Sad to say, 100 is rookie numbers, especially for someone likely junior or maybe mid-level in their field. I"m senior in mine, and I applied to 54 before even getting a single phone call.
There’s two things here:
“How is only a 100 news? That’s nothing.”
And:
“It’s absolutely fucked up that our reaction to this is that it’s nothing.”
That reaction shouldn’t exist, and it’s even more fucked that most people who have that reaction don’t realise that’s a bad thing in the first place. No one should have to go through all that just to be able to survive.I dont get it. I apply for 1-2 positions and then fight off emails and phone calls for weeks afterwards because some asshat puts me on a job board.
…if you’re not pursuing one hundred applications per week you’re not treating your search as a full-time job…
Has he actually set foot in a single business?
That’s not how it works anymore. Are you 75?
He’d like to move into construction — siding, roofing, interior work — but the sector’s downturn has narrowed his options at the worst possible time.
That we have a housing crisis and a construction sector downturn and people wanting to work in it and struggling to find work tells you everything you need to know about the insanity of the profit-first economic system we have.
There is a widespread social need, there is infrastructure, and there are people ready to work to fulfill the need. The only hiccup seems to be that some ghoul can’t make enough of a buck out of it. This is market failure. The government should be stepping in, and hiring and training people to build non-market housing.
What a fucking waste capitalism is.
Before getting tje job I have now, I sent like 50 applications a week for six months at least… Im 19.
100?! Those are rooky numbers, the wife has been applying for about a year with no leads.
She’s probably in the high thousands.
100 seems kinda mild? I think it took me closer to 1500 to get a job.
This is not encouraging for myself.
Lol last time I needed help my boss paid to put out an ad on indeed, got like 200+ resumes then just said fuck it and hired a friend’s kid rather than go through them because he didn’t feel like it.
Lol 100 makes the news? I think my partner has like 3-4x that on a spreadsheet, she’s been unemployed for two years and has two masters
Yeah he sounds overly qualified, sorry.
That’s unironically a response she’s gotten numerous times
How about, you have exactly the skill that we need, because of your studies, but we can only afford an internship wage, would that be ok with you?
education does not guarantee anything. If she has an unsuitable personality (no offense), then she won’t get a job.
As far as I can tell, it is quite rare to send hundreds of serious applications and not land a job. I know, you read all the time about it, but no one in my vicinity ever experienced this.
as someone with a personality, let me tell you a lot of Americans reallllllly don’t like you to have one at work. Especially if, like me, you are from another, non-American culture.
I am kind, funny, conversational with people - I ask about their weekends, I say good things positively, I say bad things seriously but gently. I am constantly in trouble for not “leading with the executive voice” in meetings.
It’s not just personality, it’s also deportment, looks and sometimes your name. I can get a job wearing a god dam burlap sack yet my wife can’t find shit even though she has a proven track record of increasing sales by double digits anywhere she goes.
Thank fuck for nepotism! Or we’d all be fucked 😂
It’s real easy to judge the quality of someone else’s glass of water if you don’t have to drink it.
You are out of touch. Go try to land a position and report back to us how your winning personality and firm handshake got you the job.
And yet you were not able to explain what the real problem is. Go ahead and please tell me. As I and all my social contacts do not have that issue, I can only end up guessing.
But what I know is the view of HR. Seeing that 95% of all applications land in garbage, because it is so utterly obvious this person did not even remotely read the job description. Having 2 Master degrees does not change this.
What is your field? Maybe yours is wildly in demand.
Maybe HR should try reading the job description too, then maybe they’d realize it’s impossible to have 35 years experience with dotnet core.
If the company isn’t going to take honesty in writing the requirements seriously, why would the applicants bother when applying?
“For a couple of years, Mahmoudian worked as a home energy advisor — a self-contractor who says he used to put in 70-hour weeks. However, most of the government incentives that sustained that work, including the Canada Greener Homes Loan program, have ended, and business has dried up”
That paragraph says an awful lot, if you read what is NOT said. Reads like he made his money in the past by sweet talking people into applying for government handouts. Government money dried up, and he has no skills to work at a ‘real’ job.
I really think they picked the wrong person to highlight in the article to make their point.
In the very next paragraph they talk a about how he’s trying to work construction but there is a downturn.
Ring ding ding. That’s what all these people who can’t find work after putting in 100s of applications have in common. No actual real skills, no ability to perform, bad attitudes. Fuck had a guy come in all “Yeah I’m the best at this and that” told him to take a hike after a week because he was shit.
Those consultants in that role are functionally and practically useless.
Yea they are door to door salespeople basically filling out forms for you.
They don’t answer emails or calls, and when they do answer emails they are incomprehensible, like: “Send form X-3H9119” with no explanation.
Fuck those consultants. But also fuck the system that created them.
100 only?
I’m at 200 and had a single introduction interview with no results.
5 years ago I had 20 applications and got literally 30 interviews as the word spread that I was available somehow. Recruiters were relentless.
Now? 5 years later?
Nothing
What profession
Kamala Harris campaign manager
lmfao
This is somehow more insulting than if they hadn’t written a story about the shitty job market at all.
yes, because it’s bullshit designed to depress you
What it Reza and other Canadians were paid some sort of universal income?
I know, crazy talk. Let’s keeping giving corporations and billionaires tax cuts, sell off natural resources, and privatize everything. Surely, neoliberalism economics will get us out this mess.
handsome state handouts for the rich and rugged individualism for the rest of us
