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Re:1 in 5 Online Job Postings Are Either Fake or Never Filled by cruffle_duffle on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @11:46AM (#42699794)
Honestly in this market there is really only so much your network can do—at least at a “submit my resume for me” level. I’m starting to think I might get a bit more aggressive and bold with my network and have them deliver paper copies to the hiring manager or something. Because even referral submitted applications are black holes at this point.

Hang in there and take what you can get. The market is super shitty and you are absolutely not alone. It ain’t you. The market will pick back up again… it always does.

Re:1 in 5 Online Job Postings Are Either Fake or Never Filled by selimthegrim on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @12:11PM (#42700234)
If they won’t pay for traveling for on-site interview or relocation is that a good sign; when they’re demanding three days a week in the office hybrid?
Re:1 in 5 Online Job Postings Are Either Fake or Never Filled by dennis_jeeves2 on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @01:04PM (#42701185)
>The market will pick back up again… it always does.

It will, but this time it's probably going to be several years. It's the covid lock down train wreck. Most people underestimate the cascading damage done by the lock downs.

Re:1 in 5 Online Job Postings Are Either Fake or Never Filled by cruffle_duffle on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @01:14PM (#42701364)
Yup. The damage caused by that nonsense will haunt us for decades to come.

“It’s what everybody wanted” is something I often say. “Everybody was cheering this on”.

Re:1 in 5 Online Job Postings Are Either Fake or Never Filled by dennis_jeeves2 on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @01:39PM (#42701760)
>“It’s what everybody wanted” is something I often say. “Everybody was cheering this on”.

Spot on. I read that somewhere that during WWII when people were sent to the gas chambers, crowds would be cheering on. Common people terrify me.

Re:1 in 5 Online Job Postings Are Either Fake or Never Filled by alphan0n on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @05:04PM (#42704549)
> I read that somewhere that during WWII when people were sent to the gas chambers, crowds would be cheering on.

Citation needed. The execution of Jews by gas chamber during the holocaust was not a public event.

Re:1 in 5 Online Job Postings Are Either Fake or Never Filled by dennis_jeeves2 on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @05:08PM (#42704602)
It's when there were being rounded up to be sent. Not during the event itself.
Re:1 in 5 Online Job Postings Are Either Fake or Never Filled by alphan0n on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @08:14AM (#42710440)
Cheering on deportation.. I wonder what modern parallels we can draw from that.
Re:1 in 5 Online Job Postings Are Either Fake or Never Filled by spratzt on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @05:53PM (#42705039)
The market can remain depressed for longer than you can remain solvent.

We should be encouraging people to look at alternative careers to tech. Life after tech.

We should also be making it clear to students that while there are exciting things happening in tech this is not going to translate into large scale demand for people.

Large parts of technology are mature, indeed moribund. This is not a message that the technology industry wants to hear.