Why You Never Hear Back From Employers (Even When You're Qualified)
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Luck and networking get you farther than skill does. If you want to get a job, having friends in high places works better than showing off talent.
Free masonry
Nepotism
This is more true than we would like to admit. I’ve seen people less skills than me get the job simply because it was open before I came onto the scene. I’m doing the networking part but the luck is something you have to pray for or do all sorts of witchcraft.
@@pastsubstance2930 not only that but some people have reviewed their entire work history from their resumes and been contacted by employers thinking they're younger. Age discriminating is a thing.
I am willing to make a deal with the devil if he helps me in getting a job
Why do I have to create an account with a company just to apply for a job? Then fill out all the same information manually that is on my resume? Waste of my time.
@@DavidCYT99They do this to make filtering candidates easier.
Outdated systems.
You’re wasting your time doing that. You need to network with people at that company.
@@kakarot6627networking is just a glorified version of begging to join
@@kakarot6627 There are so many companies still making applicants do this. I just drop the application if it's a pain. I'm looking for another job due to being unhappy with my current job. I'm in no hurry to find something. If the right position requires I do that I will but I'm not doing it for every single application I send in.
Maybe we should all start a career as a RUclipsr, showing tips and tricks on how to be a professional Jobseeker.
Let me know your channel handle!
Been looking for quite awhile. Never been without work ever in my life. It's wild.
same exact here
Still my mom keeps telling me I’m lazy for not finding a job . Her audacity is ridiculous.
Mother knows best ❤
It's hilarious how all of these BBs and Xs lived life on easy mode and then get made that the children they forced into the world are struggling (due to the world they decided to create for said children).
Idk why this has been going on for a long time. Now it just got worse, but it goes back to who how brainwashed people are by these companies/jobs
@@BOSSDONMAN It's mainly the Boomers.
America used to be foolproof. Now, the fools still think that it's the same.
There's a massive parallel between the dating and recruitment worlds. Both are experiencing sharp declines in productivity and quality due to one or both sides pretending they have all the options in the world, while producing zero benefits for the other... Sometimes operating with impunity. Simples.
Very true statement. It seems that getting a job those days is just as challenging and competitive than dating women as most of them are likely to only look for unicorns, leaving 90% of the rest behind.
Recruiters have overplayed their role so badly it's made them seem worth more than the people who can do actual work.
eh this is a bad comparison especially if you're referring to women as they are largely content regardless to limit access as needed for their wellbeing while men whine and complain like little b*tches
@@sysxtem many people apply to a job from a one player mentality. This leads to people thinking that if they can do the job, they should get the interview. However, it is more complex than that. You have to think of other candidates who apply and what skills they have. When I apply to a job, I think of how many qualified people will apply to this job? If it’s a remote job, I can guarantee you, there are a lot of qualified candidates. Candidates that are probably better than you. You job is to max the percentage of you getting that job (catering resume to the job description as best as you can), submit, and move on.
If HR and Tinder women be one in the same does that explain use of the same playbook 😂
I never envy the unemployed. Few things in life, such as a divorce or the death of your own child, would be more stressful than being unemployed.
100% agree with this. It's miserable.
The employers seem to be looking for unicorns… I’m looking for a magic wand to remove the “invisible walls” that seem to be getting in the way!!!
Follow the channel. ;)
They're looking for highly qualified and skilled individuals who also have no self respect and no expectations of pay
The reality is that it depends on what part of history we're in. If it's 2020-2021, hiring managers are rewarded for staffing up as fast as possible and not hard-gating jobs on being a unicorn. In fact they were punished for not staffing up fast enough. Fast forward to August 2024, and hiring managers are punished for making a single hiring mistake. So their neck is on the line now for different reasons and that's why it's much harder to get hired for professional positions. Things will turn around unless AI is the final nail in the coffin.
@@TMeyer-ge5pjonly if you qualify for crap jobs.
No, even us unicorns are getting screwed...
Redid my resume to limit the ageist rejections and I at least got a few more interviews! Hoping I can land one soon. Fresh off another Friday afternoon final round rejection email.
Awesome! A good resume goes a long way, but so does timing and networking! Keep at it, you'll land something soon!
A friend of mine was literally told they were looking for someone younger for a Senior IT Engineer position, not an entry level position. I thought this was illegal? Even if it is illegal, I assume it is, how do you prove it?
@flyer7694 I believe it. A recruiter sent me a job description that included notes from his meeting with the client. The client said they did not want anyone born in the 90s. The recruiter should have known better than to send that out.
@@flyer7694 You can't. While certain pressure groups seem to have set up pipelines to press law suits for their brand of prejudice, but as an individual you won't find a lawyer who's willing to take the case. I tried (in a West European country.).
Personally this baffles me too. Prejudice is illegal, apparently, but employers have the right to hire or not hire whoever they wish.
"Applying for jobs can't be your only way of jobhunting."
So how else am I supposed to jobhunt? Do I just put a dollar under a box held up by a stick and try to trap a hiring manager?
This made me laugh. I think he means to network. I actually find it demeaning to network. It's basically begging someone who might know someone who might know someone who MIGHT be able to help.
@@jennifertarin4707Exactly, if you're unemployed, then networking is just begging.
I like where you're going with this. Ransom can be a very persuasive way to land a job offer.
@@jackofminds8338 I should try that
I recently had success after 7 months of hunting, maybe I got incredibly lucky, but 3rd party recruiting firms like Korn ferry got me a really really good job.
I know a guy that posts remote jobs but wont say it's remote. During the interview they just say "surprise it's remote is that ok?" and of course everyone says yes. Simply cause they get over 2K applicants for a remote position as opposed to a few hundred for a regular job.
It has ALWAYS been difficult to get a job. Always meaning since Y2K. You need to know someone or just luck out and have the hiring manager like you. Has very little to do with skill.
I once got hired because I have the same regional accent as the hiring manager.
Companies are not ready to train employee. They want someone with the exact experience that they need, so that deliverables can be achieved within a month of joining. Whats funny is that they would keep on interviewing more and more candidates till this exact experience is matched - wasting valuable time and resource of the company which could have been well diverted to some basic training. In future this would create two issues,
1. As people move on, their knowledge base would vanish (only to exist in documentation)
2. These people would already bring in previous baggage. So these companies cannot claim that they have certain culture!
Its a mess! On a lookout for job after PhD for around 8 months. No rejections, no offers (may be the same thing), nothings.
Indeed. As an engineer, rejections are often due to lack of training capabilities, not due to wage expectancies. Once hired, training is lackluster, even when companies pride themselves to their clients as having a unique method. Training is usually done by overworked seniors, who get no extra hours to spend time on the new employees.
Management remedies this by giving their employees junior level assignments (even when the employees were senior in their previous employment) until they need them for a senior level responsibility. At that time the new employee gets thrown into the deep end (at a client for example) with a random knowledge of the code base and hopefully a few bits and pieces they can use from their earlier employments.
Despite wanting ready to use employees, employers still do not want to pay on the level of experience they are hiring for. For example, I recently got an offer for the local steel mill (an Indian multinational). They needed someone fluent in a certain, somewhat rare, package. If an engineer has some knowledge of it, it will be of passing grade. I have never heard of anyone who had done the official certification for that package, and they were definitely not offering a contract worth the certification costs. However, this employer needed someone who could start up immediately and work without support. That engineer would be responsible for the continuity of the process at that plant, so not a junior level job!
I wish I could have explained this to the client of the recruiter myself, but the restrictions put onto the recruiter prohibited me of educating the client of his mistake. So I do not agree entirely with what is said in this video. Recruiters aren't just putting everyone in the pipeline. A fair amount of times, the hiring managers restrictions are already taken into account as well.
Because companies look for unicorn willing to put up with nonsense AND earn entry level salary
At the moment there are two types of job available: for juniors with 5 years of experience and for seniors willing to work for a junior salary.
@@JasonRobards2 dishwashing is only job available fr lol
@@UntouchableSavage That is even very difficult to get in the UK since 2020!
It’s because they appear to be hiring, yet they’re not! Lots of lies and misleading from these shady companies.
Yup
Employers are looking for Slaves who are available 24/7. I recently did not join an interview because my gut feeling about an employer was not right. I always listen to my gut.
What is going on with companies pulling job offers stating they simply changed their minds and are no longer actively seeking to fill the position after ridiculously long interview processes? This seems to happening far more frequently than I've ever seen.
Canada right now is a shadow of its former glory I was born into. There's more foreign tempo workers being hired more than Canadians. Some don't understands the English language and somehow got hired for example, a bank position
Right now I am happy with my new job that balance my studies but I feel the job market in my hometown has gone out of control
Ive never understood how immigration helps anyone but large corporations
You don't want to work for a bank anyway, they don't treat their staff well and they hire immigrants because they will work for the peanuts the banks pay. You can do better!
@@blackraven3436 that’s cause people who don’t speak English very well are usually ok with being paid way less than a person who knows English
Its worse now. Back in 2005 I was shown how many paper applications supervisors had to go threw when I was applying. Now good jobs don't really look at human applications, and even if they do, they don't see you as a human due to the digital platforms.
I think the truth is you as a recruiter are looking for the absolute perfect person with 20 years of experience that's willing to work for entry level pay.
There's absolutely zero wiggle room for anybody but the person with every single qualification you want.
So I feel you're missing up on so many amazing workers because someone fits the bill on paper.
Recruiters don’t care if you’re the “perfect candidate”. They only care about getting qualified candidates into the pipeline so they can move onto the next one. Hiring managers, however, often want the “perfect candidate”.
Remember, recruiters do not hire. They recruit. The hiring manager hires.
@@ALifeAfterLayoffToo many people involved in the hiring process aka "Too many cooks..."
@@ALifeAfterLayoff Following the trend that responsibilities are always shifting downwards, I feel that hiring managers have shifted their responsibility of finding the perfect candidate down toward the recruiter. More than before, I feel that recruiter requirements have become more strict and that you have to adhere them more strictly.
Last recruiter who called asked for fluid proficiency in a very niche program, for a big customer with no backup on site. Pay: junior level. I suggested he widened his scope, since it is unlikely to find a hire within that price range. It is possible for a senior engineer, for example, to acquire the knowledge in a few weeks tops. However, like the OP said: no wiggle room.
There should be a different word for the responsibility that shifts downwards... it gets really confusing on interviews to explain you had a lot of responsibility, but not THAT kind of responsibility.
@@ALifeAfterLayoff This is so true. Sometimes I feel that recruiters have a better idea which is the best candidate and it is the hiring manager who screws it up by with a vague ' wont fit into the team'.
They don't even want people with 20 years...
When I was applying. I'd get emails and voicemails asking to set up an interview. I'd respond almost immediately setting up a time to talk or meet in person. These hiring recruiters totally ghost you! So if you miss their call, you're SOL 😠
Keep in mind that we're only in the very early stages of AI also. Yet we have oligarchs constantly gaslighting us with,"Why aren't people having kids?!?"
This is my experience of the job market at the moment. I applied to a job yesterday. The job posting was closed today after 17 hours being open and 100+ applications. Last week, I had an interview. It lasted 5 minutes. The guy said they wanted to meet the candidates and were looking for someone "more senior" while they were looking for someone with 3 years of experience in the job description and I was offering 14 years of experience. It was the second interview where the first one was 30 minutes 2 weeks ago with their HR recruiter. We've known for a long time there are too few positions and an unrealistic demand for skilled workers who are willing to accept low wages, but in general it keeps getting worse every year.
To me it sounds like they already had someone lined up internally. Seniority can also be taken as "already knows how the company works" or "we know how the person works".
@@JasonRobards2 that's a considerable insight. Thanks.
I got laid off from my job assignment and the next day my local union found me work that has overtime opportunities.
Make Unions Great Again
Lots of options in the non corporate world. School districts need tech people and you can add a Career Technical Credential easily to teach computer science, video production etc etc. Blue states pay well. School districts also need tech people to maintain student and teacher computers. Then there is city, county, state and the federal government not to mention police agencies, utility agencies etc. Ditch corporate America. If you are young and pretty desperate go through a short term training program for pharmacy tech or phlebomist. District adult schools and occupational centers offer these for free or almost free. At least you can make some money and get job experience. Continue self learning tech application skills as well.
Some of the better advice under this video.
@@JasonRobards2 Yes so many don't know their options and are stuck on the corporate track. I was a registered vet tech for 16 years and while I was always employed went back for my teaching credential in a blue state 23 years ago. Best decision ever. Have added two since then and have fully paid health benefits and a pension. I get an email every year from the city of Los Angeles informing me of job openings for RVTS in their animal shelters. All I have to do is show up and they will hire me but teaching pays more and shelter work is emotionally difficult. Having choices is important.
It really does feel impossible. In a normal job market I average 20-30 unique interview processes per company until I land an offer. This year, I’ve only had 6 unique interview processes with companies-2 phone screens (didn’t move forward bc they didn’t offer relocation), 4 finalist round interviews, & 1 offer that I turned down due to a lowball offer (which I lowkey question if turning down was worth it since it’s been months & no luck yet with a better offer elsewhere). I’ve done so much with being proactive- networking , attending in person events, reaching out to recruiting managers & hiring managers, asking for referrals, etc and none of it has yielded results. There’s also not been much jobs to apply too. It’s frustrating and it feels like it’ll never end.
Something else I have noticed..I cannot build a network. Everyone is, and it makes sense, out for themselves. You get fired from a job, or move on to something else, and, at least in government work, no one talks to you. I applied for my old job, at the same agency where I was employed for 6 years. Gave 3 weeks notice when I went to a different agency. Reapplied after I was fired, and could not even get an interview.
All of this - blah blah blah - the REAL reason is that everyone knows we're on the brink of a major job/financial/everything crash, so corporations - if they're worth their sale and have done their homework - have cold feet in ponying up more money for new hires. Just one woman's opinion. I am NOT a perfect unicorn employee. What I am is very hard working, very loyal (to the right company), willing to put in OT or extended hours if needed, with many years of experience behind me. Sure I may cost a little more, but unlike my younger counterparts, I am not one to job jump, or hightail it when their feelings get hurt, or because they think the grass is greener. Business is business, and it can be ugly. But I don't want social security just yet. I still have a lot to offer.
I think we're in a recession already.
Yup, the Economic reset is coming soon
It's so interesting what happens behind the scenes in the interview process. I was recently approached by an agency recruiter on LinkedIn, who put me quickly in front of the hiring team, which eventually led to my job offer. Like you said, Bryan, it's best if recruiters find you instead of just applying in today's job market.
Ok so my comment didn’t appear so I’ll post it again. We should not blame “bad employees” when it’s the managers that are choosing to interview them. Yes the job market is more competitive but that doesn’t explain why so many companies have tons of job openings that aren’t getting filled. Or when they do get filled that person will only last a couple months to a year. We all know who the problem is. It’s a waste of everyone’s time, “qualified” or not.
I found a lot people love to lie when comes to what they've accomplished and most recruiting and hiring managers are brain dead when it comes to actual screening people for being honest. I had this one girl I worked with she was 35 years old and she claimed to have worked for NASA, 5 medical pharmaceutical companies, was a personal secretary of some big time CEO for some company she refused to give a name too, worked for nearly every restaurants within an 100 mile radus, was an electrical engineer, and network engineer, and a math teach all in the 35 years she been alive.
But in end of the day she couldn't even keep track of what rubber samples she ran test on in the lab and failed to work a weighting scale correctly causing fucked up test result receptively, cause she keep putting samples half off the scale when weighing them, while saying it not her fault she incompetent it everyone else's fault. Man at one point girl goes out of the lap to find two skids of rubber to cut resamples, an hour later she comes back into the lab and screams "I found them." we all just stare at her and ask her "Were the resamples for the skids." she looks back at us and goes "Oh I didn't cut them." Like bruh girl spend 1 hour wasting time looking for 2 skids of rubber that should of took her 5 minutes to find and even than she still didn't even do her job after finding them she left it for someone else to do on the next shift. And if I remember correct that 70 year old mans exact words were "God that girl is a complete fucking moron I don't know why she still employed by this place, she been here for 1 year and she still can't even do the simplest fucking task she so fucking stupid she left 5 hours of work for me to do cause she can't do anything right this is fucking BS why the fuck didn't she throw away any of the AB samples from her shift either." Literally have never seen that man get so anger before in my life but honestly I can't blame him with what he had to walk into that day from that girl especially sense this was on going thing for over a year at that place.
Issue really is we got people lying on their resumes and recruiting and hiring managers putting zero effort into checking if people are actually being honest when comes to what they said they accomplished, than just have the joke people who only get hired cause they know someone not because they're actually qualified for the job.
You should check out my ghost job video. ruclips.net/video/QAQGHyu9lcA/видео.html
Society spends trillions on education and providing private companies with competent employees to grow their businesses with. Those companies subsequently misappropriate this massive boon they are given. A well educated and motivated population is a national and strategic resource and should be treated as such.
Same on industry level. These days an industry uses their lobby agency to go to the government to complain they can't find enough "strategic profiles". They expect the government should step in on their behalf (sometimes even so far by recruiting abroad). In that case this industry should also hold their members accountable when those members go through these profiles in a much higher rate than the industry standard. Obviously those members reduce the availability of those profiles.
Same goes on company level: if a department uses up the resources of HR to recruit new employees, but they go through their employees at a much higher rate, they are rarely held accountable.
Ah, accountability... one can only dream, no? :)
I've had job offers where they are WFH, and I meet every single requirement they ask for, skills, certifications, and all, but they still turn me down for not living close to where their main office is (even though it's WFH and doesn't mention hybrid).
A new experience for me (and I’m a fed gov worker) - I am found qualified, I score an interview… and never hear back.. no “sorry, we offered the job to someone else and they accepted” no “ here’s where we thought you could use some polish” - no feedback.. no word on the job being filled… guess I’m old fashioned.. it’s happened to me three times since COVID
Been struggling for more than a year now. Had a temp job that only lasted six months. Never seen it this ugly before and i nebrr been out of a job for this long. I've been applying and interviewing but nothing yet. It's been so frustrating, and even reddit has been echoing this. Hiring managers are just way too picky.
The weird thing is I get to the interview part a lot. But then it’s like I don’t hear crap from them or get rejected after that part. Must be some secret overqualified zombies coming out of the ground after I interview or something.
Same here
Same. Or more like fake jobs that only want to please shareholders
Same. Usually an interview is done by the technical lead and an HR partner. Most often, I get serious nodding form one and shaking from the other.
Once I got two leads firmly on my side, while the HR remained silent. She asked one question about my recent work history, which I deflected. Later the recruiter who had set us up informed me that the employer had doubts if I would be a fit for the company. It was easy to guess how that assessment came to be...
Yep, I've had 6 interviews in 4 months.
All of them went well yet,
" Unfortunately at this time ..."
@@07ikkin you got lucky they told you that
I would get "After careful consideration" 🤮
What's worse is no response whatsoever
Ah the signs of a declining economy. Been here graduated HS in 07 and then college in 2012. Never found a job related at all to my major. Dont quit never give up and don't be picky.
do not ever be gaslighted by "you are too picky". If you have a degree, either work your degree or do something with a vague enough job title that can be explained as working with your degree.
Coming from experience, working below your value messes up your resume in ways you wouldn't expect. Learn to lie on your resume. Employers do not often check.
Long answer: reasons
Short answer: they choose not to follow up
The Claim is that "No One wants to work, but companies are not hiring, and services are non-existing. The answer to abuse and lousy service is we are "short-of-help".
Last year I got 10 offers in one year - in 2024 I did 7 final rounds and guess what = zero offers lol. Trust me they are not really hiring but wasting peoples time
Yup
They are gauging the market
I have corporate experience, banking, financial management, and more for years.
In 2024 I got declined for a simple appointment position
I hate when you can’t even get your questions answered before applying for a job 😂😂
HED Design refused to return my phone call back so I could decide whether to apply for their jobs.
I finally landed some jobs! Almost a year of being unemployed. Ultimately, the jobs I landed and experience getting them were like all the other jobs I landed before being unemployed - they were easy and the employer saw my worth off the back and seized to lock me down. All other employers that are not jumping out of their seat or being honest and showing integrity through the process in terms of start time, pay, and or clear steps to move forward then beware bc they are leveraging the market. As a rule of thumb just apply and forget. All of this while giving thanks to God and praying in the foreground and background.
As a rule of thumb just apply, thank your Creator and PRAY!! 😆🙏
@@HazeAnderson Yes! How did I forget to mention. I think I typically try to keep religion off here but yes - prayer got me through.
Why give thanks to a god for a job? You will never be a millionaire
@@BlackPillVillain
I would check Ramsey's National Study of Millionaires.
It was like this after the 2003 bust, and after the 2008 bust. Takes about 7 or 8 months before they start hiring normally again. Happened to me in both scenario's and once again Im in the unemployment line.
Good advice.
Humans didn't evolve for online job applications; applying in person for hundreds of thousands of years (most being tribal roles).
I think we're already in a recession.
No. You entered a recession months ago. Remember when the US Government redefined the meaning of 'recession' just to avoid saying they're in one?
we're in a recession since 2020, the second largest after the long depression
It is an election year; companies are waiting to see who wins. This election will be the most polarizing between the 2 candidates.
My experience has taught me to never reply to any recruiter who doesn't work directly for the company doing the hiring.
Over qualification is a real problem - trouble is, everyone reaches that point, but being qualified isn't the issue, tyrants are..................
I feel like I’m one job rejection away from snapping permanently and ruining my life I CANT COPE
Engineer here. 95% of the engineering/programming job adverts link through to a recruiter agency. They almost never tell which company the advert is for, creating a huge disconnect between job searchers and companies.
In ten years of jobhunting I have never been sent to the place the original job advert was for. Each time a "better opportunity" was available, or the vacancy had been filled. I strongly suspect most of those job adverts in engineering are fake. They are vague enough to seem so.
All this makes it very hard to select jobs based on the company you want to work for through job sites.
It doesn't take a lot of effort to send a generic email that you weren't selected. Not sure why it's difficult for the company to send those
Can you do a video on networking? Whenever I reach out to people to network they either just say “apply online” or “I don’t know anyone at HR.” Is networking to find a job only worth it if those people are in the HR department of the company you want to work for?
Another great video, Bryan!! Everything you say in your videos is the truth!!
Glad you like them!
you're confused with no jobs in the market and not able to find a job
The answer is simple. We are at the brink of an economic crisis that will dwarf even the great depression.
Almost all companies are working through investment cycle. They attract investors (banks, funds, etc.) from financial market. By the time the project start bringing any profits, all salaries have already been paid and most likely the project works have their contracts finished (and not renewed). The problem is that in the recent years (starting well before pandemic) all money income to financial markets were coming from Fed Reserve bailouts. Now there is no more bailouts possible without causing a hyperinflation just before the elections. So there is no more helicopter money printing, no investments and no new jobs. Just typical economic stagnation that nobody wants to admit.
And the worst part is that you personally can't do anything about it. You were just unlucky to born in a wrong place in a very bad time. Period.
I've been working the same entry level job but I'm sitting on two college degrees that have kind of gone to waste so I've been applying to something a little more administrative and those get flooded pretty bad. I've learned that being 15 years at one company is now considered a bad thing on a resume and for a lot of jobs having degrees is bad as well.
I showed my resume to friends and experts and everyone said I need to have two pages, while I've been fighting to keep it a clean single page.
Now my resume is two pages and full of AI sounding language and it feels so fake..but I guess that's what ATS wants to see. The whole process made me feel dirty.
It doesn't seem to matter if recruiters are coming after you, either. They come, you respond and they ghost. Or, you respond, they want to chat, set up time, make it all sound good, then they ghost. Zero feedback.
…After they have all of your information.
do not take it personally.
In 10 days it'll be exactly a year since I've been unemployed (in Eastern Europe). There are a lot of low-paying no-qualification jobs, but nothing worth applying for. I apply like once or twice a month and guess how many times I get to an actual interview..... I guess I'll eventually become a cleaner or a teller, despite my two degrees ..
As long as you can afford it, don't work below your degrees. It will mess you up if you do and you deserve better than that.
Sometimes, you just got to get _a_ job until you get _the_ job.
2022 business grad here formally unemployed for a year. Got squeezed out of my restaurant job by illegal immigrants. Restaurants ask for Spanish speakers now. And now I've been rejected by McDonald's, Dependable Cleaners, etc. It feels like the United States does not care about its own citizens.
Yup, I’m pecking away at learning spanish
I have been ghosted after many interviews. Maybe we should start a column that collects data on companies that are leaving us hanging? This way there is accountability. Seems like the only way to get these done this way 😑
Advice for those of us who get calls and messages on linked in every single day but never seem to make it past the first round? I did an interview prep class and they only had all positive feedback for me and I always only receive positive feedback, no idea why I’m not landing anything.
HR is flat out lazy. They rely on AI to read, sort, and pick candidates. They are completely disconnected from the reality of the actual job, generate job descriptions also written by AI, and they miss a whole group of qualified people.
There are 5M new US grads every year applying for the same jobs.
1. Use an AI to rewrite your resume to defeat the HR ATS AI screening your resume before the unpublished cut off time;
2. Make sure to get an internal referral;
3. Avoid the DEI pronoun people backlash;
Or
Get into blue collar. They are hiring provided you leave out irrelevant degrees (red flag), will wear work boots and have a thick skin attitude.
do NOT work blue collar with a degree. For one, it will mess up your resume in case you ever want back out.
Speaking from experience, it will also mess up your life. To survive in blue collar jobs you need a certain set of social skills that you lack now, which might hamper you in the beginning. For example, speaking your language proper, thus without dialect, might be interpreted as putting yourself above your supervisors. I had places where I was ignored until I started speaking a dialect.
On top of that, your social life might take a hit as well. The language you will hear and use will seep into your non work speech patterns and might signal you as less appropriate. Social perception of the status of your job, is another thing. The lower status you'll feel while at your blue collar job is another. There will be a significant decrease in self confidence towards "your betters". Toxicity is even another. Blue collars are working on time tables are punished relative harshly for making mistakes. I know I became really frustrated when I saw people getting away with perceived laziness or mistakes. Working blue collar does not make you a nicer person.
@JasonRobards2 Obviously you didn't understand what thick skin means. But good fear mongering although kind of silly. I will do the same humour as you.
Ahem! Do NOT work for white collar because your girlfriend will find out you are assigned an AI Girlfriend like chatGPT then both girlfriends might fight and all the guys will stop to watch the cat fight and your self confidence will go down because they will pat you on the back and say you have too many girls chasing you and then you wil get a raise. Horrible 😅
B. Again, another quality video sir. You are telling the truth sir. Networking, personal branding, customized resume. Keep up the good work B. Thank you.
Much appreciated
Its like playing the lottery these days
It makes sense, but it's a miserable system for everyone. A country's job system cannot be built upon making everyone miserable
Many Americans are struggling to find jobs,
while companies continue to hire H1B visa holders and outsource jobs, particularly to India.
"On Wednesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will downward revise jobs for the April 2023-March 2024 period by up to 1 million. This means that all "beats" recorded in the past year will have been misses and the US job market is in far worse shape than the admin would admit." --Zerohedge
I recently posted a full time job for 18/hr. I literally received over 350 applicants in 2 weeks! Most are over qualified! This economy sucks!
I got my rejection email today from a county government job AFTER I was told that my experience was impressive.
The lady did tell me I was her first interview but they had other applicants to interview.
Did they follow email a few days later regarding the next steps, got a reply back right away, and was told by a certain time that they would get back to everyone.
So a few days later I sent 1 email then a few days later another email and basically didn't hear nothing. Then finally to i get an email from a recruiter who finally said they went with someone else basically despite being impressed with my qualifications. SMH.
This is a situation honestly where I would rather be in last place than second place.
Don't tell me the email says "we are impressed with your experience, but after careful consideration, we regret to inform you that you are not qualified" type of bs?
@@soaringstars314 Sort of. They worded it in such a way that says that I met all the qualifications but they went with another candidate. Of course they also said good luck with my professional and future endeavors.
Basically what happened is they were impressed by resume on paper but you’re interview skill didn’t sell enough. Generally the people with the best qualifications for the position on paper generally getting beat for the position by people who got the gift of gab.
@@user-lu6yg3vk9z The interview was actually positive which makes this even more frustrating. They even sent me their stupid assignment they had me fill out. That's an hour I'll never get back lol.
Also at first they were responsive as far as next steps then at some point after I got no responses then finally after a week after the no response I get the email stating that.
@@smoothoperator1509 sounds like every rejection letter I got and I got way more than I can count yet no job
What is your take on the LinkedIn “open-to-work” setting? Does this make you more likely to be found, or is it signaling desperation?
I have been applying for between 10 to 100 jobs daily since C-19 (except most Sundays) and I keep getting the same replies; dead silence or "you do not meet the min requirements" (which is absolute BS).
Not just that it’s lack of quality jobs
God please if you don’t like remote jobs please don’t apply!!! There are disabled people that need those jobs!! I can’t drive! Go get hybrids or whatever- stop taking the job I need!
When I was applying for medical school, the competition was BRUTAL but the chairs/slots were real. Today, the jobs are NOT real. Besides me, who has interviewed candidates for WITHDRAWN/FROZEN roles?
????? Are Physicians being replaced with mid-level providers? Are Hospitals for profit businesses now we’re they want to maximize profits for shareholders/owners?
This video was a waste of time. Just the truth beating us down all over again
Employers need to be more open to qualified individuals instead of finding that unicorn and then hold out on qualified individuals for years because "unicorn" its such bs. They also need to hire more job recruiters.
Honestly, if you want to freely move from one job opportunity after another, 2021 called.
I have found that Workday's ATS for big companies likes to eat your resume (and ask you a ton of questions and require a cover letter) then spit you out in two days saying blah blah we found better candiates, etc. They must use some crappy LLM or something...
i am a recruiter. i don't like using Workday from the inside either.
@@RTRJobHuntingVideosI am curious how much automation it uses on your end? Does the company have to purchase add-on features for it to do more things? Does it rank candidates and then only push the top scores (whether by AI or keyword matching) to recruiters?
No other platform sends rejection letters so quickly... well maybe a couple others do?
The worst is hybrid roles open to multiple locations. So you have to compete with 5 times as many applicants. They just want you to show up to "an office", because so many teams are spread around now
After hearing, the first sentence, I hit the thumbs up button immediately. Then watched the rest of the video. :)
People can not get entry level jobs and sp500 is up 18 %. So richest are richer for 20 % more. This year. Last 5 years their wealth is up 100 %. Being rich - means you do not have to do dirty jobs. You save time & energy. Someone else does for you. More people being ultra rich - meaning harder the rest of us has to work for them.
I got a great way to sort this out, government to regulate the job postings for most jobs, not online but keep it local like in the pre internet era. Also regulate it so that for lower end jobs say Supermarket for example, they're no longer by law allowed to send you through hoops e g. "10 minute assessments" that actually take 30 to 45 mins covering things that should be covered in training.
The internet hasn't helped with unemployment, it's made it harder, company's have seized the opertunity to add more and more red tape. Take it and bare in mind I'm in the UK but after you filled out so much of this stuff, you start saying "no" to the assessments and things because it not worth putting in the time just to get a constant "No" or being ghosted. Apologies just frustrated is all and fed up with the whole system.
I do understand the people complaining about companies not wanting to train; however, ..... The large private company I work for does train as we have very specific packaging equipment. My company hires to train and hopes that this six months of training will produce a dedicated employee who will stick around. I am trying to say that employees are also to blame. Imagine you are a great.company, you invested thousands to train, and the employee quits a year after being trained for some vague reason.
It actually pathic how non these companies don't want to train anyone anymore I mean imagine your hired as salesman for car dealership and your given zero training on how the place actual operates and processes sales and your just expected to know how their paperwork system works day one with zero training the moment your placed at your desk. Then big shock you fuck up the paperwork completely for nearly all sales you make for a month straight and dealership just fires you instead of realizing their lack of training program is the problem. Now copy this same situation for Vet clinic, medical clinic, office sales job, etc and employers wonder why they can't find skilled employees anymore they expect complete perfection and employees to understand how their whole company works day one, with zero on the job training.
Fuck I even remember one of my first jobs way back in 2009 at a pet store I got trained for one day how to clean and feed the bird cages, but like ok what about the snakes, rats, hamsters, fish, turtles, geckos, breaded dragons, frogs, etc. I mean I wasn't a veterinarian at the time and I'm still not but I'm pretty sure snakes don't eat bird seed.
I think this is the 10 billionth time you've covered this topic. How much longer are we going to revisit it?
This sort of content would be easier to swallow if I hadn't received rejection no. 140 this morning. It's quite hard to give employers any benefit of any doubt after 140 rejections. At this point, I'm almost convinced that companies make money by laundering an oligarch's savings rather than launching products and performing operations.
Here's the funny part. They literally do because it looks good for the shareholders
I used to get recruiters contacting me all the time. Maybe weekly or every other week on linked in with a job. Now…in almost all cases the job was worse than the one I already have (lower title, lower pay, lower quality company). It’s been months since I’ve had a recruiter reach out…
Thank you, Brian.
It seems like the world is just overpopulated and jobs didn't scale.
So basically recruiters are under just as much pressure to fill roles as job seekers are to get into roles? It also explains why most or all job boards will ban you for spamming if you try to automate the actual application process, because that puts even more undue strain on the poor recruiters.
It's also why they are always telling you at every opportunity to please not call them or message back. Shady
That's why I don't really apply to those factories. Once you get that job you will be just doing one operation in your cubicle. Better is to work for small or medium size company.
Making money is not the same as keeping it there is a reason why investments aren't well taught in schools, the examples you gave are well stationed, the market crisis gave me my first millions, people shy away from hard times, I embrace them.. well at least my advisor does lol.
I agree. There's a lot of potential in the market.
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Why isn't there such a thing as a CV posting board, where people upload their CV's and let the employers go looking for their perfect candidate. Surely, such a thing would remind employers that they're the buyers, NOT the sellers.
the employers pay a high price to get access for a database of resumes. indeed, monster, dice... it's already going on.
I keep making it to final round interviews, but ultimately rejected. A trend I’m noticing is that the hiring manager will refrain for mentioning key requirements until the final round, and they are never listed on the job description, so there’s no way to prepare for that.
I recently got your Unlocking LinkedIn course, so I’m hoping to get more recruiter engagement!
Employers need to remember
"You get what you pay for".
Hi; solid insightful video! I want to verify -- when you say recruiter - are you talking about recruiters from a staffing company that does direct hire placement for their corporate clients, or more like inhouse recruiters? Thanks. Keep up the great content!
Internal recruiters, not headhunters. Very different dynamic involved with them.
Pressure for the recruiter, excuses for the employment seeker.
This video is clearly an apologist video for the job recruiters. Absolutely disgusting. Why don't you tell us the REAL reason why no one is getting jobs? I'll tell you. The corporations and other companies are all HOLDING OUT for the "best" candidate possible. Even people WITH experience in the field CAN'T get hired because it's always seen as "not enough experience for the role," even for ENTRY LEVEL positions! Why don't companies want to TRAIN new employees anymore? Why don't companies invest more into potentially good hires in the long run? These are the right questions to ask. Don't blame it on anything else. Companies can hire immediately if they CHOOSE to do so.
1000 candidates. 1 job. Companies can afford to find the perfect candidate. I've spelled out what happens behind the scenes. It's up to you to decide what to do with the information.
@@ALifeAfterLayoff Does that mean you're implying that the economy is to blame for this travesty? The Biden/Harris administration is touting BEST numbers in unemployment. How can it be both the best numbers in recent history AND the scenario you just described: "1000 candidates. 1 job?"
As a senior software engineer, who's acing interviews... I'm not getting hired. Just like the education system - a scam.
I'm just gonna create some Brainrot apps 🫡
More like, they only want the best azz kissers
@@ALifeAfterLayoffToo many people involved with the job hiring.
Most of my positions I got via a recruiter directly contacting me. Rarely do those contacts not at least go to the interview stage. You gotta make sure your linkedin profile has your skills / title filled out.
Don't even bother wasting your time.
Wrong. It is much easier to get a job than it is to endure one year in the new company.