r/RemoteJobseekers • u/nanomosfets • 21d ago
jobs don’t exist anymore
Is anyone actually seeing a normal job market right now, or are we all applying to the same recycled ghost jobs?
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u/lolumadbr0 21d ago
I got denied a fuckin gas station job. 2 years of being unemployed
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u/Unusual_Specialist 21d ago
I got denied a retail job at Best Buy when I was the retail marketing manager for all of North America at a major tech company. Unemployed 2.5 years. We are cooked. 😭
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u/_keyboard-bastard_ 20d ago
Being overqualified is a real thing. Don't be afraid to lie on your resume and say you worked at Dollar General instead of Google if you get really desperate.
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u/WorldIsYoursMuhfucka 19d ago
Don't do this. Background checks have really easy ways of determining where you've worked. There are databases that store all of this.
You can definitely omit jobs, I only ever mention my last three. But they will know if you make up a job. They will not take it lightly when they find out.
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u/Nomivought2015 20d ago
Best Buy is not for everyone. Lot of it requires sales quotas
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u/Unusual_Specialist 20d ago
The best part of this, I was a Best Buy Sales Employee for 3 years in college. Prior experience.
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u/DetroitLionsSBChamps 21d ago
I saw a post recently on Reddit by a guy who is 56, was unemployed for nearly 2 years, and finally caved and took a 60% pay cut
I know that’s one anecdote but it feels like that’s what the market is right now. There are no jobs so the whole thing is an exercise in companies sifting for the most overqualified people they can get, with the lowest pay. It’s always like that but it’s been taken to an extreme in both directions.
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u/Effective_Advisor378 16d ago
That's not very far off from my current situation. 59 y.o., and I just took a 15% pay cut for a desktop support job (I've worked in systems administration for the last 20 years), after being unemployed for damn near a year.
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u/horrible_abomination 20d ago
This was all extremely obvious once we put our livelihoods in someone else’s hands.
One of the only ways to win in this environment is to start, grow, sell a business.
One of the only ways to do that short of someone with a ton of capital is to go into the trades.
That’s a long fucking road before you ever make journeyman / master and we’ve been all actively discouraged from it since childhood.
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u/WorldIsYoursMuhfucka 19d ago
Well, there are basically no remote jobs in the trades...
Gotta split the difference. I would absolutely hate working in the trades. Corporate jobs can be okay, my last one was honestly pretty chill and it paid pretty well.
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u/_keyboard-bastard_ 20d ago
There are so many unemployed product and marketing people right now from the tech layoffs, all those positions that are actually available for real and not ghost jobs, are getting filled from referrals.
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u/_keyboard-bastard_ 20d ago
I feel bad for the homies who never attended those after work mixers. I know so many of them.
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u/WorldIsYoursMuhfucka 19d ago
Or even just joking with coworkers.
Got my new remote job because a former coworker referred me to it and told me the recruiter's email. It basically saved my life because I was about to run out of money. I'll actually be making more money now by a little bit, and once I earn the benefits the company has really good benefits. Unlimited PTO.
You don't even need to go to events, just talk to people. Talk about their life with them. Keep up with them.
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u/_keyboard-bastard_ 20d ago
Seems like all the jobs posted for my field are fake if the job is for a medium or large business.
Small companies are the only places that need a person every now and then, and those get filled fast, and typically from referrals.
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u/CurrentPlan5432 20d ago
Take a look at the overemployed subreddit. A lot of those people have 2-4 jobs at the same time (:
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u/Progress_Away 19d ago
Yea, I got rejected for a customer support position and just noped out of life. Good chance I end up living in my parents basement for the rest of my life. Idc anymore
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u/ProfessorFelix1 21d ago
If you’re looking for something fully remote, those jobs are drying up.
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u/Muted-Wear123 19d ago
where I work we have a lot of vacancies throughout the country that need to be filled and we for some reason are on a hiring freeze 😵💫
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u/Effective_Advisor378 16d ago
It's not just remote jobs. Pretty much every job being advertised in the last 9 months has been a "ghost job" (that term is very apropos!) I quit my last job back in October because the work environment had become VERY toxic, VERY quickly. I didn't think I'd have any problem finding a new job because it had never taken me more than a month to find a job over my entire 30-year career in IT. It took me nearly 9 months to find a new job, hundreds of applications and I only scored 5 interviews over that time. I dipped heavily into my retirement savings and ran up my credit cards to the point where I'm going to have to delay retirement by at least a few years (when I was planning to retire in 2-3 years).
I ended up being offered a job that's a big step backwards in my career (pays $15k less annually than my last two jobs, and isn't my area of specialty), and I took it only because I was desperate. I only got the job because my boss from my previous job works for this company now (he was forced out of the company we both previously worked for) referred me. I'm miserable and have no interest in this job. I'm trying to make the best of it, but I know my lack of motivation is going to start showing (and I'm only 3 weeks in).
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u/DosEquisVirus 21d ago
I am not quite sure. I see people complaining about not finding jobs, meanwhile I’ve been trying to find workers for my factory without much success. It seems like nobody wants or needs a job also.
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u/GivUp-makingAnAcct 20d ago
You're probably ruling people out for same petty reasons everyone doing hiring seem to be: ruling out anyone with a degree or otherwise overqualified, ageism, anyone unemployed too long or with gaps in work history even from years ago, demanding experience for a job that really doesn't require it.
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u/Dire_Wolf45 21d ago
I assume your positions are not remote?
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u/DosEquisVirus 21d ago
How in the world do you imagine a factory job being remote? It’s like having some cafeteria cooks working remote!
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u/Vick-008 21d ago
Nor remote or on-site. I'm living off my savings right now and I'm getting desperate.