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+ Don't hire people who has been layed off. They are damanged goods - Let's hire fresh graduates then + Don't hire those. They don't know anything and we'll need to train them - So... let's hire people who are already working? + Yeah, those! - They ask for $200k and WFH + It's so difficult to find people eager to work and who commit! :/
Low performers are not laid off first... Especially if the company is failing. It's the people who tell the truth that are laid off first because management hates those people when the company is doomed.
Often the individuals laid off first are highest compensated and companies do this to limit their headcount reduction. Then there are managers who join a company and only want people they hired and feel they can trust. The later are the worst because they will trade experience, industry knowledge, and skills to hire their best buds. They use a combination of two tactics to justify laying off long-standing capable employees they perceive are a threat to their authority.
I think it's truly infuriating how our society is pretty much at the mercy of these toxic employers. Most of the time, we have to tolerate being treated badly, and being miserable or risk starving and or going homeless. Something's gotta give one of these days.
@@GinoACostaAnd face the consequences. Sure they can do what they want, within legal limits, but then they have to bear the consequences. Bud Light, for one. They did what they wanted, too.
Nothing worse than the hiring manager who has no people skills and sees themselves as all knowing. It’s an absolute nightmare to work for those types of individuals.
All angled to pay you as little as possible to get the most possible from you. I've been laid off 3 occasions with 3 separate companies. Turns out I wasn't the damaged goods, they were. 'Were'.. They are all out of business and dissolved. I'm still in business...
Not only that, but you look crazy as fuck if you try to match that energy. It’s like being pushed around, the person pushing you gasps when you decide to say something
My favorite are the interviews with 5 to 7 people staring at you and then three minutes into it You realize that half of the people have tuned out and then five minutes into it You realize that the job is rigged for someone else but they have to go through the interview process to look like they’re fair.
"why do you have this gap in your employment, we aren't going to hire you" next. "why do you have this gap in your employment, we aren't going to hire you" next. "why do you have this gap in your employment, we aren't going to hire you"
In my last interview I was asked " what have you been doing all this time?!" Wtf do you think I've been doing? Frolicking in a field of daisies while my bank account gets depleted?
When being asked, why did you have the gap time, i answered "i had family matters needed my attention " Wasnt lots of households have only one breadwinner back in the days? Why would a gap be a matter of their concerns!
@@n.d.7931"I've been living outside the damn building in a tent along with everyone else that got laid off, genius." Holy shit they're so out of touch. Like there is no good answer to that, that would ever make them happy. "UH I got abducted by aliens." like, fk off.
Everyone talks about how "loyalty is dead" and all that stuff. Loyalty never existed. Look at ANY old cartoon where a boss is part of the plot, ie Spacely and Cogsworth from the Jetsons and Slate from the Flintstones; total douchebag that makes their workers miserable.
Had the worst interview ever last week. I get a call where they offered me an interview and sounded all excited. So far so good. I arrive at the interview and they offer me a coffee and we sit down. They explain the role but then they suddenly stop and the hiring manager says: " Actually we have already chosen who we will proceed with but thank you for your time ". Worst thing is, the next day they offered an interview to someone I knew. Why offer an interview and waste my time if they either actually had chosen a candidate or if they weren't interested?
I feel like HR is the one department not bound by data. They can say things like “laid off people are damaged goods” and that be it. Did they perform a study? How do they define “damaged goods?” I assume at some point they’ll be held to a stronger standard.
I once concluded from experience is that HR is where they send people too incompetent to be entrusted to anything important, yet cannot be down-sized due to some reason everyone knows but no one can officially admit (e.g., friend or relative of a VP, they are the token member of some minority, etc.).
Also it is hard to respond to 1000’s of applications if it is just the screening process. However, it is disrespectful for employers to call the candidate into four stages and then ghost them, which is laziness and they do not understand that candidates are customers too.
Now, even at career expos with company reps attending, it's "scan our QR code to go on our website and apply." Thanks A-hole, I could've done that at home.
My hiring manager story is I interviewed for a company and met in person with the hiring manager. He was brutal and dismissed me while reading off my resume as inadequate for the job. I was about 19 years old at the time. I got a call about a week later from a headhunter who said "how about job X at this company". Same company. I told him about being sent home by the hiring manager. He said "don't worry about it, this is direct to the manager of the group". I said ok. I went in, the group manager met with me, liked me and wanted me to meet with the hiring manager. Uh oh. I went into his office, and sure enough, same guy. I waited for him to recognize me. It didn't happen. He was talking about when can I start, etc. Keep in mind I was 19 at the time. I then said something like "you don't even remember me do you", and told him where he could stuff the job and walked out. Truth is in my older age self, I would never have gone back there. It was a pyrrhic victory .
" We are seeking someone with serious related professional experience, who is currently looking for a job" " I am currently unemployed with serious related professional experience and I am interested in this job" " Nah dawg, they let you go, so you are worthless" Dafuq is wrong with these people?
Most jobs are replacing someone. When someone asks about your gap, answer well and then ask about the companies emoloyee gap. If they laugh you know they are smart and dont take themselves too seriously. If they dont, walk out.
Talent Acquisition has to be one of the hardest jobs. Speaking as someone who did IT contracts for over 20 years I can count on 1 finger the number of hiring managers who knew how to conduct a quality interview. Sadly as a result I could almost lead the interview myself by telling stories about my past projects and how I led them (even though they didn’t always ask about that exactly). Once again Brian is throwing down the truth bombs. (I almost always got the offer when I took this approach)
My last full time job was the only hiring manager i met who actually clearly bothered to learn what the team and company wanted, they took me in with no references (out of college) due to my proof of work and I ended up being one of their most important people of my role at the whole company, if they didn't believe those managers I wouldn't have been there over 5 years and their product would have suffered greatly, it's sad this is the world we live in now, it's insane how much easier life was for previous generations 😢
Miserable toxic firms no one should work for them. So many other options. The world needs more entrepreneurs and innovation not corporate slavery. I took the risk and accepted a voluntary redundancy. I will never go back to work in corporate. My soul was getting sucked every day by the drama and toxic environment. Our life is more important.
I’m a software engineer and I’m seeing the hiring process being followed to a T, with a side of viciousness. Most of the time your resume gets thrown in the trash, in part because hiring managers don’t see them recruiters do, and often they can only evaluate a resume by keyword. Miss one and bye bye. Get past that and be rewarded with a no-contact coding test with a strict time limit, followed by a live remote coding test if you passed the first, also with a time limit. I do my best work under time pressure while someone is peering over my shoulder. That’s sarcasm by the way. Survive that and at least another full day of on site interviews and coding tests (and in many cases more than one day) is your further reward. It’s a horrid grind, and you won’t be told anything at the end about whether they want to hire you. If you’re lucky they will actually call you on a rejection.
“We believe an applicants past is a good indication of their future.” This is an ineffective risk assessment strategy. You need at least a month to gage someone’s skills not just a CV and “STAR method” behavioral questions. If this is how you’re going to assess the risk of hiring me then you should know my last employer should be glad I didn’t sue them and I won’t make the same mistake twice. Good day.
Many companies don't give a $h!t about their current employees and whether or not they're considering leaving the company. They don't get spooked or interested about the outside education you're undertaking, the people you talk to, and some of your outside interests.
💯 agree that bosses/hiring managers aren’t as competent as they think they are. Both of the positions I was let go from last year reposted my position 6 - 9 months later. The first position I was pre-emptively let go in anticipation of an economic slump and the second was so unprofessional I had to point-blank ask my boss if I was being fired or furloughed. 🤬 coward.
I’m in mental health at a large nonprofit that operates in my state. The main HQ is in a large city and most of my experience was dealing with the HR reps and recruiters from there. I only spoke to the hiring managers in the office I’m in only once. I experienced the uppity attitudes from the HR/recruiters in the large city, but now that I’m working I realize that our smaller office has a way different culture because we’re in a poorer area that serves lower income clients and it’s extremely hard to hire and retain mental health workers in my area. To the point that they had to give these huge bonuses and benefits to attract talent and people are still leaving for higher paying jobs in the bigger cities. It’s just been a weird experience overall, but I do agree that the hiring managers have their main jobs and don’t have the time to recruit/interview people and are fine with the main HQ doing the leg work but it can be really off putting to a lot of people that may be interested in an open job that may be in an underserved community that is practically throwing out the red carpet for talent.
To be fair, Employers aren't a charity. A job doesn't get created because people need jobs, it gets created because other people need work done. Of course there is Equilibrium, the lesson is be in demand not in surplus.
The best place I ever worked had self-managed teams. They had no bosses and the team members did all the hiring, firing, and giving raises. The company was bought out then they switched to micro-managing, About 2 years after the manager fired half the best workers the manufacturing plant shut down, and they moved it to Mexico.
It was amazing how well self-management worked. People loved their jobs they would clock in early. Making schedule was always good and we had the highest quality, everyone was cross-trained so they got to do something different. This business ideology came from the idea that workers know how to do the job better than anyone else so the workers should be the boss. I was interviewed by employees, not a manager when I first got the job there.
It took me a while to figure out how they gave a pay raise or how they fired someone. If you got along with people and did a good job every day you did great. None of that you didn't get a raise because the boss don't like you. I got written up 9 times and 7 times the year before once. Yep, I was one of those mythical people who was hard to replace, the boss couldn't find someone to do my job, but he tried before he got fired. I am someone who can look at an electronic diagram have it memorized and have the circuit and how firmware is talking to chips figured out within two weeks. I guess it is kind of hard to find people to do that. I had the circuits of 150 different product models memorized
HR doesn’t care about an applicants problems. They hang out at the finish line and hire the winners. That is a cold hard fact and do not take it personally. Only customers count
When negotiating comp, don't be shy to demand higher pay if the company has a history of mass layoffs. Don't be shy to tell them that you like them, but still you are concerned about your job security given their history.
The reason why people who are laid off sometimes are considered ‘damaged goods’ is this; Managers are fearful of confronting poor performers, and the effort it would take to terminate a low performer. particularly if they belong to a DEI category. So they wait until there is a corporate level layoff. Unfortunately good performers are laid off also, so there is a mix of performance. This seems to be especially true of mangers in STEM fields. They are more interested in the technology than in day to day interactions with employees. They can distance themselves from employees with emails collaborative software, etc.
Speaking of layoff stigma, I worked somewhere that got bought and they purposefully laid off the best people. Oh I was insane to live through but it happened. I guess they were fine running at sixty percent? Idk
Many recruiters nowdays are youngsters or former youngsters whose main skill is talking and self-PR. They are too lazy to review resume and evaluate potential of candidate. Companies are missing good candidates or candidates with good potential for learning be use of some lazy and lousy HR people. Plus, gestapo methods go against worker's motivation to be productive. I also find funny when some young HR person tries to "lawyer" me via some CYA letters or messages. It is pathetic because they have no clue and basically turn into little dictators.
Hey Brian, hope u r doing good. I am from India and completed my Masters in information technology back in 2021. Unfortunately, I passed during corona and didn't have the skills of coding, so in my first company I worked as front end developer for 6 months, thereafter I was jobless for almost 7 months in 2022 before I got selected as search engine optimization executive. Despite my best, company removed me from my position in may 2023 and after 4 months of job search, I am working as digital marketing executive with no scope whether they will retain me or not
We can't hire anyone because our panels expect an unreasonable amount of experience. The last two people they hired came out of retirement with 30+ years experience. The panel was giddy. They both DIED in a year. I've been begging them to hire someone younger and they act like I'm asking them to hire a felon. The boomers need to understand this is a smaller generation, most have been laid off at some point, and 30 years of experience is not a great deal - that is someone who didn't save enough for retirement and is catching up. Of course, if I said any of that, I would get fired myself.
Maybe it sounds like doom and gloom to some but advice like 'not hiring laid off' workers just sounds like opportunity to me. Eventually they'll need a workforce as people begin to retire or quit... that's when you strike. Or better yet, start a company of your own take advantage of the plethora of workers being left around out in the open like nuggets of gold just lying in the grass.
Also, I want to address companies with listings that seem unrealistic. Like "desktop support specialist" and it pays $23 /hr and they want someone with 5+ years of experience, familiar with a few different programming languages, server administration experience, a 4 year degree, web development experience, some mid to high level Cisco Networking certifications and more. Thats not desktop support, you want a 1 person IT department. Im sure other job fields have similar issues , but I can only speak from what I know. By the same token...if you have 2 years of experience and up until last year you could barely troubleshoot your way out of a paper bag, dont list your salary range as being $90,000-$100,000 lol you wont get that
I've seen quite a few lay-offs, and rival companies always circled around, poaching even before lay-offs started. Some even set up stands, handing their leaflets right at the affected company office entrance.
I tell all interviewers no if they ask for any take home assignment over a couple hours, and if they do it better be after I speak to the hiring manager. Best jobs I've ever had have been hired within 1-2 interviews, and really if you cant speak to someone face to face for half an hour and get a feel for their character and experience... Your lack of judgement is the problem.
I had an HR lady telling me her company is not the unemployment office for laid off people. I told her the unemployment office has better manners and walked out.
thats a perfect sign your not to work there, this is nothing but a 'drama' company to work for! be glad you were not hired, they are nothing but incompetent !
@@airthrowDBT lmao everyone I've ever known in HR is more of a revolving door than the typical drone worker anyway. We would ALWAYS have a new HR partner for our department and NONE of them ever lasted more than 6 months.
Yeah, very well said. However, in some situations, on case-by-case basis One could say both of these things. It's just not good to be having that type of mindset for an entire group of people
that why you go through a very exhausting process , some companies told me their process is 8 steps - 8 interviews/tasks. if you dont know how to assess your candidates then you are in the wrong job and field or maybe you need to close your business because you cannot run one@@Meritumas
Here is the truth about job listings. Companies list open positions for MADE UP jobs. They do that to make it look like there is a vast worker shortage, but they never hire anyone to those positions. They do not need more people to do work. Positions where people actually do useful work are always full. When you see an opening for a position that does not explain what you would be doing, that is the fake job.
@@MauriceLeviejr Sounds like you are part of the problem. Companies try to manipulate their profit margins in order to trick people like you into thinking they are healthy. In reality, getting rid of all the people that know what they are doing in order to cut costs means that problems start happening in those departments. It leads to inferior service, inferior products and inferior companies. But Consistent profit margins attracts investors and companies make more money through duping investors than making anything of value.
My favorite is when a job is listed as “entry level” (with, of course, entry level salary) and requiring 3-5 years experience and a bachelors degree. 😂😂😂 I miss the days of showing up in person to hand a manager your application/ resume.
Nah the kicker is when they want all that and they're only paying $20-24 an hour (CA wage) or something like that. I'm a drop out of college and I get paid way more than that without the thousands of dollars in debt from student loans. If I had gotten into union and/or trade work I'd be making easily 3 or 4 times that amount.
@@GItoKeGWhat good fortune. Tried for years to get into a trade union, eventually found some trade work but the pay sucks and so do the hours. I am trying to find my out of trades for good.
If candidates have a choice, they should ask themselves, "If the hiring manager is bad, how will be working for that company be for the next 10 years."
From my experience I’ve learned.. if I’m at an interview and the person of the interview is late… where I’m early or on time… that makes me question how they are at work. You already ruined the first impression being late you’re already at a bad start
Working somewhere for 10 years sounds boring, uninteresting, unappealling, and down-right foolish!! You need to be moving every 2 to 4 years, max, if not every 18-36 months!!
Companies treat professionals as a burdensome expense, rather than a lucrative source of productive labor. We will remember this when the pendulum swings the other way.
@@tmac9208 omg this lol. I think it used to be in the accounting but in 2000, employeeproductivity was rémoved from Europe accouting Laws (Remember they starting facing aging population in that périod). Employe "contribution" especially in Tech is hard for accountant to measure and balance. Check out Forensic accounting.. youll be astonished out Political accouting can be
As someone who has known people that have gotten job offers pulled from them last minute, I tell people "You are not employed until you are sitting at your desk and actually working."
I had that happen recently. I applied for the job, interviewed several times, got the offer, accepted the offer, MOVED 3,000 MILES, only to get a call Monday night around 5:45 saying that she ran the numbers over the weekend and could no longer afford to hire me, leaving me dangling.
@@jennifertarin4707 You're not alone. I've known people whose companies either told them to relocate in order to come into the office or be let go only to be laid off after packing up and moving or like you, accept a job offer only for it to be pulled last minute. I learned to never trust what a company says until it actually happens.
@@KevinW1985 I've seen it from the inside. A UK company I worked for had got a new client that they needed to hire more admins for and one of the hires was a young girl from Italy who'd left her bf and family for this job. After she'd been here for a week or so, the work from the new client failed to materialise and it was revealed that the salesperson who was in charge of the new client was talking bollocks; they'd never got to the point of signing the contract with us. That girl was gone within a month and the salesperson probably went even faster. We were used to the salespeople trying to con ops and stitching us up with shitty contracts but that was a much more advanced level of shenanigans than what we usually experienced.
I would say, from hard personal experience, not to depend on your job in most states until the start of day 91 of employment. Most states will allow an employer up to 90 days where they can fire you for any reason, with no notice, consequences-free; I've been strung along on a job I was getting invested in and then fired without cause, warning, or notice on the end of day 89 right after signing a lease on a new apartment and having to suddenly replace my car.
Let me tell you from very personal experience. First and foremost the "economy is great, the job market is strong" is bogus. If you have very in demand skill then yes recruiters tend to cater towards you, but not always. However, if you have general skills you're a dime a dozen. Recruiters have numbers they must meet (usually unrealistic) and therefore they tend to treat applicants as a commodity. Some recruiters are just clueless.
they're fudging the unemployment numbers, and the vast majority of jobs out there are ghost jobs and absolutely do not exist in practicality. they're just farming data and/or leveraging it over their existing populations. when this bubble bursts its going to be huge.
That's why you need a specific skill / license/ credential- respiratory therapist, Registered nurse, aircraft mechanic, engineer, teacher (in a blue state) pharmacist, having bilingual skills, counseling, etc
The truth is very few applicants out there are as skilled as their salary demands. You should always be learning and advancing your skills to the point you are not easily replaced, then you will be paid as you feel you deserve. The fact an employer is not willing to meet your demands truthfully should remind you were your skills are versus perception. If I can easily replace your skillset with a Craiglist or FB ad, then you're not top talent pay scale. Having conducted thousands of interviews in different verticals. I can tell you that a lot of applicants resumes could literally be shredded in an interview between poor work history (reflects work ethic) and embellishment.
@@chrismarcus3058 What if jobs are no longer training people to get those skills and, therefore, the higher salary? Should people be made to train on their own time and money when they don't even know if those skills will be useful later? I just wonder how companies expect to get the ideal candidate when no one is willing to teach anymore...
@@fireradfieritis8953 literally the entire world if knowledge is at your own fingertips on your phone browser. the fact you ask, "do this on my own time", let's me know as an employer you would not be a good employee for long term investment. while i went to college, everything I have done in my business the past 25 years I self taught myself. on my credit, on my time. I was not jingling a cup at the offramp looking for someone to hold my wittle hand and lead me to the promise land. that, is why you fail.
I saw a different behaviour from companies. 1. Lay off without cause 2. Position removed hence "layoff" 3. Plain layoff instead of cutting salaries just to pretend the company is doing "well"
1. If they lay you off, it is because they don't have more work for you. That's the cause 2. If they removed your position, they don't need it no more 3. People must of the time don't accept salary reduction and keep doing the same amount of work. You know that Questions answered ?
@@arianagomez1875 1. Exactly. For me not for others. 2. The same way they create a position (change title btw) it can work in reverse. Why not? Ah. Napoleon syndrome as one of the reasons. 3. Has any company lately cut sslaries? Nope. They laid off but kept the bonusses.
My company created 4 different divisions in different countries with essentially the same products. Canabolizing the sales of each other. What a surprise. When the profits weren't what they wanted to see, just close the products down and lay everyone off. The management should have gone home.
@@sarahrosen4985 It was the management who wanted more layers in org chart. And the top managrment bought into it. Then the workers pay such game. I saw it first hand.
Oh yes. All of a sudden, for no reason you send out resumes and nobody responds. You can’t even get an interview for a job that you could do with your eyes shut.
Ghosting is the worst practice, and it says a lot about the "professionalism" that these "prestigious" companies have. Is it that complicated of a task to send an email to your candidate after 2 or 3 interviews to let him know that the process is over and they chose someone else? Huh? Is it that difficult?
This is what happened to me i’ve been ghosted after the first stage interview by a famous management consultancy. Better, otherwise i would be so depressed to work with toxic people. Our time and energy is more important and we should not trade it working for firms that do not respect employees
I was ghosted after a company asked me when I would be available for the third and final interview. Why even ask my availability and say you had a great time speaking with me when you are going to ghost me. Ridiculous!!
A manager acquaintance told me he also held the belief that laid-off people were flawed. Until _he_ was laid off - for no reason, without warning. They just picked six people to get rid of. Ironically, he was later hired back by the same company, but he's less of a workaholic now.
The longer my job search goes on the less bad I feel about stretching the truth on my resume. Lying about job responsibilities, lying about the company culture, lying about advancement and raises, discriminating against candidates based on race, sex or employment status, ghosting without remorse, lowballing people after 5+ rounds, stealing labor through unpaid take-home projects, etc. The job seekers that act just as selfishly as employers do are the ones that get hired, pure and simple.
Many are just posting those low paying jobs because they want to be able to hire H1B/L1/L2 visa holders, migrants, or those in the country illegally who will work for minimum wage. They force American job applicants to go through rings of fire like a circus animal just to get a interview, but then reject them. This is an important red flag for job applicants, beware of below market jobs with no employee reviews, likely an unethical employer.
Ironically the most recent videos you've released recently have really related to me alot, I'm moving out of IT into a delivery driver job soon due to out of touch management who are pushing customer service and micromange to the nth degree. Company values you're right rarely get followed through, sure it's a slight paycut I'm taking but it's hourly paid over salaried so I get paid what I work.
I had an interview where one of the interviewers (three person panel) asked "did you really work at XYZ Company? We've interviewed lots of people that worked there and I don't think you've worked there". I told them I wouldn't falsify my work history and she replied "I don't believe you." I stood up and left. Only occurrence but I'm thinking they wanted to rattle people just to see how they'd react, but it was an entry level job for Allstate.
Corporations will purposely pay you a wage they know you can't live on. They will not offer you any benefits because "what you gonna do about it". They have no regard for your time or investment into your education even though they directly benefit from it. Corporations literally hate workers because they wish they didn't need them. They literally want to not invest in you and expect maximum effort from the worker. If you really sit there and think about it, most degree holders don't even start at 100k which is apparently so important to the employer. You educate yourself just so the employer can get more out of you for less. We are basically the whores in a brothel. The owner of the brothel convinced the whores to better themselves only to the benefit of the owner of the brothel. The owner of the brothel is laughing his ass off with multiple homes, boats and general excess. They need you, but they hate that they need you. They hate all the whores because they see them all as useless outside of making money for himself. Corporations do this intentionally it's because corporations are more like children, but no one is forcing them to do the right thing lawfully. That's why all of this is happening. They simply do. Not. CARE.
And this is exactly why they're trying so hard to replace humans with AI. IBM just laid off 30% of its comms and marketing dept, where (ironically) people skills and deep understanding of human psychology are *most* needed. They'll do anything to avoid treating employees like human beings, now they're relying on AI to avoid hiring humans in the first place while C-suite bluebloods get richer by simply directing AI. Income inequality is about to upend the American society.
They won't admit it, but what they REALLY want is slaves. Workers they don't have to pay and can abuse and replace as needed. AI doesn't need to be paid, nor does it complain about mistreatment.
Looking for my first job has been an eye opener for me. Companies don't want people - I could stop talking - who are excellent in their field. They want people who don't create problems and preferably people who are exploitable. Are you looking for a job? Feign weakness.
Employers are looking for people who can do a job. They are not interested in hearing about people's personal lives (i.e. pronouns) nor social justice issues. A business requires workers to do specific tasks to make an employers job easier. If you are more of a problem than a solution, you are replaceable. Recruiters do not want to tell you the fact of the matter, but in dealing with thousands of business owners over the years, I can tell you this is how they think.
@@chrismarcus3058 so how do I convey to them that I will do the job and not be a problem? I can't even get pregnant and go on maternity leave, do I need to attach paperwork for that? 😁
The issue with such discrimination is that they are condemning anyone that had bad luck and/or is not perfect to be homeless. Be a flawless, perfect utility yet willing to work for wages below rent costs or starve to death.
I drove 2 hours to an interview once only to take a brief test when I got there. One of the first questions on the test was "What was 2 to the 24th power?" My answer was "16 million something." They wanted the exact number (BTW, that is how many colors you get with RGB, 1 byte each). I had no idea without a calculator. That was as far as I got. It was a long, angry 2-hour drive home.
@@whickervision742 Lol!! Yeah, that's a number that rolls around in my head all the time, right next to pi and the 41st term in a Fibonacci sequence. What was I thinking?
The most galling thing I notice from many employers is the never-ending job requirements at very low pay. It's obvious, they've added more and more requirements, over the years, education, required skills, training, etc., etc., but never updated the pay, to almost absurd levels.
@@theblaqkhaleesi9559 Check out government jobs. Most of them require 5 or more years experience at the next lowest grade, or comparable experience. Doesn't matter if you know how to do the job. That might make sense with highly technical rocket scientist type jobs, but I've seen it for some pretty basic/mundane jobs.
I'm not against experience. I'm just saying, many of the requirements are ridiculous overkill, and the pay is hardly ever commensurate with all the education, skills, experience, etc., etc.
Because there are so many candidates out there, they don't have to work hard to bring them in. I post a job and I'll have 60-100 qualified candidates within hours. I do my best to treat them with respect, though. I read every resume, and every candidate gets a response. Helps that I have a really good recruiter that I work with. The point is that there really are a lot of people out of work. The economy isn't nearly as sunny as they're telling us.
The unemployment stats don’t count people who are not receiving unemployment benefits, people who are under-employed, people who are doing gig work, or people who are working multiple low-paying jobs to try to make ends meet.
That’s why I always keep applying even if I am in the final rounds of interviews with a company. Until I get an offer from them in hand, anything that HR says is just lip service.
I take that one step further. I don't stop applying until I start my first day. Been lied to four times already that I'd been "hired" when I actually never was.
When you interview you go in with good faith of the company. But when a hr person says to you "we will call you next week" , but never do. Not even a email. Too many ghost jobs on the market.
I was a shoe-in for a job once, the interview went perfect. Was supposed to expect the call within a day or two. I'd 1:1 done that exact job for that exact company for ~5 years. I had to call back like 50 times over the course of a month to get a response, and still no reason why I didn't get it. Just "no." Oh gee, thanks.
I had to update my resume for an internal position in my company. I googled my current title and company. Found dozens of job listing for a position I have held for six months. Some of the listings were 2-4 days old.
I've been unemployed for four months and had eight interviews. All eight jobs ghosted me after the interview. I applied to one job on Friday morning and by Friday after noon I was rejected without an interview. I found way to much favoritism with the HR people in the 20s group. And with DEI getting more jobs, so if your 50 and over your being forced out and to retire. I've used all the job apps and all of them have the same job posting.
Some job descriptions tip of amateurish or unrealistic people, but I'll apply anyway. Once I did get a job where I checked all the boxes, and the person who was supposed to be training me expected me to know all the local practices and he was an A-hole about it. He had no idea that people with experience do need training.
I have been lowballed. Moved to another state because of it. I also have a large gap of unemployment after a layoff. During that time, I got a graduate degree. In the end if they feel they have leverage they will not pay what you are worth.
I too have been blackballed. Can not get work with the city of Edmonton. Applied to the commissioners they rejected and hired a terrorist who went on a shooting rampage at city hall while wearing the commissioners uniform.
I had a contract end in 2019. I was unemployed and interviewed 48 times. I lied on my resume of my end date. I got a job finally after 2years. Worked there for 18 months. Then got laid off may 31st 2023. I have been looking for work since June, 11 interviews and 0 offers. I have my resume say I just ended in February. So it always looks like I just got laid off and I just started looking, thats what I tell the interviewer if they ask.
@@dareemmanuel6079 if they ask, well that's just bad luck. Most companies don't. And if you are stupid enough to admit the unemployment gap a lot of them will discard you anyway.
Frustrating is taking a test, being told you didn't pass, and 50% of their answers are wrong. I work in a field where it is where it is reasonable to test and usually encountered if the employer is interested in you based on your resume. Aggravating is all the job listings that list a methodology and documentation rules that haven't been used in over a decade, Lazy, lazy hiring managers that know nothing about the actual job. Then, there is all the meaningless fluff about how great the company is to work for, which hasn't been changed in decades. If they were that good, the word would already be out there. Word is out there about who not to work for.
