Agree...that's why I don't send my resume to the staffing/temp firms. They always post fake jobs and call you just to waste your time instead of helping you have a job lined up.
My husband is happy in his current role at his current company. He has no intentions of leaving. But he periodically puts his résumé in for intriguing job postings. Mostly to just to have a conversation and learn about the competitors but to also test the waters.. It’s due diligence if you will. Anyway, he is getting less and less callbacks for interviews. We both found this intriguing. Again, thankfully he’s gainfully employed and happy in his current role, but if he weren’t, I can imagine the stress of the job hunt these days.
If he has zero intentions of switching jobs, it would honestly be nice if he doesn’t do that. That one interview just over saturates the market even more, tires out the interviewers and put a strain on people who actually need jobs.
People I know sometimes reach out to me when they see my employees posting their resumes on job boards. For some reason it’s always the underperforming employees that do that so I am happy to help them find the door sooner rather than later. 😂
@@edhcb9359 I can definitely see that side of things. My husband is in a niche where he has a name for himself in his field. He’s highly sought out thank goodness but he has absolutely had a manager approach him when they found out he threw his hat in the ring for a position in parallel org within his same company. His boss ended up “retaining” my husband and now my husband has what I call golden handcuffs 🫠
I applied to 600 jobs in 2 months that are 1:1 equivalent to my title of 8 years. I’ve been rejected by 72. 6 interviews with recruiters who don’t know what my title means that were hired to hire for that job. 2 revoked their listing due to high number of applicants. 1 recruiter told me they don’t post anymore because their initial posting had 7,000 applicants.
I've been watching job listings for a few years. There used to be over 300+ new listings a day on Indeed. Now it's more like 45 to 50. It's dropped a lot on other job sites too. A lot of layoffs. Manufacturing is slowing down, less overtime and second shifts are being dropped.
Nowadays you need 2-3 skills in 2-3 different areas. Education has always been recession proof; ditto health care. I wouldn't trust tech because it's too cyclical. Tech keeps changing changing. You can be skilled in graphic design, get laid off and there's nothing for you. But if you can code, do graphic design, fix computers, solve software problems, then you're okay. But some techies are grounded in one skill. And they can't be today.
I have also been watching job listings. On Dice, there were 3,000+ new listings a day for C++ jobs. That was a couple of months ago. Now there are less than 200 a day, and usually there are about 40 to 50 new jobs posted per day, most of which are probably ghost jobs. There are also a lot more competitors for these job openings, as a lot of people were laid off recently in the programming industry. Regarding manufacturing... yes it is slowing down, as indicated by the ISM Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) which reflects the number of new manufacturing orders on a monthly basis. That number has been shrinking (below 50) for the last several months, at least. Technically, we are in a manufacturing recession.
This is the worst job market since 2009. It would be far worse if there were more people who wanted to be employed. Labor participation rate keeps dropping...
Can you blame them? Especially men? Zero incentive in modern society after inflation to work anymore for men. No money, no life, no assets, no gf or wife, no children, no security or stability..... Why bother?
If you were more proficient in the English language, perhaps you could have kept your job? PROPER ENGLISH - More than 100 people I know, to include myself, were laid off from our jobs. This happened around the end of the year, and continued into the first month or two of 2024. It is currently very difficult to find a job.
I retired 2 years ago, sort-of. With inflation rising I retained my residential contractors license and continued services for my good loyal clients. I personally only work about 500+ hours a year. I don't need to work, but I don't trust this economy.
The unemployment rate that is being reported is the number of people who are collecting unemployment. It isn’t the number of people who are healthy and too young to collect Social Security who aren’t working. Thats why the unemployment rate is low, very few people are collecting unemployment.
Home Depot is hiring! I never thought of working there, but they were the one place that would hire me. I guess I got lucky because I thought it was a seasonal position, but it turned out it was a permanent position! I also had a feeling that I would get the job for some reason, and when I had the interview, it didn't even feel like one. I've been there for 4 months now as a cashier, and it's not bad. The only thing you would have to deal with is asshole customers, and when it's slow, it can be kind of boring. Also, if you're a cashier, you will be watched by the Head Cashiers, the frontline supervisor, and the managers. Other than that, anyone can get a job at Home Depot, even if you can't speak English!
I worked a part-time job in the flooring department at Home Depot years ago while I was working a full-time job. I enjoyed being on my feet helping customers as it was a change from my daytime desk job. I don't think I'd mind going back and doing it again.
If everyone realizes that if we stop playing their game, we win. How hard is that to understand. We are sick and tired of this. Low pay, not many benefits, no growth opportunity, little to no bonuses, etc etc. You're saying 2020/2021 won't happen again? How about we control it like we did during that time? We have all the power, we control the job market, we control what companies do whether they like it or not. Enough is enough, we aren't playing your game anymore.
Agreed this is the prisoner's dilemma both people have to not talk and if they don't talk everyone wins but the prisoners dilemma states that one will eventually crack but both have to keep stale where if they don't talk they both get off the charges. it's going to take a concerted effort to make everyone stop playing the game because if one or two do it then the rest will follow like sheep cuz they are scared everyone is scared of what is not in there Norm to stop working. We are programmed to work for them.
Employees do not create jobs. Employers create jobs. If there is no money there won't be a job. If there is money for a job and +100 people apply then they will pay the least amount of money they can and demand the most experience. That is capitalism and supply and demand 101
Only jobs near me are minimum wage fast food or a dollar store where you get 20-30 hours a week, and you're the only employee in the building, and you have to be bilingual to get that!
You can build your circle if it's really important to you. It takes a lot of awkward moments and the potential to be rejected but most times our coworkers and neighbors are receptive to new olive branches. That's a start imo
Yes, totally true. After a furlough, I received offers in 20, 21 and 22 from organizations that would have never once looked in my direction in the past. I love my current firm, but I need to make more money. In an attempt to pursue part time consulting gigs after hours in 23 and it's impossible to get in.
Instead of just quitting my current job I'm part-time while looking for something else "just in case" new said job doesn't work out whatever that may be.
The job market is not "very very good". By design you can even have 100% employment. You have a system that encourages a scarcity/competition mindset. Then there's the ghost job game you mention which is not something to gloss over
It's not hard to find a job but the problem is these jobs are paying less while the cost of living are going up. So people have to work harder and longer and spend less in order to pay their bills.
My place is hiring but people can’t seem to stay. They all want top pay. Want to get paid the same as me who has been there for 3 years. Like you can’t make what I make bro. I earned it. You get a starting wage. I think they stopped hiring for my department. I don’t mind because more money for me when it’s raise time
I started working at the factory outside of town paying $15.25/hr about 6 months ago. Not sure how much they’re paying where you’re at or where the job is located but I can see the struggle faced by my generation and younger. Home ownership is a goal seen by many as happening decades from now if ever. The only way to make more money sooner than waiting for promotions at work is to start your own business
I live in a city with approximately 2.5 million in the metro area and we just received approximately 100k unskilled and low skilled immigrants. So for people applying for jobs in trades for example who are not at least a level 3-4 apprentice with good experience they are not finding work right now. For white collar jobs it's even worse. The job market was already bad in my Canadian city with the highest cost of living in the country and very low wages here. Many of my friends are getting jobs down in the USA and moving because the wages are much higher and cost of living much lower. I can't move because you need to be offered a job before being allowed to move or have an in demand skill and sadly I don't.
Dude, there is no "Red Carpet" for teachers. Respectfully, can you please clarify what you mean when you say that b/c every teacher I know personally and have seen online is running out of the profession because the job is awful except for those hard as heck to get wealthy suburban schools. Also, don't shill your book as a cure-all. Your boss fired a lady for being pregnant out of wedlock....allegedly.
Technically, we are in a manufacturing recession. The ISM Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) has been below 50 for several months, at least. This means that manufacturing has been shrinking month after month. Every month, the manufacturing industry is getting smaller and smaller. The trucking industry is also in deep recession. How can you reconcile this data with the government's claim that unemployment is low, and that the economy is doing great?
Lower your standard of living. Live BENEATH your means so you dont have to be a slave to any employer. Corrupt government employees getting even richer off of the poor mans taxes. We are taxed to death. Try to become financially independent even if that means forgoing a new house, new car, expensive clothes, etc. Good luck to everyone who is looking for work.
The question people ask is for how long, and it’s a hard question to answer since one is unsure what the future really holds. It could be for a few months or for many decades depending on factors that many times are outside one’s control: AI adoption in the labor market, inflation rates, regulatory changes, corporate profits, and so forth
employers have millions of new people to chose from thanks to Biden, it's just a balace of speaking enough english to do the job but not enough to make more than they want to pay.
Capitalism is severely broken due to no livable wages. I stopped being productive for evil capitalist businesses from age 20 to age 40. I have NOT been given the dignity I deserve as a spiritual human being. From 40 and on; I will only be self sustaining myself as much as possible and taking as much as I need into old age. IF I had been paid livable wages of $33/Hour since my first job, this would never have been the case. US economy owes me anywhere from $600,000 to $1.5 million in stolen wages ( cheating me of my livable wages by lopping off most of my value and treating me like a servant ). Now I will squeeze everything I can get from society while living off the grid and you will feel my rage, my pain and my distain for your stupidity!
Nobody's hiring more people. They're just moving people around. You people quit a job, then start another. That's considered a new job. 70% of these jobs are government and health care. Business services. construction and manufacturing are the basis of a good economy, their in the tank. Keep in mind that anyone who stops looking for work after 1 month isn't counted as unemployed. Middle class and poor people are getting hammered, and I can't blame them for the giving up attitude. I've lived through 3 of these 78, 91, and 09. Find a work home to ride this out. This will get worse before there's improvement.
A better metric to compare instead is the labor participation rate, this shows how many people of adult age that are not incarcerated or retired actually work This reached its peak back in the early 2000s and has continued to drop ever since
LAST DAYS PROPHECIES ISRAELITES (SO-CALLED NEGROES SCATTERED EARTH-WIDE (Deu 28:68) AND GENTILE HEATHENS (NON-ISRAELITES): 2 Esdras 15:16-19 [16] For there shall be sedition among men, and invading one another; they shall not regard their kings nor princes, and the course of their actions shall stand in their power. [17] A man shall desire to go into a city, and shall not be able. [18] For because of their pride the cities shall be troubled, the houses shall be destroyed, and men shall be afraid. [19] A man shall have no pity upon his neighbour, but shall destroy their houses with the sword, and spoil their goods, because of the lack of bread, and for great tribulation.
The economy is sooooooooo terrible and disturbing that as a homeless person with no job ( thousands of rejections for applications ) I am forced to hand clear land I bought, create my own stable foundation by hand and soon make my own logs to hand build a log cabin home just to have a roof over my head. Mortgages and gouged rentals are criminally insanely high and nothing in America is affordable anymore. I am going to have to grow my own food too because I can no longer afford 99% of food in grocery store or its poisoned with bioengineered fake ingredients. First time ever I will most likely be using food pantries until I die. No longer interested in participating in capitalism the dumpster fire 🚫🚫🚫. I have almost no money and I no longer am playing the fake game of destitution and slavery and being decieved! Let God and Mother Nature provide for me. Everything else is trash. Including 90% of humans on realm Earth. The last 30 to 40 years of my life are only for me. Let the wealthy criminal class eat poop.
@@edhcb9359 I am a man of God. I have no bad habits and avoid all who are gluttonous on illicit substances. Egalitarian socialists of God do not poison thier mind, bodies and souls like debaughterous capitalists.
Most real jobs just doesn’t bring the dates and the prestige as it used to generations ago, the only thing it serves for most is just as a means to an end: a paycheck to survive in modern America That’s why most people hate their jobs on top of the shenanigans dealt with at the job site
I literally applied to my local Cracker Barrel for a dishwasher position at $11.00 per hour … Applied on a Monday morning Called them Tuesday afternoon and asked if they had a chance to look over my resume and they said oh, sorry to inform you but we went with another candidate
