It took me 50 applications just to get one job interview
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If I hear “no one wants to work” ever again, I’m gonna go ballistic. Two months of applying for jobs, writing up cover letters and letters of interest, sending out emails to follow-up on applications.
No one ever communicates back, never even to let you know they received anything.
I’m glad someone finally responded so I don’t feel like I’ve just been chucking my information into the void over and over again, but man. The whole process is so dehumanizing.
Netizens’ comments
- But them darn millennials just do not want to work. They all somehow stay at home, and their bills and groceries magically get paid for.
- Companies don’t want smart, educated employees looking for a job. They want dumb, desperate people who will work for whatever they can get and don’t know their rights.
- Unless you’re a doctor/nurse or in a skilled trade, there’s a lot of competition and no jobs. Many of the postings are fake/ghost jobs. I’ve been applying for over a year and I keep seeing the same jobs get reposted. They get hundreds or even thousands of applicants and don’t hire anyone. I reached out to some of them (through connections) and they told me they weren’t hiring.
- What’s going to happen is everyone is going to wait maybe 2 more months and then start contacting you with low ball offers not worth your time. Seems to be the vibe right now.
- Yeah. My ratio was like 100 apps turns into 3 screening calls turns into 1 second interview, and 1 in 5 of those go further. Ive applied for nearly 3,000 positions in the last 10 years. That turned into 5 job offers. All of which turned into a shit sandwich by the way.
- 1 interview in 50 applications (2%) is actually a GOOD success rate in my experience.
- There are many jobs available, definitely. But as for jobs that pays reasonably enough for you to survive? That’s another story.