Specifically this most highlighted snip.
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.
article is pretty good. i didnt talk about this in my post yesterday but it does drive me crazy. i realized a while ago that every single job i saw on every job site was obviously not real and it is the most i have ever felt like i had the sunglasses from they live. i definitely don't understand the even tepid enthusiasm for linkedin though, in my experience every job i've ever seen on there has also been fake. the only times i've ever seen jobs that are actually real is either in social media posts from the people hiring (which is vanishing completely now that social media is dead), or by just randomly going on company websites and clicking the "jobs" or "careers" section and getting lucky.
The longest unemployment stints I had were 12 and like 18 months, that entire time I didn't give up searching for jobs and put in a relentless amount of effort. the only reason I got out of the longest stint was because a recruiter finally contacted me, and that's with a very long job history and a ton of in-demand niche technical and design skills.
My last job hunt I had when I was working, and it still took about 8-12 months of concentrated effort, and I only got a job through recruiters cold-emailing me. I feel like if you're active on linkedin, then you start appearing in search results there more often, and that's how recruiters started reaching out? but it's impossible to know because everything is algorithm driven these days. It's impossible to tell if cover letters work, if resume personalization worked, or if anything made any difference.
You need a job to house and feed yourself because there is no social safety net, but the act of even trading your labor and time for money is such a fucking shitshow and greatly contributes to people staying in shitty jobs and not doing labor organizing - because jobs are so hard to get and so easy to lose.
People talk about finding work being hard these days, but I feel like this has been a lasting affect of the 2008 financial crisis. I feel like after 2008 it was just impossible to get work.
