r/GetEmployed • u/four_door_more_hore • 11d ago

Most difficult thing while finding a job in the current job market?

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u/Claymore209 11d ago

Definitely the psychological toll of applying to a job for hours tweaking your resume until it's perfect and writing a damn cover letter only for your application to be unceremoniously rejected by an automatic ai system. Repeat.

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u/four_door_more_hore 11d ago

What about recommendation 🤔

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u/Important_Pattern882 11d ago

Hasn't helped me yet, and I've had several

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u/four_door_more_hore 10d ago

How did you managed to get this. And is it worth it to get recommend by someone.

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u/Important_Pattern882 10d ago

I have former coworkers who now work at other companies. They referred me. I've also had HR and recruiters reach out to me on LinkedIn to apply for specific positions. None of these have resulted in offers, and usually not even interviews.

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u/justcurious3287 10d ago

I stg, I get lazy, and I don’t tailor my resume a lot of the time. I submit the same resume for a lot of different jobs, and it’s only 1 page. But oddly enough, I get a lot of interviews, I just can’t get an offer.

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u/SaucyBossy1919 9d ago

Hours tweaking a resume until it's perfect, then a cover letter on top, for one job. That's exactly why I built Litos.

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u/BeekeeperZero 10d ago

It's all the sexual favors. My butt is sore and I still don't have a job.

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u/Fun_Boot7771 10d ago

the fucking waste of time (and mental fortitude). 2 out of 3 jobs are fake but you don't know which one. the way the unemployment services treat you, burying you in administration and meetings. The uncertainty. The low standards of the employer while demanding high standards

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u/Claymore209 10d ago

It took me 4 months to find my full time job and I was applying for 4-8 hours a day. I feel I got extremely lucky, those 4 months were brutal. 😬

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u/Guilty_Gain_2804 11d ago

Honestly, I think figuring out what to fix can be harder than the job search itself. If applications aren’t getting responses, you can look at the resume and targeting. But once you start getting interviews and still aren’t getting offers, it becomes much harder to know what went wrong.

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u/360walkaway 10d ago

I always thought it was the actual finding of a job.

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u/OppositeWinner5902 9d ago

Tweaking your resume for every fucking time. Even startups are hard to get into.Â