HR is the bane of progress. HR is there for only one purpose, to keep the company from receiving lawsuits. It does not matter if the person they hire is competent, convivial, corrigible, or even capable of just showing up. They only pay attention to whether it follows their departments’ regulated practices.
In hiring, HR is called upon to select someone, from a pool of sometimes thousands of candidates, based first on their resume/CV, a document broadly expected to be full of lies and exaggeration, (which increases likelihood of hiring someone dishonest) and which can have no visible indications of what the applicant can actually do, then based on an/a series of interviews, a practice which only tests the candidate’s ability to bullshit/be charming for short formalized conversations. (increasing likelihood of selecting for neurotypicality or unreasoning confidence) No HR person knows enough about essentially anything else anyone does to actually be able to tell the difference between a beam collimator and a retroencabulator, and staffing agencies make it even less likely because they are even further from the work.
Many countries started mass immigration after the global inflation caused by global QE and money supply growth, in order to prevent wage inflation. They did this mass immigration just as central banks were raising rates to cool the economy.
This is likely what you are feeling, there was a small time when there was a labor shortage and all the talk of ‘quiet quitting’ before they started this scheme, as depicted by the phillips curve, now its too many workers fighting for too few jobs as high interest rates slowed things down.
Do not get me started FUCK linkedin FUCK web development we weren’t supposed to make COMPUTERS anyway
I kid you not i put out some 300 applications… 2 (TWO) rejections, both of which i was not certified in said required software stack, expected. And two false lead contacts, both wanted me to stop searching for jobs but wouldn’t give a date for an interview for over a week, one was for a community college.
I returned to unspecified manufacturing, I’m in a really weird spot, and layoffs just started. I dread returning to the market
Bro that’s fucking insane. It might be a good idea to just start networking with people irl, the chances are way higher considering you’ve sent over 300 application, damn
I’m grateful to be in a place to network from now, however even with that university’s “networking seminars” none of their partnered companies gave either my classmates nor I any leads. I remained in touch with my classmates until each caved in going back to their original industry
Not quite sure what it is, but I’m sensing a bit of tension here OP, how’s the job hunt?
man, have you tried job hunting lately?
it’s a nice day when i get an automated rejection email instead of the usual deafening silence
and when an actual human replies??? highlight of the month
Job hunting is a lot different in my country and field. I usually get a personal email from either the department lead or the CEO no matter the result from the application. It does depend a bit on the company though. The big multinational companies are a lot colder.
What country is this, Candyland?
Judging by the tld on their instance, maybe Denmark.
Correct. Much smaller country with a much more limited employee pool, means the companies will have to show a bit of respect to the job seekers. Don’t wanna piss someone off they may need later, or worse, piss someone off who tells everyone the company is shit and to be avoided. It does depend a lot on the field and region though.
Yes, Candyland.
Or just a small industry where everyone knows everyone else. I personally know probably 3/4 of all the hiring managers in my area for my field. Hell, two of them are in my weekly board game group. I could literally text someone for work right now and be hired before my DoorDash driver arrives with my dinner.
But during COVID, the entire industry was dry as a bone, and we lost a lot of good workers to other industries. As with everything, it entirely depends on the nature of the work.
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i know you deleted it for a reason but i still saw the notification and just wanted to wish you the best of luck!
this too shall pass, keep going
Come to think of it, the usual roar of recruiter calls and emails has quoted down over the past couple months. Kinda peaceful.
I’ve been sticking to a job I’m not very happy with because the job hunt abyss looks like shit where I am. I’m actually struggling to rationalize some potential mental barriers I associate with higher paying alternatives, like what if I lose some security by being more vulnerable to layoffs, or what if I am even more unhappy after joining something I like less, despite the higher pay. Or what if I apply, and get far enough into the interview cycle that I feel inadequate/stupid when I don’t get to the end. I don’t know.
One thing that I’m finding a bit off-putting with this last year of “HR bad” memes is that they feel somewhat subtextually misogynistic to me? Even though this one nominally makes fun of very frustrating corporate and specifically HR attitudes and culture, I don’t know. It’s always women being presented as “catty bitches”. Which on one hand matches like 80% of my work experience, and on the other might be a sign of something.
Doesn’t help that for me I almost only see these being posted by someone at the fringes of my friend group who is properly Twitter brainrotted. You know what I mean.
I applied for an internal position in November. They still haven’t put together an interview committee. I fucking hate this
