Got a string of rejections for my applications on Indeed.

I live in the US and I haven’t landed an interview since last year.

I’m working on my resume now, but if there are any tips on where to look, or services that might help connect me with work, I’m all ears.

I’ve got a graduate education and I’m considering omitting that information as I apply to entry level positions. What kind of sick joke is it that someone can be overqualified for a job?

Also if you want to commiserate and say work sucks in different ways, that’s cool too.

  • tim_curry [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I’ve never successfully got a job by applying on indeed or any other website the only methods that have worked for me are

    • Applying for a scheme, mine was an apprenticeship scheme but graduate schemes also work the entrance requirements are low cos they usually want to get as many people as possible and the scheme has to find you something. This is limited to being young and or a recent graduate unfortunately.
    • A good recruiter, I once had a machine of a recruiter who in the background was doing hundreds of applications for me and got me an interview in like 24 hours, got the job and bought me coffee then asked if i wanted to apply for another job she found with an even higher salary before I’d even started the one i just got. I feel like if i took her up on the offer I’d probably have been a CEO by the end of the week
    • Nepotism. Absolutely nothing works better than plain old nepotism. Its almost always a guaranteed interview and the bonus of having someone put a good word in gives you a huge advantage. Some companies even have referral schemes where the person referring gets cash

    Job market is absolutely trash atm though. I’m largely trapped where i am all my applications have been falling through for months usually i would get a hit on something.

    • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      How much did a recuiter cost you? That sounds hella useful IF the cost-reward balance is good.

      Also, what kind of profession were you in that made a recruiter make sense for you? I can imagine it making alot of sense for an engineer and not a whole lot of sense for a ‘starter job’ like cashier or janitor.

      • tim_curry [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        The recruiter was paid by the companies to find people so it was at no cost to me. I have little experience of recruiters I would pay i feel like they’d be different. Most recruiters i end up in contact with are from linkedin DMs. Its been about 7 years since I’ve had to apply for a job so I don’t know how relevant anything i say is now.

        I’m one of those cringe programmers so the recruiter worked out well but yeah it’ll not be so great for other jobs although i have no experience to know.