Ishkur: <David Attenborough>

Ah yes, there it is: NobodyWantsToWorkAnyMore, the dulcet early morning mating call of the Cheapus Executivus Capitalus, aka the common American CEO. Listen closely.

Here you can see him gathering twigs, berries, leaves together between the y-stems of a branch, building for himself a small hovel. He hopes to attract the female of the species, the Laborus Employus Servantus, with his generous offering of $5.35 per hour, no overtime, no benefits, no paid time off.

Someone approaches. She inspects the nest carefully, and gives her response to his efforts thusly: ThatDoesn'tEvenCoverLivingExpenses. And like that she is off on a wing, in search of a better suitor.

Our hero sits, dejected. He repeats his call, more of a lament than a song, as if spiting the woman who rejected him. Was his nest not good enough for her? No, he thinks. Clearly her demands were too high and she wouldn't have made a productive employee anyway.

Cheer up, old friend. Someday you may find your cheap labor. It's only a matter of time.

</David Attenborough>

basscomm: Swampmaster: Laughs in current job search-ease... from job ad sites which can't parse a resume.docx worth a damm, to extra questioning/questions, mini video and other recorded question sessions, to the all hated Zoom interview, but the Other employee doesn't have his camera turned on, just a black screen... I hate the current atmosphere.  To include, salary offerings are like at 2/3's of what they were pre-covid in my field. Not good.

The asteroid apocalypse can't come too soon!

/Attn: HR and Hiring Managers, be polite and send a note to the applicant that you moved on to a different person or chose someone else.  I hate getting ghosted/ ignored!!! Happens way too often!

This right here. I've outgrown my current job and have been looking around for a while. Found a job that looked like a slam dunk and applied, but I heard nothing and the job posting disappeared after exactly 30 days, so I'm guessing that they already had someone in mind but had to open up the job to the public for HR reasons. But, they helpfully redirected my resume to a different job, where it's been 'under review' for the last seven weeks.

It's bad enough that practically nobody in my area is hiring for IT work, but it would be nice if the jobs that are being advertised actually existed. It'd save me a lot of time.

SMB2811: chitownmike: basscomm: Swampmaster: Laughs in current job search-ease... from job ad sites which can't parse a resume.docx worth a damm, to extra questioning/questions, mini video and other recorded question sessions, to the all hated Zoom interview, but the Other employee doesn't have his camera turned on, just a black screen... I hate the current atmosphere.  To include, salary offerings are like at 2/3's of what they were pre-covid in my field. Not good.

The asteroid apocalypse can't come too soon!

/Attn: HR and Hiring Managers, be polite and send a note to the applicant that you moved on to a different person or chose someone else.  I hate getting ghosted/ ignored!!! Happens way too often!

This right here. I've outgrown my current job and have been looking around for a while. Found a job that looked like a slam dunk and applied, but I heard nothing and the job posting disappeared after exactly 30 days, so I'm guessing that they already had someone in mind but had to open up the job to the public for HR reasons. But, they helpfully redirected my resume to a different job, where it's been 'under review' for the last seven weeks.

It's bad enough that practically nobody in my area is hiring for IT work, but it would be nice if the jobs that are being advertised actually existed. It'd save me a lot of time.

You do know that following up after submitting a resume is a thing right?

Yep, just walk into the offices and ask for the hiring manager, easy. If you're not hitting the pavement you're not really motivated to get the job.