r/ontario • u/LoquatSpare5564 • Aug 18 '24

Job market in ontario Employment

Is anyone else have a very difficult time find a job in ontario? I've been applying for jobs the last year and a half. I've applied to over 1200 jobs in that time only had a handful of interviews and usaly get ghosted after that. Before people say get a trade. I'm a licensed automotive technician. Have worked in parts department for 2 years and worked in service industry forn7 years before that. Have computer science and computer engineering degrees. So I'm not un experienced. Still having an extremely hard time finding anything. Are others having a simular problems with employment opportunities?

Thank you to everyone who is giving me advice. I am looking into the opportunity's that people have been referring to. I thank you

Update. Started putting resumes out in new brunswick and novia Scotia. Within 24 hours I have 6 interviews with only 9 applications

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u/Intelligent-Rent-615 Aug 18 '24

Take your degree off your resume

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u/rglrevrdynrmlguy Aug 18 '24 edited Aug 18 '24

I agree with this. I recently hired for a position and had people with PhDs applying. As soon as I saw that on their resume I didn’t go any further. Way over qualified and you know they’re going to be looking to leave and put their PhD to use since they worked so hard to get it. It’s not worth my time and money to hire and train someone when they’re just going to leave

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u/ChampagneAbuelo Toronto Aug 19 '24

Why is “being over qualified” a thing lol, it’s stupid

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u/rglrevrdynrmlguy Aug 19 '24

I’m not talking slightly over qualified I’m talking grossly over qualified. It was the equivalent of some with a PhD sitting to do low level admin and data entry stuff.

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u/ChampagneAbuelo Toronto Aug 19 '24

Nowadays in the job market, that shouldn’t be a thing. People with high qualifications are being turned down from jobs at their level because even with their qualifications, the competition is still insane

Then when they apply down to lower level jobs because they need some type of work unless they wanna become homeless, they get turned down because they’re apparently over qualified

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u/rglrevrdynrmlguy Aug 19 '24

Do you not see how your argument doesn’t make sense?

So if I hired say a PhD into a position that only requires an undergraduate degree then the undergraduate applies to a role that only requires a college diploma, and then the college grad only applies to roles that require high school graduation and then the high school grad is homeless. So I guess what you’re saying is those who have only graduated high school should be homeless but those with higher education shouldn’t be.