The HORRID state of Job Applications.

 Jobs have been quite the hot topic recently. either it be unemployment, gen z trying to adapt to a more toxic work life balance, or Hiring managers.... 

I Hear alot about everything else but not how we get jobs in the first place....

If you get your jobs through nepotism that's great for you but us peasants. we have to settle for Job listing sites. now this is a doomscroll like nothing else. just endless pages of car salesmen positions and very specified work like registered traveling nurse or radiologist. and food service, don't worry they will always be hiring cause food service fucking sucks 

but some companies think they are so special that they need their own job listing site. and its every fucking company apparently. forking over an email and a password any verifying that email and then using their SHIT user interface to then try and find the specific job listing you were looking for.  

 more often than not a decent percent of my time is spent making accounts 

SO MUCH BULLSHIT. I DON"T NEED AN ACCOUNT. YOU HAVE MY FUCKING EMAIL. AND EVERYTHING IN MY RESUME. NOT LIKE I ALREADY TYPED IT OUT TWICE FOR YOU. and this is the ONLY option. i can't stress this enough. even going in person you get the classic "er just go online" even with talking to managers and general managers does nothing.  

 Do I even need a resume anymore?   

what the fuck do I even use it for anymore. it's not like I'm printing this out and HANDING it to a person. and er yeah nice resume PDF buddy do you wanna do us a favor and RETYPE EVERY THING. Copy paste? no never heard him. we could try and auto fill for you but random questions are gonna be drop down menus and errr can your phone number needs dashes and the +1 extension. and yeahhhh the auto fill kinda just put you job duties in the Job position box so could ya just reshuffle that for me? please. 

 I Hope you like nothing. and bots. and personality tests. 

 and what do ya get for doing useless tasks? an automated response and a link to a cute little personality test. these are pretty much the insecure girlfriend questions but next months rent depends on it. I reckon they sort these test by most exploitable so I always like and be the most bloodthirsty for the sake of walmart. 

these really are quite pathetic it's so easy to see right through what they are doing. just culling those dumb enough to be honest and adding more time to waste.

but thank god it's only your time. hiring managers don't care to notify you and for some reason in the most professional settings ghosting has become so normalized. even rejection emails are hard to come across these days. and even non-botted ones at that.

 It takes some sort of magic ritual to actually talk to a human 

after being not excluded by the job sorting algorithm for not having a bachelors and passing that personality test as the perfect wage slave you have the right to get an email from a person and possibly have a phone interview. and then if that goes well.... uhh in person interview I guess.

are you starting to now see how many hoops I have to jump through for getting JUST AN INTERVIEW?? boomers and gen x are so fucking spoiled for having the option to just walk up out of nowhere and just immediately just drop a resume off in person.

 And you are doing this whole process hundreds of times over  

This could be a months long process. even worse for those in fields like finance or comp sci. Unemployment terms longer than 27 weeks are creeping up more and more. this is not sustainable at all for the overall health of the economy.

it's just pathetic that companies have settled on what's easier for them. I mean for the millions that have been spent on AI you'd reckon they should put some of that spending into making more robust systems and opportunities for the THOUSANDS of people in major need of a job.

It's just a super dehumanizing process. this was just one big and bad rant. I have a better Job right now. but I CANNOT ignore what I had to do for that solid month of doing this over and over and over. 

America seriously needs to do better