If Everyone Is Hiring, Why Can Nobody Get A Job?

despite the millions of job openings that are apparently out there it's harder than ever to get hired the news is constantly telling us that companies are desperate for workers and that there's tons of jobs just waiting to be filled meanwhile there's stories everywhere of people sending out tens or hundreds of applications without ever getting a single interview it just doesn't make sense so what really happened a turn finding work into a full-time job but a few decades ago even when there were job shortages it was still much easier to get a good job the advice

the Boomers give of putting on a and asking the manager for a job really worked all it took was enough tries before you finally met someone who liked you today you could try this thousands of times and you probably still wouldn't get a chance one difference that's easy to notice is that the bar for entry has gotten significantly higher for most jobs before 2000 a good college degree was almost a guarantee of a good job companies would compete with each other to get the most recent graduates they were forced to offer a wage that could

support a family if they didn't they wouldn't get any employees but now the tables have completely turned and they're only really interested in the very top percent of students what used to amount to a free entry ticket has become the very minimum of what they expect despite over 70% of listed jobs requiring a bachelor's degree only a bit over 30% of American adults actually have one but you don't just need a good degree of course you also need Real World Experience even for so-called entry-level positions companies are so picky now that they're asking people who

have just left College to have years worth of experience or for a salary they can barely survive on the only way to get this is to work while studying fulltime time which is rarely possible if you need to do an internship for the field you plan on entering the past always looks better in hindsight of course there were still job shortages and people still got rejected but the key difference between then and now is the massive rise in competition because of the internet if you were a company in the 1980s looking to hire a few

new employees you didn't really have many options small companies could only recruit through inperson events word of mouth or physical leaflets posted to boards it was a slow long process with only a few applicants to choose from hiring managers had to treat each applicant like a real person using their own judgment to figure out who would be the best fit large companies only had a few more tools at their disposal with their size they could get a foot on the door at colleges or high schools and Hoover up applications that way but even then they

were still much more limited so just think about how much this process has changed in such a short time if any company wants a new employee all they need to do is put a listing out on one of the many websites for That explicit purpose and this will almost immediately be seen by thousands and thousands of people along with a whole way of different recruiters who will spread it even more without any barriers to applying like showing up in person these jobs can get thousands of applicants there's no reason not to try your luck so

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link Down Below in the description to get 50% off of your plan it's exactly the same thing that's happened to dating modern technology has globalized the potential pool of competition finding a job or partner used to be so much more personal it all hinged on the impression you gave to the person across from you now it's a total numbers game how you feel out your application form or your Tinder profile has much more of an impact than pretty much anything else and as a result the standards have also gone up by ludicrous amounts on both

job sides and dating sides it makes people in companies think they have far higher standards because they have so much more choice the reality on the ground though hasn't really changed and the effects this has had on the job market have been catastrophic it's led to the whole process getting much more dehumanizing for applicants who have been turned into numbers on a spreadsheet so those are the biggest reasons why finding a job used to be much easier than it is today but the real devil is in the details even with all of these changes finding

work really shouldn't take hours of searching in hundreds of applications the reason it's all so frustrating are the things that companies have done to deal with this new reality so let's explore the different ways they found to make getting hired even harder today the problem for companies have been completely reversed instead of not getting good enough applications to choose from they get hundreds or thousands more than they need every time they need to hire someone new it means reading through hundreds of applications and filtering out all the ones that aren't suited in a perfect world

companies would put more time and effort into this but we all know that hasn't really happened instead they've turned to one of the most frustrating and dehumanizing parts of the modern job market automatic rejection systems today over 97% of fore 500 companies use what's refer ref to is an ATS an applicant tracking system the basic idea is simple an ATS works like a Civ filtering out any applications that don't mean whatever requirements the employer has set when they first came into widespread use in the early 2000s with the rise of the internet they could only

deal with a few basic questions if someone ticks the book saying they're not legally allowed to work for example they'd get rejected today ATS companies advertise their services to the public like this is still the only thing they do companies like Greenhouse lever workday have to admit their products automatically reject people it's far too obvious for them to deny it but they try to give the impression that it's only a few legal questions that do this of course this isn't the case at all rejection questions by giving the wrong answer P your CV in the

reject pile are everywhere today in fact there are only the first herdle an applicant needs to get P to beat the machine as the internet becomes the main place to search for jobs ATS companies had to adapt they needed to keep up with the increasing amount of applications so they added more rejection questions instead of filtering out the people you legally can't hire they started giving companies the option to reject people based on whatever legal criteria they wanted your address your experience any question they ask can make the difference between getting an interview or getting

ghosted normally they don't outright reject CVS of course they just rank them more based on the criteria they're using technically all an ATS really does is turn tons of applications into a rank list of candidates if you end up on the bottom of the pile though or anywhere near except the very top you'll never get looked at anyway and ATS probably won't automat asically reject you it will just put you so far back in the queue that you might as well not even be there but even this approach still left too many applications for companies

to look through to fix it they made the ATS able to read the CV itself today these systems can go through applications and pick out certain key words they want to see if you didn't use those certain words they wanted you'll end up at the back of the queue and eventually get rejected they can also read how much experience you have in certain areas making notes of everyone who doesn't make the cut even today these systems are far from perfect if you don't have the same key wordss they use in the job posting then your

CV can often end up on the bottom of the P regardless of whether you're qualified or not similar problems can come from how you format your CV some templates don't get read as well by the system meaning they miss out important parts and unfairly reject people there are ways to avoid this like making sure you use the same words they use in the advert or using a standard template that the system will be designed to read at the end of the day though it's not something that people should have to do rewriting your entire CV

every time is part of what makes finding a job in the mod world so Soul crushing especially when you just get ghosted over and over again pretty much every single company in the west uses these systems now but even with almost 100% adoption the situation could still get worse AI is perfectly suited for use in an ATS it's already widespread and it makes these programs far better at understanding people's CVS and filtering people out so companies will be eager to cut out just a little bit more of the human element from finding new employees as

they might just save a little bit extra on Personnel costs this is the Croc of the problem with ATS and how they've taken over the entire process finding a job used to be a human experience where you were in at least limited control of the situation obviously you can make it a certainty that you get hired but you at least got a chance to make a unique impression on whoever did decide by turning all of the applicants into a set of data companies dehumanize the entire thing so out of the thousands of applicants that usually

are for each good job you have to stand out in spite of a system intentionally turning you into a data point on a spreadsheet but even this incredibly infuriating role of the DI PR is still the best outcome you can have when applying to one of these jobs people talk about the Thousand to one odds of getting a job once it's posted and they might think they're over exaggerating in reality though the odds are even worse a large part of the rejections people get are because the jobs they're applying to don't actually exist it's a

problem that's only been getting worse the ratio of people getting higher to job openings in the US actually fell below .5 in 2023 which means at least half of all job openings are for so-called ghost jobs which are never going to get anyone hired in the first place so let's explore the Insidious reason companies keep these listings up and why so many people's his time is wasted by them ghost jobs are everywhere on sites like indeed you can apply to a job listing and wait anxiously for a response but after weeks or months you either

get rejected or you don't hear back at all in a lot of these cases it probably has nothing to do with you or your CV instead it was all probably because the company wasn't planning on hiring anyone anyway in a survey of over 1,000 hiring managers over 2/3 admitted to leaving their short postings up for a month 10% had left listings on the internet for over 6 months without filling the role there's a ton of different reasons that companies do this today none of which are a good excuse for the time they waste sometimes people

already know who's actually going to get the job some executive Su might need something to do or maybe they've already decided on an internal candidate maybe they're just going to dump the workload on one of their current employees but need to make it look like they tried to find someone else it barely takes them any time or resources a tool to drop some templated job listing online and the longer they leave it up the higher the chance that they'll hook that magical unicorn employee that they've been looking for the person is qualified and experienced but

will probably work for under market rate and won't ask for any benefits other times these listings will just be there for appearances it looks good for the company if they're growing and hiring new people for example they might also think that the current employees will wonder who's getting replaced and work harder to avoid it there's a million sleazy reasons for companies to create fake listings the job sites will be happy to take their business and that's another reason it's such a massive problem today the job boards actively won dead listings fake listings SPO their numbers

and let them brag about the thousands of jobs they have available given this illusion of Plenty even when there's only scraps on the table these websites aren't there to cater to job Seekers they only need to do the bare minimum to stay functional if you're not paying for it then you're the product not the customer job Seekers on these sites don't have any Agency for most it's a choice between using them or going hungry the real customers are the companies who post the adverts and pay for the extras if they want to post dead listings

why would indeed or any other job board stop them all of these things have made finding a job that much harder today it's an excruciating trial of patients unless you get unusually lucky early on in your search of course if there is a problem even when that's been entirely fabricated an industry will spring up to solve it middlemen and recruitment agencies used to be necessary parts of the professional world if you couldn't get your job seen by the right people they could bridge the gap and find good candidates for the opening you would think that

this instant communication and the ability to have your job opening seen by thousands of people in seconds would have damaged this industry but instead the recruitment industry has grown massively in the past few decades in the UK the recruitment industry grew to be worth over 140 billion at the end of 2022 20 billion more than just 3 years before that 30,000 recruitment companies now employ over 200,000 people for a considerable sum they'll eventually find you a job if they don't just string you along for more payments even in the best of cases all these agencies

do is reverse the changes of the past 20 years and give you a real shot at a job opening most of the time though they're only really solving a problem that the wider industry created for people in the first place it's a whole lot of money which only keeps flowing in because of how hard it is for regular people to do it themselves now so maybe you got lucky with automated systems or perhaps you went through the hassle of dealing with recruiters but either way you've somehow got yourself an interview except even that crucial stage

of the process has been changed beyond recognition while there may be a short often meaningless interview to was the end of the process tons of companies have substituted that for questionnaires and tests instead while the questions might vary most of these kinds of tests are pretty similar some of them might ask you about what you would do in an imaginary situation supposedly to test your critical thinking others ask the kinds of questions where you can either lie and give the obviously correct answer or be honest and get marked down all of them though are a

complete waste of time it hasn't stopped anyone from Microsoft to Walmart all of these companies using them to S through potential employees in fact in fact big retail chains are some of the most infamous companies for just giving people these tests instead of ever actually interviewing them why they need to know your star sign to see if you can stack shelves fast enough is another matter entirely but the reason Walmart is the most enthusiastic about these tests above all other companies will become clear soon enough these tests don't come close to giving employers information on

the skills and experience and candidates might have either most people rationally just try to figure out what answers they want you to pick the integral question of whether you'd be a good fit on which the entire process should depend on has almost been completely forgotten today even references are nearly always just a confirmation that you worked at a company for a certain amount of time any information on whether you were actually a good employee can't be given anymore because you can sue people who give you bad references it means that companies just don't make themselves

liable so if they don't actually measure your aptitude what's the point of all these aptitude tests a lot of the time the actual content of the questions doesn't matter the main thing they're testing people on is how eager they are to jump through the Hoops in the first place if you can see through the corporate language and spend the time figuring out what they want you to say you're already conforming it's also why there are often multiple different tests at different stages in the hiring process the more of their Hoops you'll jump through the more

likely you are to be a good corporate drone Walmart's tests have the same purpose as the humiliating dances they make their employees do they break people down just a little bit more another reason for these tests has nothing to do with the candidates at all instead they're in place because the upper management has no faith in the people further down the pyramid to choose good employees once companies start hiring by questionnaire they can take Metal Management out of the loop entirely it means they can put even more of their faith and trust into data and

spreadsheets over real human judgment with all of the changes we've seen in hiring in the past two decades a common theme has emerged all of these changes take the power out of the hands of the applicant and put them into the hands of corporate management the process of getting your applications noticed is an exhausting numbers game either getting lucky or sending off dozens or hundreds of of applications is the only way people can actually survive I looked at the data if you just applied to a job through a job board the odds of you getting

hired were about 3% so you got to apply a lot of different jobs in order to have a chance to get them and you're going to get lots and lots of just no responses even if you do get through the first stage employers will happily waste months of your time they'll put you through endless different stages of interviews tests and trial periods or to just ghost you after they choose somebody else it's a truly dystopian part of our modern society that all of these barriers have been put in the way of people simply surviving and

the reward at the end of this uous journey is just usually a job that pays the same wage as it did 20 years ago before all of this even happened in today's economic climate it's a question of survival every paycheck can make or break someone's entire life these artificial delays have done serious damage to society and eroded what little trust there was between employes and employees so you can play nice to try and dupe the system but never really buy into any of the restur about family or trust don't fo yourself into thinking these companies

actually care about you or an equal system or any other garbage it's a myth that everybody's hiring as it's been shown repeatedly that there's much more to this equation that first meets the eye