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Re:1 in 5 Online Job Postings Are Either Fake or Never Filled by TheCapeGreek on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @02:34AM (#42708338)
You're not wrong, but all you've ended up describing to the poster is that you don't actually have a network to leverage for finding work - which is what they're advocating for here, not walking into places to hand physical resumes.
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Re:1 in 5 Online Job Postings Are Either Fake or Never Filled by johnnyanmac on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @06:27PM (#42718703)
IDK, maybe we should go back to that. At least interaction with a human is guaranteeed.

Netorking has its own problems that are much harder to solve.

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Re:1 in 5 Online Job Postings Are Either Fake or Never Filled by TheCapeGreek on Thursday January 16, 2025 @07:51AM (#42724514)
Perhaps.

For the time being, leveraging a network is still the best way to get hired.

I think in my career so far in ~8 companies and many clients, I only got one of those jobs From a "cold" job posting application. Everything else was at least a soft referral by an acquaintance.

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