Applying to 1000 Jobs to See If There's a Labor Shortage - RECRUITER REACTION!

[@rn2787]

There's no labor shortage, but there is a shortage of people who are willing to work themselves into a grave for poverty wages. Nobody wants to admit that without stockers you can't sell groceries and without grocery stores you can't have doctors and lawyers. We do need the people in the service industry and they deserve to live a decent life on their salary. If you can't pay them a living wage you don't deserve to have them as employees.

[@se2664]

These retail companies act like 15/hour is a liveable wage , ITS NOT AFTER FUCKING TAXES

[@DEAR7340]

Glad to see the young generation pushing back. You watched how making sacrifices to your employer, out of "loyalty," worked out for your parents during the mortgage crisis.

[@LionsMayday]

Most company money are being stolen by CEO-s who get paid for nothing and only giving visible not actual value to investors who are corporations themselves.

[@shawnshields521]

@@DEAR7340 The sad part is our parents still push that even though they got the raw end of the deal.

[@LeiSnows]

LUL. NO THEY DONT. TEENAGERS DONT NEED A LIVING WAGE. GROCERY STORE JOBS, FAST FOOD IS FOR TEENS. ANY ADULT WORKING THERE IS JUST SAD. GET A REAL JOB.

[@marktuggle5609]

I am a truck driver and I am getting tired of hearing that there is a driver shortage. There is no shortage of drivers. There are way too many. There is a shortage of drivers who are willing go get paid for dirt cheap with little to no benefits and little to no hometime.

[@AJourneyOfYourSoul]

Preach it brother. Most people have zero clue what it is really like out there. It is a complete burn and churn industry.

[@MS-ig7ku]

Their more active CDLs than jobs by a wide margin.

[@mikelacroix1882]

Step 1: Require college degrees for everything. Step 2: Re-evaluate trivial jobs in to degree backed jobs. Step 3: Require more experience than is possible for a product. Step 4: Pay like it's 2004. Step 5: Did we mention you need college?

[@neverknowsbest1717]

Step 6: you actually went to college? Lmao we were kidding.

[@benpholmes]

And then don't forget: continue to gripe to the media about how there's a labor shortage and you just can't find any candidates that are qualified enough.

[@ReggyCharles]

@@benpholmes lmao yup the hypocrisy.

[@rockstarofredondo]

College education that won’t even be used for the job.

[@modifiedjaymill]

I love how this recruiter is trying to make it sound like it’s not more dependent on who know you know then what you know. But You forgot 1. the 3-4 round interviews 2. The recruiters who reach out to you asking if your interested in a position then ghosting you. 3. The junior and senior level qualifications for entry level positions. 4. Someone with a reference gets picked first. I have 5 plus years experience in my career field and have been struggling to find anything, all the interviews have been contracted and usually I make it to the 3rd round and get passed on. P.S I’m in finance so no it’s not a plethora of jobs. I will also say that the look of the resume don’t matter as much as he trying to make it sound. A different guy did a video where the resume was identical, he just changed the company name to meta on one verse a regular company on another. The meta resume got more than double the interviews

[@kesayo]

When a company puts entry level but requires experience, I always thought that was code for we want someone with experience but is willing to work for entry level money.

[@thomashobsbawn2992]

or you get hired, then they say its entry level, and your getting an entry level wage, its a path forward though, yeah, Im gone if i find something else

[@Chris-dz3rs]

And expect you to accept entry level wages for a decade .

[@wacky3314]

If I would have that kind of experience I would work on my own for triple money and did not apply for company like that lol. In the end it is probably what I will do in the future because companies are getting crazy.

[@griffca4814]

We are looking for 2 flat bed drivers at work. We got 140 applications in one day. They interviewed 4 took none then the guy in charged cried labor shortage. I asked if we can train any of the applicants for a flatbed. He said he shouldn't have to do that and left. There is no labor shortage. Just the worst people make important decisions they should have no right to make. Also uncompliant resume template. Considering there is little to nothing on what complaint resume temples are this whole part of the process needs to be removed. Either provide compliant templates for application or get rid of a broken system.

[@auggiedoggiesmommy1734]

Yes yes yes!

[@davidmorales7371]

I think what you're describing is almost entirely the case. I know this is a year old post but unfortunately, the issue still persists. I think 9/10 times it's the employer who's to blame for the "laborer shortage"

[@patrickroers752]

I am a experienced flatbed driver. I could call just about any company in the country and be hired by end of the day with doing application and onboarding after the fact. It takes a lot to train flatbed drivers. Inexperienced drivers cause death. And a best lots of damage.

[@davidmorales7371]

@@patrickroers752 and we're you born knowing how to drive a flatbed? And what about the denial of the 140 applicants? I think your missing the guys point

[@patrickroers752]

@@davidmorales7371 no it took alot of time i got into it by building relationships. would have been wasting my time just applying. i bet that manager would be tickled if someone showed up with a desire to learn

[@redherring395]

I've been watching the job market in my area for about the past 6 months and have found that there doesn't appear to be a job shortage, but rather a shortage of employers who are willing to pay a competitive salary. The white collar, professional jobs that require experience and a higher education that are in my career field in my area appear to be looking for Mercedes level quality on a Kia budget.

[@jenwendy7]

Yep

[@crimsonsamuraiftw]

As the world turns

[@deesnuts3618]

What these people are called is useless if the company is going but work isn't getting done. On the other side, there are people who are shafted by companies trying to squeeze the last drop of sweat out of them. Get some skills where you can tell some no experience hr loser to f off.

[@jamjam1]

Sounds like my alma mater. They didn't hire me after I had volunteered and worked for them for 3+ years because I "wasn't experienced enough" to do what I was already doing. They were looking for people with at least a bachelors in CS for a 20k salary job

[@jonnymakers9560]

EXACTLY. I have been on several interviews many 3 hours..and the employers are NOT in a hurry to hire. They are waiting for the perfect fit at the perfect cheap wage. It is complete BS that there are SO MANY JOBS OUT THERE. BS

[@Obl1queproductions]

Funny how we went from a labor shortage to massive layoffs.

[@GuitarsAndSynths]

because there was never even a labor shortage to begin with in the first place! All media cheerleader propaganda and lies

[@marylandgirl9246]

There's no labor shortage. We should never forget that employers discriminate against people who are unemployed. The preference is always someone who's currently working. Add to that the low wages they're offering. The employers are the problem.

[@peterpan408]

An unemployed person can be hired cheaper..

[@yearginclarke]

I'm still working with tons of applications I've put in. No results in 3 months.

[@sg-zd8eb]

The irony is staggering. Employers discriminating against unemployed.

[@yearginclarke]

@@sg-zd8eb I got a call from a company I applied at the other day and they were asking me why there was a 4 month gap in my work history back in Nov. 2012 and Feb. 2013. I was just thinking, why the f*** does that matter, considering that I've had the same job since 2013 with NO gaps in my employment? Like wtf!!

[@sewerrat11000]

@@yearginclarke Yeah that asked me that too when I was applying for my current job 2 years ago. I was searching for a job for 4 months... Even if I wasn't, I was 21 at the time, why tf do you think a 21-year-old guy would have a gap? To chill. These questions are dumb and need to stop.

[@harryh5620]

I have applied to at least 500 jobs in the past year. I have had maybe 15 callback, perhaps 10 actual phone screens and 5 full interviews - and zero job offers as a result of those efforts. I got the job I have today purely by networking - and it's not much of a job (L1 support / pay under $20/hour). The "labor shortage" is total myth.

[@fugitiveunknown7806]

Amen on that. I remember a few years back going for an internship. Got a full interview and everything, all smiles: nope, ghosted. The one I eventually got was a family connection. Recently, I did get a job after pounding my head against Indeed/LinkedIn and other sites, but it took well over a month.

[@spark300c]

its only certain sectors. jobs everybody wants are hard to get. jobs nobody wants are easy to get.

[@harryh5620]

@@fugitiveunknown7806 I've seen this over and over - Companies already have "their guy" but have to to through the motions of interviewing because they federal contracts. Everyone's time is wasted and they hire "their guy" anyway. I no longer have ANY expectations from anyone I talk to - period. I've even accepted offers (verbally) and waited for the paperwork to show up - and it doesn't. THERE IS NO LABOR SHORTAGE - what we have is a "Decent employer shortage"

[@SeaFlower38]

@@harryh5620 Can you expound on the contracts you mentioned? What do those entail? Thanks

[@MrJagorin]

@@AnIndepentThinker, I feel that. Pretty sure it's defaulted to a state of being now.

[@danpatterson8009]

When a company says "We can't find enough X", what they mean is "We can't find enough X for what we want to pay."

[@LanceKirkman]

If there is a labor shortage, they are not acting like it. With over 16 years of experience in IT all I can get is $20/hr jobs. I was making that 12 years ago. Whatever is going on, people are not willing to pay for your experience.

[@BrotherK-ex2co]

I see sonic is offering close to that.

[@LanceKirkman]

@@BrotherK-ex2co no stress No responsibility No brainer

[@TheHeartattack15]

Hey, can i ask you what kind of work are you doing in the IT sector? Because here in hungary an it guy usually gets a higher salary than you which is interesting because here in hungary a 600€/month salary is the average

[@australian1018]

@@TheHeartattack15 how much is that in Forint thank you.?

[@LanceKirkman]

@Steve Sheldon wow! Thank you for the insight!!

[@imacomputer1234]

"labor shortage" is laughable. these companies would rather short staff and provide terrible service than pay a livable wage.

[@redvelvet8983]

@@jabber1990 Using your justification that means cutting costs of: mortgage, electricity, gas, car expenses etc. Truth is, they don’t give a crap about anything but their own survival like any slaver.

[@redvelvet8983]

@@jabber1990 Obviously they do, whenever they're FORCED to, my point exactly, whereas, the employers of profitable companies with valuable branding can't find a way forward than 'cutting', 'losing', causing others to 'lose' - - I call it unskilled, non-creative, inconsiderate, inhumane greed (their thought processes). We don't win by 'losing' (good staff members and goodwill of the masses)

[@ewfwefwefwef]

@@jabber1990 people are just stupid with money.

[@mattr2626]

​@@jabber1990It's not greedy solely because a corporation cuts costs. What's greedy is when a corporation lays off entire departments and keeps their higher ups and direct managers wages the same despite "having to cut expenses."

[@mattr2626]

@@jabber1990 You're not understanding. Big companies or government positions will lay off entire departments or get rid of jobs entirely in the name of cutting costs. Then in the same breath those executives, the ones actually calling the shots, they keep their own salaries the exact same or sometimes give themselves raises in the same year. I've been a victim of it. I got laid off last year along with 80% of our staff and our boss got a raise. His salary is public so I know for a fact.

[@MikeScott55]

Things that make me automatically abandon an application: pre-testing and having to provide my information more than once. You asked me to upload my resume, link my LinkedIn, AND type everything manually? Not worth my time to gamble on that only to get another rejection email. When I see entry level positions asking for more than 2 years of professional experience in that job, I apply but I always feel like it’s a waste due to unrealistic expectations.

[@MrJagorin]

The most egregious abuse of the term entry level I've seen is in the security world. Most people treat security, sometimes rightly so, as minimal skill and effort jobs. This is to include agencies and clients equally. Sure, security isn't difficult or particularly engaging in 99/100 interactions, but it's that 1/100 that you've hired them to deal with. In today's uncertain times where violent crime is more and more prevalent, you're asking someone to protect your clients and property with their life. With some companies, that means just above minimum wage. In return for that dangerous job at just above minimum wage, the same companies expect 5 years of similar experience with at least 2 years of military or law enforcement experience.

[@natthebratster]

@@MrJagorin I don't know how long you've been in the industry but once upon a time you didn't even need previous security, law enforcement or military experience to get a position. Wages have always been low but now in addition to the danger elements, the aforementioned experience we mentioned the recruiting maze of endless applications, panel interviews, document submissions-more than a few repeats-reference and background checks all to make, in some cases, $11.00 hr-its completely unreasonable. I'm currently in the industry and it took my employer over 2 months to bring me in and they low balled the 1st offer letter. They ended up coming up just a bit but I still got hosed believing from an email I would be transitioned to FT. I was lied to but I'm only angry at myself. That 1st offer letter was the indicator of who I'd be working for and I should have declined. The schedule and responsibilities are brutal. Huge mistake, never again.

[@anastasiab9506]

OMG that pisses me off so much! Especially when they ask basic questions that are on my resume, and even put "see resume will automatically disqualify you" on them.

[@brighamrichins3]

You get rejection emails! I never hear back from most applications

[@justalurker3489]

@@MrJagorin Violent crime has been trending downwards consistently since the mid 90s

[@stevenfisher402]

There is no labor shortage. The majority of job listings are tied to PPP loan forgiveness. To receive full forgiveness your employee retention must be 75 percent, if you fall below that mark there are exemptions if you can prove that a qualified replacement could not be found. That's what's going on right now, all you have to do is "try" to fill the position.

[@natthebratster]

Best answer to this current dilemma.

[@stevendamon7309]

This explanation makes sense. If there is an audit program it's probably underfunded, understaffed and just there as a fig leaf to cover.

[@jl453]

100%. Every job I apply to on Indeed for instance has anywhere from 100-1000 people applying to jobs.

[@jetsetradio7715]

Some places especially schools make themselves out to be understaffed for grants, other companies tax breaks... however the government has grown wise to this and that's why their expanding the IRS by 80,000 agents here now. Lot of these companies are gonna have a rude awakening when the IRS does it's investigations.

[@mollygrace3068]

So clearly supply and demand doesn’t apply here, because if there’s really a labor shortage, then wages offered should be skyrocketing.

[@xerxeskingofking]

like many markets, the labour market doesnt strictly follow supply and demand due to a number of distorting factors that apply to the real world as opposed to the purely theoretical model. these can include things like societal/cultural beliefs (such as that a burger flipper should be paid min wage and no more), corporate pressures (to as much as possible with the minimum amount of resources), the understanding that once wages go up its almost impossible to bring them back down once the labour shortages ease, and a belief that the shortage WILL ease and that it might be possible to ride it out without concessions. Also, its quite likely the case that the people who control the purse strings, dictate the wage bands, etc, are not the ones directly feeling the labour shortages, so are quite happy to let someone else bear the pain of the lack of man hours while they "stand on principle" over the wage issue. Thier is also a element that a lot of these open positions are "luxury", or at least non critical positions. its critical that a restaurant have a chef to cook, and they cannot function without at least one....But, while they might run better with two or three, they CAN run with just one, and can afford to be picky/wait for the unicorn of the other chef positions. it sucks for the poor chef doing the work of three, but the bosses dont see that, just that they've saved on payroll. it might not be long term substainable, but given the high turnover of many positions, that time bomb might not come to light until after the bosses responsible have moved on. also, ive seen plenty of anecdotal evidence that wages ARE increasing in some fields. ive seen photos of places offering significantly above min wage for burger flipping, even offering bonuses for turning up. its not universal, but it is happening as the pressure form lack of workers starts to overcome the inertia i mentioned above

[@thiloreichelt4199]

That kind of skyrocketing is, if it occures, limited to contractors, because they pose less risk to the employer. For permanent jobs all the factors Peter Bradley cited apply.

[@BlitzkriegOmega]

Supply and demand only applies to the poors

[@bw5187]

It's a lie. The corporations are holding out because they can AFFORD to hold out. They realize people have minimal means and savings and are capitalizing on the fact that the peasant will need a job sooner or later, and once hired, will be there for far longer and make the company far more than the peasant is being paid. Supply and Demand are in effect: An abundant supply of uneducated workers willing to work for less than $20/hr.

[@justinwhite2725]

In 2005 (I think?) Alberta had a genuine labour shortage. The oil industry was booming and most people were going to work the oil sands. No company was paying minimum wage. Every shop had 'now hiring' signs. Minimum wage was $10 at the time and most places were offering 12-15. If you hated your job you could quit and get rehired the same day. The McDonald's next door to where I worked had to shorten their shifts because they didn't have the staff, and eventually closed altogether. We aren't seeing this. Whatever is going on now isn't this.

[@aimless-drifter]

I've applied to over 100 jobs in entry level Mechanical Engineering over a past year with 2 version of resume 8 version cover letters. Got only 6 interviews and 2 job offers. Of course I've accepted one of the job offers and current employer is thrilled to hire me. I don't know why it took me a year to get here.

[@InfectiousFight]

Similar situation. Mechanical Engineer, graduated right at the start of the pandemic, I ended up doing temp-agency work on the night shift for a long time before finally getting a job as a *software* engineer, got fired on day 89 of my 90-day probation period with no reason given and I wasn't aware of any problems with my performance or personality, so I'm assuming it was a pump-and-dump kind of operation. Really hard to stay motivated to keep applying after two years of no results.

[@Snowshowslow]

Congrats :)

[@Coral_dude]

Did you account for ats? I feel like people don’t even know it exists.

[@aimless-drifter]

@@Coral_dude yes I think for me my resume format was the issue. When I tried uploading resume myself to company sites, only half of the time the information would fill in correctly. And this is the first time I heard about ATS and it all makes sense now.

[@caissa6187]

Prior experience seems almost necessary to get jobs straight out of college. Try to do anything in your field as an intern or if your time/finances permit volunteer as well BUT IN YOUR FIELD. I did this an scored a term appointment with the feds. Best of luck to all!

[@TheHuskyK9]

I’ll never forget when a popular fast food chain (I forgot the name, dammit) cried out to the public *”we can’t afford to raise our wages, we’ll go under if we do”* but then some months later, that same business *did* raise their wages AND added benefits after no one wanted to work for poverty wages. So of course they were lying and can afford to pay their workers fairly, they just don’t want to.

[@thecardsaysmoops3]

It's pretty annoying when companies cry about their business problems to the public (their customers). If anything that company announced that they don't care about the staff that serves me as the customer enough to pay a market wage.

[@tr1xieP1xie]

these multi billion dollar companies can afford to pay their employees all 21$/hr easily even if everything on their menu hiked up .50 cents people would still go there lmfao its cop out so they can continue pushing the poverty wages.

[@tr1xieP1xie]

@@patrick-ip4yf Data analytics and budget working as side work.

[@bryonmiller4326]

@@patrick-ip4yf Oh for sure. I refuse to pay the outrageous prices these places are charging now. $10+ for any value meal is a rip off and they're all above that now. Nearly $20 to feed 2 kids? If anything, inflation will solve America's obesity problem because nobody will be able to afford the fast food anymore, they'll have to cook as long as the grocery stores still have food.

[@kv4648]

Market forces mean that it deserves to go under

[@ahlsrobe]

Ironically, I'm starting to see more companies do these personality tests and skills assessment tests. I agree, they are a waste of time!

[@Lastdayone]

I just took one and it was for a financial institution. It had over 139 questions. It’s ridiculous.

[@Cocollyt]

I had to take one for a pet store job involving mixing paint ratios and other really odd nonsense questions. I’m a certified vet tech. Just ducking ask for my qualifications

[@elliotjones3098]

personality tests are complete b/s.

[@avarice4556]

@@Lastdayone wtf. Holy fucking shit respond to one of their questions with "F U"

[@death24314]

@@avarice4556 😂😂😂😂

[@rebeccajones9757]

I saw the original video, and I think recruiters are too reliant on ATS. I wish employers would look for candidates, rather than bots looking for keywords. They're literally designed to weed out excess candidates, and now employers want to whine that no one wants to work. No, it's the folks who want to work just don't know how to game the ATS.

[@TheNexusman7]

Too many people applying that's why one company I interviewed for had 1,500 applications

[@technicholy1299]

That's the cost of entry. I faced the same challenge, multiple times. The way you break through is to play the game. Things turned for me when I got my resume edited to game the ATS. You can either stand to the side and complain about all the people getting through, or do what it takes to be one of those people.

[@grocerygoat06]

@@technicholy1299 Or we could go back to when someone could just walk into an employer's office, drop off a resume and actually meet the hiring manager. Instead, we play these stupid ATS games with personality tests.

[@technicholy1299]

@@grocerygoat06 You can hate the game all you want. It doesn't change the fact that the only way to win is to play along. It's not a hard process to get through, you just have to know what your target is.

[@chrisandsneaky2453]

@@technicholy1299 These 'games' don't lead to jobs. You get a job from knowing the right people, and if you don't know someone, you're fucked. I am so thankful that I no longer have to work for a living (retired, thank God!). My son graduated from college in 2020 with a Computer Science degree. He began applying for jobs before he graduated and continued after he graduated. A couple hundred in total, and he got three interviews and no job. A couple weeks after he graduated, he got an email from one of his professors offering him a job. The professor is the vice president of a local software development company. One of their employees quit and needed replacing, and the prof/VP knew my son had the skills they needed so he offered the job to him. No application or resume or interview; just come in and start working. The job was never advertised and no one else was ever considered. He's a 25 year old now making a little over $100,000 a year as a software engineer. This is how good jobs are usually filled. The rest is game-playing by companies who have no intention of hiring anyone who applies for those jobs.

[@jordesign]

I am a graphic designer (self employed) and when I help my wife to tailor her resume, I use a subtle trick that has paid off. I study the brand guide of the company that she is applying for, and use the same fonts and colors on her resume to match or resemble that look. When the company sees it, it is familiar and appears as though they are already on the same page..... Hasn't failed yet.....

[@TheAwesomes2104]

The sad thing about that is that the vast majority of jobs now only look at your actual resume after you've been selected for the interview process. With most online job applications (which are most job application now,) you might get the option to upload and attach your resume, but because a robot is doing the initial screening, you must re-enter the resume into their application program. It doesn't carry over fonts or colours, and often causes formatting issues that make you have to re-type/restructure large portions, if not the entirety, of your resume. This might be a good tactic for getting an upperhand once your on to the interview portion, but for most jobs it will not help you at all to get to that first step. And considering so many people apply to dozens or even hundreds of positions they should qualify for without getting more than a couple of interviews, if any at all, doing so for every position would be extremely time-extensive for what may be no payoff at all. Not saying your suggestion isn't a good one, it defiently might help you stand out enough to get a job over other candidates interviewed, it's just a sad reality that you must first design your resume for an AI robot before you have any chance of a human being that can care about such things even laying eyes on it.

[@jordesign]

@@TheAwesomes2104 I would not use this method for mass applying... I would only do this when targeting certain companies that you REALLY want to work with....

[@CelestialSleuth]

Is it me or is this unrealistic bootstrapping? I could be wrong...

[@BusinessWolf1]

that is a shit ton of work and doesn't work for every job field

[@jordesign]

@@BusinessWolf1 True, but if you are targeting a particular job with a particular company, it's worth the effort.

[@KennTollens]

Kind of annoying how recuiters and companies kind of box you into doing what you did the past. Even if the work doesn't require previous experience.

[@Oddesteidolon]

Agreed. I'm in a career track that I can't seem to break out of because of how much experience I have in it... It doesn't matter if I change the duties on my resume to reflect transferrable skills that can be applied in jobs that aren't titled like the ones I've done. Recruiters see my job titles and pigeonhole me. I've resigned to focusing on continuing on the track but within a company that will hopefully let me grow out of it in the future.

[@scottyanke655]

I've found that it's actually easy to jump to a new career if you tell your prospective employer that's what you are doing. Use what you've done in the past to show what type of worker you are, but that you want to bring your work ethic to a new career (for you). It's amazing how they relate to and appreciate that, and do a lot of hiring based on that kind of approach.

[@Wooley689]

Agree. I wanted a change to do something else but you get steered back to the same thing with the same hohum pay. People weren't hearing me when I said over and over I didn't want to do the same thing.

[@xzonia1]

@@Oddesteidolon What have you done in the past, and what are you wanting to do in the future? (ex: done CSR want to be admin). I could probably suggest a useful strategy on how to transition if you're working in an area I'm familiar with.

[@Oddesteidolon]

@@xzonia1 I'm in HR. I'm an early career program manager. I'd love to be a strategic HRBP one day.

[@tomwise9668]

I've done Business Counseling for a number of years now and I have to tell almost EVERYONE that they aren't paying their people enough, except most finance companies. According to the economics policy institute, the cost of living to be middle class in most places is over $25/hr now and that is just paying your expenses without any savings. The 2nd biggest issue is that most job postings online suck. I actually started freelancing because, with an MBA I couldn't find someone to pay me more than $18/hr.

[@Dannutts]

i live in a small town & i personally know 3 different small business owners who got PPP loans & admitted to me that they weren't actually hiring. But they were advertising that they were, knowing that their loans would still be forgiven due to 'the labor market shortage.' if that was happening where i am, i can't even imagine how widespread it must be, especially with larger companies with more sophisticated accountants etc.

[@auggiedoggiesmommy1734]

They’ve admitted to fraud and should be reported! That is OUR tax dollars!!! It will keep happening as long as we just ignore it.

[@themanifestorsmind]

They didn't have to be hiring. They only needed to retain 75% of their current workforce. So they technically didn't break any rules by not hiring new peoole.

[@aaronrs2002]

I have a hard time believing that recruiters or employers are reading my resume. The link to my portfolio is one of the first things listed under my name. When I get through the recruiters and I have made it to the actual employer interview, typically, the first thing I am asked is if I have anything online. This leads me to believe they have never looked at anything on my resume. I would say that this kind of behavior creates its own labor shortage.

[@TweedleDub]

If a 27% response rate is considered a good reply rate that is absolutely laughable.... I have been applying for entry level positions in customer service and have had my resume updated by a professional and I can tell you that the 27% reply rate sounds about right. What that tells me is employers do not respect potential employees time and shows me that either the market is flooded with applicants or employers are either lazy or not serious. I agree that having to fill out assessments as part of the application process is extremely tiresome and seemingly a common practice. If employers are going to cry "Labor shortage" then maybe they should either up their game in regards to response rates or start offering wages more inline with valuing the prospective employees time and/or skills/experience.

[@silverwing5254]

Exactly. It's statements like these that make me inclined not to take either of these two channels seriously. Because maybe that might sound good to an established armchair advisor and undoubtedly great to a recruiter, it's absolutely awful to a job seeker.

[@cetriyasArtnComicsChannel]

and out of those, how many would call back through interview and not ghost you after?

[@wolfsangelsden]

I keep thinking the same thing when I hear "27% return is great". In a regular "non-labor shortage" market, sure. If we are going to say there is a labor shortage, then I would be expecting to see 2/3rd(or really anything above 50%) return rate range. That would show employers are needing people.

[@Chrisicola]

Agreed. Most companies are fine with ghosting your ass while they take forever to consider your application.

[@justinwhite2725]

When we were hiring an assistant developer at our small company we got about 24 applications. We interviewed 3. We weren't even looking for someone terribly skilled - just needed to know c# and Unity engine. Some applicants had this huge laundry list of computer engineering credentials but didn't have 'unity', and I'd didn't want to have to teach that. So that narrowed the field a lot right off the bat.

[@beckywerner9916]

Coming from a profession where in my country there's a real shortage of labor: any job I've applied for I had a response for within days, my current one was one day. Same for my colleagues - we can literally pick and choose and make demands because they desperately need anyone to fill these positions. My friend just got her diploma and she was able to demand a higher salary at her first job interview and got it. A 27% callback is laughable. That's not a shortage of laborers, that's companies still having the ability to be picky. Not a crisis.

[@alexdolotov6554]

Which country is this?

[@BlackHoleSpain]

I'm a Systems & Networking Technician. In the last 17 years, I have applied only to job offers where I fulfilled 100% of requisites, probably over 2500, and I got only *1 job interview* at a swedish company, that obviously rejected me.

[@josemfernandeza5979]

I've applied to well over 70 jobs, here in Mexico, in the US, Canada and even Spain. What I can tell you is this: 1: Most jobs are severely underpaid; I've looked into internships as well, and the broad majority are unpaid. Leave alone the minimum-wage, un-livable wages, even jobs that require skills and experience are underpaid. 2: They ask for ludicrous qualifications for entry-level jobs: 5+ years of experience in the industry plus a college degree in the broad majority of cases (in videogame development, for example, they ask you have *at least* 3 AAA titles under your belt). 3: They are not willing to hire people from other countries and even other states, even if you have the possibility and are willing to move elsewhere to work, they'll reject you based on where you live. 4: HR departments *enjoy* to mess with you and to make your life more complicated: I've had an interview cancelled at the last minute, and in another one they outright left me hanging, they didn't even apologize for that. 5: They pretend to give you bonuses; Free snacks and drinks! (terrible) Medical Insurance! Two full weeks of vacation a year! Oh and by the way... we don't pay overtime, which you MUST do. 6: There are too many jobs that they're not even trying to fill; They can very well reject you, give you an explanaition such as "we found someone more qualified", and a couple of weeks later the same job offering is back open in LinkedIn. Whatever it is: either gathering resumes or whatever, the jobs aren't being posoted to get filled. There's no labor shortage, the shortages are on the companies' side.

[@tamarakuklinski4240]

Seriously. I wish companies would get out of the stone age with putting so much importance on how a resume looks or how it's formatted. Can the person do the job efficiently? That's all that should matter. And don't even get me started on those assessment tests!!! Really since when do adults looking for a job need to take a test to prove their worth? I SUCKED and still do at taking tests. So I have passed on a few good jobs because of that and they missed out on hiring me!

[@cetriyasArtnComicsChannel]

Assessment tests should be after resume was picked

[@errrzarrr]

You do wrong: - YOUR FAULT! YOU LIER! They do wrong: - Ah! Just to know if you are aware. This is an advanced cultural-fit psychometric test!

[@qam2024]

Agree on the assessment testing, but a resume should look professional and be formatted properly. If a company is super anal and looking at things like you used Ariel instead of Time New Roman Font then yeah sure, you don't want to work for them. However if you send them a wall of text and have lots of spelling mistakes with inconsistent formatting and tabs, then that shows you are lazy and/or a Boomer and I don't blame them for not wanting to hire you. Hint: Space and Paragraphs are your friends, Justified Alignment is not.

[@TheNexusman7]

They interview the people that score the highest on the test that's apart of the selection process

[@aprithul]

What I understand, they don't really care about how it looks or is formatted (for the most part). The ATS systems they use just can't parse ill formatted documents. It's not a preference thing really.

[@MarkHerndon]

Well I can already see in just a few minutes why you all "can't find employee's" The number one thing I saw was this ATS system compliant resume or you are invisible crap right there you lose just about everyone that may or may not be a good fit. Mr recruiter you do everything you can to not look at a resume. No wonder you can't find anyone when you require the job seeker to figure out exactly how you want everything with zero communication. It's like you want them to sort of mind read you! The reason there is a so called labor shortage is because you all want a college degree, years of experience, and someone who is willing to work for the lowest pay possible.

[@chrisroberts5300]

Had a recruiter call the other day. We have a position you'll be a good fit blah blah blah, asked if I had experience with something that wasn't listed on the resume. Said no, they talk for another 15 minutes about the position just to tell me nevermind I don't have the experience. Why waste the time, this happens quite a bit. Gotta love recruiters giving resume advice when a majority of them don't read the resume at all.

[@franksnow5165]

The problem here is that initial contact in a job search is based on resume/CVS and interviews. Ie., how social are you, what do you look like, how well can you lie? How much are you like a time share salesman? Finding a job is made near impossible for introverts, for people who don't like people, for non-salesmen.

[@tomymelon6293]

This is true evenly in highly introverted engineering jobs. You got to get out there!

[@franksnow5165]

@@tomymelon6293 The hell I do. When the business filth say you have to get out there, have to be positive, have to change; what they mean is they want to sell you something. Just another sleazy, slimy, scummy salesman trying to take advantage of your desperation to push something on you. I'll be fine now, but if I live to be a thousand I'll never forget how I was treated by the business filth. They need to be made to pay. CEOs ought to be jailed for their fraud and manipulations. They should be hit with punishing taxation, at rates approaching 90%.

[@natthebratster]

An introvert worst nightmare scenario: panel interview with 4 or more department heads all rapid firing situational solution based questions at you. I've broken out into a cold sweat from these interviews and get panic attacks

[@gothnate]

If we assume that the 87 missed calls were a response to an application, that's a 39% response rate. Y'all seem to think this is a good thing for some reason, but 100% should be the response. Doesn't matter if it's positive or negative, a response is a response. Everyone should always give a response. There's nothing worse than waiting to hear back from a job and not getting a response. Most people will only send out 20 applications at most, and sometimes no callbacks or emails from any of them. That's unacceptable.

[@Kisai_Yuki]

I'd say 100% is unreasonable, but something closer to 85% maybe. If you have a job listing out, you should be making the best-effort to contact all applicants by the same means they contacted you (eg email, twitter, facebook or phone) with a yes or no within 2 weeks. If a recruiter is going to sit on a Resume, they should do more than simply "we will keep your resume on file", and instead update them as long as they are sitting on it, and give the applicant a way to "unsubscribe" if they no longer want to be considered.

[@BlackHoleSpain]

Are you serious? I got only 1 job interview out of 2500+ applications in 17 years. The rest didn't even contact back. Pure ghosting, not even email rejections!!!!

[@DEAR7340]

Presenter references something called an, "ATS Compliant" resume(?). If such a thing exists, why isn't this standardization promoted? Where are these templates? Even if an applicant wants to keep just two formats, one for self expression, the other for digitization, it would save immense time and frustration. Recruiters and Human Resources convey an unattractive attitude with this dynamic: "Your time is worthless and your frustration is the cost of being potentially considered."

[@chrishamberg8028]

9:04 "It's a resume issue." No. The issue is the archaic dark aged system and dark aged reasoning pervasive on the hiring side.

[@olencone4005]

As a Graphic Designer myself, I have to say that you are spot on about the resumes! Originally, many years ago, I wanted a resume that was more of a "portfolio piece" -- something that showcased my style and creativity. And it looked great!! But no one ever saw it. Even back then, most places used automated scanning systems to parse a resume and filter down the hundreds (or thousands) of candidates to a more manageable number... and all that artistic flair gets in the way of that automated scanning. So that gorgeous resume of mine just got punted before any human eyes ever saw it. When I realized this, after months of not hearing back from anyone, I switched to a much more conventional and much less artsy resume design -- and I had a new job within a couple of weeks.

[@NNic.]

Thanks so much for commenting this. I haven't been sure if submitting a "plain" resume was the right choice for graphic design positions because it seems counterintuitive, but I didn't want an ATS scanner to auto-reject my artistic resume. I've been stressed out about this. 😓

[@Bagu_Art]

Wow, really? Huh...at school they had us make an artsy resume (I'm an animation major). Mine doesn't even have much to it, the only real artsy stuff is contained in the header, and to one side of it, the rest of the resume is plain white with colored text (Blue for main points and gray for the extra info). I wonder if I should try just making a more conventional resume and see how it goes... I've had lots of trouble even getting any sort of response from employers. I've never heard of the resume scanning before, but it makes sense when they get tons of applicants for a position I'd imagine. I'm wondering if having the art in the header is an issue....

[@olencone4005]

@@Bagu_Art So, I may have some bad news for you... as this may or may not still happen at companies. Back in the early 2000's, the company I was working at tasked me and two other experienced Designers to sort through a deluge of applications for a Design position the owner was hiring for. We received around 800 applications, which the owner wanted us to sort into "Yes," "No," and "Maybe" stacks. At that time, there were three schools in the area cranking out students with Graphic Design degrees -- prolly a hundred or so every six months. And we could tell at a glance which ones were recent grads from which schools -- the resumes and portfolios the school had them build were essentially identical. For example, one school's portfolios had a motorcycle rendering followed by an architectural landscape followed by a movie poster. They were prolly from class projects that everyone did. The school resumes were all very artistic too -- mainly to cover for the lack of experience (they were recent grads, after all). One school seemed to have everyone fill space with a wide sidebar of art or screens, another had them include portfolio images (like book illustrations for the resume text), another just used very intricate typestyles in larger-than-normal sizes to fill the space. Everyone used different custom paper stocks as well. At first, we were tagging these as "Maybe" -- the owner wanted experienced Designers, but she was also very cheap. So the idea was that if the experienced "Yes" candidates weren't interested she could prolly get a skilled recent grad for cheap. (Sorry recent grads, that's just how it was... and prolly still is 😒) She looked through them, saw how they were all the same, and told us to start again with the sorting but reject any that were like that -- I guess she wasn't impressed with the class projects or something. So, no school resumes/portfolios at all. It whittled our pile down from 800 applicants to around 150, maybe 200 (and I think around 30 or so of those wound up in the "Yes" pile for the owner to review). So, if you're using a template that your design school pushed, you might want to consider changing it to something more "business normal" -- or at least just something different in general. If nothing else, it will help you to stand out from your classmates, who pretty much all blend together when they apply to the same position. And it will also work better for the scanning software that recruiters and companies use today. At my last posting, I saw the resume that my recruiter had submitted to the company I was contracting to -- they had run my resume through some sort of parsing program and distilled it down to a half-page "cliff notes" of my actual resume, just barebones info all in what looked like 14-point Helvetica with a block of keywords at the bottom on whatever cheap white copy paper was in their printer. I assume this is normal for what the scanning software does. Any art or creative elements you may use, no one will see it unless you hand a living person your resume. And getting to that living person in this day and age usually means getting past the AI parsing programs first, which have zero interest in nice design, style, color, fancy paper stock, art, or fonts. It just scans for keywords, pulls the appropriate info, and weighs what it finds against some sort of algorithm that decides if you're a "yes" or a "no" for a human to see. :(

[@Bagu_Art]

@@olencone4005 ah ok, thank you so much for your reply! I’m definitely gonna open up my resume and kinda rethink it. It is on the simpler side design wise, but if it’s similar in format to others at my school like you said, then yeah I want to make sure it’s not sticking out in that specific way. The resume was actually a “project” for a professional development class, and it had to be consistently designed with our website and business cards, which is where the header on my resume is from. My header is actually on the side of the page as well. Before I’ve gotten some mixed opinions on that, some saying it’s perfectly fine and some saying I might want to change it. It’s so hard to know what’s right for employers 😭😭😭 Thank you so much again for your reply!! It’s always so nice to get advice from others that have worked on this stuff before!

[@mikespangler98]

Rule one of writing is know your audience. You misjudged the audience. Or maybe it's fairer to say the employer lied about who the audience was. That raises the question of whether everyone would be better off if they admitted in the posting that " Your resume will be scanned by our AI system." Then the applicant could tune it appropriately.

[@kilovolt2494]

Depends on what do you define as a “labor shortage”. A shortage of a workforce, when employers would be eager to hire anyone without being overly picky? No, definitely not. A shortage of a _desired_ and _ideal_ candidates, who have a long list of “what you bring to the company”, ready to work way below the market? Always) While employers can afford decline people just by looking at their resumes (and not what they can do), I personally don’t call it a “labor shortage”. Everything is good, there is enough workforce.

[@countrygirl7402]

Wages have been cut so drastically. I've seen jobs that require a 4 year degree and will only pay $15 an hour. Folks you can't live on that. You can't even buy gas on that.

[@EricaChavira-on4oz]

I’m in Colorado and I need to make at least $26 an hour to be able to pay my bills, that doesn’t include clothes, skincare, eating out, going to the movies and things like that, basically anything extra. It suck’s so bad right now. 😞

[@BlackHoleSpain]

@@EricaChavira-on4oz Damn... here in Spain $26 is what upper management is paid! Engineers/teachers/doctors are paid just 15€/h. And Treasure would tax 35% out of that income!

[@kevinstreeter6943]

You and I have a different definition of "labor shortage". If there is a labor shortage, we would not need your advice on how to apply.

[@AFuller2020]

It's a HR hack site.

[@CHRISTisKing197]

I quit my job falsely believing that there's a labor shortage(the .50 cent raise after 2 years was an insult) there is no shortage. The job offers I have recieved have all been peanuts- wanting me to weld for the same money a cashier makes. Many businesses have been replacing workers with machines, from Machinist positions to grocery store checkout to servers cooks and bus boys and hostess positions replaced by robots. I feel like the worker shortage lie is so that these companies can replace people with machines without criticism

[@AK-47ISTHEWAY]

Could you please tell me what company you applied at that is paying welders the same as cashiers? I'd like to start a boycott of their company. All the welders I know makes between 50,000-130,000 a year.

[@AK-47ISTHEWAY]

@Kevin Souza That's sad. My uncle used to be a pipeline welder for Halliburton and he started out at $120,000 a year. That was his starting rate his first year there! He'd still be doing it too if he didn't get diabetes. He took an early retirement.

[@cetriyasArtnComicsChannel]

@Kevin Souza yep, same issue in design. other than some ux/ui (and even that is changing) people don't understand that you can't just pull someone off the street to do proper design work that both looks good and matches technical specks for developers/manufacturers. Ive made more 'money' owning my small home than my pay in just a year and everyone wonders why they can't find anyone going into other fields when you make more money just sitting on land (never mind spending so much on education)

[@stormiewutzke4190]

Welding as a trade is not well defined. Lots of low level production uses welding but since it is basically just a way to attach parts together what really affects pay is if that welding has to be done to a standard. There are engineering codes for welding just like everything else and if the welder has to maintain a standard. The standard that has to be maintained and the level of skill required to maintain that standard is what affects pay. Welding can start around minimum wage for someone who just pulls a trigger on a machine and is very able to hit 6 figures if the person has the skill. Welding also tends to be project based with large amounts of overtime and at times long layoffs especially if the person is unwilling to travel.

[@SeaFlower38]

That sucks. Is there an opportunity to independently be a welder, like by having your own business?

[@MR3DDev]

Question do employers smell desperation like people do when trying to hook up? Let me elaborate. When I was unemployed I must have sent over 500 applications, at that moment I would have taken anything even low ball offers but I spent 8 months unemployed with no replies. Nowadays that I have a job and I am just looking for a better opportunity all of the sudden I get replies and even got a couple of offers. My thought is they can smell desperation in a resume, what would you say?

[@ChonnyD]

I was in your same shoes and noticed this. It set me up to be low balled for years. It’s messed up because the desperate people are the ones that need the money the most.

[@scoopitywoop]

I think that recruiters have a bias against the unemployed

[@ChonnyD]

@@scoopitywoop They do. They want people who will make them money. Unemployed are seen as a liability or ‘something is wrong with this person’.

[@estebanhenriquez3491]

I wholeheartedly believe they smell desperation. I applied to about three jobs before I landed the job I did this week. I would always answer “I’m burnt out and overworked” every time the “why are you leaving your current employer” question popped up. So, I never heard back from the previous two interviews. Funny enough, they called me AFTER I had taken the current job. It took them about a month to call me back! In all honesty I was overworked and was not wise in answering this question properly. Hence, they never got back to me in time because they smelled desperation in me.

[@fugitiveunknown7806]

@@estebanhenriquez3491 The day after I got hired I had like three different people call me willing to schedule in-person interviews (where I had gotten 1 in-person request after my first month of job hunting). It made me laugh.

[@dougc3512]

I've applied to nearly 500 in 3 months. I have 5 calls, 1 interview, no offers. I also have 15 years of experience. I've received the "your qualifications do not match our requirements" line countless times now. Recruiters are horrible.

[@Allin1Xavi]

If you don’t even stand a chance in the job market then what does that make me?

[@ulizez89]

Yeah, it's brutal out there! I have applied to positions I'm way overqualified and positions I'm way under-qualified and ones I'm exactly what they are looking for and.... nothing. I've an MA and 6-ish years of experience.

[@alaskanmooseman5975]

Just make up a job that you did, start an LLC, call yourself an employee of your LLC, and make sure you actually do the tasks you mention on your resume. There's no rule that says you have to be paid for a job to count. If people ask you about your compensation, just say you're not comfortable disclosing that, it's illegal in many jurisdictions to ask that question anyway. Companies are lying all over the place about the hiring process; job hunters are not obligated to try to fill their unicorn experience requirements with "real" work.

[@KennTollens]

I saw that video. Amazing he found 1000 jobs to apply to. That had to be a nightmare filling out the same job history forms over and over. Who would spend time writing a cover letter when your chance of it getting read is almost zero.

[@thetrainhopper8992]

I've abandoned several job applications over assessments if I didn't care about the job. Part of this grind is why I became a substitute teacher. Becoming a teacher is a pain, but at least the bureaucracy is straight forward for the most part.

[@dertester1]

Doesn't that make it the correct measure to weed out unmotivated workers?

[@elisscaliving4776]

@@dertester1 no it weeds out those with options

[@thetrainhopper8992]

@@dertester1 I've never got an interview from those personality tests so I know it's not worth my time. Why waste 30+ minutes on something that hasn't worked the last 40 times? And that's not an underestimation on my part.

[@dertester1]

@@thetrainhopper8992 Well, these measures are not for you. They are for the company... and you said yourself "if I didn't care about the job". So it's doing exactly what it's supposed to do: make people who aren't really caring about the job just leave and not send in their resumes, which means the company has less work to do in going through resumes of people that dont really care about the job

[@Jfromes1]

Ha! I'm in the same boat. I substitute teach. I work everyday for slightly less pay than a full time teacher but I didn't have to put myself into debt

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

I just watched his video yesterday. 650 resumes not getting a response and a 22% response rate is seen as a "hot" job market? Kind of explains some things when I was looking just a few weeks ago. That seems really low to me.

[@brendaechols5929]

I think it's all based on where u live.

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

@@brendaechols5929 True, there's that as well.

[@ticks4ticks4]

True; unless you count part-time, low pay retail and/or fast-food businesses (Starbucks, Best-Buy, Staples, Taco Bell, Walgreens, CVS, Home Depot)-in particular, the "non-management" positions.

[@thought-provoker]

18:30 - Corporate recruiter: "Our system isn't very accurate, because it's an AI." Also corporate recruiter: "You made a spelling error in your resume, so our AI considers you to not really care about this job, so it filtered you out." The problem with wrongly tuned ATS systems is exactly that - they attract the wrong people for the job and filter out the right people, and department managers wonder why they can't get any good people. The curse of AI going rampant.

[@noobandfriends2420]

ATS stands for Applicant Tracking System. You essentially said "Applicant Tracking System system" and for that reason your comment has been filtered out. :P

[@Jfromes1]

funny, the spelling of my last name is very close to a commonly used word. I often wonder if it comes up as a spelling error on applications

[@Mattmusic11111111]

Exactly if you want good people take the time don’t take the easy route using a computer. Is your time more important or finding the right person

[@GuitarsAndSynths]

garbage in results in garbage out (GIGO)

[@Wooley689]

Somebody can do well on the test and make themselves look good on paper but when it actually comes down to actual work, they fail. This is one reason companies are constantly searching. There are many out there who don't test well but know the actual job inside and out however those are the ones who get passed over..

[@auggiedoggiesmommy1734]

That’s the problem! He didn’t finish the experience….he should have interviewed. I’m telling you, my husband has been moved up in the interview process at least 60x and he is older …. They have had him write white papers! Zoom call with high level managers and it’s OVER. He has sold a company, was in the Navy (worked for the CNO) was promoted regularly in IBM …so Fortune 500, and has done tons of startups and other medium/large companies! I don’t understand it. He has a genius levelIQ and is super funny and easy to talk to. He has A+ management skills …he had to fire a huge group of people and one brought us a gift basket because of how well he fired him! Advice though….don’t get old and save your $$. Get laid off in your 50s and then it’s pretty much over. We are burning through our life savings …not sure what to do. Homelessness is looking real.

[@badgerdad777]

Yep. Age discrimination is real. I'm 53 and it's hard to find a job. I get it but it sucks.

[@se2664]

If this is a “job seekers” market I wouldn’t have been unemployed for the past 7 months… Recruiters have rejected me after the screening at these entry level jobs

[@natthebratster]

Exactly!! After going through 4 interviews (2 were panels) with the same company, personality assessments etc just to be rejected and see the job still posted I had a revelation. Full time HR and recruiting positions exist only when they allegedly need to be filling openings. If they're at staff levels the majority of their workload is done and they risk layoff or job elimination so the merry go round of BS continues at the job seekers expense.

[@Jfromes1]

@@natthebratster Last year I went though a lengthy application process and 3 interviews only to be rejected. For months after that the job opening was still posted on job boards

[@bettertommorow4930]

@@Jfromes1 Same happen to me this year, I was applying for a manufacturing engineer ii position at Leonardo DRS in Fort Walton Beach Florida. The main boss the Manufacturing Engineering Manager and the hiring manager loved me and I answered all the technical questions in high detail since I used the system Solumina and know how to use LabView which i use at my current job. The final panel interview also went very well, yet I still got rejected. But I did find a job in Florida with another company. They didn't make me just through hoops, just one panel interview with the Director, lead engineer, production manager and one other person. They sent an offer letter the next week and agreed to my demand which was $12,000 for relocation. But there were so many job interviews like Leonardo DRS out there it ridiculous because there are many qualified applicants considering how many make it to the final stage, companies holding out for the golden goose is a huge issue. Also that golden goose is also interviewing with other jobs and first one to throw him an offer will get him which is the one giving 1 to 2 interviews max, they forget time is very important to an employee.

[@hahamasala]

What's crazy is how many desperate employers are only hiring people on contract instead of direct. It's an employee's market. If we take the risk to take a job (possibly leaving a current one,) the company needs to also take a risk by hiring us direct!

[@NNic.]

Sadly, there are lots of low quality workers mixed in with the few "diamonds in the rough", so it's easy to accidentally hire bad apples. I've found that when I do great work, the job often morphs into a direct-hire position. Edited for clarity.

[@hahamasala]

@@NNic. That's true, but there are lots of horrible companies to work for. They often misrepresent the job and the culture can be toxic. Employees aren't allowed to try out a company and we suffer consequences for leaving a job quickly. However, there are no consequences for companies hiring contract employees and then ending contracts. It's the same old one way street and we shouldn't put up with it.

[@NNic.]

@Hahamasala Comedy You're right that there are lots of bad companies. And, you're right that it is pretty one-sided that way. Both sides have risk & consequences, but they impact differently. Contracting definitely benefits the company more than the employee.

[@skyranger1366]

@@NNic. Low quality employers deserve low quality employees.

[@NNic.]

@Skyranger13 Sure, but just because a company is wanting to try out employees before hiring them permanently (as in "Temp-to-Perm") does not automatically mean they are a low quality employer. Edited for clarity

[@bodycoach2]

My speculation; MANY people decided things like DoorDash, Uber Eats, and other gig work are more appealing than a low wage or even a managerial job. I’m a delivery driver, and some workers have actually blamed us during a pickup for ‘taking their employees’.

[@michaelnally2841]

Hey I worked at McDonald’s and we were offering more money at the start of Covid and employees from the Burger King up the road from us came to us because we were paying employees more. If the workers are complaining be like “if the company paid them what they’re worth and treated them right then the employees would stay”

[@bodycoach2]

@@michaelnally2841 I think whatever a delivery driver makes in an area is the new 'practical minimum wage'. When you can even make $20 doing deliveries on a bicycle or scooter, local business have to step up their pay too. Complaining that 'people don't want to work', when those people actually ARE working, but not for crap wages, doesn't fix this problem.

[@PavewayJDAM]

I agree. There are even professional jobs set up on the gig model. Grab a Shift is a local gig app for registered nurses. I think more are going to move to that model.

[@marylandgirl9246]

I did gig work for a year. It's slavery. Using your own car, gas, insurance, and relying on customer tips. Definitely worse than regular jobs.

[@bodycoach2]

@@marylandgirl9246 maybe better in my location. I think most people do this kind of work because they can start and stop work at their convenience, not a bosses. That is worth the lower pay to me

[@bravediomedes217]

There’s a labor shortage because there’s a shortage of good employers.

[@PavewayJDAM]

Bingo. Also the reason the gig economy is booming.

[@WiscoMel]

Not to mention low wages. I can’t afford to work for only $15 an hour. It’s better than nothing but won’t pay mortgage, utilities, insurance and gas.

[@bravediomedes217]

@@WiscoMel yeah people still talk about trickle down economics, even while the most profitable companies are paying the lowest wages.

[@potah2178]

@@bravediomedes217 Trickle down economics is the biggest load of bs I've ever heard... The fact that we keep talking about it when it's not working is crazy.

[@paulcarter6962]

That’s actually not true. The labor force got smaller due to covid and many opting to retire. Then laborers decided to steal unemployment benefits. “Scared to work”. Then stimulus happened, so why go back. We pay 16 year olds 15 dollars an hour here. The deal has always been that you return work for your pay, and we have lost sight of that. Good luck getting your favorite cut of steak or your favorite veggies when there isn’t a trucker to get them to a store. These guys get paid bank and there literally aren’t enough to fill the supermarket back up. Food service places can’t get their ingredients consistently. Good luck getting your morning coffee. Of course there are good jobs and no shortage of them. We became a lazy society.

[@JBunny7482]

I've applied to hundreds and hundreds of jobs over the past 2 years. I have a lot of great experience, primarily in food manufacturing compliance (I'm in CA btw). We see hiring signs all over, but they refer you to text numbers or websites. My son, a recent h.s. graduate, and my now ex, an entry level worker, were also looking. The verdict? I got one offer, which was based on a referral from a friend (dispatch). For basic office (admin asst), almost NOTHING, from multiple agencies for over a year I've been hearing about this. And recently, I got a call from the dollar store who is holding open interviews. I've gotten contacted by a few head hunters for fs/qa mgr roles out of state for what I actually do. And sadly. That's it. My son had an interview with olive garden & got hired at McD. Ex gets jobs left and right for manual labor, gets permanent job offers. So that industry seems ok, but it's back breaking work. The signs in stores seem BS. I've suspected for a long time that the "abundance of jobs" has been a lie, and I'd say based on my family's and friends experiences in CA, that is true. And job search engines have a lot of fake jobs. Beware.

[@chrishamberg8028]

7:28 "Customize your resume. It's the single biggest thing you can do to increase your chances of getting a call back." Yes of course. Because skills, experience, and education don't matter. This system is dysfunctional and ręt ąrded

[@crollwtide9452]

To me, the most troubling issue that lurks beneath this topic is how people are relying on a technology that many job seekers may not be familiar with (ATS), yet so many in recruiting circles may be using it (and by extension imposing it upon people who know nothing about how it affects them). If this is better communicated to the masses, these issues shouldn't exist.

[@KECOG]

Well said! I myself have no idea what that means (I intend to Google it at some point), so I miss out on the finer meaning of the messages here.

[@brandonrichardson7248]

7:28 From my experience in 2013 when I applied to 1200 jobs out of college. Customization doesn't matter. I did a batch of 300 that I meticulously customized for the job ad. Never helped. Actually nothing I did helped. I ended up working at Walgreens instead of engineering and never worked a day as an engineer since graduation.

[@TheKueiJin]

Same... Electro-mechanical engineer with a frigging masters in Renewable energy. Applied over the years for multiple cities industries, then i simply gave up and started working as a web dev...

[@daylight3325]

School of life

[@bw5187]

You are anti-social and thought the computer was going to solve your problem of finding a good job. You should have been networking and tapping your college alumni association.

[@picklerix6162]

Q: What’s the difference between a mechanical engineer and a civil engineer? A: A mechanical engineer designs weapons and a civil engineer designs targets.

[@DB-qg5us]

I’ve applied to 150 jobs in seven months. I cannot believe how long 1000 would take lol

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

Yeah, I initially went into "get a job, any job" mode when I was unemployed. The rejection from a job that I thought I'd interviewed well with was the kicker I needed to take it a bit slower. I really didn't even like that job and as a call center worker, starting a new job can easily lock us out of finding a new one for awhile. Many companies demand 100% attendance for several weeks of training, and then 100% attendance for another month or two after training. If you spot a job you like, you now have to either lose the current job and take a gamble in interviewing for the new job (and if you don't get it, your employment with the other company is often reported to unemployment so you won't qualify for receiving benefits again), or just let the opportunity pass you by. Once I stopped and remembered that, I decided to still apply frequently, but to be way more selective. Still took me two months and at least a hundred applications to find a job.

[@amandasalmons8776]

Wow, that is stamina! I hope you found something you really love!

[@DB-qg5us]

@Data Engineer 365 not yet. I had one interview in November and didn’t get the job. I am currently in round two of interviews for two separate companies and a few others have reached out to set up interviews so things are picking up. Seems when I focused my efforts to a particular city rather than remote from anywhere, I started gaining traction.

[@DB-qg5us]

@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley seesh! This can be a super draining process. Glad you found something.

[@DB-qg5us]

@@amandasalmons8776 soon!

[@asadb1990]

i don't who has the time to customize each resume to each job while probably never hear from that employer.

[@ALifeAfterLayoff]

I would customize for roles I’m particularly interested in.

[@xzonia1]

It's really not that hard. I have resumes that emphasize my admin skills, which I name [My Name] Admin Resume [today's date that I created / updated it], or my Healthcare experience (name of resume changes to Healthcare Resume), or my Managerial experience, etc. They're all basically the same companies being listed, but how I present the info in each resume is a bit different to emphasize the role I played, so the next time I find a Healthcare job I'm interested in, I just use my Healthcare resume, or an Admin job, I submit my Admin Resume, etc. You do it once for each type of job that interests you, save that version, and then just update them over the years as you gain new experience. I have a folder on my computer named Resumes where I keep all the different versions of my resume. I hope this helps!

[@asadb1990]

@xylene i have resumes based on position. but im not reading through a post and then tailor it to the post that i will likely never hear from again.

[@xzonia1]

@@asadb1990 That makes sense. The only time I've done that is when they mention a skill I don't normally list on my resume but do possess; I'll just go add a line mentioning I can do that.

[@amanda1500]

If you're unemployed why wouldn't you have the time?

[@MikeNapoli1989]

After a few months of heavy job searching and interviewing. I finally got an entry level HR position that is a hybrid and my first job out of college! Hard work really pays off!

[@Deimian676]

Really? That’s crazy how difficult was that?

[@MikeNapoli1989]

@@Deimian676 it was definitely an adventure. Just had to keep at it. 😃

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

Congratulations!!

[@brendaechols5929]

@@Deimian676 it's really not that difficult. I know someone where I work that got a position in hr and we have no customer contact. She's actually doing quite well.

[@Deimian676]

@@brendaechols5929 that’s awesome ! These entry level jobs are asking for over the top experience .

[@angelmarauder5647]

Let's look at this video from a meta view.... He's telling us that you have to stylize your resumé, essentially use a professional or put in dozens of hours, to simply make a document that lists your background. That is insane. If you have to put in that kind of work just to be noticed, the labor shortage market is a lie; businesses on the whole obviously don't give a damn about finding people.

[@grinder00012]

This is pretty good content I feel like I put so much into practicing my craft trying to make myself more "hireable" it seems like so much extra work to simply market and advertise myself. I feel like I already got a job when Im just searching for one. What this guy did is what most people do. It's a numbers game.

[@AK-47ISTHEWAY]

If the company is desperate enough they will ignore the fact that you didn't do the personality and skill assessment tests. I got hired on as a delivery driver for a small mom-and-pop home improvement store and they wanted me to do all of those tests and I refused. I still got the job 🤣

[@xzonia1]

Every time I've ever been given a personality test, the company used it as an excuse to not hire me. Now I just say, if you don't want to hire me, just say so. Don't waste my time giving me a test to blame for why you didn't choose me.

[@bvsowle]

The pandemic hit soon after I finished my 4 year degree and decided to take a couple months off work/school. When it became apparent the pandemic would not be over quickly I applied to a few jobs at Target since I had worked there for a year while I was in school. I applied to a few stores at entry level positions with a year of experience in the same company, over 5 years other retail experience, a college degree, and full open availability and never heard back. 🤷‍♀️ I try to explain to people like my dad who haven't worked in business since the 90s that is just not the same anymore. We're out here trying our best

[@allprolemontonz8448]

The labor shortage is for part time, fastfood, retail, and under 50k. All the good jobs get tons of applications

[@ALifeAfterLayoff]

In my experience this isn’t accurate.

[@allprolemontonz8448]

@@ALifeAfterLayoff I mostly apply for accounting and at least in my city there are usually 5 people interviewing for 1 spot

[@mitch-lifestyle]

@@ALifeAfterLayoff Agreed. I retired recently, but I was working as the "Great Recession" was ramping up. During this time I was getting more solicitations from companies and recruiters than I ever did prior during my entire engineering career !

[@brendaechols5929]

@@allprolemontonz8448 I was once 1 out 150 applicants . It's actually happen quite a few times and I never gave up.

[@cat-z2c6b]

@@ALifeAfterLayoff tech jobs get plenty of applicants.

[@cinzabeary5226]

The retail store I worked at used to have a lot more employees. I've noticed a lot of those numbers have been reduced, in some positions from 5 down to 2, and they're not hiring. Upper management seems to be wanting the stores to operate on less employees, which means we're over-worked. This change seems to have happened around the min. wage increases. Due to the excessive workload, there's been an increase in injuries, illness, burnout and vacation requests, personal time off, etc. To the mgmt's perspective, they think no one wants to work.

[@ybemad]

I've backed out of many applications that were asking me to create an account. I stopped when I had 6 different workday login sets going on. Apple was the worst, had to create an iCloud account and then it wouldn't let me use any of my existing email addresses I had to create an entirely new email account to associate my application with!!!!

[@katharinathegreat8111]

I had 2 cases where even the mailadress to send the application to was not working! Yes, id looooove to work in a company where even the simplest things are not functioning.

[@trutrek913]

The pandemic really affected the corporate world in a negative light. In many companies, management found that a 1/3 of management is not even needed, it became a conundrum when you can't take this knowledge to the senior management without risking losing your own job.

[@anonygent]

My view is that 90% of management isn't needed. Most of them are useless at best, positively detrimental at worst.

[@charlesbauer6075]

@@anonygent I totally agree with your statement. They just seem to get in your way when you are trying to do your job.

[@ETREDROOMREVIEWS]

many employee's also realize that they can do there entire jobs from home and are refusing to go back in, literally no incentive too and the quality of work drops because no one is happy to be back. Workers have so much power so companies don't hire unless they're going to go out of business if they don't, promise a bunch of raises that are always one meeting away that never seems to happen.

[@Hierax415]

I sort of felt compelled to take a good look at the jobs available in my city after hearing all this "great resignation" stuff, I currently make a little over 80k. Scared the crap out of me because from what I can tell I'd have a hard time finding anything for more than 60k. At least in my field, it seems like salaries have gone down.

[@TheSaxon1321]

dear recruiter.. why do we have to give a resume and then fill out all the same info on an application lol. One or the other, i know damn well most HR departments never even look at a resume, vs just reading the application. Also if places are desperate for work.. no customization? no objective? listen people want to work to pay bills, no one actually wants to better a larger company. the most annoying question is "why do you want to work for us" when you do get an interview.. I am just trying to pay rent.. I have no reason why i WANT to work for a job other than paying my bills. I hate how unrealistic all this shit is.. When you apply for a job at McDonalds for example i shouldnt ever have to say why i want to work for that company.. just pay me. One question I have always asked at interviews when i apply for a job is "why should I work for you" and most the time they have no real answer, because we all know the real reason is to pay bills, and most jobs cant even provide that level of pay.

[@jrobertlysaght]

There aren't a shortage of jobs. There are lots of less than 30 hrs a week, but must be %100 available ( no second job) jobs. And if you can find rent for less than $500 per month, can live on top ramen, and live in a city with public transit, there are tons of $15 per hour jobs you can survive on. Also, does anyone else feel frustrated/insulted that you don't apply for a job, you develop the skill of developing a properly compliant resume for the AI? Please take this course on how to kiss my Ai's butt so you can get a job and feed your family.

[@natalyaporter5730]

Where is there a place with rent for 500$ per month??? Rents normally 2000$ per month!

[@LT-et5rr]

$500 rent is for the closet IN the $2000 apt.

[@Chris-dz3rs]

During COVID ,a lot of workers (including myself and my wife) were told we were "essential workers " and that we HAD to work while everyone else watched Netflix for 2 years. We couldn't go anywhere to have any fun ,no vacations, no gatherings, nothing. At one point we weren't even allowed to purchase a bag of straws because the package had the word "party" on it. At another point ,our Walmart got in a few GI Joe Retro items. We weren't allowed to buy them because toys had been declared non-essential and thus ,the section was roped off. Yay....we're essential,,,,to the point of misery. How a lot of employers seem to have forgotten how essential workers rose up and worked while everyone else was cozy at home . Their thanks was uttery5meaningless. You can see this everywhere now .

[@Lastdayone]

These companies & their hiring managers are delusional and gave a superiority complex. Some of them are running these companies right into the ground because they view applicants and potential candidates as if they should be begging for an opportunity. They are not abreast of the times we’re in and lack a sense of urgency. Post covid has presented a new canidate that knows their worth and aren’t settling and I LOVE to see it because I don’t either. I turned down an offer today. This is coming from a recruiter as well lol 😂 if you’re one, working with difficult hiring managers or clients, I’m sure you understand ✨

[@Seattle-2017]

I've run into this, and agree with you. Years ago, I was employed but looking to move, and had two interviews with a company, and they went well. That is, until the offer. It was slightly below my desired salary range, but since it was still more than I was making and I liked everything about the place so far, I verbally accepted, and asked for the written offer. The hiring manager said he was "busy", but would send it to me. A week and two more calls go by and I still don't have the written offer. I call again, and I tell the hiring manager I NEED the written offer, and that I will not turn in my two weeks notice with my current company until I get it, and that this one week wait is just delaying everything. He seems surprised ("Oh, really?"), but a few days later I finally get a boilerplate, three sentence offer letter, which does not mention benefits at all, just salary, nothing else. It took him more than a week to send a three sentence offer. The whole thing concerned me and pissed me off so much, that I questioned this place (did they delay the written offer because were they looking to do a salary bait and switch?), and whether I would be a good fit there after all. So a few days later I called back and rejected the offer. They were shocked, and told me they had already turned down other applicants. I apologized but stated my decision was final. About 6 months later I started interviewing again and landed a job at a place just down the street. The company that I rejected was PISSED about that - how DARE he reject us and go somewhere else! To summarize: some companies think of people as slaves that they can disrespect and insult, and you somehow are still supposed to be "thankful" for the lowball pay, terrible working conditions, and deceptions.

[@shannonb1195]

From my experience a lot of employers are desperate to fill positions that pay so low that nobody in their right mind would accept with today's cost of living. Indeed I was working a temp position at a company that was getting applicants for permanant positions, but only from people with felonies or failed the drug test. Obviously. Such people lack options, so they will accept. I negotiated to lengthen my assignment with them as they were short on employees and it was convenient for me, but I refused to apply permanantly as they would have cut my pay significantly. (They can't "afford" to pay their permanant workers that much for the same job.) Even I was not getting paid particularly well, but I accepted the wage they gave me because it filled a work gap for me and my commitment was short term. Otherwise I would have loved to stay with them. But not for free. Never for free. I think the market for skilled jobs that will pay a mortgage and basic life expenses would be a lot more competitive.

[@heydude23001]

I used to work in HR, did a lot of recruiting. I agree, there are a 'lot of jobs available' but many of those jobs are too low pay, poor working conditions (retail night shift, low end restaurants, commission sales, etc) or aren't even really jobs (e g. MLM scams, etc.). Truly the good paying jobs ($70,000+ a year) with quality Employers are still harder to find and more competitive. There are a lot of low quality recruiters trying to fill jobs for low quality Employers, who don't want to pay correct salaries, require more education and experience than the job actually needs, require time consuming assessments at application stage. Big red flag if the Employer won't tell you the ballpark pay range up front. I won't go to an interview unless I know the job pays what I need it to. Imagine wasting one or several days interviewing somewhere only to get a pay offer $20,000 less than your desired pay. Especially if you told them your desired/required pay up front, which you should. That happened to a coworker. The other company knew his salary and offered him about half what he was currently making. Ridiculous.

[@fugitiveunknown7806]

Just got a job after about 40 days of searching. I have spent at least 10 hours writing pointless tests, often carbon copies of the same ones. There's nothing like doing the same stupid basic skills tests for 30 different companies (when you have already completed certifications that prove that you can do this and have completed the certification on LinkedIn as well).

[@TheIgnoredGender]

Have my Master's in Accounting. You'd think it'd be easy for me to find something. But nope.

[@WillieRayPR]

I have my CPA and a Masters in Accounting and it took a while to find my current job.

[@KennTollens]

Degree in computer science, but get turned down for assembly type jobs. Figured they turned me down for being over qualified, so I submitted without the degree. Still turned down.

[@asadb1990]

if you are honest, yeah all hope is lost. but if you are willing to bend the truth or straight up lie, you will do great things.

[@jacobg8640]

I hear public accounting is desperate for people right now, but then it is public.

[@allprolemontonz8448]

Same accounting is oversaturated

[@Eyetrauma]

That a resume should be 'ATS compliant' tells you everything you need to know. "B-but that's how it is, gotta play the game!" Sure, but as a software developer if I was asked to develop a piece of software that had to deal with a diverse set of inputs and then just straight up *didn't* I'd lose my job. If employers only acknowledge resumes that fit a machine-readable format, give me a template that meets the parser's requirements, then. Don't ask for orange and only accept lemon-lime.

[@gradstudent584]

There is a shortage artificially created by employers with their stupid processes. I have been observing hiring in my company (I work as a software engineer) and we have these google-style multi-round interviews and at the end we don't hire if there is even a single interviewer who is doubtful. This stupid system has resulted in us not filling 3 senior positions in the last 1.5 years and the team is overloaded with work. In my experience, I have seen companies do this stupid thing and keep vacancies for long and finally hire an idiot in desperation (and that too at a high salary). Soon there will be a new vacancy because of bad fit and so the cycle continues. The lack of common sense is stunning.

[@auggiedoggiesmommy1734]

My husband is in this field and cannot get a job … I bet it’s because of this!

[@saldiven2009]

IMO, resumes are antiquated and should be done away with. Today, online application forms collect all the information and put it into a format that can be easily sorted and searched. Skill in writing a resume is completely unrelated to ability in the actual job skills, and a recruiter who is influenced by the appearance of a resume rather than the contents therein is doing their employer a disservice. Far better would be Gett ng rid of this artifact of previous generations for something that more accurately relays qualifications without the pointless distractions of formatting and decoration.

[@tomgardner2253]

Online forms are a load of shit as well and tedious. You just copy and paste parts of your Resume into the online form then have to talk about for 1000 words how you handled a difficult situation once upon a time, or talk about a weakness you have for 1000 words and then 8 more questions all at 1000 words each. TEDIOUS

[@timothyc.8666]

@@tomgardner2253 I agree with this. If I am applying to a job, why am I answering interview questions? Shouldn't that be for the phone and/or in-person interview 🤔? Something to think about. My experience has been that those who do that were not actually hiring in the first place.

[@TheDimentoGraven]

Having worked for a resume processing software company in the past (RezLogic), I can tell you businesses that rely solely on automated resume processing end up shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to finding candidates. Typically the HR/recruiter types that are setting up the searches, aren't including all the necessary keywords, correct keywords, or even correctly spelled keywords when it comes to setting up their applicant searches. It's the laziness and penny pinching during the recruiting process that has hobbled more applicant searches than, "bad resumes". An intelligent knowledgeable human looking at two different resumes (one 'ATS compliant', the other designed by 'graphic designer') will be able to determine which of the two candidates best meets their needs, where as most automated resume processing algorithms are only good as they're initially programmed to be, only as good as their parser, only as good as good as the OCR, etc. When it comes to 'forms' comprehension, humans are just better, still than any attempts at having AI do it.

[@scottyanke655]

I don't understand the ATS approved or compliant stuff. Granted, I have never used resumes for the jobs I've had (Library Clerk, Stage Manager, Communications Specialist, Systems Programmer, Maintenance Tech, etc), but what the heck is ATS? Some of us switch careers multiple times over our lifetime, and resumes mostly seem to reflect our past, that we're trying to get away from by finding a new career. We still use all the skills we've acquired, but we want something new!

[@truediva18]

I cannot stand those assessment tests. They take way too long and repeat questions. I have applied at Target at least 7 times and had to take their test each time. Never got hired!

[@sunflowerfields4409]

A resume writer volunteered to look at my resume. I submitted one version I have that was recently tailored for a job. (that I got). Their comment was "google resume templates and show it to me again when you have reformatted it". Uhh... My resume got me many jobs, is clean, simple, etc. Resume templates on google are hideous. I never contacted this person again. I don't need to have my glam shot in the corner and colored lines and solid color blocks. No thanks.

[@asadb1990]

companies are also desperate in high cost of living area because most people can't afford to live in the area where the jobs exist.

[@ZentaBon]

And they don't pay 💰 Want quality work? Pay a quality price.

[@cetriyasArtnComicsChannel]

And they refused to pay more cus those already hired would expect much more money

[@ZentaBon]

@@cetriyasArtnComicsChannel rightfully so...without employees these businesses are nothing. It's like removing the gears from a clock.

[@asadb1990]

@cetriya's Art n Comics Channel actually most employers rely on lack of transparency between employees to pay different to sImilar level employees.

[@natthebratster]

@@asadb1990 and I am dealing with that right now. I found out after getting in that my coworkers with one exception are getting a significantly higher rate than I do and have FT benefits. The rub is I actually rejected the first offer thinking I was getting a decent rate with the final just to realize after starting with the position that I'm being used. It's horrible

[@joeytheredkangaroo]

Customizing Resumes take way to long. When you are job hunting it is already hard, then on top of that you need to change up a Resume for place you apply to.

[@ticks4ticks4]

But still worth it, if you want to gain a competitive edge. which is, in fact, unfortunate, I must say!

[@kevinfischer4869]

Fortunately, if you’re applying to the same types of jobs, you can get away with copying an old resume and just tweaking little things (don’t mention javascript experience but stress open source contributions when applying for c++ dev). It’s rare i had to completely customize my resume.

[@genx7006]

The "tell us a joke" thing is a big no-no at some companies. They want to hire a worker, they don't want to hire a clown.

[@nancykerrigan]

I think it's a slick thing they do. Ya know; to look for someone who has a "sense of humor" AKA someone who doesn't complain when things go hectic or they have to do more than the job description.

[@Maki-00]

@@nancykerrigan That’s just an extra hoop to jump through. Hire people based on their qualifications not their “sense of humor”.

[@mitch-lifestyle]

If I went to an interview and they wanted me to tell a joke, presumably as part of a "personality" test", I would oblige and tell them my favorite joke of all time, "The Aristocrats".... Also, I would insist that they let me tell the joke in full until its conclusion.

[@JonathanBaltzly]

I think humor has a role in the workplace, but not while applying.

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

I figured it was to flag bots and to show some originality.

[@jettqk1]

I'm excited you reviewed this video, since I just watched it the other day. :-) Thanks for all the great advice! On the subject of assessment tests, I'd say 75% of the jobs I apply for through Indeed require assessment tests in writing, editing/proofreading, or social media. Even though I get great scores, I've had callbacks on none of them.

[@xzonia1]

Like this guy in the video suggested, when I find a job that interests me on Indeed, I take the time to hunt down that company's actual website and apply there. Far greater success rate that way. Indeed is good for finding job listings, but sucks for actually getting an interview if you apply through it.

[@LadyNerdyLegalPants]

• Applying to jobs and having to go onto another website is my pet peeve! I won't do it! Unless it's a 5-star animation studio like Disney or something, I'm not gonna do it! • I also don't buy templates because they usually are designed by people who have no clue how to technically make resumes. I've seen resumes that have photographs of candidates. If you're a model, I'll want to see your photo. However, if you're not a model and applying with an actual 8x10 headshot, don't you dare include a photo of yourself because it's huge grounds for discrimination!! • Before I married and changed my name, my last name made me sound like I was from a Spanish-speaking country. I got it all my life, even as a child. Anyway, the moment I married all I did was change my name on my resume. Nothing else. I had zero answers to applications before the change and a drastic up-tick in calls for interviews and job offers after... Yes, people will discriminate against your name. It sucks! So don't name your kid Rainbow Sunshine unless you plan on paying for therapy or expect them to change their names later. • DO NOT put your full address on your resume. You can put the city, but don't put the street address. Why? Because if you're renting in a cheaper neighborhood those employers can google map your home and judge you for it. Yeah, it's a real thing. I've had employers ask me to do it when they interviewed candidates because they wondered if they were poor and would steal. Discrimination!!! But, it's not a protected discrimination reason, so they can legally get away with it. •If employers want me to do personality tests or assessments, I reject them. I've had a huge advertising firm have me do a personality test and the results I definitely wouldn't say were me. They didn't even interview me when I was invited in, the 3 people interviewing me judged my personality test and applied personality traits based on stereotypes. I was not only offended but I couldn't even tell them anything because they literally spoke to themselves and not me. • I've been looking for work for a year now and all I can find are employers who want 1099 independent contractors instead of actually hiring me on as a full-time employee. A lot of employers are not hiring people outright anymore. The employers who do this have no idea what the difference between 1099 vs W2 is and how they can't really treat you like an employee. These companies act like you're their employee and when you remind them that you're an independent contractor they'll fire you. The IRS will check if they really should have made you an employee vs an independent contractor. The reason why many employers are doing this nowadays is that it costs them less to pay a 1099 independent contractor than it does to pay an actual employee. An independent contractor will file their own taxes at the end of the tax year because you are your own business. You are left with all the paperwork and must bill your "client" (employer). They also expect you to have no idea how to do this and not charge them tax when you bill them. Why? Because they're assuming you have no idea what it means to run your own business. Only someone desperate for work would put up with their wild monkey circus. You're also supposed to have a contract with a scope of work outlined. If they don't provide you with that, don't work for them until they do! In February I had a "client"/Employer with a big advertising firm pay me via credit card then a week later dispute the payment with their bank saying they didn't know what the charge was for. The money was removed from my bank account. It caused a huge financial strain for me! When I informed them that they had the bill and paid it last week they said "oops" and then paid me again. However, they terminated our working agreement afterwords. • I'm so over the drama of employers acting like @$$ holes during this current employment market. There are so many employers who won't hire you if you're not of the same beliefs as them, even if it's not related to the job. No, I'm not talking about if you're religious or not, I'm talking about political affiliations! I wish there was a discrimination definition where they can't discriminate against you if you wear a mask to the interview or if you don't love Donald Trump and his cult of followers... Believe it or not, I've watched former employers turn down perfectly qualified candidates because they wore a mask to the interview and instantly judge them as "leftists" or "snowflakes"... It's a sick and disturbing job market right now. I've personally been to interviews where there were mask mandates in the area and the employers have asked me to take off my mask because they don't believe in them.

[@adavilla3610]

Try for California. There's still viewpoint discrimination but in the opposite direction.

[@calmaschamomile1252]

I notice on Indeed, many of the customer service/retail/food service jobs have switched to the easy apply. Good. It’s ridiculous signing up for all these sites to not get the job.

[@LadyNerdyLegalPants]

@@adavilla3610 I actually was in California for a while. The discrimination of my name happened there.

[@Frissdas1207]

Whenever I've been asked to fill out any assessment I've replied "my independent contractor rate $110/hr."

[@kasparhartley266]

I just watched this the 1000 job application video this morning. Glad to see a quick response!

[@meesc3556]

I understand that resumes are supposed to be professional, but as long as it can be read and understood, I don’t see why unorthodox formatting, design or presentation is an issue.

[@xerxeskingofking]

as he says in the video, these CV is skimmed by a program for relevant data first, to auto-populate infomation about you form the CV into the employers system. if your CV is laid out poorly or in an unorthodox manner, a lot of infomation will be missed or incorrectly skimmed, leading to what you see in the video of having to manually enter all the data you just gave them on the CV. all this happens before the HR guy even gets notifed you applied, so its basically the 1st step. so non-standard CVs are, in effect, "unreadable" in the initial screening stage and thus using one will lower your chances because the HR guy wont get your application in a useable format.

[@Jfromes1]

The worst is when you put all this work into creating and formatting a resume only to have to put the same information in on the application.

[@auggiedoggiesmommy1734]

I have a BA in poli sci and an MPA. I haven’t worked in years, but life has changed and I need a job. Before this I was an event planner, alumni director and fundraiser. I have applied to so many jobs … at least 200) my wrist feels broken from using my mouse. I have not heard from one …these are all entry level admin and retail jobs …. I have tons of admin experience and taught myself all kinds of software)…ZERO response. My husband with 30 years of experience in software using targeted resumes and cover letters has gotten SO many interviews but not one job. He has been in senior rolls …as soon as they realize how old he is on Zoom interviews are OVER. P.S.my resume was done by a resume writing firm.

[@mollygrace3068]

Ok, I’m just a few mins in, but you’re criticizing his resume for not being custom and being too generic. You’ve also talked about employers and recruiters not spending much time on going over each resume. That doesn’t make sense, if there’s a REAL SHORTAGE. That’s the point of his video. If there’s a labor shortage and I’m struggling to fill positions, I’m going to spend more time with the fewer resumes and applications I’m receiving and extend more interviews. I’m not going to be picky about formatting.

[@michaelmurphy2112]

I'm sure you figured this out, but the format issues was more due to how application systems read the and upload the resume. The weird format this guy used meant he had to basically reinput every field after uploading his resume, which, I think we can all agree, is a pain in the neck and takes a lot of time.

[@allprolemontonz8448]

Agree all the nit picking wouldn't be a thing in a real labor shortage

[@genderfluids6448]

He's a capitalist shill trying to gaslight the working class. If there is a shortage, they'd take anyone.

[@ALifeAfterLayoff]

@genderfluids That’s one hot take. Maybe get some fresh air?

[@the_real_swiper]

We have the same problem in Germany. We have enough workers, but hopefully almost nobody wants to work for poverty wages. We call that: Fachkräftemangel (Mangel an Billiglohn-Fachkräfte) or in english something like: Shortage of skilled workers (lack of low-wage skilled workers)

[@michaelmurphy2112]

Regarding the time between applying and getting a response, some companies don't start responding until after the posting closes (admittedly a terrible plan) which means if you apply on the first day the job is posted, you might not hear back for several weeks to a month or so, and don't get me started on government jobs. During my last job search it took one company 4 months to get back to me, and by that point I had already accepted and started another job.

[@chrisdietz1449]

I don't agree, I been unemployed since November, I been trying to get a job. I had 3 interviews in the last four months. I applied about 100 times. and no success. I think human resources has made it highly difficult to get a job these days.

[@ferryjayadi3316]

Are u homeless, felonies, used to be an addict or use any recreational drugs , from certain race or religion?

[@499PUCK]

This guy is applying for an hourly job, which you said you don’t have experience. He is applying at restaurants and retail. He isn’t looking to be the manager or supervisor.

[@ENetArch]

If the ATS system can't import a resume properly, then resumes should be formatted using XML or JSON

[@shahab814]

There's no shortage of workers, only shortage of highly experienced skilled workers who will accept low wage.

[@TheDecoCottage]

I’ve found a basic, functional resume works just fine. It’s fine to have a more “pretty” resume to carry physical copies of to give to those who interview you. I’ve found that some employer systems seriously distort the formatting even on basic MS Word and PDF resumes. I’ve been asked for a copy during interviews because my uploaded resume was so distorted it was hard to read (and it wasn’t held against me because apparently it happens to everyone, so it’s a software glitch on their end).

[@blktauna]

Over the last 2 years I've applied to over 600 jobs and have got around 10 responses. This is for technical work. As for the graphics... No. OCR hates it and no one really 'looks' at them anymore. I'm also told no one reads cover letters anymore either...

[@ALifeAfterLayoff]

You may want to revisit your resume if you aren’t getting calls.

[@looseycanon]

@@ALifeAfterLayoff Allow me to share my experience, because I firmly believe, fault is on "your" HR side of things. I've been looking for a job for two years in Czechia, we had at the time around 3% unemployment rate. When I finally found a job, I had over 1600 CVs sent out. My average number of interviews over those two years was about 0,8 to 1 per week. I stopped altering my CV and... there was no change in the frequency of interviews. Then covid hit. We had the toughest lockdown in Europe and... again, no change. So, I kept going on, hoping, I would get lucky somewhere. Our government announced, that in a week the lockdown would be terminated and in the next ten days after the announcement, I averaged 1,7 interviews per day, with 3 in one day being the most (with a healthy amount of travel time to boot that day). It was only in these ten days that I scored a job. So answer me this. How did I have so few interviews in two years of unprecedented economic growth, hunger for labor and literal employer whining, that they can't fill the positions throughout the economy, and then scored nearly twenty in span of ten days (including the one that earned me a job) in the middle of a freaking (and still ongoing) pandemic, which we'd expect to be the firing season, all the while making 0 changes to my CV? The way I see it, HR either doesn't understand basic principles of the market, eg. you can only buy, what is in there, or is failing to explain this to management. I say this, because throughout those two years, I didn't see any changes in employer's demands. I didn't see any change then and I don't see it now. All the time, entry positions, requiring two or more years of relevant working experience on top of at least a bachelor's degree and at least two (sometimes more) languages throughout the economy.

[@looseycanon]

@@callmekirkland8 I disagree, I got my job months after stopping writing cover letters. I will admit, that I'm from Europe and finance, so it might be either cultural, field specific or both, but when I stopped writing cover letters, I didn't notice change in potential employer responses.

[@blktauna]

@@ALifeAfterLayoff I have done and had it redone by a coach. I'm going to look into this ATS ready formatting because I think the pro writer wasn't too up on that.

[@electricianone3090]

I got that same feed! Thought it was a very well made video, he did a ton of work to make it. Learned quite a bit. I learn a lot from yours as well of course. Luckily I’m not unemployed but my best advice is to ALWAYS LOOK. Always nice to know what’s out there just in case.