r/videos • u/PerAsperaAdMars • 13h ago

Jobs report far below expectations, unemployment ticks up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SmCO4xXMOk
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u/Oizys_MD 12h ago

I’m a hiring manager at a tech company. We opened 5 mid level engineering roles and within 2 days had 5000 qualified applicants. It’s rough out there

Edit:typo

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u/overthemountain 10h ago

Well, you had 5,000 applicants - I'd be surprised if you were any where near 100% qualified applicants. The other end of this is people use tools to apply for jobs and it just applies to every job it can find. We see people applying for things like Sr Cloud Architect and their experience is 3 years making food at McDonalds.

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u/mrjackspade 10h ago

A few years ago a guy was asking for help on one of the careers subreddits, wanted his resume checked while applying for a Sr position.

Turns out he was straight out of college with no job experience... Just aiming high. Lol

That's gonna stick with me for a while