Work Reform

Once in a lifetime stuff happens literally all the time.

If you look at every decade in history there’s some sort of crisis or major event going on.

I think it was fermi who said the odds of some specific truck having a specific license plate he saw are minuscule, so it’s remarkable!

Anyways, I’m just tired of this “once in a lifetime crisis” meme. It’s been beaten to death at this point.

Shit sucks and that’s life, unless you were born during a few brief and rare moments in history.

i suspect women are going for bio degree, they surpass men like 60% in this bio degree holders, specifically health(nursing, maybe some research, or even MD), in an older study, so they have more job security. the stems that men are going for, are usually very difficult to get into, if you dont have lab/research experience before graduation, or not even considering grad school. like psych, CS, data science, physics,,,etc.

biotech/health is one of those fields i see alot women in compared to men, when i was in university, most of the labs were taken up by women more than men, and men have struggled to find it by the time thier junior year or by the time they graduate, because labs have very limited volunteering spaces and are almost always full. some of them even got PUBLISHED/ or was in a research paper, which is a very big deal for your CV or resume.

That's why you lie on your resume if you're applying for a job you're overqualified for

That comment has a strong boomer vibe.

If you're interested/comfortable in sharing some specifics I'm interested in hearing more about his real world experience:

The hiring signs for don’t necessarily mean much. I have a friend looking for such “basic” sort of a job, or anything really, that I’ve been trying to help out. Two years later and we’re both still trying to find more places around for him to apply to. I know the guy well enough to know that he’s not like being a jerk to the occasional interviewer he gets or anything like that, and while he doesn’t have much he doesn’t have zero work history either.

It sounds from your explanation that he is actually getting interviews, but hes getting ghosted afterward. Has he talked about what how the interviews go? Does your friend feel good about how they went or was he getting questions he didn't like or had trouble providing an answer to? Have you done a "mock interview" with him to see how he presents to see if there are things he could use help on there too? Are you in an area that has seasonal work (such as tourism support) and has he gone for any of that? Those kind of workforces tend to be more permissive with their hires.

you’d think statistically at least one of them would have worked out by now, but most won’t even give the courtesy of a “no”

Sadly, I know this is VERY common for employers to simply ghost applicants even after interviews. Its a practice I don't like either.

I suspect those signs are more there to have a constant pool of applicants in case they should need to quickly replace an existing employee (or reassure overworked ones that they’re “looking” for someone) than any actual intent to hire more staff.

I've personally talked to a few of the managers/owners of the places I frequent, and nearly all the ones I've talked to are actually actively interviewing to hire, not just build a pool. Even the one that I talked to that IS building a pool communicated he has a high turnover workforce (usually working students whose school schedules frequently change and they have to quit). Again, all of my second hand experience is within 15 miles of where I live and I absolutely understand conditions could be different literally everywhere else in the USA.

for refrence Walmart has had me in the "applied" stage of resumee review on their shitty website for nearly a month. I don't think people quite get how bad it is. I had to wait for a spot to open up to interview at McDonalds that I'm still waiting for because the closest one was two weeks out.

Why would you apply for retail with a degree ? It will become worthless in a couple of years.

If you're going for a job that doesn't require one, I would recommend not disclosing you have one for the exact reason you cited. That isn't a new idea though, I remember being told it decades ago.

That or he is applying for senior positions. I don't know how many times I've talked to young/straight from college who think they're senior level stuff.

Colleges don't teach shit for real world positions anymore, and it gives some of these green ears this ego that they know how to do everything and want max pay. The IT field has tons of positions open, you just shouldn't expect to start at the top with zero real world experience. Even if you have some certs to go with your degree.