[HN Gopher] Why everybody's hiring but nobody's getting hired
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Why everybody's hiring but nobody's getting hired
Author : gmays
Score : 27 points
Date : 2021-09-22 20:33 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| calltrak wrote:
| Its all bullshit I have a very good resume and skillset and I am
| tried of H.R and endless rounds of interviews . I have to go my
| own way!
| lupire wrote:
| The article is explained that low wage jobs (service jobs) are
| hiring but no one wants those, and high wage employees (desk
| jobs) can't find the jobs they want.
| sage76 wrote:
| A 100 applications got me 10 phone calls, and 10 phone calls
| would lead to 1 onsite.
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| So I just need to apply to a thousand places to get a job.
|
| Oh and before anyone jumps in with "are you just applying to
| FAANGS?", no. Categorically, absolutely not.
| Hermitian909 wrote:
| > the average number of applications for a job at a publicly
| traded company is about 250; the average number of people
| interviewed is five.
|
| This sums up the problem. As an interviewer, you're practically
| DDoS'd by applicants. There's a lot to do and you don't have time
| to vet the applicants.
|
| Anecdotally, it seems the only way to get to a human is to have
| referrals or the perfect resume. Ironically, the internet has
| made people in my life _more_ reliant on who they know IRL to get
| a job.
| MattGaiser wrote:
| Or just the endless rounds. A friend is in a 10 round hiring
| process. In 10 rounds they will find some annoyance.
| noiseman wrote:
| If employers really were desperate for workers, wages would rise.
| But wages haven't risen. The only reasonable conclusion is that
| there isn't really a shortage of workers.
| MandieD wrote:
| Or too many businesses that are only viable if they're paying
| less than what their employees need to live a stable lifestyle
| in their area (housing, food, transportation, health care)
| iamstupidsimple wrote:
| Those businesses aren't sustainable then. A recent example
| given here was 24/7 gas station workers. The only reason they
| were working overnight was because wages have become cheap
| enough to capture the few overnight customers.
|
| A higher wage means that the business is forced to have the
| employee on more productive work.
| PragmaticPulp wrote:
| > He estimates he applied for hundreds of positions, relying on
| nearly a dozen jobs boards, researching potential employers, and
| writing personalized cover letters to accompany his resume. For
| the most part, he heard nothing back, regardless of how qualified
| he was.
|
| I've worked on and off as a mentor in some programs that do
| resume review and interview coaching. I've never seen anyone
| apply to "hundreds" of jobs and get zero responses without also
| having serious issues with their resume. In one case someone
| produced a PDF resume from some obscure program that wouldn't
| load on standard PDF viewers, so none of the companies could even
| open it. More commonly, people fire off rough draft quality
| resumes that are full of typos and half-finished sentences that
| would send their resume to the bottom of any hiring manager's
| pile.
|
| The good news is that most of them respond well to coaching. Even
| 30 minutes if resume proofreading, advice, and practice interview
| can be a game changer in these cases. The tough part is getting
| these people matched up with these services, as many of them have
| become very disgruntled and convinced that the problem lies with
| employers, not with their application style.
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