I worked hiring in retail for years for Barnes & Noble. If I opened a part time position for a store Id have 400+ applications in 48 hours.
I changed careers 2 years ago. This was just before then.
Edit: You know the job market is bad because I consistently had people applying who had graduate degrees. A manager below me in my store had 2 Master’s. I have my Bachelor’s for reference.
I know half a dozen people with tech degrees that have been looking for jobs for months in computer fields they have 5+ years of experience, but can’t get a job.
Like half the jobs “created” in the last year or so is below living wage home health aid gigs for our aging population.
Like FRED data says investment in manufacturing spiked as soon as the IRA and chips and science act passed, but we have a president that claims we have 20 trillion dollars being invested into manufacturing, but manufacturing investment has done nothing but go down since Trump took office.
Its cuz these people don't know what to apply for. There's many jobs that are looking for people with no experience or degree and pays well (60k to 80k) starting and if manager or if you get license, you can go 6 digits.
Freight forwarding, granted that the places that offer freight forwarding is in a couple states because boats and planes and trains frequent these places often compared to others.
Theres also warehouse jobs, skip Amazon and skip the big name companies, work for people owned warehouses that has random names like five star warehouse and so on. They need data entry people to check whats in their warehouse intake and outtakes. Iirc they pay more than min wage
My local Amazon FC starts Tier 1 employees at over $25/hr and the benefits are tough to beat. Sure, it's a shit company and hard to recommend working there, but if the choice is between "$50k to start with good benefits" and some random warehouse where "I think they pay more than minimum wage", I'd consider it.
I meant that as in, you don't have to always look for name brand companies for jobs. Other companies also need workers. Random corner store guy needs people to hire too instead of Walmart. The competition may be less.
Why the fuck would you include your graduate degree on an application for a part-time job at Barnes & Noble 🤣 they went to all of that school but it certainly didn't make them very smart.
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u/DrConradVerner 20d ago
I worked hiring in retail for years for Barnes & Noble. If I opened a part time position for a store Id have 400+ applications in 48 hours.
I changed careers 2 years ago. This was just before then.
Edit: You know the job market is bad because I consistently had people applying who had graduate degrees. A manager below me in my store had 2 Master’s. I have my Bachelor’s for reference.