There is a Job Search secret you may not know about. Just try this trick with your resume and cover letter and you may get your next interview! #jobsearch #technology #interview
Basically this…literally get passed over because you are qualified for a technical role but you use the competing software that does the EXACT SAME THING as the software they want you to use on the job…same functionality… HR Ditz: Ewww, you only have experience drinking Pepsi…we need someone who drinks Coca Cola…How would you know how to drink cola otherwise?
Often companies have a small pool of known candidates they want to hire from, but want to give the illusion that the job is open to competitive candidates. I don’t know if it’s a regulatory loophole, but I wish companies would just hire who they want for the job and not waste peoples time if they already know who is getting the job.
@@coreybuchanan776it _is_ a regulatory loophole, in the US at least. I might have some details wrong, but I think in order to pass Equal Employment Opportunity regulations, they have to make it public.
@@jord019 In about 5 years we will have such a surplus it won't even be funny. AI will make jobs that took 5-10 developers only need 1. That is on top of the fact that every year more and more computer science majors are being pumped out. As well as with remote push will allow non Americans to take those jobs for pennies. I wouldn't be surprised if developer salary goes down to like 50k max in silicon valley.
He says while typing onto a computer in his pocket connected to millions of other pocket computers while never once having to hunt for survival or flee from wild animals and bands of hostile fellow humans.
@yacobz yeah, cause you definitely have had to do any of that. Look at you tough guy, you're so tough. You're so much better than us mere mortals. Forgive me of the mortal sin of, *gasps*, making an observation. PS: I actually typed it on a computer I personally built, not my phone. I also severely limit my use of the internet which is more than I can say for your Tik Tok addicted ass. Tell you're a trust fund baby, without telling me you're a trust fund baby.
@@yolow5497 Lol I can just see it now, it's going to be like battlebots, but with software. You only get the job if your AI model wins against the other ones.
Probably only a handful of worthwhile employers who scooped up the hard working employees. The ones that were fired or harassed because they tried to improve things. Because someone felt they or their authority were being undermined.
Not necessarily..... You don't know how many jobs I have applied to in the last 4 years, that usually say you don't have to have a bachelor's. Oftentimes it just says you have to have a freaking high school diploma..... But back before the regime got in, and back before I actually was finishing my degree, they kept saying on most job descriptions that you needed a bachelor's and now it's saying the opposite. We are just in clown world and we have to wait for things to change in this country.
And then you make a custom application with all of the key words, and a cover letter that describes everything the employer has asked for. And then the company sends you an email in 5 months saying that the job you applied for is no longer available.
@@maythesciencebewithyoumy mom had interviews set up about three times in a year and a half for the same job that kept popping up. She applied everytime. The three times she got an interview they’d cancel within two days of when it was scheduled. Claiming they had “chosen to go in a different direction”……. And it’s up again on indeed and zip recruiter.
@@halowafflesthat part! O, u applied 4 a m-f job BUT we hav mandatory ot on sat (n sumtimes sun, tho, "we havent done that n years..."). Don't work the mandatory ot, ull b written up n fired. Need a day off, request it a month n advance BUT only find out if its approved the day b4. Dont come n (bcuz u NEEDED the day off) ull b on a final. These companies r straight trash n no, we r tired of the bs. Ive NEVER had a vacation n im 4 decades n this bs
I was in Recruitment for 4 years. I advocated our department heads hard to prevent automated screening like he’s describing. I initially let it be automated, then pulled resumes only out of the discarded bucket. When we hired enough people, and the dept head mentioned the automation, I said I’d actually pulled them from the ones it discarded. We then tried to tighten it up, but nothing was able to catch what a human was looking for. The automation was turned off after a while, and is still not in use today. It does take the Recruiters a bit more time to find great resumes in the hundreds (sometimes thousands) of apps we get, but we don’t lose quality.
It takes time for sure . But maybe we should actually pay people to do jobs instead of try to automate them away . And I say this as someone who's written code for at least 15 years .
I actually did this for every job I applied to for a month or two last year. Worked to get my resume to 80% match before I submitted the applications. Saw no change at all in the number of interviews I was getting, it was a huge waste of time
@@Scythera99 They want employees that are willing to do extra work for the job without being paid. Then when they get to the point of complete exhaustion, they can either force themselves to work for be fired.
Yeah unless it requires some heavy education there are so many jobs out there people with the strive to work would do perfectly well at, and learn all their roles within a month tops. People motivated to actually work will always be the best workers even if they haven't ticked all the boxes employers expect. People with experience will expect more and work less the majority of the time.
@im_Carlisle Hey if you can't understand stats, that's your skill deficiency. Modern women are more single then ever, more miserable then ever, and more pervasive in the hiring process then ever. Correlation is not causation but there is a clear statistical pattern here.
I miss the 1980s where you’d walk in and just fill out a paper application. Sometimes you’d get an interview that day and land the job on the spot. Ah the good old days.
It worked in the 90's too. I remember going to a Manufacturing company my senior year of college just to pick up an application. I was told to take a seat in the lobby when about 10 minutes later the HR manager came down and took me in for an interview. I apologized for not wearing a suit and explained I wasn't expecting to get interviewed the same day. She didn't seem to mind and I was hired to work in their marketing department. I miss the days before the internet
There's also the thing where a company is actually hiring and actually wants new people to recruit...but the HR department couldn't give a shit and doesn't want more work. And hiring people is more work. And since they're not normally on the ground with the other workers, they don't get to see the effects of being short staffed and they don't give a crap about how burnt out everyone else is. So the HR department will pretend like they're hiring, but really they're just collecting resumes and maybe doing some interviews where they just reject the candidate. Then they convince the company's higher ups that the reason why they're not getting new recruits is because nobody wants to work, when in reality it's because the HR department doesn't want to work. Ever wonder why you see sometimes ridiculous requirements on postings, like needing 10 years in a coding language that hasn't existed for more than 5? Well, other than the fact that the HR lady who made the requirements doesn't actually know a thing about what the job actually requires, it's because they're not actually trying to hire. They put impossible requirements so they can reject everyone, while putting on the image that they're looking.
Even more likely is that the hiring manager already knows who he's going to hire but has to go trough the "hiring process". Collect resumes, internal and external, do a few interviews, then "select" the person he wanted to hire in the first place. Even better, target the job posting to one specific person. It makes it even more bullet-proof. At my last job, I WAS that guy. I was a contractor the boss wanted to make permanent but he had to jump through the hoops.
@@kwilliams2239 It's pretty ridiculous that the boss even has to jump through such hoops. If he wants to hire you, then he should be able to hire you. Instead of putting a posting out there to give other candidates a false chance at getting the position.
@@ShadeSlayer1911 The idea isn't all bad. The ol' buddy system doesn't work either. The manager doesn't own the position so that he can hire just anyone (his buddy, the buddy' son, his side piece). What we see is the law of unintended consequences.
You can skip all that, if you network. Getting a foot in the door is still about WHO you know. People need to get from behind their phones, and network while in college.
@@Mercenary-1914Mhh hell yeah, getting employed not based on your skills in the relevant field but based on what friends you have. Doesn't feel great either. But I do encourage anyone who's struggling to try to achieve that, we all deserve to be able to afford, y'know, food for example. Even if we have to do shit that feels unfair to reach that goal.
@@helyphion what's more unfair, getting your foot in the door through a college buddy or your fair game cv not getting even read by a human? if the game is 'who can outbullshit each other' then i'm not playing.
The amount of times I've seen job offers that say "URGENTLY HIRING!!" and then refuse me because I don't have 15 years work experience. You'd think that employers who 'urgently' need employees would be less demanding.
They urgently need someone with that level of experience ... not that hard to figure out. Obviously they won't hire a noob for a senior architect role 🤦♂️
The beginning to think the reason that I find it so hard to succeed and life is not because I'm not a capable human being or have all these different skills, but instead because I simply refused to jump through all these silly hoops that make absolutely no sense and have no actual bearing on competency.
You can look at it from this point of view. Or you can look at it that they are looking for somebody who is smart, flexible and can succeed and get things done. And I am not talking about compromising your moral integrity. In teamwork you oftentimes need to do silly stuff because somebody failed something etc. In order to bring the team to final victory. With attitude "I am doing only what I think is important" there is no real teamwork.
@@jenHry-ng3pwNah, they want to see how well you’ll kiss ass to get a job. If you’ll jump through all the hoops , you’ll be a well trained dog desperate for treats and will do anything to keep it.
@@jenHry-ng3pw Wtf kinda corporate buzz word salad is that? "Final victory"? Buddy, it's a job so you can pay the bills, get food and don't die. Consideration should be awarded to the worker, not the other way around. Since even the best of blue collar jobs gets you a professional disease in a couple of years: destroyed back, carpal tunnel, respiratory problems etc.
I'd assume that those people who are interested in the job might also be the ones who avoid just copy-pasting the keywords to the application, and come up with an authentic (ie. different) way of explaining why they are interested and qualified.
Imagine how many hours of interviews with spoiled brats like you a company avoids by doing this. If you were as talented as you think you are, you would realize that the face to face interviews will weed out the unqualified people who just pasted keywords like you claim.
You know. I once asked an HR rep about keywords. Boy was she pissed. She denied denied denied. Called me conspiracy theorist and all that. The amount of gaslighting
I noticed people like to use the words "conspiracy theory/ist" as a synonym for "you are wrong", "that's not true", "you are lying". They think "conspiracy theory/ist" means: you are a crazy paranoid liar, when it just means: xyz is a theory about a conspiracy because we don't know for sure if there is really a conspiracy of xyz about xyz, so therefore it's a 'conspiracy theory'.
I was on a training course once, and the Guy leading the thing was telling a story that a busy boss once asked his secretary to sift through all the job applications that were on her desk and bring him the best ones. She chose all the ones on coloured paper because they were pretty!!
I always use linen paper and have it a normal but different color. I have had compliments on both during interviews. My thought is everyone uses white or cream but almond stands out in the stack because its in-between. After the interview its put in a pile of white and tan the almond jumps out at you. Same principal but im going for the subconscious
Hot tip: if you're struggling to fit all their shitty keywords into your CV, just make a transparent textbox and put all those words in white/background colour behind all your main text. Landed me too many recruitment calls when I did it 😂
Good tips. Part of why people can't find a job despite all the postings is a lot of companies will post 'ghost jobs' with nice salaries but no intentions to hire anyone to make it look like they are growing and paying more than they really are.
They also will post jobs because they have to due to some law, or bylaw, when they fully intend to hire someones friend /nephew etc or promote from within. It allows them to say "we interviewed for such and such amount of time and found no eligible applicants"
@@Moose1207 or for H1B1 visa applicants that they will hire at much less salary through an agency and have no intent to hire from the pool of US workers, usually that is in IT. I have seen that happen a lot, forget that most of foreign IT are overrated and are rotated from one company to another. Agencies benefit by making 50% of the salaries and companies benefit supposedly by offering less package deals, no benefits and low salaries. And then companies complain about productivity, schmucks.
For real. I go to those jobs and they tell me where and how to fill out the application. And majority of it is complex. Glad I don't have to deal with that bs anymore.
Ah no. With jobs like that no one outside the work place sees that job is available for a month. If no one from the company gets the job then the company will hire from outside the company. Most if not all the full time jobs won't make it to being posted publicly. Those get filled fast. I've been at my job and people think it's crazy I got full time after working only 4 years
@MastemaJack my own company had a job opening for the next position up that I applied to. I learned internally that they already knew my coworker was going to get it but they needed the manager to come back from vacation to ok it. Literally no reason to even post the position but it was done on the internal and public system that it was a position open for applications.
@amandaslough125 yeah that does happen with management or full time positions. Happened to me too. Ha so my pet leopard gecko got out of his tank when the guy who took the position I wanted started. You could say I wasn't in a great mood. I scared the guy so much without meaning to that the store manager said if I made him feel that uncomfortable again I would be fired.
I've known about the funnel software. There was a story, can't recall the publication as it was well over a decade ago, where the CEO's resume didn't get sent to HR because it didn't have the right keywords, it didn't think he was a good fit for his company. That company trashed the software that day.
If we trashed ATS based on this then all ATS would be trashed. Unless the CEO tailored its CV, it won’t get trough. Mine was blocked in our ATS for an internal position that was open specifically for me during our reorganization. It got a 0% score 😂
Honestly, I do feel like this is part of the issue of why "young people don't want to work." Don't make it so hard to get into a job in the first place. (And no I'm not talking about software engineer like Matty has pulled up :) )
I once filled out 42 applications in the span of a month. I got 2 emails and 1 phone call. 1 job was a total scam, 1 made a bunch of weird excuses not to hire me, and the last one just didn't fit my schedule.
I wish everything was as simple as before, when my friends and I were at the bar drinking, a truck arrived with a man shouting: "I need a Junior UI/UX Designer, a Python Developer, 2 Sales Closers and a Revenue Manager!", we would jump in the back of the truck and go to Silicon Valley to start a Startup...
Might as well. This is what job applications have gotten to. Chat GPT the whole process. All of it is a sham. It's designed to keep certain people at the bottom. Not everyone is going to know anything about this stuff.
@@TheDumontShow ChatGPT is new, but use of AI writing is not. I've been using AI for pretty much anything since English is not my first language and I noticed really early, as earlier as 2014, to be precise, that some people (and therefore systems) were bias against non-native English speakers.
And companies wonder why they can’t attract employees who are good at their jobs. The best employees are the ones who don’t waste time playing stupid games. They all get filtered out, leaving the mediocre workers who just know how to game the system, not do the actual work.
I've never once got a job without lying. Also,I've never once been fired from a job. Goes to show that manipulation is ten times more valuable then the skills they actually want.
I also lied i think for just about every job and also was never fired. I can't remember dates of when i started and stopped working somewhere so i make it up.
Proof of concept: I was fired for the very first time from my last job for being too honest. Literally. I refused to fudge crucial numbers and documents needed for actual customer safety post-processing.
Funnily enough, even back in like 2015 when I applied for jobs, I got answers, yes or no, back pretty quickly. Like I could apply for 7 jobs and have an answer back for all 7 within a week. Now, MAYBE 1 job will reply while the other 6 will either have an automated reply (a no that just takes half a year to send) or they just don't respond at all.
HR actually claimed they had no applicants when my boss asked the status of my internal promotion application. Then "found" it after she asked for mine by name. If I was an outside candidate, she never would have been aware of me.
If any company has a job opening with ZERO applicants, then there is a significant flaw in their application process. You should at least get a few bogus applicants no matter what.
I help homeless and at-risk of becoming homeless, as well as Justice involved applicants with getting jobs. These companies say no to them all the time. Because of the gap or because they have been incarcerated. I thought you needed workers gaps and incarceration can be worked out. Also ageism. Lastly you got people that have education, but then they say, "You don't have enough experience ". How are they supposed to get the experience if no one will hire them. They are not college students so internships are a no and there aren't enough paid internships and apprenticeships.
I figured this out back in 2010. I started copying the qualifications from the job description and pasting them to my resume under skills and I started getting call backs on almost every job I applied to.
Because that's a recruiter seeing your resume matches the job description. I've been a recruiter for over 20 years and what he's describing is not how it works.
@jasonfritz838 so you really think bigger companies don't have automated screening software to weed out applicants before applications reach the recruiter? If you work in a smaller business or temp agency then sure, a human is most likely reviewing your stuff. I HIGHLY doubt that's the case with bigger companies and corporations though.
@@djhero0071 I've worked for Fortune 50 companies, so yes, that's the case. I used to personally go through as many as 400 applications per day, one by one. The only thing that is automatically screened out is minimum qualifications, like a bachelors degree. But otherwise no, a computer isn't screening you out because of key words. But what would I know...I've only been doing this for over 20 years.
@@djhero0071especially now with most "office jobs" that you can easily work from home, it's easier to use software to only see the resumes that they need to see and delete all the others
I learned this in 2016. Been using it ever since. To this day I Still struggle big time to get an interview, much less an offer letter. Stay strong everyone, eventually you'll find a job; the constant rejections hurt, but eventually you'll come out the other side.
I work in HR at a consultancy company (Recruitment Officer), we manually handle resumes (100s-1000s) per week because automated systems are utter crap that lead you to missing out on valuable talent. It's time consuming, but that's what we're paid to do. Also, (for the love of God) triple check for spelling errors.
"Also, (for the love of God) triple check for spelling errors. " is so funny, since in the real world, more or less all people above a basic position spell like donkeys. In my career, I am still, everyday, surprised how someone became a CEO, or any other officer, when they can't properly speak or write.
Its crazy you go into a buisness with multiple now hiring banners. The manager says go online and fill out an hr long application/questionnaire that then asks for your resume that has basically everything you just answered/filled out on it only to be told the position has been filled all while the hiring signs never leave.
@@defies4626 much of it is apparently *because* of dept of labor laws. I found out as a manager yrs back that businesses that have so many employees are required to accept so many applications & interview ppl per quarter/ yr to refresh their applications on file. Companies do it in order to prove they're compilant in case of a random audit from DOL. The place I was working put up a hiring sign periodically so I finally asked why & that's what I was told. Total waste of time really. Also many of the online job postings never come down because the bigger ones pay for a monthly/ yrly subscription which refreshes their postings automatically. So while it looks like "everyone is hiring", only a fraction of them might be at any given time.
It’s interesting to know that companies are missing out on potentially amazing employees simply be they didn’t put some words in their resume. You’d think companies could come up with a better system.
No, it's just that they get swamped with thousands of applications due to the web portals here. It used to be less. You can't have people look over all of them anymore.
Stuff like this just means companies hire people who are good at applying to jobs, not people who are actually good at their jobs. I'm in college and haven't gotten a single interview this year. I was on an extremely difficult semester project that would have fallen apart without my expertise at reading documentation and debugging code. It seemed like the people who did less work on the project I was working on were the ones getting actual interviews.
I don't know the numbers but you will have lying and cheating classmates. I had some in an art class, who just bought a template to use for a major project that the school was gonna use. Same person in that group also worked at a related job (probably got fastracked to getting hired by lying). Being a liar gets you places. Just be aware of what you're doing I guess, lest you become like these other worthless lying hacks who lie because they have no skills, instead of lying because the system requires it.
"Oh so you're good at lying? Hired! We need clever snakes who can echo our words here. The real job is left to outsource or the old employees. Come here be our mascot!"
@@Yotrymp, I don't know who hurt you, but it's not a bad thing to have skills for finding jobs.Tuning a resume to the job you're looking for isn't lying.
Ehh, anyone can list software and skills, I want to see in the bulletpoints how they used it, come on fellow recruiter! Being a long term account manager with multiple recruiter teams under me and the final yes or no I’m sending this over there. I want it explained, not listed. You know this to be true :wink:
After working for several large corporations, including WalMart, Home Depot, and Google, I've gotten to know quite a few HR specialists. By law, new job openings must be listed outside the hiring organization, but in fact, those jobs have already been filled from within the corporation.
If they can’t be bothered to even glance at each application until after the magical ATS filter throws away potential candidates why in the world would they take the time to read a cover letter?
@@Farrell0208 thats the reason why people say for long time now after covid that when you see a "we're hiring" sign on the building its a total bullshit lie because they really are not hiring, they are just doing it cuz its the law they have to follow since the job/position is already filled internally.
Ran into this after college. I was a trained wild land firefighter with a degree in Sociology and a presidential and congressional award for service. I applied to stock shelves at a grocery store and was told by the computer generated email that I didn’t have the qualifications to put cans on shelves. 🤷🏻♂️
Trouble is, none of your qualifications suggest you'd be great at doing a mind numbing job (whilst still paying attention) stacking shelves whilst sucking up complaints and insults from rude customers and arrogant middle management with no social skills.
I was a truck driver for longer than I'm willing to admit. Applying for a driver position that requires less endorsements than a semi-driver was a massive faux pas. Got told off for even suggesting it 😳 (I bet it actually has to do with union regulations)
@@miaugato93 What have you got against Pen Testers? That's an important job in the netsec industry. It's far better to pay somebody to find the vulnerabilities in the network before it's exploited.
@@jgro9 my state provided me with 6 months of unemployment insurance. Mini update, I got the job, but I still haven’t “landed a client” yet, so I still haven’t been paid or anything… Loans from parents, what little savings I have left, local church help, thrift stores, SNAP, WIC, and any other financial assistance program. There’s a lot of help out there.
Even before they were using computers, they were scanning for words that matched the job description. That’s always been the game. When you have hundreds or thousands of resumes, you have to narrow them down somehow. Idk how people make it to adulthood without learning this basic fact. Your parents and teachers failed you.
If you're in college you should be getting your student affairs to organize in person interviews and career fairs if they arent already doing so. Developing a network through those means is a lot more helpful as a recent graduate with no work experience.
I found out about this halfway through my job searching 2015. I ended up making slight variations to my resume for every job I submitted. I went from not getting any responses back to finally getting responses, albeit “no’s”. But still, it confirmed that a human was actually seeing it. I finally landed a contractor job in Fayetteville after about 50 revisions and 90 job submissions…then I quit a year later and have been in business for myself since 2016. Couldn’t work for the man full time. I learned something very helpful that I can pass along to friends now, though!
I hate how ridiculous the job application process is and how dehumanizing it is now. Glad I have not had to go through it myself since I got my job before all this became the norm. Worse is how they often have requirements that are practically impossible to meet, like requiring 25 years of experience in technologies that have not even existed that long.
„How dehumanizing it is *now*“? How is everyone this pblivious? How the application process works to begin with is the issue. You waste hours of your time on pointless paperwork and then dont get hired because youre lgbt.
@@eightcoins4401or black or white or Asian or male or female… and so on. Yes you are correct. Fill out 30 pages of an application, go through 3-4 rounds of interviews, give it your all for 4 months only to be told they went with someone else.
.... Don't put your gender pronouns on the application? IDK how to help the LGBTQ+ people because there's a reason many of them will not get hired. Especially since most businesses do a media check now a days to see if you're on there in any way shape or form. @@eightcoins4401
I worked in HR and I bypassed the system our company had in place to actually go through them myself. It was more time-consuming but I found excellent and qualified people. So not every HR is run by robots 😂 Also, call. Follow-up if you can! That would alert me to look in the system for their name. Best of luck to you!
This is a good idea when you actually know the company that is hiring. In my country it is too common to have job adds with "important energy field company" or "international retail store" but no true way of identifiying them, because they don't want to alert their employees that they'll be fired 😔
@@AngelesBustamanteM Yeah, I understand. That is unfortunately the case with many jobs. I’ve had that experience myself with applying before and it feels a bit like communicating with a wall. In those situations I think the tips in this video are best, keywords from the description, etc.
I left a job in 2002 and, when the job was opened again in 2022, I reapplied. I got filtered out this way after my references--who I had contacted in advance to make sure they still worked there--looked into the matter and got back to me. I did not take that job back, but that's how insane this new world of ours is.
@@lolbajset Why would it be insane that you would somehow be less qualified for a job you had already held when you accrued 20 additional years of experience?
My employer asked me to an interview because I was different, I was just me without the bullshit words. I said what I did, I bring me to the job and this is what I have achieved. I got the job. No fake trying to sell yourself, just be you as you would with a friend.
It’s a real wreck out there. I experienced this during the recession. My mother treated me like I wasn’t even applying for jobs. Once I landed a job, I also couldn’t get a friend a job there - and he was a VP I used to work for. In all likelihood, just like how I got mine and I was a contractor before I became permanent, they probably posted it, but had someone lined up for it. Like everyone, I hate how they just waste everyone’s time. I was once told I didn’t get a job 2 years after I applied. So, if you’re looking for sanity out there, you’ll lose your own, trying to find it.
Can we go back to the days of “hey I’m looking for work” “Okay great I need you to clear out a cave of skeletons and bring me a magic rock” “Aight bet” I miss those days
As someone whos been in the staffing industry for some time, i strongly recommend against willy-nilly adding in key words. Sure, if you have experience you can comfortably speak to related to those key words, go for it. Youre otherwise just setting yourself up for painful interviews. Inb4 "i did this and it worked out fine", i believe you and thats great, but in reality youre hurting yourself more times than not by doing this. Instead, curtail your resume to show impact you made on a job. Dont juat write just "i have experience with x skills, coding kanguages, etc.". Instead, include those notes as applicable, but make the focus of each employment on your resume discussing what your purpose was at that company/positions, what your projects/teams goals were, and how you affected the outcome. THAT will catch a hiring teams eyes. It also serves as a nice interview prep.
I have a friend who works in upper management. She claims the workers they're getting are absolute trash compared to when a human scanned the resumes. She claims the workers they're getting just know how to get their resume through, but they can't actually perform the job. She claims the turnover is higher than ever. Also, walk in applications are a thing of the past. Often, an employer could eyeball and even possibly get to know you enough to set up an interview. Not these days. When they say no one wants to work, they're lying. Employers are dismissing half of the applicants. Other times, employers lie about their competitive pay rate.
Mind you, these are the same employers who complain about the people they hire being terrible, when their hiring process is designed to make it so the least amount of work possible is done on their part.
Employees need training, which companies nowadays are often unwilling to do. Unless you find a good place, most places will invest as little as possible into their employees
@cc_snipergirl 100% accurate... often most are unwilling to even train you on THEIR SPECIFIC company procedures. It's typically "Hey... do this thing you've never done... best luck!"
I miss the old days when getting a job was you taking the shoelace express to the actual place you wanted to work at, and speaking to the manager directly. The internet is a great thing, but it also made life stupid complicated
There's nothing stopping you from doing that still. Friend of mine went to corporate offices downtown and dropped off their resume at the reception while making a good impression. They got several callbacks, impressed with the initiative. There's also lots and lots of career fairs and events where you can speak to hiring managers directly. I've had success going to those networking events. The internet has made *people* stupid.
This is true. Some dude on TikTok made a bullshit resume as a Pokémon trainer and used key words of a software engineer. It made it through the system.
I know a guy who applied for a job for which he was eminently qualified. He was rejected for 2 years! Finally, he went to the office, turned in his resume with an engineer there and was hired! Too much outsourcing of HR is hurting business.
You cannot get "to the office" easily now. Everyone is hiding behind security, and if you do not already have an appointment and visitor's pass, they will simply do not let you in. You can't even take an elevator to any other floor than the one your company is located at nowadays in some buildings. You can't even operate the elevator, an app does it for you, so you can't even drop your resumes to other companies in the same building.
The story seem fake lol ,nowadays you can’t even pass through the reception not even through the security if you don’t have an appointment,it is not like before the internet,nowadays that way will not help you get a job .
@@_Diana_S Are you implying that before you could just walk into company offices...? Before electronic access cards on doors and elevators, you still needed an analog ID badge or permission to enter an office lol. It may have been easier to trespass, but they're not going to hire you because you dropped off the resume while entering their premises unauthorized. If you're still intent on trespassing, you can still just walk behind someone and enter the building/elevator. I've never seen an office worker stop someone who was following behind them, asking them to see ID. If you're in a suit or business casual wear, no one's going to think twice; they'll just assume you work in another department or you're new.
@@BrandonZickefoose2014 Basically fake job openings -- they will have the opening on their career website but are not actively filling those positions..
Easiest way to get a job is knowing someone at the company. Department doesn't really matter. Level within the company doesn't really matter. Nothing beats a solid network.
Actually that doesn't work, personal experience. I knew everyone in the company except for the new manager personally and the new manager hired me for 5 minutes and then booted me out the door for no reason it was the closest I ever got to getting a job
All of this was great information. The only thing I would add is to not be afraid of using color on your resume! Hiring professionals will look at your resume for 5 seconds max, and will move on if it doesn't stand out. I used to date a master resume writer who does tasteful designs, and she made me one in 2014, which got me an interview for a job I was not qualified for. Since then, I've just tweaked the designs and information, and I almost always get callbacks, whether I'm a good fit for the job or not. Keywords, qualifications, color!
1980's: "If you are too lazy to fill out an application or turn in a resume you don't deserve the job." Now: "If you are too lazy to run your resume through the keyword scanner you don't deserve the job."
I still go the old school route. I’ve never had anyone refuse my resume to my face. And I’ve actually been given interviews ON THE SPOT about 4/10 times. Another 4/10, they’ll take a couple days to call me back and THAT is when I get an interview. 2/10 I’m either rejected outright, or they just don’t call back.
In the 1980s, janitors made what engineers make today while only needing a high school degree. Barrier to entries are higher now and all for lower paying jobs (when factoring in inflation). Working harder for less. America is done.
I had a kind mother who taught me how to do this. She also taught me, "Don't trust your education, or a resume to land you a job. Network and find people who can help you get it." Which is what I did. Its 70% about who you know and 30% about if you can actually do the job.
Fair point. But you have to be willing to try and talk to people if you want to network. I love talking to people. So, for me, it's making sure I am good at reading people and turning the conversations till I hit something that makes them excited and want to talk. Then they get to enjoy discussing something they love, you get to learn about what that is and maybe make a friend if it's a shared interest. If not, you still probably just made their day because you were willing to listen to them talk about something they enjoy. That is something almost everyone wants in life.
@@jacobmansfield-go9fzFind an alumni group in your area if you went to college. If your college is into sports there might be a bar where people watch sports. Make sure your alumni database is up to date. Find a society or trade association tailored to your line of work. Engineers and scientists usually have one.
I just helped my daughter, a scientist, redo her resume. The trick is to get past the gatekeeper to the actual interview process. Many times, the gatekeepers do not care. Its quantity not quality for them. A cover letter is useless. Do a small introductory paragraph before beginning your job experience. Its all thats needed. Tailor your resume to each job you apply to. Look at it. Getting a job is work. Put some effort in. This format has worked for me and my husband for our whole lives and has been complimented many times. It was an old Microsoft Works template from Windows 3.1 or 95, I think. Turns out it actually worked. I've used it for 40 years.
I had 1 online application for a financial establishment that asked if I wanted my resume to go through an AI program that compikes my resume into a score. I Said NOPE! I opted out. HR contacted me 5 days later for a phone interview. What's up w/phone interviews and having to go through 2-3 interviews for a non executive job?! Used to be a hiring manager called you in for an interview, then offered the job if you fit the position. Now it's 2-3 interviews. I personally believe the initial phone interview means you're not moving forward; b/c if they really wanted you, they'd immediately schedule you in for an in person interview.
This is so true. I’m terrible at this aspect of things, but it’s the only way I’ve gotten jobs. The single job in my life that wasn’t obtained through networking was a job I was massively overqualified for. I was desperate and took it but left quickly. Also, I attribute my ability to network despite being neither charismatic nor particularly sociable of well connected is that I know my strengths, choose jobs that play to those strengths, am polite and accountable, and work hard. People remember the person who made work a little easier, even if they weren’t exactly friends. The good thing about networking is that, although it helps to have family connections and money, you can totally do it by showing up and making a good impression and allowing positive gossip to do its thing. Apprentice with a plumber and let him say “wow this kid is so dedicated and reliable. I’m gonna mentor him.” Go to your friend’s party and complain over beers that you wish there were more jobs in your field because you’re tired of settling. Find out their friend works in the same field and has been looking for someone with exactly your expertise. (Very similar thing happened to me. Met someone at a party. Kept up a casual acquaintance. Three years later they called me about a job that I was almost eerily perfect for.)
@@Smongo412But then you will be overqualified and they will have to pass you because they think you're too good for this job and will bail on them soon as you get the chance
@@kekconnoisseur9809 that's cope, man. Find a job that you have the skills for. Apply. You might get it or you won't. Eventually it's a numbers game. Every job application is a "chance" of getting the job. Try to apply for as many as possible and make yourself look as good as possible. It's all you can really do.
We hire people and then they end up washing out. Especially younger people. There’s a common trend of them not being able to handle a normal workload or manage their own time.
@@FirstNameLastName-wt5to When the first thing you are asked after calling that you had an accident is "But you're still comming to work, right?" there is no excuse. It's completely lost with these people "managing" the place.
@@FirstNameLastName-wt5to Also: If you took time to actually teach your new workers before putting the whole load on them, while they have yet to figure out how everything works, and not take a look at them actually, it's still your fault for not finding or pushing away the good ones. I was left alone on my very first day and noone checked on me, then complained when I made mistakes because it was literally my first day and I didn't know shit, especially not the article numbers which where essential for my job. 😂
I’ve told people that very same thing for years. Employers ( well HR at an employer ) have gotten so far removed from the thing that they do, that you can no longer compose a competent resume, it has to pretty much parrot whatever the job requirement from the job website says. HR has so little intelligence or imagination that if you don’t repeat back to them what the job requires they won’t recognize that you are a viable job candidate. It’s pathetic the state of the world we live in.
Yup, even retail pulls this kind of garbage, apparently. There's a reason I just stopped applying for jobs entirely for a few years and just lived with my parents and helped around the house in exchange. I did eventually land a job that stuck, but it was through a temp agency.
Remember folks,don't take rejection personal. If most of your rejections are done by machines, then there's no reason to be afraid of the numbers game. You're not inconveniencing them. I submitted hundreds of apps in total and eventually got the perfect position, and it was still a role adjacent to the one I applied for.
@@X8cY3rP9sF2aZ6qBthat’s the only logical way to work a job. Going above and beyond just turns you into the guy who does all the work for no extra pay.
I miss being 18 in the mid-80s when I usually got the job because I had a resume I had typed cleanly with zero typos or spelling errors. This made me stand out as a candidate and I’d walk in and get offered the job that day. I also used to be able to walk into thrift stores and find pristine midcentury furniture and pay $4. The internet has made our lives much harder. Now we can all compete for the same thing and AI will make sure we don’t get it.
I gave up after 10k resumes I sent and hand delivered. About half were taylored to specific companies in the IT field. I wound up as a telemarketer for a few years before I retired. So happy now. Broke, but happy.
At this point with my high ability to learn thing’s extremely fast it seems like I should just lie on my resume. I’ll learn things so fast it won’t matter that I didn’t originally know it anyway. Seems like the only way to get hired these days because they’re asking so much and paying so little.
This is 100% true for almost every government job. I lost my mind when I found pit you had a better chance of getting the position if you copy and pasted the job description in your resume instead of creating a thoughtful and original document that actually describes your knowledge, skills, and abilities lol
I talked to a guy from the Forest Service at a job fair and he told me that if I was really interested in a career with the Forest Service I should join the National Guard because that was the only way my resume was getting to the top.
Now days if you walk in , they'll literally just tell you to go apply online. Some places don't even do it themselves anymore. They use Indeed or agencies like Elwood or US staffing. These agencies have an office that acts as HR, yet if you go to use them as an HR resource, they flat out don't care about you. One place I worked at had that and they got a cut out my paycheck every week because they were the ones that hired me in. Once I found out I didn't even bother asking why, I just quit on the spot. Haven't looked back since.
For small businesses and blue collar jobs. It’s always been this way for larger companies and office type jobs. Drop resume at reception who then sends it to HR who scans the same way the computer does now.
I remember my dad giving me the same talk, and even gave me a list of places to look for jobs. Every single one of them just told me to apply online. I ended up just volunteering at a Salvation Army and my dad gave me an allowance. That was around 2009 so I was trying to enter the workforce in the middle of a recession. Fun stuff.
All my grandpa had to do to get a job was to be born in a mountain village of a 2nd world country, finish primary school, then work on some cotton fields, then emigrate to the country where my family and me lives now, while unable to talk or understand the language, then stand in front of a giant corproations gate and wait for someone to wave him in and give him a lifetime job, which allowed him to go into early retirement at age 50 with a nice severence package. I'm not kidding, that's really how he did it.
@@AmunRa1 Same happened to me. I got fired from a call center in '09. Thank God, I hated it there. But then I couldn't find another regular job for 5 years, until 2014. The recession had hit, the mortgage crisis and bank collapses, and no one at all was hiring. So I ended up going back to school, getting student loan money, and my friend and I hit the Goodwills and flea markets every weekend, for us to get by with an eBay business during that time.
Then they rag on us for being "lazy" and "unmotivated" when their outdated methods don't work. If boomers magically aged down and suddenly had to start over making a living this day in age, I guarantee most of them would fail right out the gate.
I am a manager and I do hiring for our organization. I will say that we DO NOT USE any automation. But the application does get screened. Here is what I look for: 1. How long have you been at your jobs (less than a year is a red flag) Reason - If we spend 3 months training we cannot expect you to leave before those costs hurt the company. 2. any. . . ANY political communication in the resume. While politics can be discussed at work we do not want active politics to take over the workplace. And if on the resume it is a sign you can't help but push a subject in a neutral setting. 3. Large (Unexplainable) gaps in the Resume. This is usually not a big deal if there are no other red flags. 4. No Names of a company where you worked, or Generic so I can't figure out where i.e. (Walmart) but don't know which one. I see this as making it hard to call your old workplaces. 5. Make it one page, you can get away with 2 for front and back. a quality resume is critical but a lot can be said with little.
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It's amazing how many loopholes you have to jump through to get a job that you actually qualify for.
Basically this…literally get passed over because you are qualified for a technical role but you use the competing software that does the EXACT SAME THING as the software they want you to use on the job…same functionality…
HR Ditz: Ewww, you only have experience drinking Pepsi…we need someone who drinks Coca Cola…How would you know how to drink cola otherwise?
Getting a job is now less about knowing your job, and more about knowing application loopholes.
Why would u want to work for a company like that period
@@SantaAnaCreations cause we out here starving
We’re all victims of a perfect scam.
There's also the documented fact that a large proportion of the jobs advertised aren't actually available.
Often companies have a small pool of known candidates they want to hire from, but want to give the illusion that the job is open to competitive candidates. I don’t know if it’s a regulatory loophole, but I wish companies would just hire who they want for the job and not waste peoples time if they already know who is getting the job.
Lmfao no, developers are in massive shortage
@jord019 You're not disproving the point with your one example of a job in demand. You would know about edge cases if you were a dev.
@@coreybuchanan776it _is_ a regulatory loophole, in the US at least. I might have some details wrong, but I think in order to pass Equal Employment Opportunity regulations, they have to make it public.
@@jord019 In about 5 years we will have such a surplus it won't even be funny. AI will make jobs that took 5-10 developers only need 1. That is on top of the fact that every year more and more computer science majors are being pumped out. As well as with remote push will allow non Americans to take those jobs for pennies. I wouldn't be surprised if developer salary goes down to like 50k max in silicon valley.
I like how humans have literally innovated ourselves into making life harder than it needs to be.
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in like 50 years trying to get a job is gonna be sitting front row watching different software fight each other
He says while typing onto a computer in his pocket connected to millions of other pocket computers while never once having to hunt for survival or flee from wild animals and bands of hostile fellow humans.
@yacobz yeah, cause you definitely have had to do any of that. Look at you tough guy, you're so tough. You're so much better than us mere mortals. Forgive me of the mortal sin of, *gasps*, making an observation.
PS: I actually typed it on a computer I personally built, not my phone. I also severely limit my use of the internet which is more than I can say for your Tik Tok addicted ass. Tell you're a trust fund baby, without telling me you're a trust fund baby.
@@yolow5497 Lol I can just see it now, it's going to be like battlebots, but with software. You only get the job if your AI model wins against the other ones.
*Entry Level Job*
Requirements:
_- Bachelor's_
_- Five years experience_
This is why people are homeless 🙄 and can't able to support themselves.
More like 10 years.
This is also the requirement for a lot of working student positions I see. Overqualified and extremely underpaid
Probably only a handful of worthwhile employers who scooped up the hard working employees. The ones that were fired or harassed because they tried to improve things. Because someone felt they or their authority were being undermined.
Not necessarily..... You don't know how many jobs I have applied to in the last 4 years, that usually say you don't have to have a bachelor's. Oftentimes it just says you have to have a freaking high school diploma..... But back before the regime got in, and back before I actually was finishing my degree, they kept saying on most job descriptions that you needed a bachelor's and now it's saying the opposite. We are just in clown world and we have to wait for things to change in this country.
And then you make a custom application with all of the key words, and a cover letter that describes everything the employer has asked for. And then the company sends you an email in 5 months saying that the job you applied for is no longer available.
And then a week later you see a repost of the exact same position.
Exactly
Makes me lose all hope in humanity, because we let computers take humanity out of the equation.
Yup happened to me about 4 times out of the 80+ applications I filled out online.
@@maythesciencebewithyoumy mom had interviews set up about three times in a year and a half for the same job that kept popping up. She applied everytime. The three times she got an interview they’d cancel within two days of when it was scheduled. Claiming they had “chosen to go in a different direction”……. And it’s up again on indeed and zip recruiter.
"no one wants to work" says the employer that won't interview 99% of applicants
What they mean is, "no one wants to min-max my profit margin at their expense anymore :("
@@halowafflesthat part! O, u applied 4 a m-f job BUT we hav mandatory ot on sat (n sumtimes sun, tho, "we havent done that n years..."). Don't work the mandatory ot, ull b written up n fired. Need a day off, request it a month n advance BUT only find out if its approved the day b4. Dont come n (bcuz u NEEDED the day off) ull b on a final. These companies r straight trash n no, we r tired of the bs. Ive NEVER had a vacation n im 4 decades n this bs
@@Fentoniousnaw, the "menz" r grapists wit state sanctioned impunity. No, we "cant find a man"
@Fentonious for real lol. Ignoring the 2000 men in her tinder DM's
@@CalebsAquarium lol, it's called standards. 🍎 & 🍊 here
Im fully convinced these companies are just taking your applications, and then selling your personal data off of them.
It’s truly horrible but I agree with you.
100% . You have to agree to there terms of service before you can submit the application
Also yes. Never talk to any U.K. based head hunter, they are all frauds.
At least that opens up a possible channel of attack: completely bogus resumés from millions of people pissing in the PII database.
Duuuuuuuuuude I never thought of that but I really think you are right! Like disgustingly horribly right. Totally shitty man. 😢
I was in Recruitment for 4 years. I advocated our department heads hard to prevent automated screening like he’s describing. I initially let it be automated, then pulled resumes only out of the discarded bucket. When we hired enough people, and the dept head mentioned the automation, I said I’d actually pulled them from the ones it discarded. We then tried to tighten it up, but nothing was able to catch what a human was looking for. The automation was turned off after a while, and is still not in use today. It does take the Recruiters a bit more time to find great resumes in the hundreds (sometimes thousands) of apps we get, but we don’t lose quality.
Not every hero wears a cape.
It takes time for sure . But maybe we should actually pay people to do jobs instead of try to automate them away . And I say this as someone who's written code for at least 15 years .
Name of the company with website to find contact info or this didn't happen.
@@Mr.C-Misteragreed
you have to tailor your resume to fit the job description. now do this 50 times a day just for a chance of being interviewed. incredible
Yup you yourself aren’t good enough apparently
@@dougefresh8029Shhh Go back to work.
Don't forget about the mandatory questionnaires, that can take 30+ minutes to complete if you have ADHD like me!
But wait there's more 😲 for only 19.99...
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I actually did this for every job I applied to for a month or two last year. Worked to get my resume to 80% match before I submitted the applications. Saw no change at all in the number of interviews I was getting, it was a huge waste of time
APPLYING FOR A JOB SHOULD NOT BE IT'S OWN FULL TIME WORK! DO YOU WANT EMPLOYEES OR NOT?!
They do not. If they do not listen to reason, they won't stop the violence.
they don't, they just want the perks of looking like they're growing while they grind the employees who are already there into the dust.
"Corpsehandler"? Do you work at a morgue?
@@Scythera99 They want employees that are willing to do extra work for the job without being paid. Then when they get to the point of complete exhaustion, they can either force themselves to work for be fired.
“People don’t want to work anymore”
More like companies don’t want to hire anymore
Company - "We can't find enough people to hire"
Me - "I'll work for you"
Company - "No, not you"
The girl you like vs her idea of a perfect man
exactly my story
Yeah unless it requires some heavy education there are so many jobs out there people with the strive to work would do perfectly well at, and learn all their roles within a month tops.
People motivated to actually work will always be the best workers even if they haven't ticked all the boxes employers expect. People with experience will expect more and work less the majority of the time.
This seems to reflect how modern women date too, which is an odd parallel I should probably not bring up with mostly women in HR doing hiring lately.
@im_Carlisle Hey if you can't understand stats, that's your skill deficiency.
Modern women are more single then ever, more miserable then ever, and more pervasive in the hiring process then ever. Correlation is not causation but there is a clear statistical pattern here.
I miss the 1980s where you’d walk in and just fill out a paper application. Sometimes you’d get an interview that day and land the job on the spot. Ah the good old days.
It worked in the 90's too. I remember going to a Manufacturing company my senior year of college just to pick up an application. I was told to take a seat in the lobby when about 10 minutes later the HR manager came down and took me in for an interview. I apologized for not wearing a suit and explained I wasn't expecting to get interviewed the same day. She didn't seem to mind and I was hired to work in their marketing department. I miss the days before the internet
Yes the good ole days !
Totally agree!
@@marmosetmannot me! 2009 just graduated college, dropped resumes in every office around town, didn’t get a single call back.
A lot of places still had paper applications when I started job hunting at 16 and now very few places have them 14 years later
Dont forget, that's assuming the company is ACTUALLY hiring, and aren't just collecting resumes, or using it to tell people the conpany is expanding.
There's also the thing where a company is actually hiring and actually wants new people to recruit...but the HR department couldn't give a shit and doesn't want more work. And hiring people is more work. And since they're not normally on the ground with the other workers, they don't get to see the effects of being short staffed and they don't give a crap about how burnt out everyone else is.
So the HR department will pretend like they're hiring, but really they're just collecting resumes and maybe doing some interviews where they just reject the candidate. Then they convince the company's higher ups that the reason why they're not getting new recruits is because nobody wants to work, when in reality it's because the HR department doesn't want to work.
Ever wonder why you see sometimes ridiculous requirements on postings, like needing 10 years in a coding language that hasn't existed for more than 5? Well, other than the fact that the HR lady who made the requirements doesn't actually know a thing about what the job actually requires, it's because they're not actually trying to hire. They put impossible requirements so they can reject everyone, while putting on the image that they're looking.
Even more likely is that the hiring manager already knows who he's going to hire but has to go trough the "hiring process". Collect resumes, internal and external, do a few interviews, then "select" the person he wanted to hire in the first place. Even better, target the job posting to one specific person. It makes it even more bullet-proof.
At my last job, I WAS that guy. I was a contractor the boss wanted to make permanent but he had to jump through the hoops.
@@kwilliams2239 It's pretty ridiculous that the boss even has to jump through such hoops. If he wants to hire you, then he should be able to hire you. Instead of putting a posting out there to give other candidates a false chance at getting the position.
@@ShadeSlayer1911
The idea isn't all bad. The ol' buddy system doesn't work either. The manager doesn't own the position so that he can hire just anyone (his buddy, the buddy' son, his side piece). What we see is the law of unintended consequences.
and yet just the people who go through these crazy AI-driven loopholes are often underqualified. They will be the ones who get hired.
So the job market is now not about how well you do the job, its about how well you game the automation.
Work smart, not hard.
You can skip all that, if you network. Getting a foot in the door is still about WHO you know. People need to get from behind their phones, and network while in college.
@@Mercenary-1914Mhh hell yeah, getting employed not based on your skills in the relevant field but based on what friends you have. Doesn't feel great either. But I do encourage anyone who's struggling to try to achieve that, we all deserve to be able to afford, y'know, food for example. Even if we have to do shit that feels unfair to reach that goal.
@@helyphion Respect. You speaking nothing but the truth!
@@helyphion what's more unfair, getting your foot in the door through a college buddy or your fair game cv not getting even read by a human?
if the game is 'who can outbullshit each other' then i'm not playing.
The amount of times I've seen job offers that say "URGENTLY HIRING!!" and then refuse me because I don't have 15 years work experience. You'd think that employers who 'urgently' need employees would be less demanding.
What if they want 25 years of Experience but bumped it down because they're desperate? XD
@@snowarmth and thats the second time they bumped it down, it was originally 50 years experince..lol
My favorites are internships that require at least 2-3 years experience. It is like they don't even understand what an internship even is.
They urgently need someone with that level of experience ... not that hard to figure out. Obviously they won't hire a noob for a senior architect role 🤦♂️
@@Dustinisanartistand 6 degrees
Out of all the bs reels and tic tok videos and mindless material we consume, thank you for making something truly important
Lololol, it's complete BS buy you do you.
The beginning to think the reason that I find it so hard to succeed and life is not because I'm not a capable human being or have all these different skills, but instead because I simply refused to jump through all these silly hoops that make absolutely no sense and have no actual bearing on competency.
You might be on to something.
You can look at it from this point of view. Or you can look at it that they are looking for somebody who is smart, flexible and can succeed and get things done. And I am not talking about compromising your moral integrity. In teamwork you oftentimes need to do silly stuff because somebody failed something etc. In order to bring the team to final victory. With attitude "I am doing only what I think is important" there is no real teamwork.
@@jenHry-ng3pw Using buzzwords to pass an automated screening process does not indicate good teamwork.
@@jenHry-ng3pwNah, they want to see how well you’ll kiss ass to get a job. If you’ll jump through all the hoops , you’ll be a well trained dog desperate for treats and will do anything to keep it.
@@jenHry-ng3pw Wtf kinda corporate buzz word salad is that? "Final victory"? Buddy, it's a job so you can pay the bills, get food and don't die. Consideration should be awarded to the worker, not the other way around. Since even the best of blue collar jobs gets you a professional disease in a couple of years: destroyed back, carpal tunnel, respiratory problems etc.
Imagine how much talent gets tossed in favor of people who know how to farm keywords.
I'd assume that those people who are interested in the job might also be the ones who avoid just copy-pasting the keywords to the application, and come up with an authentic (ie. different) way of explaining why they are interested and qualified.
@@metheiam5714 Oh you sweet summer child. If only that was how it worked.
@@metheiam5714 Bless your heart
@@vvoof2601oh you sweet spoiled brat, that's EXACTLY how it works.
Imagine how many hours of interviews with spoiled brats like you a company avoids by doing this. If you were as talented as you think you are, you would realize that the face to face interviews will weed out the unqualified people who just pasted keywords like you claim.
You know. I once asked an HR rep about keywords. Boy was she pissed. She denied denied denied. Called me conspiracy theorist and all that. The amount of gaslighting
Typical woman. That's why they are in hr. They're the worst and I steer clear of those particular jobs.
I noticed people like to use the words "conspiracy theory/ist" as a synonym for "you are wrong", "that's not true", "you are lying". They think "conspiracy theory/ist" means: you are a crazy paranoid liar, when it just means: xyz is a theory about a conspiracy because we don't know for sure if there is really a conspiracy of xyz about xyz, so therefore it's a 'conspiracy theory'.
'Me thinks the lady doeth protest too much.'
If someone in HR gets pissed about that and acts that way, they don't need to work in HR.
@@Yk9oAlthough, scientifically, a theory is provable. So really it should be a conspiracy hypothesist.
I was on a training course once, and the Guy leading the thing was telling a story that a busy boss once asked his secretary to sift through all the job applications that were on her desk and bring him the best ones. She chose all the ones on coloured paper because they were pretty!!
What the actual fuck.
I always use linen paper and have it a normal but different color. I have had compliments on both during interviews. My thought is everyone uses white or cream but almond stands out in the stack because its in-between. After the interview its put in a pile of white and tan the almond jumps out at you. Same principal but im going for the subconscious
That is dumb. I swear people can't be trusted.
Hot tip: if you're struggling to fit all their shitty keywords into your CV, just make a transparent textbox and put all those words in white/background colour behind all your main text. Landed me too many recruitment calls when I did it 😂
This is next-level. Heck yeah! Use the system against itself, _make_ a human put their eyeballs on your application! 🔥🔥🔥
Dude this is smart, ty.
You beat me to it
Now that's a hot tip 😂😂
White text..i love it.
Good tips. Part of why people can't find a job despite all the postings is a lot of companies will post 'ghost jobs' with nice salaries but no intentions to hire anyone to make it look like they are growing and paying more than they really are.
They also will post jobs because they have to due to some law, or bylaw, when they fully intend to hire someones friend /nephew etc or promote from within. It allows them to say "we interviewed for such and such amount of time and found no eligible applicants"
@@Moose1207 this is usually for public companies though.
@@X8cY3rP9sF2aZ6qBYou would be surprised to see how common it is and it happens everywhere
thus taking the company down town interns/workres inflating the "crew"
@@Moose1207 or for H1B1 visa applicants that they will hire at much less salary through an agency and have no intent to hire from the pool of US workers, usually that is in IT. I have seen that happen a lot, forget that most of foreign IT are overrated and are rotated from one company to another. Agencies benefit by making 50% of the salaries and companies benefit supposedly by offering less package deals, no benefits and low salaries. And then companies complain about productivity, schmucks.
There are also a lot of positions that are only hiring internally that are put up because they are obligated to. All outside applicants are ignored.
For real. I go to those jobs and they tell me where and how to fill out the application. And majority of it is complex. Glad I don't have to deal with that bs anymore.
Ah no. With jobs like that no one outside the work place sees that job is available for a month. If no one from the company gets the job then the company will hire from outside the company. Most if not all the full time jobs won't make it to being posted publicly. Those get filled fast. I've been at my job and people think it's crazy I got full time after working only 4 years
@MastemaJack my own company had a job opening for the next position up that I applied to. I learned internally that they already knew my coworker was going to get it but they needed the manager to come back from vacation to ok it. Literally no reason to even post the position but it was done on the internal and public system that it was a position open for applications.
@amandaslough125 yeah that does happen with management or full time positions. Happened to me too. Ha so my pet leopard gecko got out of his tank when the guy who took the position I wanted started. You could say I wasn't in a great mood. I scared the guy so much without meaning to that the store manager said if I made him feel that uncomfortable again I would be fired.
Happens in healthcare all the time
Dude casually had a tab open "how to steal a house" lol
Also "how to get paid doing nothing"
I've known about the funnel software. There was a story, can't recall the publication as it was well over a decade ago, where the CEO's resume didn't get sent to HR because it didn't have the right keywords, it didn't think he was a good fit for his company. That company trashed the software that day.
Wouldn't THAT make for an interesting experiment, if every CEO or board member tried that out.
Lol 😂
If we trashed ATS based on this then all ATS would be trashed. Unless the CEO tailored its CV, it won’t get trough.
Mine was blocked in our ATS for an internal position that was open specifically for me during our reorganization. It got a 0% score 😂
Honestly, I respect it. Very much a sort of "I won't support anything I wouldn't use myself" energy
@@drakkiusgamingor, "something only matters once it doesn't work for me"
I miss the old days of walking into a company and filling out an application. It is a job to find a job nowadays.
Honestly, I do feel like this is part of the issue of why "young people don't want to work." Don't make it so hard to get into a job in the first place. (And no I'm not talking about software engineer like Matty has pulled up :) )
Huh most of those places are like McDonald's and Burger King.
You can still do that.
But it's a lot easier (and cheaper) to do it online.
It's really not though. Walking in somewhere and asking to talk to a manager is easier and makes you stand out above the rest. @@YOUR_NARRATOR975
@@mom2artists yeppp I remember applying to 80 or so jobs to get a shitty job at a gas station that I would barely make 100 a week at.
“Everywhere is hiring, you’re just too lazy”
Everywhere:
I once filled out 42 applications in the span of a month. I got 2 emails and 1 phone call. 1 job was a total scam, 1 made a bunch of weird excuses not to hire me, and the last one just didn't fit my schedule.
“No one wants to work” yeah no. No one wants to hire. Hundreds of applications in the last 6 months and I haven’t gotten a single call back
Your parents didn't have bs like this. They showed up in person every time.
@@wrongthinker843 That’s what I’m about to do. Walk up to this restaurant close to my place and ask if they’re hiring. Will even bring my resume
@@ambersummer2685 Best of luck!
I wish everything was as simple as before, when my friends and I were at the bar drinking, a truck arrived with a man shouting: "I need a Junior UI/UX Designer, a Python Developer, 2 Sales Closers and a Revenue Manager!", we would jump in the back of the truck and go to Silicon Valley to start a Startup...
Seems legit bro
Jobs = uses computers to screen applicant resumes
Applicants = uses computers to generate job resumes
The end of Fight Club flashed in my mind
Can't wait for the day where hiring agents are completely automated out of the process :P
So just copy and paste the job description into Chat,GPT and let a robot talk to the robot 😂😂
Sounds fair. Automated systems writing applications for automated systems
That's what I do😂😂
This is the way.
Might as well. This is what job applications have gotten to. Chat GPT the whole process. All of it is a sham. It's designed to keep certain people at the bottom. Not everyone is going to know anything about this stuff.
@@TheDumontShow ChatGPT is new, but use of AI writing is not. I've been using AI for pretty much anything since English is not my first language and I noticed really early, as earlier as 2014, to be precise, that some people (and therefore systems) were bias against non-native English speakers.
And companies wonder why they can’t attract employees who are good at their jobs. The best employees are the ones who don’t waste time playing stupid games. They all get filtered out, leaving the mediocre workers who just know how to game the system, not do the actual work.
Exactly
True
the fact that getting a job is now some rare and exciting accomplishment is a problem
I've never once got a job without lying. Also,I've never once been fired from a job. Goes to show that manipulation is ten times more valuable then the skills they actually want.
I also lied i think for just about every job and also was never fired. I can't remember dates of when i started and stopped working somewhere so i make it up.
@@Maaaatttttt "yes I was the CEO for Microsoft for ten years but I just left that job so I can work as an accountant for your company." 😂
That's really unfortunate for those of us who aren't very good at lying.
Proof of concept: I was fired for the very first time from my last job for being too honest. Literally. I refused to fudge crucial numbers and documents needed for actual customer safety post-processing.
@@slipspacesurvivalist9416 They fired you for not wanting to commit fraud. Nice.
I remember when all you had to do was walk in and fill out a paper, now they want you to go through all this bullshit.
That's what happens when you allow 80 million immigrants into your country in a few decades.
Funnily enough, even back in like 2015 when I applied for jobs, I got answers, yes or no, back pretty quickly. Like I could apply for 7 jobs and have an answer back for all 7 within a week. Now, MAYBE 1 job will reply while the other 6 will either have an automated reply (a no that just takes half a year to send) or they just don't respond at all.
HR actually claimed they had no applicants when my boss asked the status of my internal promotion application. Then "found" it after she asked for mine by name. If I was an outside candidate, she never would have been aware of me.
If any company has a job opening with ZERO applicants, then there is a significant flaw in their application process. You should at least get a few bogus applicants no matter what.
Very common practice for companies. They are allowed to do lots of things that exploit and abuse people. It's legal.
No good job is filled by HR
Humans really are the smartest AND dumbest animal!
Yeah, I figured out you just have to know someone that will give you a leg up in the application process. You get to skip the resume filters😊
Those same companies won't ever figure out why they can't find anyone either. The irony.
They're not trying to find anyone. They're trying to import H1B's who will work for half the pay. The goal is to destroy America.
I help homeless and at-risk of becoming homeless, as well as Justice involved applicants with getting jobs. These companies say no to them all the time. Because of the gap or because they have been incarcerated. I thought you needed workers gaps and incarceration can be worked out. Also ageism. Lastly you got people that have education, but then they say, "You don't have enough experience ". How are they supposed to get the experience if no one will hire them. They are not college students so internships are a no and there aren't enough paid internships and apprenticeships.
They're so unrealistic it's ridiculous.Heaven forbid they have to train someone@@Cantetinza17
H1B. They don't go through the same scans.
oh they will find people. in china and india.
The fact that there are *_HUNDREDS_* of applications for *_EVERY_* job posting is pure dystopian nightmare-fuel.
Thousands even.
Most of those people have jobs and are looking for a different one. They aren’t all unemployed.
@@FirstNameLastName-wt5toalso plenty of them are not even qualified or related but they’re just throwing their resume/apps everywhere lol
We are all just numbers in the matrix. Dystopian nightmare fuel for real.
@@meatspin. Hasnt failed me yet, then when they hire me i just learn it on the job lol. I think everyone is doing that these days.
I figured this out back in 2010. I started copying the qualifications from the job description and pasting them to my resume under skills and I started getting call backs on almost every job I applied to.
Because that's a recruiter seeing your resume matches the job description. I've been a recruiter for over 20 years and what he's describing is not how it works.
@@jasonfritz838How does it work?
@jasonfritz838 so you really think bigger companies don't have automated screening software to weed out applicants before applications reach the recruiter? If you work in a smaller business or temp agency then sure, a human is most likely reviewing your stuff. I HIGHLY doubt that's the case with bigger companies and corporations though.
@@djhero0071 I've worked for Fortune 50 companies, so yes, that's the case. I used to personally go through as many as 400 applications per day, one by one. The only thing that is automatically screened out is minimum qualifications, like a bachelors degree. But otherwise no, a computer isn't screening you out because of key words.
But what would I know...I've only been doing this for over 20 years.
@@djhero0071especially now with most "office jobs" that you can easily work from home, it's easier to use software to only see the resumes that they need to see and delete all the others
I learned this in 2016. Been using it ever since. To this day I Still struggle big time to get an interview, much less an offer letter. Stay strong everyone, eventually you'll find a job; the constant rejections hurt, but eventually you'll come out the other side.
I work in HR at a consultancy company (Recruitment Officer), we manually handle resumes (100s-1000s) per week because automated systems are utter crap that lead you to missing out on valuable talent. It's time consuming, but that's what we're paid to do.
Also, (for the love of God) triple check for spelling errors.
Now shout it out for every other HR division out there, so they can all get the message.
"Also, (for the love of God) triple check for spelling errors.
" is so funny, since in the real world, more or less all people above a basic position spell like donkeys. In my career, I am still, everyday, surprised how someone became a CEO, or any other officer, when they can't properly speak or write.
@@Luggruff nepotism
You might be the only HR person I've ever seen who takes their job seriously.
spelling errors matter that much when English native speakers colleagues don't know the diff between "your" and "you're"?
Its crazy you go into a buisness with multiple now hiring banners. The manager says go online and fill out an hr long application/questionnaire that then asks for your resume that has basically everything you just answered/filled out on it only to be told the position has been filled all while the hiring signs never leave.
Facts!
Scam
Yep. There should be felony consequences for lying like that.
@@defies4626 much of it is apparently *because* of dept of labor laws. I found out as a manager yrs back that businesses that have so many employees are required to accept so many applications & interview ppl per quarter/ yr to refresh their applications on file. Companies do it in order to prove they're compilant in case of a random audit from DOL. The place I was working put up a hiring sign periodically so I finally asked why & that's what I was told. Total waste of time really. Also many of the online job postings never come down because the bigger ones pay for a monthly/ yrly subscription which refreshes their postings automatically. So while it looks like "everyone is hiring", only a fraction of them might be at any given time.
Yeah. WTF is that BS
I’ve been unemployed for 2.5 years and have applied for around 4,000 jobs in that time. I no longer get any responses so I will try this, many thanks!
Me too :( ill try this.. specially those company using WORKDAY
So you've sent 5 a day and no jerb? You sure it's not just you?
Good luck to you!! Only takes ☝️ one!
Those are rookie numbers my friend, I have applied to 10,000 plus jobs and haven’t found one in 8 to 9 months :(
Did it work?
so is this why companies are getting crappier over the years?
"Whats your salary."
"Whats your expectation"
"SALARY PLEASE"
"WHaT aRE YOuR exPECtatIONs!?!?"
I'm tired of these games companies play.
I always say $100-200/hr. Then when they chuckle I say “well you asked….”
It’s interesting to know that companies are missing out on potentially amazing employees simply be they didn’t put some words in their resume. You’d think companies could come up with a better system.
Most companies don't want amazing employees, they want employees just good enough to get the job done and work a lot of hours a week.
@rreiro1234they don’t want free thinkers, they want workers
Despite the former being the one that can actually help our world
Im bad at English sometimes@@LutherTaylor
No, it's just that they get swamped with thousands of applications due to the web portals here. It used to be less. You can't have people look over all of them anymore.
@@tachobrennerBad take. Their filters are sht tier
Stuff like this just means companies hire people who are good at applying to jobs, not people who are actually good at their jobs. I'm in college and haven't gotten a single interview this year. I was on an extremely difficult semester project that would have fallen apart without my expertise at reading documentation and debugging code. It seemed like the people who did less work on the project I was working on were the ones getting actual interviews.
I strongly urge you to go to your career center. They can assist with jobs in research as well as other industries.
@@Juliaavgolaus oh please the vile hive of scum and villany trading post is what they should rename that thing
I don't know the numbers but you will have lying and cheating classmates. I had some in an art class, who just bought a template to use for a major project that the school was gonna use. Same person in that group also worked at a related job (probably got fastracked to getting hired by lying). Being a liar gets you places. Just be aware of what you're doing I guess, lest you become like these other worthless lying hacks who lie because they have no skills, instead of lying because the system requires it.
"Oh so you're good at lying? Hired! We need clever snakes who can echo our words here. The real job is left to outsource or the old employees. Come here be our mascot!"
@@Yotrymp, I don't know who hurt you, but it's not a bad thing to have skills for finding jobs.Tuning a resume to the job you're looking for isn't lying.
As a recruiter, I can confirm this is correct. List your skills at the top of the resume that is what we look for first.
Ehh, anyone can list software and skills, I want to see in the bulletpoints how they used it, come on fellow recruiter! Being a long term account manager with multiple recruiter teams under me and the final yes or no I’m sending this over there. I want it explained, not listed. You know this to be true :wink:
After working for several large corporations, including WalMart, Home Depot, and Google, I've gotten to know quite a few HR specialists. By law, new job openings must be listed outside the hiring organization, but in fact, those jobs have already been filled from within the corporation.
If they can’t be bothered to even glance at each application until after the magical ATS filter throws away potential candidates why in the world would they take the time to read a cover letter?
Oh they list them…after they’ve hired the internal employee, then just tell everyone “sorry the positions already been filled” 🙄
@@Farrell0208 thats the reason why people say for long time now after covid that when you see a "we're hiring" sign on the building its a total bullshit lie because they really are not hiring, they are just doing it cuz its the law they have to follow since the job/position is already filled internally.
Such a stupid law. It only seeks to waste everyones time.
This is not true for everything
Ran into this after college. I was a trained wild land firefighter with a degree in Sociology and a presidential and congressional award for service. I applied to stock shelves at a grocery store and was told by the computer generated email that I didn’t have the qualifications to put cans on shelves. 🤷🏻♂️
Ill forget the sociology degree but ur a hero in my books
Trouble is, none of your qualifications suggest you'd be great at doing a mind numbing job (whilst still paying attention) stacking shelves whilst sucking up complaints and insults from rude customers and arrogant middle management with no social skills.
@MikeDonaldson-eh2ru probably a good idea. If you're that fragile we don't want to break you
@@MikeDonaldson-eh2ruwhy lmao, he said sociology not scientology
I was a truck driver for longer than I'm willing to admit. Applying for a driver position that requires less endorsements than a semi-driver was a massive faux pas. Got told off for even suggesting it 😳
(I bet it actually has to do with union regulations)
Everyday I feel like we're living in a bigger dystopia.
The suns still shining, their games have just become not worth it
subtract 'feel like'
"how to steal a house" 💀😂
"penetration testing"
@@miaugato93 What have you got against Pen Testers? That's an important job in the netsec industry. It's far better to pay somebody to find the vulnerabilities in the network before it's exploited.
Just barely got hired!!! I’ve been searching for 6 months!! My total application count was 450+
Don’t give up! Real companies are out there somewhere!
Just be a minority and then pressure them into hiring you and if they don’t just say they’re racist and report it to the dei people
how do you survive for 6 months without a job...
thats not a question
@@jgro9 my state provided me with 6 months of unemployment insurance.
Mini update, I got the job, but I still haven’t “landed a client” yet, so I still haven’t been paid or anything…
Loans from parents, what little savings I have left, local church help, thrift stores, SNAP, WIC, and any other financial assistance program. There’s a lot of help out there.
Congrats!
Just said this to my professor last week. applicants send so much time on resumes only for companies to not GAF.
Even before they were using computers, they were scanning for words that matched the job description. That’s always been the game. When you have hundreds or thousands of resumes, you have to narrow them down somehow. Idk how people make it to adulthood without learning this basic fact. Your parents and teachers failed you.
@@FirstNameLastName-wt5toif only we all could be as galaxy brain as Firstname Lastname
If you're in college you should be getting your student affairs to organize in person interviews and career fairs if they arent already doing so. Developing a network through those means is a lot more helpful as a recent graduate with no work experience.
I found out about this halfway through my job searching 2015. I ended up making slight variations to my resume for every job I submitted. I went from not getting any responses back to finally getting responses, albeit “no’s”. But still, it confirmed that a human was actually seeing it. I finally landed a contractor job in Fayetteville after about 50 revisions and 90 job submissions…then I quit a year later and have been in business for myself since 2016. Couldn’t work for the man full time. I learned something very helpful that I can pass along to friends now, though!
I always find this guy's voice inflection on his intros hilarious 😂
🤣
I hate how ridiculous the job application process is and how dehumanizing it is now. Glad I have not had to go through it myself since I got my job before all this became the norm. Worse is how they often have requirements that are practically impossible to meet, like requiring 25 years of experience in technologies that have not even existed that long.
„How dehumanizing it is *now*“?
How is everyone this pblivious?
How the application process works to begin with is the issue. You waste hours of your time on pointless paperwork and then dont get hired because youre lgbt.
@@eightcoins4401or black or white or Asian or male or female… and so on. Yes you are correct. Fill out 30 pages of an application, go through 3-4 rounds of interviews, give it your all for 4 months only to be told they went with someone else.
.... Don't put your gender pronouns on the application? IDK how to help the LGBTQ+ people because there's a reason many of them will not get hired.
Especially since most businesses do a media check now a days to see if you're on there in any way shape or form. @@eightcoins4401
@@eightcoins4401Nah, you won’t get hired because you’re *not* lgbt. Or because you’re white. Or a man.
THIS!!!!!!!!
I worked in HR and I bypassed the system our company had in place to actually go through them myself. It was more time-consuming but I found excellent and qualified people. So not every HR is run by robots 😂 Also, call. Follow-up if you can! That would alert me to look in the system for their name. Best of luck to you!
This is a good idea when you actually know the company that is hiring.
In my country it is too common to have job adds with "important energy field company" or "international retail store" but no true way of identifiying them, because they don't want to alert their employees that they'll be fired 😔
@@AngelesBustamanteM Yeah, I understand. That is unfortunately the case with many jobs. I’ve had that experience myself with applying before and it feels a bit like communicating with a wall. In those situations I think the tips in this video are best, keywords from the description, etc.
I left a job in 2002 and, when the job was opened again in 2022, I reapplied. I got filtered out this way after my references--who I had contacted in advance to make sure they still worked there--looked into the matter and got back to me. I did not take that job back, but that's how insane this new world of ours is.
Why would that be insane?
@fhatibu695and they said left I wonder why.
@@lolbajset Why would it be insane that you would somehow be less qualified for a job you had already held when you accrued 20 additional years of experience?
Why the 20 year hiatus?
DEI
My employer asked me to an interview because I was different, I was just me without the bullshit words. I said what I did, I bring me to the job and this is what I have achieved. I got the job. No fake trying to sell yourself, just be you as you would with a friend.
It’s a real wreck out there. I experienced this during the recession. My mother treated me like I wasn’t even applying for jobs. Once I landed a job, I also couldn’t get a friend a job there - and he was a VP I used to work for. In all likelihood, just like how I got mine and I was a contractor before I became permanent, they probably posted it, but had someone lined up for it. Like everyone, I hate how they just waste everyone’s time. I was once told I didn’t get a job 2 years after I applied. So, if you’re looking for sanity out there, you’ll lose your own, trying to find it.
Also, have ChatGPT write your cover letters. If AI is going to grade you, then AI should write the paper.
Fr lmao
That part!!
however theres also tools to check if a text is ai genreated or not
Can I get an amen
@@itram99exactly
Can we go back to the days of “hey I’m looking for work”
“Okay great I need you to clear out a cave of skeletons and bring me a magic rock”
“Aight bet”
I miss those days
Nah, those cave bosses always switching payment method from direct deposit to unexpected-outcome-love-potion got pretty old.
Remember when the bread is 10 bronze coins? Miss those days
@@nekoro6215But then I took an arrow to the knee
Runescape?
@@Glace1221buying gf
As someone whos been in the staffing industry for some time, i strongly recommend against willy-nilly adding in key words. Sure, if you have experience you can comfortably speak to related to those key words, go for it. Youre otherwise just setting yourself up for painful interviews. Inb4 "i did this and it worked out fine", i believe you and thats great, but in reality youre hurting yourself more times than not by doing this. Instead, curtail your resume to show impact you made on a job. Dont juat write just "i have experience with x skills, coding kanguages, etc.". Instead, include those notes as applicable, but make the focus of each employment on your resume discussing what your purpose was at that company/positions, what your projects/teams goals were, and how you affected the outcome. THAT will catch a hiring teams eyes. It also serves as a nice interview prep.
I have a friend who works in upper management. She claims the workers they're getting are absolute trash compared to when a human scanned the resumes. She claims the workers they're getting just know how to get their resume through, but they can't actually perform the job.
She claims the turnover is higher than ever. Also, walk in applications are a thing of the past. Often, an employer could eyeball and even possibly get to know you enough to set up an interview. Not these days.
When they say no one wants to work, they're lying. Employers are dismissing half of the applicants. Other times, employers lie about their competitive pay rate.
The open tab "how to steal a house" got me!! 😂
LOL's
Yea he’s often got a funny Easter egg in his videos, great channel
Also "how to get paid doing nothing"
It's real, it's called "tax liens."
Also how to legally "steal" a car aka title loans.
Mind you, these are the same employers who complain about the people they hire being terrible, when their hiring process is designed to make it so the least amount of work possible is done on their part.
Employees need training, which companies nowadays are often unwilling to do. Unless you find a good place, most places will invest as little as possible into their employees
Literally, you get what you give. Who knew 🙄
@cc_snipergirl 100% accurate... often most are unwilling to even train you on THEIR SPECIFIC company procedures. It's typically "Hey... do this thing you've never done... best luck!"
Dont be so lazy in sure you get one on attempt 250
Job Requirements: Bachelors Degree
Pay: $2 above minimum wage
I miss the old days when getting a job was you taking the shoelace express to the actual place you wanted to work at, and speaking to the manager directly.
The internet is a great thing, but it also made life stupid complicated
The Internet sucks
There's nothing stopping you from doing that still. Friend of mine went to corporate offices downtown and dropped off their resume at the reception while making a good impression. They got several callbacks, impressed with the initiative.
There's also lots and lots of career fairs and events where you can speak to hiring managers directly. I've had success going to those networking events.
The internet has made *people* stupid.
This is true. Some dude on TikTok made a bullshit resume as a Pokémon trainer and used key words of a software engineer. It made it through the system.
😂
Gotta catch em all bugs ~ Pokemon trainer and part-time software engineer.
😂😂😂😂
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I know a guy who applied for a job for which he was eminently qualified. He was rejected for 2 years! Finally, he went to the office, turned in his resume with an engineer there and was hired! Too much outsourcing of HR is hurting business.
You cannot get "to the office" easily now. Everyone is hiding behind security, and if you do not already have an appointment and visitor's pass, they will simply do not let you in. You can't even take an elevator to any other floor than the one your company is located at nowadays in some buildings. You can't even operate the elevator, an app does it for you, so you can't even drop your resumes to other companies in the same building.
The story seem fake lol ,nowadays you can’t even pass through the reception not even through the security if you don’t have an appointment,it is not like before the internet,nowadays that way will not help you get a job .
But countless middle-men need to get their pieces of the pie through their spaghetti machines your resume goes through.
@@_Diana_S Are you implying that before you could just walk into company offices...?
Before electronic access cards on doors and elevators, you still needed an analog ID badge or permission to enter an office lol. It may have been easier to trespass, but they're not going to hire you because you dropped off the resume while entering their premises unauthorized.
If you're still intent on trespassing, you can still just walk behind someone and enter the building/elevator. I've never seen an office worker stop someone who was following behind them, asking them to see ID. If you're in a suit or business casual wear, no one's going to think twice; they'll just assume you work in another department or you're new.
Look at his second tab "how to steal a house". I can't wait for the next upload 😂
The tab on how to steal a house was a good touch.
Honorable mention: "How to get paid doing nothing" :-)
Don't forget about ghost announcements to convince shareholders the company is growing
Or the jobs they always leave posted on their website even though they aren't actually hiring for them.
Ghost Announcements? What do?
@@BrandonZickefoose2014 people short stocks if they see a decrease in the number of job ads
@@BrandonZickefoose2014 Basically fake job openings -- they will have the opening on their career website but are not actively filling those positions..
Easiest way to get a job is knowing someone at the company. Department doesn't really matter. Level within the company doesn't really matter. Nothing beats a solid network.
If you want a girlfriend, the easiest way is also to have a common friend who can introduce you.
So true. Two of the best jobs I had, I was practically pulled in without any effort because of knowing someone.
This is why there are so many incompetent people working certain jobs and then the companies wonder why they are going under.
100% truth.
Actually that doesn't work, personal experience. I knew everyone in the company except for the new manager personally and the new manager hired me for 5 minutes and then booted me out the door for no reason it was the closest I ever got to getting a job
All of this was great information. The only thing I would add is to not be afraid of using color on your resume! Hiring professionals will look at your resume for 5 seconds max, and will move on if it doesn't stand out. I used to date a master resume writer who does tasteful designs, and she made me one in 2014, which got me an interview for a job I was not qualified for.
Since then, I've just tweaked the designs and information, and I almost always get callbacks, whether I'm a good fit for the job or not. Keywords, qualifications, color!
This is ridiculous. And people complain about people not wanting to work anymore.
1980's: "If you are too lazy to fill out an application or turn in a resume you don't deserve the job."
Now: "If you are too lazy to run your resume through the keyword scanner you don't deserve the job."
dont forget youll need to create an account to their online job portal
@@tigerstallion don't forget you'll need to type out your job history, description and education again despite already uploading your CV to them
I still go the old school route. I’ve never had anyone refuse my resume to my face. And I’ve actually been given interviews ON THE SPOT about 4/10 times. Another 4/10, they’ll take a couple days to call me back and THAT is when I get an interview. 2/10 I’m either rejected outright, or they just don’t call back.
In the 1980s, janitors made what engineers make today while only needing a high school degree.
Barrier to entries are higher now and all for lower paying jobs (when factoring in inflation). Working harder for less. America is done.
@@ShadowedDemise most places say to apply online dude
I had a kind mother who taught me how to do this. She also taught me, "Don't trust your education, or a resume to land you a job. Network and find people who can help you get it." Which is what I did. Its 70% about who you know and 30% about if you can actually do the job.
How are you supposed to network when nobody is social
How are you supposed to network when nobody is social
Fair point. But you have to be willing to try and talk to people if you want to network. I love talking to people. So, for me, it's making sure I am good at reading people and turning the conversations till I hit something that makes them excited and want to talk.
Then they get to enjoy discussing something they love, you get to learn about what that is and maybe make a friend if it's a shared interest. If not, you still probably just made their day because you were willing to listen to them talk about something they enjoy. That is something almost everyone wants in life.
@@jacobmansfield-go9fzFind an alumni group in your area if you went to college. If your college is into sports there might be a bar where people watch sports. Make sure your alumni database is up to date. Find a society or trade association tailored to your line of work. Engineers and scientists usually have one.
I've seen this with my friend. 0 college degrees, land medical and pharma jobs with only knowing people.
I just helped my daughter, a scientist, redo her resume. The trick is to get past the gatekeeper to the actual interview process. Many times, the gatekeepers do not care. Its quantity not quality for them. A cover letter is useless. Do a small introductory paragraph before beginning your job experience. Its all thats needed. Tailor your resume to each job you apply to. Look at it. Getting a job is work. Put some effort in. This format has worked for me and my husband for our whole lives and has been complimented many times. It was an old Microsoft Works template from Windows 3.1 or 95, I think. Turns out it actually worked. I've used it for 40 years.
Wait seriously?
Okay. So share the damn link. Been struggling to find something for over two months now.
That should be illegal for companies to do this.
Based on what? It's an outdated, but intelligent system. This is how hiring for US government positions has worked for a long time.
And then some do not understand why critical thinking skills and creativity have drastically dropped in the general USA population...🙄
@@thejanssen6030how is it outdated?
I had 1 online application for a financial establishment that asked if I wanted my resume to go through an AI program that compikes my resume into a score.
I Said NOPE! I opted out.
HR contacted me 5 days later for a phone interview.
What's up w/phone interviews and having to go through 2-3 interviews for a non executive job?!
Used to be a hiring manager called you in for an interview, then offered the job if you fit the position. Now it's 2-3 interviews.
I personally believe the initial phone interview means you're not moving forward; b/c if they really wanted you, they'd immediately schedule you in for an in person interview.
@@Tee19691you should have to go through multiple layers of interviews for anything other than front line minimum wage jobs.
This is one of the many reasons why networking/referrals is still the top way to getting a job.
Yea thing is everyone does it now, which means chances of you getting replies is low
That statement only applies to people with semi stabled families both financially and healthy wise who have generation family friends.
@@RaccoonRecluse
Huh???
@@RaccoonRecluse Or people who made connections in university
This is so true. I’m terrible at this aspect of things, but it’s the only way I’ve gotten jobs. The single job in my life that wasn’t obtained through networking was a job I was massively overqualified for. I was desperate and took it but left quickly.
Also, I attribute my ability to network despite being neither charismatic nor particularly sociable of well connected is that I know my strengths, choose jobs that play to those strengths, am polite and accountable, and work hard. People remember the person who made work a little easier, even if they weren’t exactly friends.
The good thing about networking is that, although it helps to have family connections and money, you can totally do it by showing up and making a good impression and allowing positive gossip to do its thing. Apprentice with a plumber and let him say “wow this kid is so dedicated and reliable. I’m gonna mentor him.” Go to your friend’s party and complain over beers that you wish there were more jobs in your field because you’re tired of settling. Find out their friend works in the same field and has been looking for someone with exactly your expertise. (Very similar thing happened to me. Met someone at a party. Kept up a casual acquaintance. Three years later they called me about a job that I was almost eerily perfect for.)
So nowadays you essentially have to lie & puff up your resume to get an interview, got it.
Like my old teacher use to say: “if you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying”
You could also have skills
@@Smongo412But then you will be overqualified and they will have to pass you because they think you're too good for this job and will bail on them soon as you get the chance
@@kekconnoisseur9809 that's cope, man. Find a job that you have the skills for. Apply. You might get it or you won't. Eventually it's a numbers game. Every job application is a "chance" of getting the job. Try to apply for as many as possible and make yourself look as good as possible. It's all you can really do.
No! Most of these keywords are interchangeable with words/bullets already on your resume
THIS is the kind of content that that should be online. Good job internet.
And then employers complain that they can't find good workers for the actuall job.
We hire people and then they end up washing out. Especially younger people. There’s a common trend of them not being able to handle a normal workload or manage their own time.
@@FirstNameLastName-wt5to When the first thing you are asked after calling that you had an accident is "But you're still comming to work, right?" there is no excuse. It's completely lost with these people "managing" the place.
@@FirstNameLastName-wt5to Also: If you took time to actually teach your new workers before putting the whole load on them, while they have yet to figure out how everything works, and not take a look at them actually, it's still your fault for not finding or pushing away the good ones.
I was left alone on my very first day and noone checked on me, then complained when I made mistakes because it was literally my first day and I didn't know shit, especially not the article numbers which where essential for my job. 😂
I’ve told people that very same thing for years. Employers ( well HR at an employer ) have gotten so far removed from the thing that they do, that you can no longer compose a competent resume, it has to pretty much parrot whatever the job requirement from the job website says. HR has so little intelligence or imagination that if you don’t repeat back to them what the job requires they won’t recognize that you are a viable job candidate. It’s pathetic the state of the world we live in.
It's how they get employees who will do whatever they're told.
I wonder how this will play out once people start using ChatGPT and other LLMs to write their job applications for them.
Yup, even retail pulls this kind of garbage, apparently. There's a reason I just stopped applying for jobs entirely for a few years and just lived with my parents and helped around the house in exchange.
I did eventually land a job that stuck, but it was through a temp agency.
And then HR will read it for 5 seconds
The arms race between employers and applicants enters an interesting chapter...
Remember folks,don't take rejection personal. If most of your rejections are done by machines, then there's no reason to be afraid of the numbers game. You're not inconveniencing them. I submitted hundreds of apps in total and eventually got the perfect position, and it was still a role adjacent to the one I applied for.
Job hunting is like online dating.
Always treat ur Job like ur Current girl if u dont have 1 keep looking & good luck
@@lilbench5834 so do the bare minimum to not get dumped and occasionally put in a lot of effort at opportune times?
@@X8cY3rP9sF2aZ6qBthat’s the only logical way to work a job. Going above and beyond just turns you into the guy who does all the work for no extra pay.
The only way to win is to not play at all.
I miss being 18 in the mid-80s when I usually got the job because I had a resume I had typed cleanly with zero typos or spelling errors. This made me stand out as a candidate and I’d walk in and get offered the job that day. I also used to be able to walk into thrift stores and find pristine midcentury furniture and pay $4. The internet has made our lives much harder. Now we can all compete for the same thing and AI will make sure we don’t get it.
I gave up after 10k resumes I sent and hand delivered. About half were taylored to specific companies in the IT field. I wound up as a telemarketer for a few years before I retired. So happy now. Broke, but happy.
Hopefully you didn’t misspell the word “tailored” in every application
@@coryhoggatt7691You beat me to it. That is the likely reason he was only a puny meager telemarketer. Lack of attention to detail.
He? You missed the detail of the name Kate. @@LathropLdST
It’s a RUclips comment guys, not a resume……right guys?
The ceaseless rage of a human just trying to make it in machine-world
The machines are slowly wearing us down for the final battle, nervously watches Terminator again…
@@down-to-earth-mystery-school And nobody seems to care. Everyone just expects us roll over and accept it.
At this point with my high ability to learn thing’s extremely fast it seems like I should just lie on my resume. I’ll learn things so fast it won’t matter that I didn’t originally know it anyway. Seems like the only way to get hired these days because they’re asking so much and paying so little.
Based.
Never learned how to use an apostrophe, though.
That's my situation/mindset. I've been lying on mine (big time 😅😂) for the last several years.
Legit the best short I saw today. Thank you!
This is 100% true for almost every government job. I lost my mind when I found pit you had a better chance of getting the position if you copy and pasted the job description in your resume instead of creating a thoughtful and original document that actually describes your knowledge, skills, and abilities lol
I talked to a guy from the Forest Service at a job fair and he told me that if I was really interested in a career with the Forest Service I should join the National Guard because that was the only way my resume was getting to the top.
Back in the day you'd walk in to the job, shake the owners hand and get a job.
Instructions unclear, gave hand job
Now days if you walk in , they'll literally just tell you to go apply online. Some places don't even do it themselves anymore. They use Indeed or agencies like Elwood or US staffing. These agencies have an office that acts as HR, yet if you go to use them as an HR resource, they flat out don't care about you. One place I worked at had that and they got a cut out my paycheck every week because they were the ones that hired me in. Once I found out I didn't even bother asking why, I just quit on the spot. Haven't looked back since.
Back when you were TODAY YEARS OLD
For small businesses and blue collar jobs. It’s always been this way for larger companies and office type jobs. Drop resume at reception who then sends it to HR who scans the same way the computer does now.
"You gotta go in and hand your application to the manager"
Thanks Dad, it hits the trash bin much faster that way
Boomers, am I right? 😂
I remember my dad giving me the same talk, and even gave me a list of places to look for jobs. Every single one of them just told me to apply online.
I ended up just volunteering at a Salvation Army and my dad gave me an allowance.
That was around 2009 so I was trying to enter the workforce in the middle of a recession. Fun stuff.
All my grandpa had to do to get a job was to be born in a mountain village of a 2nd world country, finish primary school, then work on some cotton fields, then emigrate to the country where my family and me lives now, while unable to talk or understand the language, then stand in front of a giant corproations gate and wait for someone to wave him in and give him a lifetime job, which allowed him to go into early retirement at age 50 with a nice severence package.
I'm not kidding, that's really how he did it.
@@AmunRa1 Same happened to me. I got fired from a call center in '09. Thank God, I hated it there. But then I couldn't find another regular job for 5 years, until 2014. The recession had hit, the mortgage crisis and bank collapses, and no one at all was hiring. So I ended up going back to school, getting student loan money, and my friend and I hit the Goodwills and flea markets every weekend, for us to get by with an eBay business during that time.
Then they rag on us for being "lazy" and "unmotivated" when their outdated methods don't work. If boomers magically aged down and suddenly had to start over making a living this day in age, I guarantee most of them would fail right out the gate.
I am a manager and I do hiring for our organization. I will say that we DO NOT USE any automation. But the application does get screened.
Here is what I look for:
1. How long have you been at your jobs (less than a year is a red flag) Reason - If we spend 3 months training we cannot expect you to leave before those costs hurt the company.
2. any. . . ANY political communication in the resume. While politics can be discussed at work we do not want active politics to take over the workplace. And if on the resume it is a sign you can't help but push a subject in a neutral setting.
3. Large (Unexplainable) gaps in the Resume. This is usually not a big deal if there are no other red flags.
4. No Names of a company where you worked, or Generic so I can't figure out where i.e. (Walmart) but don't know which one. I see this as making it hard to call your old workplaces.
5. Make it one page, you can get away with 2 for front and back. a quality resume is critical but a lot can be said with little.
"when the measure becomes the target it ceases to be a good measure" -some smart reputable guy whose name i forgot
Tyranny of Metrics .. great book.
@@susanstewart1402 I've known about this phenomenon for a while but didn't know there was actually a book about it. Thanks for the title!
It's called Goodhart's Law