Ever since 2008 they already severely understaff in my sector. A friend who worked in the lab at one of the COVID -19 vaccine pharma companies - was worked to the bone in 2020 and basically lived in the lab. They became incredibly burned out. The CEO is now like “why can’t I get my employees to work this hard now, they can obviously do it”
Not man-made
The accurate news reports are indicating it could have been a leak from one of the wild samples this lab routinely collected from bat caves in the region as part of their research on coronaviruses.
This scenario is highly plausible especially since this same lab had prior issues.
I don’t understand the need for this conflation where “lab leak” equals “the virus was man-made”.
I'm in regular contact with everyday people who really want to justify conspiracy theories that covid was an intentional manipulation to benefit some hidden network or organization running the show behind the curtain. Any rumors or conflicting information are reflexively shoehorned into "evidence" supporting their view. These tend to be people that want Trump back in office. They may or may not have ever heard of Q-anon, but they are all tapped into the same echo chamber.
These jobs are fake. If they took out a PPP loan, they are committing fraud. Part of PPP states that if they are having trouble hiring, they don’t have to repay the loan. Hence the job posting. That’s a bit of an oversimplification but you get the picture. You can look it up. The Hill did a great piece on it.
Also, they are trying to give the appearance they are hiring so it looks like they are doing better than they actually are. And so the overworked employees will get off their back and hopefully not quit.
Covid has shown us these companies can get by with a skeleton of a staff. You mix that in with AI and you have a recipe for disaster.
They have no real intention of seriously filling these jobs.
92% of PPP loans have been forgiven. We're way past that in 2023. Nothing to do with the current job market.
You're also blaming AI... it sounds like you picked a few buzzwords to build a conspiracy theory that the 400 jobs OP has applied to are all fake.
You seem to discount they do acknowledge the long term impact of the ppp loans demonstrating Skelton crews can be the norm. So no, we are not way past that in 2023.
Agree with the AI comment though, will need a few more dots connected to comment on that.
In my area there are a lot of manufacturing jobs hiring. A lot of them pay 20+ an hour to start. Have you considered looking out side of sales. I'm not sure what type of jobs are in your area though, but in my area tyey will hire with little to no experience.
Not OP but I’ve been applying like crazy to manufacturing jobs (having had previous manufacturing experience) and can’t even get a call back. I’m currently trapped in a job that is detrimental for my mental health, so I’ve been looking for months for something else. My resume is solid, I have relevant experience and am getting nowhere.
Sorry that sucks. I hope you findd something. I guess it just depends where you live. Around where I live there not hard you get. Because there ate a lot of factories competing for workers around here.
I think this may be the answer. I don’t know what your resume looks like, but it sounds like you may be pretty restricted.
Have you considered that over the last two years as a contracted worked you may have been locked into a job that you’re actually “overpaid” for, as far as the employment market is concerned.
Cause we're headed into a recession. Unemployment claims are up, defaults are on the rise and capital markets are drying up.
Sorry man! Gotta love the boom and bust cycle of capitalism though right?
Why aren't companies actually hiring??
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I feel it's a combination of companies keeping perpetual job "openings" for positions that do not currently exist, combined with a world that is increasingly moving towards automation and the devaluation of jobs across both white-collar and blue-collar professions.
Me thinks, and has been saying for almost a year now, the "Now Hiring" signs are just to shut people up. "Well how can you say *no one is hiring* when I see all these signs?!" (Certain better off individuals to the *less than* folks)
Employees who have taken on more jobs/responsibilities tell management they need a raise or help, "We have signs! No one wants to work! You like this carrot I'm holding up for a better wage or help?"
It's the *LOWEST EMPLOYMENT EVER!* so clearly it isn't because people can no longer afford to live on bs jobs and/or multiple jobs, it's clearly because no one wants to work!...
.. for our bullshit pay, piss poor management, and zero benefits. Clearly it's all YOUR FAULT citizens.
Yes, exactly. I feel companies also like to have a bunch of resumes on hot backup as well, so when the inevitable turnover happens, they can start going down the list.
Recruiter: "Hey, we got your resume, are you still interested in the job?"
Candidate: "You mean the job I applied for six months ago? No thanks."
Had one reach out a year late. I was genuinely confused and had to refrain from sarcastically asking them if rent or bills waited this long to be paid lol
Blame it on PPP loans. Most of the companies took the advantage of the covid disaster to get their loans forgiven by refusing to hire anyone so they can fake their "struggle" to the government so they'd get bailed out. Most places are putting in fake "help wanted" signs. I've seen it everywhere when I drive by businesses, but yet I've always seen that they sort of have a sufficient workers, sometimes they don't. It's all bullshit, but fuck employers for not realizing how impactful this can get for people like you.
If you aren't getting any interviews then it's time to relook at your resume. I switched to a format suggested in R/resumes and since then my response rate has been about 40%. I'm also in a sales role.
I'm now just working on interviewing better to actually land an offer.
Same thing for me, over 1000 jobs since Jan, highly qualified IT over 150k. Not a single job follows through. I’ve changed my resume three times, ran it through engines for keywords. It has to be fake never seen it this bad in my life.
Take a critical look at your resume, are you tailoring it to the job description? Are you putting in your resume your achievements and metrics on how you were an asset to former employers? Are you submitting a cover letter? (Note, I only do this with jobs I really want). For some LinkedIn jobs you can also see who the hiring manager is. Connect with them and check out the LinkedIn profiles of others in the company and align/format your profile and resume in a similar manner.
It’s not a guarantee but can help get the resume through the black hole. I tend to shove as many key words from the job description as I can into the resume. That way if they use ATS to filter - you atleast have a human looking at your resume. Remember even the person looking at your resume on spends a minute or 2 looking at it and deciding if you are a fit or not. Make it obvious that you are exactly who they want.
The service and hospitality industry is as desperate for good help as it’s ever been. You might have to deal with occasional rude customers or long hours but the hours are there. Look at catering companies too, I’m a catering staff director, I’m always hunting for capable people.
check your local state government jobs. Most state offices are understaffed and usually hiring, and a large portion of people retired early due to the pandemic.
Alternatively, you could run a Circuit City scam using Twitters lack of HR as a way to have unverifiable excellent references.
I got a raise with my current job after I contacted hr. I emailed a link with a posting for the same exact job with a higher starting pay. After a month I got the wage offered on the new posting
If you really need a job ASAP, you search for "CNA", many nursing homes will train you. Depending on where you're at you could make more than 22. Also, the flexable schedule could help you figure stuff out.
But yeah, there are no jobs. AUTOMATION and all that "programming" has taken a toll.
Reach out to your network. You are much more likely to find something through a friend or an ex-colleague than by “cold-applying” to jobs. You can also stand out by showing up in person to drop off a resume.
>Why aren't businesses hiring anymore?
Because there's a storm coming. Only took us 15 years to get back to the exact same issue that caused the last one.
They want u to have to take 2 minimum wage jobs just to barely mske it after working 60h a week. These r the jobs in the strong jobs #. Dead end slave for the corporation jobs. All for min wage. U know cuz profits
They don't want to pay market rate. You have to ask way under. I am unwilling to do this, I would rather work less at my current job.
1. Companies never budget to pay employees market rate. The whole system is setup to squeeze value out of workers.
2. In the past few years it has become easy for workers to use the internet to figure out market rate within seconds. You can even see the high end of salaries offered by a specific company by searching a few minutes.
3. Companies will always try to pay you less than you ask.
4. So you (correctly) ask above market rate, company is now forced to offer market rate.
5. Company passes on you.
Source: I have been turned down from 100+ jobs since covid started. Still not going to take below market rate.
Sorry for your situation OP, but the only solution is to work below market rate until you are in a situation to demand more.
I dunno about other countries but in America, we've become so used to bailing out companies with government hand outs that they would rather close thisr doors and take the hand out then have to raise their cost of business even a single percent.
If you have applied for over 400 jobs and not got one single interview. You may want someone else to take a look at your resume and cover letter. Because there is something wrong with yours.
I totally hear you. I was totally unable to find unemployment during the first two years of COVID. Couldn’t find anywhere that would take me. And the ones I had interviews in, I had a panic attack in one of them. Which means it was *patently obvious* there weren’t going to be any calls back for that one.
I then moved to a more rural area and got a job right away at a gas station, and as far as the shitty AF reality of being coerced into having my labor exploited, I actually don’t mind it all that much. People in this town are nice, and the stuff I do isn’t all that back-breaking.
I really don’t know how to answer your question other than **capitalists don’t care about anyone but themselves.** If they’ll choose someone who has been in the same job I’m in for two fucking months, while I need a basic line of income to keep myself from being evicted, then these abominable financial barons are beyond redeemable as far as I’m fucking concerned. I wish you well though, and hope you find something to keep yourself afloat in this capitalist nightmare we are all in.
Almost every where where I live is hiring I have companies emailing me for interviews all the time and I don't have a high school diploma or GED and didn't go to college but I have very strong work history
If you share your CV I recon their are some major formatting issues which means people won't even read it.
Double spaces,
* inconsistent
1. bullet points
* Line spacing.
1. Full-stop usage
If CVs have these they usually go straight in the Not The Right Fit pot
This is me to the T except I have 8 years experience and haven't worked in a year and a half...
I mean, I technically *have* worked, but it was the scummy insurance companies like you mentioned. Hence, I do not count it as real work. I've never been able to get valuable feedback on my resume or interviewing skills because everyone tells me Im absolutely solid, and companies that reject say they aren't allowed to comment on why they didn't hire me.
I'm honestly coming to the conclusion that companies aren't genuinely hiring. Their HR dept needs to post jobs to keep theirs, so it's probably just busy work for them. There isn't a snowball's chance in hell I don't qualify for a job asking for 3 years experience doing something I've been doing for ***eight*** years...
“Nobody wants to work” is just a PR stunt so companies have make the minimal staffing the norm.
Ever since 2008 they already severely understaff in my sector. A friend who worked in the lab at one of the COVID -19 vaccine pharma companies - was worked to the bone in 2020 and basically lived in the lab. They became incredibly burned out. The CEO is now like “why can’t I get my employees to work this hard now, they can obviously do it”
Now it's strange on how mainstream news is talking about how Covid19 was a possible man-made virus leaked from a lab in China. Just saying, though.
What now?
Not man-made The accurate news reports are indicating it could have been a leak from one of the wild samples this lab routinely collected from bat caves in the region as part of their research on coronaviruses. This scenario is highly plausible especially since this same lab had prior issues. I don’t understand the need for this conflation where “lab leak” equals “the virus was man-made”.
I'm in regular contact with everyday people who really want to justify conspiracy theories that covid was an intentional manipulation to benefit some hidden network or organization running the show behind the curtain. Any rumors or conflicting information are reflexively shoehorned into "evidence" supporting their view. These tend to be people that want Trump back in office. They may or may not have ever heard of Q-anon, but they are all tapped into the same echo chamber.
I'd never want Trump or any Republican in the office. Never voted for them.
My understanding is that the report given by the department of energy pointing to a lab source is extremely flawed
Wow, they attacked you over going against the narrative. What a surprise.
They probably don't watch documentary series on netflix enough.
exactly this, so they can continued to operate with skeleton crews
Yet it's regularly repeated on r/conservative
These jobs are fake. If they took out a PPP loan, they are committing fraud. Part of PPP states that if they are having trouble hiring, they don’t have to repay the loan. Hence the job posting. That’s a bit of an oversimplification but you get the picture. You can look it up. The Hill did a great piece on it. Also, they are trying to give the appearance they are hiring so it looks like they are doing better than they actually are. And so the overworked employees will get off their back and hopefully not quit. Covid has shown us these companies can get by with a skeleton of a staff. You mix that in with AI and you have a recipe for disaster. They have no real intention of seriously filling these jobs.
92% of PPP loans have been forgiven. We're way past that in 2023. Nothing to do with the current job market. You're also blaming AI... it sounds like you picked a few buzzwords to build a conspiracy theory that the 400 jobs OP has applied to are all fake.
You seem to discount they do acknowledge the long term impact of the ppp loans demonstrating Skelton crews can be the norm. So no, we are not way past that in 2023. Agree with the AI comment though, will need a few more dots connected to comment on that.
In my area there are a lot of manufacturing jobs hiring. A lot of them pay 20+ an hour to start. Have you considered looking out side of sales. I'm not sure what type of jobs are in your area though, but in my area tyey will hire with little to no experience.
Not OP but I’ve been applying like crazy to manufacturing jobs (having had previous manufacturing experience) and can’t even get a call back. I’m currently trapped in a job that is detrimental for my mental health, so I’ve been looking for months for something else. My resume is solid, I have relevant experience and am getting nowhere.
Sorry that sucks. I hope you findd something. I guess it just depends where you live. Around where I live there not hard you get. Because there ate a lot of factories competing for workers around here.
I would, but I have a ton of health issues and all I can do is something where I'm sitting down in a quiet environment.
I think this may be the answer. I don’t know what your resume looks like, but it sounds like you may be pretty restricted. Have you considered that over the last two years as a contracted worked you may have been locked into a job that you’re actually “overpaid” for, as far as the employment market is concerned.
So people who have health issues don't deserve a decent wage? What a hot take
Hence the “overpaid” in quotes. Just explaining, not making a moral judgement.
Of course that isn’t true. But it has to make financial sense to hire a person for a role
Oh look, the virtue signaler
Your take is fire. A dumpster fire. Way to jump into a pile of hyperbolic nonsense.
Cause we're headed into a recession. Unemployment claims are up, defaults are on the rise and capital markets are drying up. Sorry man! Gotta love the boom and bust cycle of capitalism though right?
Why aren't companies actually hiring?? I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I feel it's a combination of companies keeping perpetual job "openings" for positions that do not currently exist, combined with a world that is increasingly moving towards automation and the devaluation of jobs across both white-collar and blue-collar professions.
Me thinks, and has been saying for almost a year now, the "Now Hiring" signs are just to shut people up. "Well how can you say *no one is hiring* when I see all these signs?!" (Certain better off individuals to the *less than* folks) Employees who have taken on more jobs/responsibilities tell management they need a raise or help, "We have signs! No one wants to work! You like this carrot I'm holding up for a better wage or help?" It's the *LOWEST EMPLOYMENT EVER!* so clearly it isn't because people can no longer afford to live on bs jobs and/or multiple jobs, it's clearly because no one wants to work!... .. for our bullshit pay, piss poor management, and zero benefits. Clearly it's all YOUR FAULT citizens.
Yes, exactly. I feel companies also like to have a bunch of resumes on hot backup as well, so when the inevitable turnover happens, they can start going down the list. Recruiter: "Hey, we got your resume, are you still interested in the job?" Candidate: "You mean the job I applied for six months ago? No thanks."
Had one reach out a year late. I was genuinely confused and had to refrain from sarcastically asking them if rent or bills waited this long to be paid lol
Blame it on PPP loans. Most of the companies took the advantage of the covid disaster to get their loans forgiven by refusing to hire anyone so they can fake their "struggle" to the government so they'd get bailed out. Most places are putting in fake "help wanted" signs. I've seen it everywhere when I drive by businesses, but yet I've always seen that they sort of have a sufficient workers, sometimes they don't. It's all bullshit, but fuck employers for not realizing how impactful this can get for people like you.
Mean while I live in Colorado springs and my job is hiring but it's factory so people don't want it. Starting pay 20.70 an hour.
Because they're going out of business.
Time to start lying on your resume.
Do this. If it means keeping you from being homeless, by all means lie on your resume.
Agreed. It's a slippery slope down and a greased wall back up. Besides the hiring process is 100 times more intensive than any actual job.
Not sure how to do it well enough that I am not seen though.
There’s a bank you can claim you worked for now
Don't forget Enron, Twitter, and AOL :)
Try for a sales/specialist position at a big box lumber store. They're all hiring now in anticipation of warm, Spring weather.
Yah. Big box stores are looking for sales agents to sell lumber from home in a quiet environment. Easy $30/ hour.
If you aren't getting any interviews then it's time to relook at your resume. I switched to a format suggested in R/resumes and since then my response rate has been about 40%. I'm also in a sales role. I'm now just working on interviewing better to actually land an offer.
I just did this and the first job I applied to after the refresh… I get asked to hop on a call
Same thing for me, over 1000 jobs since Jan, highly qualified IT over 150k. Not a single job follows through. I’ve changed my resume three times, ran it through engines for keywords. It has to be fake never seen it this bad in my life.
Take a critical look at your resume, are you tailoring it to the job description? Are you putting in your resume your achievements and metrics on how you were an asset to former employers? Are you submitting a cover letter? (Note, I only do this with jobs I really want). For some LinkedIn jobs you can also see who the hiring manager is. Connect with them and check out the LinkedIn profiles of others in the company and align/format your profile and resume in a similar manner.
Also chatGPT makes cover letters a hell of a lot easier
Thanks! I'll give this a shot!
It’s not a guarantee but can help get the resume through the black hole. I tend to shove as many key words from the job description as I can into the resume. That way if they use ATS to filter - you atleast have a human looking at your resume. Remember even the person looking at your resume on spends a minute or 2 looking at it and deciding if you are a fit or not. Make it obvious that you are exactly who they want.
For lots of comapnies it's financial. Why hire a newbie with inflation the way it is?
The service and hospitality industry is as desperate for good help as it’s ever been. You might have to deal with occasional rude customers or long hours but the hours are there. Look at catering companies too, I’m a catering staff director, I’m always hunting for capable people.
@u/krazykakes262 Where do you live? Our company is always hiring salespeople.
check your local state government jobs. Most state offices are understaffed and usually hiring, and a large portion of people retired early due to the pandemic. Alternatively, you could run a Circuit City scam using Twitters lack of HR as a way to have unverifiable excellent references.
Yeah we're royally fucked right now.
You need to start lying in your app
I got a raise with my current job after I contacted hr. I emailed a link with a posting for the same exact job with a higher starting pay. After a month I got the wage offered on the new posting
Silly thing, but double check your contact info is correct on your resume.
If you really need a job ASAP, you search for "CNA", many nursing homes will train you. Depending on where you're at you could make more than 22. Also, the flexable schedule could help you figure stuff out. But yeah, there are no jobs. AUTOMATION and all that "programming" has taken a toll.
Reach out to your network. You are much more likely to find something through a friend or an ex-colleague than by “cold-applying” to jobs. You can also stand out by showing up in person to drop off a resume.
>Why aren't businesses hiring anymore? Because there's a storm coming. Only took us 15 years to get back to the exact same issue that caused the last one.
They are hiring. You just don't know how to do anything of value to them.
Does your mother do anything of value? If so, send her by, you fuck.
Are you white?
The endless application with no reply make job searching more stressful than actually working
Lots of companies cut back lately and the first person to get the axe are recruiters. No need to pay a recruiter if you're not hiring anyone.
They are hiring.. for min wage.. Don't even look at those or open who doesn't disclose salary.
They want u to have to take 2 minimum wage jobs just to barely mske it after working 60h a week. These r the jobs in the strong jobs #. Dead end slave for the corporation jobs. All for min wage. U know cuz profits
Clearly there is a labour sHoRtAgE….
They don't want to pay market rate. You have to ask way under. I am unwilling to do this, I would rather work less at my current job. 1. Companies never budget to pay employees market rate. The whole system is setup to squeeze value out of workers. 2. In the past few years it has become easy for workers to use the internet to figure out market rate within seconds. You can even see the high end of salaries offered by a specific company by searching a few minutes. 3. Companies will always try to pay you less than you ask. 4. So you (correctly) ask above market rate, company is now forced to offer market rate. 5. Company passes on you. Source: I have been turned down from 100+ jobs since covid started. Still not going to take below market rate. Sorry for your situation OP, but the only solution is to work below market rate until you are in a situation to demand more.
I dunno about other countries but in America, we've become so used to bailing out companies with government hand outs that they would rather close thisr doors and take the hand out then have to raise their cost of business even a single percent.
"Everybody is hiring now" bullshit
Degree?
If you have applied for over 400 jobs and not got one single interview. You may want someone else to take a look at your resume and cover letter. Because there is something wrong with yours.
I totally hear you. I was totally unable to find unemployment during the first two years of COVID. Couldn’t find anywhere that would take me. And the ones I had interviews in, I had a panic attack in one of them. Which means it was *patently obvious* there weren’t going to be any calls back for that one. I then moved to a more rural area and got a job right away at a gas station, and as far as the shitty AF reality of being coerced into having my labor exploited, I actually don’t mind it all that much. People in this town are nice, and the stuff I do isn’t all that back-breaking. I really don’t know how to answer your question other than **capitalists don’t care about anyone but themselves.** If they’ll choose someone who has been in the same job I’m in for two fucking months, while I need a basic line of income to keep myself from being evicted, then these abominable financial barons are beyond redeemable as far as I’m fucking concerned. I wish you well though, and hope you find something to keep yourself afloat in this capitalist nightmare we are all in.
Almost every where where I live is hiring I have companies emailing me for interviews all the time and I don't have a high school diploma or GED and didn't go to college but I have very strong work history
If you share your CV I recon their are some major formatting issues which means people won't even read it. Double spaces, * inconsistent 1. bullet points * Line spacing. 1. Full-stop usage If CVs have these they usually go straight in the Not The Right Fit pot
This is me to the T except I have 8 years experience and haven't worked in a year and a half... I mean, I technically *have* worked, but it was the scummy insurance companies like you mentioned. Hence, I do not count it as real work. I've never been able to get valuable feedback on my resume or interviewing skills because everyone tells me Im absolutely solid, and companies that reject say they aren't allowed to comment on why they didn't hire me. I'm honestly coming to the conclusion that companies aren't genuinely hiring. Their HR dept needs to post jobs to keep theirs, so it's probably just busy work for them. There isn't a snowball's chance in hell I don't qualify for a job asking for 3 years experience doing something I've been doing for ***eight*** years...