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Gen X'er here, guessing this person hasn't had to look for a job in a while. Especially when externalities make the search more difficult, like having an entire sector upended.
It took 1500 applications, over 100 interviews, and 4 years to find my current position. And, this was a callback from a prior rejection! They let the first person go that I interviewed with due to sabotaging intake because they were insecure in their position. Have fun with all that.
My bet is also on they wildly underestimated what employable means (or overestimated the value of their skills and experience).
I’m also laughing over here at “long terms gains” of Trump’s policies. Unless this person is one of the billionaire class, there are no long term gains. The people who will benefit from whatever Trump and co. are up to wouldn’t be “out of a job,” they’d just transition to a new role either at the same company or another or be immune from the whole thing altogether.
Dude my last 2 job changes were due to layoffs. I had to take the first job offer I got after about 50 job applications because the job market absolutely sucks right now, and honestly I'm not happy with the job I could land because availability forced me to accept some red flags and compromises that I could see from the get-go of the interview process. I'm going to keep applying but I'm not holding my breath at this stage of things
Average conservative.
They don't see what the problem is until they get face-eaten. The sad part is the ones who go "Well as long as those brown people get it worse!"
Millennial here, 100% agree. I'm very good at what I do in my field and have a chonky resume of experience. I used to get job offers unprompted on practically a weekly basis. Years ago my apply-to-interview-to-offer % was like 70%+.
In the last couple of years this has shifted dramatically. I do not receive job offers unprompted, because they simply aren't there. The number of listed jobs has tanked, the ones worth applying for i typically don't hear anything back from, not even a rejection. One the other day I was told it wasn't a real position that was open and was simply posted for some HR reason or some crap.
Layoffs across the board are on the rise so there are more people than ever looking and less jobs available.
It took my friend ~1yr to find a job after his last layoff.
This person is in for a world of hurt...and frankly, I have zero sympathy for them specifically.
Regarding sympathy - he is no different than the others who voted for this. These kinds of people aren't ready to have been wrong. So they claim they expected it. His reply is nothing but an attempt to cope with his bad choices.
It's absolutely a person speaking out loud to justify everything and avoid thinking about hardship. Humans are great at that.
The last position I interviewed (other people) for, we had over 2,000 total applicants, and this was before the huge swaths of layoffs that are currently happening and being planned.
The country is doomed, literally millions of people are about to be (many of which already are) out of work, while ALL public resources and support are being dissolved by the current regime.
There are over 20 million people employed at the federal, state and local governments in the United States, making it one of if not the largest employer in the world. We're in for a bumpy ride if they get away with such massive layoffs
Or you could be like me and get the first job you apply for. All of this is anecdotal, and your situation has no bearing on someone else's. Its a bummer you had a rough go of it but thats its not indicative of the job market as a whole.
May I ask what your job is?
Software Engineer, typically on a contract / consulting basis, proficiently full stack + cloud infrastructure.
Sales. First 900 applications and 50 interviews were in tech.
That's not even mentioning all the AI automated posting the people and head hunter companies ate doing that is overloading your legit application submissions.
Don't worry, when the tree he's under starts letting the rain through, he'll just move to a new tree.
It obviously isn't true, but if their statement was consistent, they would be happy to ensure that if it meant the country was better off 🙄