Extra thought on this in the article.

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@Dragonkat4210/31/2023, 8:09 PM

B.I.E. Unit: Explorer-B @GoopySpaceShark

@Dragonkat4210/31/2023, 6:28 PM

When you find an article that perfectly sums up your feelings on life right now.

https://paulfuhr.medium.com/how-indeed-com-keeps-killing-the-job-market-why-resumes-are-dead-a76ab2f5af

Specifically this most highlighted snip.

#seriously #fuck job searching this is a god damn pain

B.I.E. Unit: Explorer-B @GoopySpaceShark10/31/2023, 7:36 PM

I highly, highly recommend reading the article in full - don't use job sites. Especially not Indeed. They have no interest in actually helping you find a job - they're more content to skim money from employers for unfit for purpose "skill tests", and sell your data on to advertisers while serving you job ad after job ad, hoping you stick around in the pursuit of finding a job that, as it turns out, doesn't actually exist, and probably hasn't for months.

@Dragonkat4210/31/2023, 8:09 PM

Extra thought on this in the article.

First: Read it all. DO SO.

Second: I had this exact same thought to another point in it the other day. Sat down and asked myself if doing an assessment test (not just on indeed) but finishing too quick because I know my shit somehow counts against it because the scoring would consider it cheating.

And finding out that can be the case? It's MADDENING

Seriously, fuck job hunting.

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Thank you for holding out this long, staff.@Kyresti10/31/2023, 9:50 PM

That would explain why the last resume a job coach recommended me to follow (most leads), amounted to 3 pages of unformatted wordpuke.

Also umm... wow. That shifts my mind from despair to cold anger like nothing else.

dead flag blues custom stepmania chart @MxSelfDestruct10/31/2023, 11:03 PM

yeah, I can back this up anecdotally. spent like six months slamming my head into Indeed's search results, got maybe two "not interested" responses and that's it. gave up on that, started cold calling businesses, got on payroll at my current job four or five days later.

Binary @binary11/1/2023, 3:44 AM

Indeed in particular is awful. I saw one Indeed ad for a job that was fucking two years old once I clicked through! I've been searching over the past few months and had way more luck like...going to specific companies' sites and seeing if they had ads with dates on them and applying to shit that was just posted.