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[-] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 83 points 3 days ago

If you’re sending out 1500 a week you have no identifiable skill set beyond existing. 1500 jobs that are relevant to 1 individual aren’t being posted every week.

[-] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 78 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's the thing: 1500 job listings does not mean 1500 jobs exist.

Half are companies that realized posting fake listings works as free marketing on LinkedIn. It's a real strategy: people start subscribing to their newsletter because LinkedIn offers that by default when you apply, and when somebody looks the company up, it creates the illusion they're booming and expanding.

Then of the remaining half, a half of that are fake listings that are actually AI companies that get you to record five minutes of audio and take a picture during your "application" and under the fine print you're allowing them to use your voice and resell it. Not joking.

Then you do have the remainder which are the real jobs. Of that remainder, more than half will be evaluated by an AI which may or may not take your skills into consideration, understand the formatting of your resume or even fully appreciate what the position entails.

Welcome to 2025, don't you love it? You need to answer that you love it by the way because we are monitoring your social media accounts and we have three cameras in your street and we don't like answers that bring the spirit down.

[-] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 46 points 3 days ago

You’re forgetting the portion that are real jobs, but they already know they’re just changing an existing employee’s job title, but HR makes them post a job for it anyway to seem fair.

[-] seejur@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

Dont forget the H1B ones. To hire (at half salary) a foreigner, by law they need to prove that the job cannot be done by a US employee. So they post a fake opening, with those "entry level 15 years experience in afield that existed 10 years" to justify the hiring

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Or they're hiring a relative but have to go through the motions of pretending to do the candidate search process.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago

Don't forget H1Bs where they have to 'prove' that there are no suitable domestic candidates first

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago
[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago

Oh look! Living on a couple of euros of passive income looks really enticing all of a sudden!

[-] llama@lemmy.zip 21 points 3 days ago

Right this is what frustrates me there literally aren't that many jobs to apply for unless you're applying to literally every cashier job around you. And for people in small towns even that option doesn't exist. Even 10 years ago people would send me links to jobs that were obvious scams on Indeed and they'd say "see! There ARE jobs!"

[-] tensorpudding@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

Pretty sure that they would counter, that if you're not willing to relocate to literally anywhere at no notice and at your own expense you don't really want to work. 1500 per week is simply not possible unless you're looking nationally if not internationally depending on the industry.

[-] llama@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 days ago

That's true if you're living at your parents house and not in a serious relationship, the world is your oyster. But if that's the case you're probably looking for entry level work and good luck paying rent on that salary.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago

I wasn't even reading job descriptions last time. I just indiscriminately applied to everything and only read about the positions that replied back with a maybe. If they don't allow the LinkedIn auto-apply, then I'm not filling out a form on their special unique website.

This is their problem, not mine.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 days ago

Well you need to send 1500 out because only 30 of the 1500 exist and you have no idea which that is.

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

I generally agree but what that said is 100 per week.

not much better but it's a bit of a shame that a whole thread with much attention did not notice and just copied from the first comment

[-] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Yea I noticed that I misread a little while ago but left it. The comment is still accurate, 1500 a week is way too many.

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