My Partner has been job searching for over 6 months now. His full time job has been sending out his resume to job applications, and he has been doing this all day, every day for months.
In total a whopping 2 job listers got back to him before never responding again. He’s a bright guy with a 4.0 GPA, and can’t even find work as a cashier. I have a few other friends who are also experiencing this. Ghost listings have only made it worse.
It is a complete waste of time to sit there and fill out an application for a job that doesn’t even exist, and its only purpose is to make corporations look good and fake growth percentages. In an economy where people are already struggling to find jobs or put food on the table, this is a kick in the teeth for Americans. The phenomenon of Ghost listings needs to be heavily investigated if not banned altogether.
I agree! This same thing is very popular amongst employers here as well! My husband was let go from his job of 36 years due to the Biden Economy a couple of years back. (Yes, he was told it was due to that economy!) Anyone who had been at that employer a significant amount of time was let go due to their salaries being “too high” from years of showing up everyday, putting in the work and receiving annual raises. .And everyone ran into the same issues; putting in tons of apps and no follow up nor communication from the potential employer. In fact, 99% of them make it nearly impossible for you to follow up on your own with them to check on your application. If he did go in person to a potential employer who he’d applied with, he was not met with happy people! It was a nightmare.
My son lodt his job, it took close to a year for him to find a job. Most places that said they were hiring didn’t even respond at all. A few emailed and thanks for the interest but unfortunately he didnt get thr job. Unemployment is for 26 weeks. So its been really hard getting though this.
I’ve been looking for a whole year and can’t find anything. No job ever gets back to me for an interview. Part of me wants to believe we’ve been in a recession for a long time.
Have you looked for work as a mall cop? Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
I’ve been where you are, and to an extent I still am. I started a business myself because no one would hire me back when I was looking. I haven’t made my money back yet though.
It would help to completely deregulate and end taxes on sole-proprietor businesses. Then people who get hard-filtered by HR could pivot straight to being productive on their own.
Oh yes, jobs listing…
ADP seems to be a big one corporations like to use
need to upload the resume then a bunch of questions in a faded small print that you need a telescope to read it.
A friend told me that corporation (at list the one she works for) said that the job applications get kicked out by the computer if all the job description requirements are not met, so the recruiter never sees any of it but the ones that go through.
I think this extraordinarily stupid not to actually speak to all applicants, a lot is missed then.
In my opinion, I think that the business HR department should be the one who directly advertises and actually talk all the people and not just go by a piece of paper
Exactly!
I know because I recently applied for a job with Stellantis and a out of the box reply i get saying even that my resume was impressive they looking other candidates
But been Italian hard head I don’t give up that easy, so I sent a letter to the EU headquarters for the COO here in the US and a second one to the same COO here in the US branch (not complaining but written as an eye opener) hard to say if he gets it - I sent it via FEDEX , still waiting
What really gets me is that some of these corporations complain they’re losing sales or whatever yet some of the people they hire either don’t like the brand or they’re there for the paycheck.
I know this, I had a conversation with a FIAT ALFA car dealer who said the factory rep said to him that she wished these two brands would stop manufacturing cars (awful thing-why would a factory rep say that? )
I’ve heard it helps to copy the job listing and paste it into the resume/application in a tiny white font, and hide it in the whitespace. Then the bots detect all the buzzwords and let it through, but whoever actually ends up reading the application doesn’t see that you fooled their filter.
Here is the picture from an employer’s point of view.
I have a job opening. I receive 50 resumes. Half of them don’t have 60% of the requirements I’m seeking. I call the remaining applicants for informal phone interviews. Most of the calls require me to leave a message and applicant never returns the call. Talking on the phone with applicants I get in touch with reveals four of them don’t use proper English. I make appointments with the 5 remaining for interviews. Two are no shows that don’t bother to call. Three show up. One has dirty hair and wears pajama bottoms. The other two have lied on their resume. This is a true and repeatable exercise in futility as employers attempt to find an average employee. NO. I will never interview all applicants.
Given the current general situation what you said, sounds about right
as for me all the jobs I ever had never needed a resume, I was always hired on the spot
Maybe that’s why I find hard to believe they wouldn’t call even if most of what they’re looking for if not all is in the resume (then again that’s my situation only)
thanks for your information
by the way I speak English, Italian and Spanish very fluent
Giuseppe