• peeonyou [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    16 days ago

    can’t even make it to a 3rd interview when more than qualified for the jobs now… 5 years ago i could apply to 5 jobs and have 3 offers in weeks, now i apply to 50 jobs and get 2 interviews, neither of which make it past the 2nd round because now they have 1000 people applying per job

    • CatoPosting [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      16 days ago

      About half the people working at the bottom level of my local library system (for less that $20/hr) have a Master’s, all have a Bachelor’s. It took someone I know 6 months to get through their hiring process to work part time…

    • Nopeace [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      16 days ago

      I got laid off in march this year. sent out about 600 apps in a month to literally anything qualified for. i got 3 interviews, only for positions i was way overqualified for, and didnt make it through the first round for any of them. i lucked the fuck out with getting reassigned to a position in a diff department, otherwise I’d be living with my parent after losing my home.

      There is no job market at the current moment; it simply does not exist. jokerfied