I join in or at least look at what you're up to? I'm just beginning to work on my own stuff but if it so happens that this makes more sense or we can share some inspiration or at least make connections.
I hope you are successful
Corporate culter is just cancer tbh. All this fake entusiasm and "climbing the ladder", I just wanna throw up if I hear about this.
That's why you gotta bs your way through and not take anything seriously
it's amazing how many of these types of videos start with "so this is how it worked in the 60s and 70s. and then Reagan broke everything"
If you have time to watch my college video there’s a real big chunk in their about how Reagan broke everything
Literally everything wrong with the US can somehow be traced to Raegan, it's crazy
Yes, he is the left's favorite bogeyman. He caused cancer and stole everyone's girlfriend as well. 😆. Anybody who thinks he broke everything didn't live through the 70's.....when everything broke. In addition, the "final nail" was the inclusion of Chai NA in the WTO under Bill C's administration. American mfg jobs went offshore after this occurred.
I consume a lot of financial, educational and historical content on YT and literally EVERYONE has videos on this exact subject! 😩
All of them riddled with inaccuracies to promote a communist boomer-enabling agenda. Reagan bashing is communism and boomerism and a sign of daddy issues.
It's wild to me that people still recommend keeping your LinkedIn up to date and recommend it for job hunting. The only reason i have mine is because my entire work history is on it
I've been applying for work since July 2024 well over 600 applications in that time, but thankfully finally got an offer recently. The ghost job aspect was something I suspected, but couldn't support. I now believe my time as an independent contractor (billing at 3x my previous hourly rate) was viewed as a liability by hiring managers, instead of showing initiative and resourcefulness. Thank you for quantifying it and confirming I'm not paranoid. Great info and commentary.
I have been dealing with this nonsense forever. I do not exaggerate when I say that, since I graduated, I have applied to *thousands* of jobs over the years. I've seen it only getting worse every year. I'm thankful to have a job now. How long will I have it? I don't know.
Incentivising dishonesty on the same level of the biggest corporations is truly something to behold
Hiring manager/recruiters perspective: "Open To Work" == Damaged Goods
I think that's the unkindest cut. The idea was that you'd keep your resume sharp on LI so you had a good place to keep it, then when you felt like moving you'd hit the button.
Or LOSER
When I got laid off 6 months ago I naively believed that I will get a job in no time considering my skills and experience.
Now I have to keep explaining what motivates me to apply for a job for which I am overqualified.
I got an MBA with an emphasis in Supply Chain, and it's been over a year since I graduated now. Looking for a better job has led to embarrassment, ghosting, and terrible feelings of inadequacy.
Also something to think about the way LinkedIn operates similar to big pharma. Their goal is to NOT connect you to a job opportunity right just like big pharma may or may not give you what you need. Having the "symptom" or in this case need for a job longer and makes it harder to have a job found by increasing the requirements subtly on job postings makes for a great business model. Think about it, why would you make it easier for someone to get hired immediately only to lose the reoccurring revenue that comes from businesses being forced to repost and pay for advertising to be seen by "the best candidates"? This means even in a shitty job market, they stand to gain the most profit right about now. Pretty evil considering that people need to survive and don't give a damn for the most part about these jobs and by doing this it puts people in harms way.
The US, in general, is going through what I call ‘a crisis of middle management’. There are so many people who are in positions that have no idea what they are actually doing. But they succumbed to lifestyle creep and now their entire existence hinges on the continued existence of this job. I truly believe the behavior on LinkedIn, and in real life, is just an outgrowth of people defending their worthlessness. These people have to know how woefully unequipped they are for the positions they occupy. So sucking up to our corporate overlords is the only way to continue to justify their existence. They’ll only bring in people with the same mindset and the problem deepens and continues
Finding a job online is like finding a match in a dating app as an ugly man.
Not true dude. Just apply for a regular listing on indeed and it should end well. Also depends on the country. Anglo-Saxon countries have lost all touch with reality. Where I live I actually ask the employer how the application procedure will look. If he/she comes with bull crap of 2 or more interviews I will tell them to take a hike.
I had to subscribe after hearing that you’re from the Austin area. As someone who’s been to networking events in the area and has tried to grind LinkedIn connections to get a chance at even an internship, this video speaks to every frustration I’ve had in the past two years while providing an optimistic takeaway. I hope that more of us start to see the value in connecting with the human being as opposed to the corporate robot.
On one hand TH-cam creators are awesome for reporting on everything wrong in this world. On the other hand, it's pure reporting. Even if everyone knows that something is wrong, no one does anything about it or ever recommends any solutions for the problems they observe. In the end, these reports are then just contributing to people's anxiety and negative feelings about the world they live in, rather than actually changing something. We don't want content (even if we consume it; consumption is a side effect of how we are wired), we want change. Why doesn't anyone invest the time to actually do something about the things they notice to be different than they are supposed to be.
How would you suggest changing it?
Well it certainly is difficult for a single TH-camr to solve the systemic issues throughout the last hundred years that has resulted in the labor market we have especially with very little resources. This type of reporting allows people to see that what is happening isn’t a result of their inadequacies which helps far more than hurts and also stimulates the conversation of what can WE do to solve this. It allows you to walk away and think about the things that can be done to solve it, instead or burying your head in the sand to never face this issue. With that being said something you didn’t ask was what am I doing about this. I am actually in the process of revolutionizing the recruiting industry using blockchain technology and Ai to create a decentralized and unbiased platform to compete against LinkedIn and indeed. The unfortunate thing is while reading this you almost instinctively believe that could never be done haha so what’s the point in talking about it until it’s actually built?
@@DamonCassidy props to you for trying to make a difference.
Otherwise I feel that any movement or change needs two things, people who want it and a person who will lead it. Nothing happens by just thinking about it.
To create a movement and create change, one also needs to be quite a good marketer nowadays, i.e., needs to have the skill to reach a large number of people, draw in their attention, keep it, and then guide them towards the correct behaviour, i.e., a way of reaching change.
Successful TH-camrs clearly know how to do that, so rather than just reporting, they could start movements regarding the changes they really care about, rather than just keep creating new videos about new problems to avoid habituating their following, i.e., first create a video to make people aware of a problem, then think how to solve it, then create videos about solving it collectively, i.e., what precisely them and others will and can do, to lead to desired change.
People who watch videos on TH-cam (especially this type of videos), tend to be observers not doers. TH-cam creators are the doers, so it is more on them than on their following to do something. All most of the following is capable of doing is supporting with likes and subscribes, so that the word spreads around quicker.
P.S.: Not sure, I might be different, but when the world sucks, and I realize it is not my fault, it doesn't hurt less, it hurts more, becaue the world sucks and I don't have a solution on how to change things for the better. Overall, not sure whether on average, guilt (of not being good enough) or heplesness (to change things for the better) hurts more. I'd say it's the latter.
Anyway, thanks for responding and good luck with your blockchain project!
I hope what I wrote makes sense. Was thinking about running it through ChatGPT, then thought this would be more genuine and hopefully, clear enough as well.
How do we sue them into oblivion for screwing up something as simple as getting a job.
We don't. We increase their cyber security budget requirements and simultaneously compromise consumer identities until economic collapse. It's a Venezuelan-style slow-decline but with robots
We have to find a way.
Linkedin is like OPEC (cartel mentality) once employers know how low they can pay, they would pay the bare minimum for jobs that require a lot of work
We need to force employers to publicly post wages and job descriptions to remove information asymmetry
@@zhess4096the govt is run by the same type of people that pull this nonsense
Gen Z: *working harder than ever, has two bachelor’s degrees, trying to get five year’s worth of experience for an entry level data job*
Hiring managers: *disrespects Gen Z, doesn’t pay them enough, is constantly attempting to manipulate Gen Z*
Hiring managers: “Gen Z doesn’t want to work, they’re so lazy, god what happened to capitalism”
Facts
I got rejected from an internship(!) because the company "couldn't find a 100% match for the job", so in the end they didn't hire anyone for it. Something tells me that NONE of the people that interviewed me several times were 100% matches for their jobs when they started 15 years ago.
@Tuppoo94 unfortunately when a company says they “can’t find a match” 99% of the time they actually found someone else within the company to fill the position, the person who filled the position got it via nepotism, or they delegated the position’s tasks to several other people already within the company so they wouldn’t have to shill out more money. Either that, or it was a ghost position but from what I hear ghost listings don’t normally get to the interview phase ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thank you so much for this. I now understand that bad feeling I have towards LinkedIn which I didnt know how to articulate, but feel them in my guts. You really helped me. Please continue making videos
Making and supporting a social network for working is the worst idea the humankind has ever had
I think the whole of job seeking and recruiting is becoming pretty dehumanizing. Job seekers are being encouraged to use AI for mass submission and optimize every resume because it's a numbers game. On the opposite end, recruiters are flooded with 1000s of applicants per job each week, so they rely on video screeners, AI scoring, and frequently ghost candidates. We're entering an era where the process for listing and finding a job needs to be rethought.
This rule is almost impossible to follow in 2024, but if you can force yourself to stick to it, it works: Never give your resume to any person you haven't had at least a three-minute conversation with. Sticking to that rule is about as hard as sticking to a healthy diet and also exercising at least five days a week--and it has just as good results.
That does not work either. Plenty of great conversations and job fairs and the person there saying they love my resume. 90 percent go nowhere. You have to be the most qualified and tailor your resume to get past AI keyword scanners and get a referal. Then you have a good chance
Hard disagree. I’m a competitive bodybuilder- you can depend on diet and exercise to give you a positive result. You can’t with capitalism and job markets.
I don't use job listing sites anymore. I use them as a guide to feel out what's happening. I always check the parent site and see what they've listed there as it's usually (not always) more representitive of what they're looking for and what's required. For example, if I'm redirected to a recruiting agency or an agency that profits off of training with no guarentee of a job afterward but you're on the hook for anything that goes wrong or requires a form of payment, etc. These are all red flags from a job seekers point of view.
I have never succeeded in getting a job by trying to convince strangers, I always got a job by someone I knew. “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know”.