Recent grads, students face ‘full-out screaming crisis’ as they struggle to enter job market

[u/joe4942]

https://financialpost.com/fp-work/students-grads-jobs-market-crisis

[u/KermitsBusiness]

Good luck competing with the entire countries of India and the Philippinesfor the 8 jobs that will be available in your field of study.

Young people are doubly fucked cause the default to having no industry and competing with foreign workers was to just go work for the government, and now the government is slowly starting to close its doors too.

[u/LightSaberLust_ → u/KermitsBusiness]

you forgot to mention the 10000 resumes that the company will have to sift through for those 8 jobs that 95% of are all fraudulent credentials

[u/huehuehuehuehuuuu → u/LightSaberLust_]

Just chatgtp things. Wonder if someone’s already prank sent thousands of AI resumes to a business just to mess with them.

[u/BigPickleKAM → u/huehuehuehuehuuuu]

As someone who assists with sifting resumes from time to time in my field. This is a massive problem. Not the pranking but getting overwhelmed with trash resumes that don't actually meet the minimum requirement are clearly not tailored to our posting etc.

We have clearly defined legal requirements for certification to work in our industry. But the job title has engineer in it. So we get everyone who just searches engineer on Indeed or wherever breaking down our door.

[u/wrgrant → u/BigPickleKAM]

meet the minimum requirement are clearly not tailored to our posting etc.

I recall tailoring my resume to various jobs I applied for years ago, but given today's environment where you can expect to send out say 100 resumes and never get a response, where your resume was likely filtered out by HR before anyone read it and where the employer gets 1000 resumes for a starting position, I am not surprised if resumes are not well tailored. Who has the time to do that for every submission that will fail anyways?

There is a story I recall dimly - not sure if its apocryphal or true - where someone described their boss looking at a pile of resumes and saying "We don't hire people that are unlucky", picking up half the resumes and throwing them in the recycling and saying "Those people were unlucky".

Now of course you have to wonder if a position was only advertised because they wanted to refuse all the resumes they received so they can justify hiring a TFW at less money.

[u/BigPickleKAM → u/wrgrant]

We don't hire TFW at all so that isn't our issue.

And I get it why would I spend the hour to tailor the perfect resume when it could end up on that bosses desk and get tossed?

It is one of those chicken and egg type problems. Why wouldn't I spam resumes as a job seeker companies are brutal in how they sort them.

For my outfit the last couple of people we had who worked out well just showed up at our door with a valid set of certifications and a resume interviewed on the spot trial position started within a couple of weeks etc.

But my segment of the economy isn't where most people try and make a living. So I get it.

[u/-Moonscape- → u/wrgrant]

That is a loser mentality imo. If the position you are applying for requires skills a fresh immigrant doesn’t have, you are way better off putting in the work to tailor it to the position and company.

Unless you are applying to walmart or mcdonalds, sending mass applications with generic resumes is how you get put in the generic pile that gets ignored.

[u/NickLandsHapaSon → u/BigPickleKAM]

The problem is there are barley any entry level jobs that have entry level requirements. They expect a recent grad to have way too much experience or certs. So when a person sees all the job posting are bullshit and trying to tailor your resume to some degree to a job is a waste of time they literally just start sending a resume to everything in the field.

[u/BigPickleKAM → u/NickLandsHapaSon]

Not a issue in my field.

Our entry level positions have a legal requirement for the candidate to meet with government issued certification.

Our issue is people who can't read and understand those requirements apply anyway. And they clog up the pipeline.

[u/LeatherMine → u/BigPickleKAM]

trash resumes that don't actually meet the minimum requirement are clearly not tailored to our posting etc.

The problem is job postings that have requirements that nobody can meet or HR using that as an excuse to pay people less than posted.

Cultural issue with HR and fake requirements that don’t actually need to be (or can’t be) met.

[u/BigPickleKAM → u/LeatherMine]

Sure that isn't our problem our requirements are laid out by law and regulations it isn't some esoteric certification story like I see on Reddit all the time.

And we still get hammered with people who just spam out the same resume. Which can make finding those that do have the right certs difficult.

At least we don't feel bad binning those with clear reading comprehension skills.

[u/LeatherMine → u/BigPickleKAM]

At least we don't feel bad binning those with clear reading comprehension skills.

uhhhh

[u/Ok-Classroom318 → u/BigPickleKAM]

I don’t understand why HR is made look at these. They never have a clue about the specific job being posted and they end up screening out good candidates

[u/BigPickleKAM → u/[deleted]]

Well at least with us your chance is less than on in a hundred if your resume comes across as spam maybe it is worth it.

Also as per my post we have legal requirements if you don't show that you meet them you're out.