Anyone else having a hard time landing a job?

[Finchie40]

I was just laid off January of this year , My company decided to close down my office out of the blue , they offered me to relocate which I agreed I would do , because I really liked my job and I was pretty much relocating back to where I am originally from , after the office closed down officially, they wanted me to travel like crazy until the new office was opened. So I did what I had to do to keep my job. After a month of bouncing me around , they told me the new office isn’t going to happen , so they laid me off with a generous severance pay , basically giving me time to find another job. I have applied to over 200 jobs and sadly I am barely hearing back from any of them , if I do hear back , it’s just a shot in the dark on whether they are going to hire me or not. So far my luck has been nothing but shit from these jobs. Anyone else experiencing this nonsense? What is happening to this country? I have never experienced anything like this before. My severance is coming close to running out and I am nervous and anxious as fuck on what I should do. I am coming down to the wire on whether I should sell my home and move the fuck out of here. Which I really don’t want to do without a fucking job. Anyone else going through this shit?

[DishLady]

Oh my goodness. I'm so sorry you're going through this. :(


This happened to many of us in a harsher time (during the pandemic, when pickings were much, much slimmer due to mass shutdowns). What we're going through now is partially a backlash of what happened for those few years.


I'll tell you what I suggest to my clients — based on having been in that position myself. Pick three days of the week that you pore your complete energy into applying for things. Don't schedule anything else. Day 1 (let's say Tuesday, which is the most common day for new job posts) is dedicated to searching for jobs, Day 2 (Wednesday) is dedicated to setting up all your letters/references/application accounts, etc., and Day 3 (Thursday) is dedicated to actually applying to the jobs. Leave the other days for something completely different — a little project at home, some light reading, gardening, a staycation… anything other than the job. Why? Because you need to allow your mind and heart to rest. This way when it comes time to interview you're not jumpy and anxious. You can walk in and shake hands and impress people with your skills, focus properly on the questions they're asking you, etc.


Hope this is helpful. IM if you need some help finding a job.

[Finchie40]

Thank you , I am over 200 jobs applied for and I am pretty much applying every day , in the beginning I was anxious and stressed and face planting my face into the computer and applying to jobs like crazy , it got to a point I was losing my mind , so for my own sanity , I had to back off and not invest to much of my time into applying to jobs , cuz I was losing my mind and I started focusing on other things to keep my mind off of it , I pretty much started doing what you said. I just think it’s crazy that I am having this much trouble landing a job , especially with all the stories I been hearing about people not wanting to work these days, I have always been a hard worker and pretty much my whole life has been working , my experience is pretty much what landed me my last job that I enjoyed and thought I finally had it made , now I am at a point in life that that I am stuck between a rock and a hard place. Not knowing what I should do , For me to stay in my home , I have to make equivalent or more to be able to afford my home , I can’t go backwards , if I have to go backwards , I will have to sell my home and downgrade and take a job making less money and latart over , which I do not want to do what so ever , I think it’s so fucked up that All my dedication and hard working through the years has pretty much gotten me pretty much no where unless I land a job making more than what I was making. It just goes to show we are treated like numbers when it comes to working for other people , why I been trying to pursue opening up a business with my brother and best friend. But for us to achieve that? We can’t quit our day jobs , now my brother is losing his job as well , he just got work his company is closing the doors. So life hasn’t really been dandy lately. It’s been nothing but stress. I am so blown away that I am having this much trouble landing a friggin job that I am starting to feel like I no longer want to work anymore , I am losing my motivation to thrive.

[DishLady]

I’ll keep you in my thoughts and prayers. I know that road all too well. Don’t give up, but manage your efforts so that you don’t feel the strain on your mental and physical health, ok?

[Telekinetic-Potato]

I feel bad for people right now. We're looking to hire a few people. These are not the greatest jobs. We can't afford to pay a lot right now, but I get literally thousands of applicants. It took 2 days for my indeed post to get 300 replies.

Obviously there's no way for me to give 300 people a fair chance let alone the other nearly 1200 people who responded so far.

There's a lot of people who just apply to random shit and never actually read the description. There's people who write a cover letter specifically for the job, there's people who have generic ones.

This is a creative field so one guy's resume was formatted like a brochure completed in a way that was ready for print. Like formatting, correct fonts, print colors, I could have sent it off to a company and had it mass produced with no effort. Lol why is the job market so competitive?

The there's people ghosting the hiring people. It's a thing right now that there's been a lot of lying about work history going on. I thought this was exclusive mostly to the creative world but I hear stories from people I know in other industries.

I think at this point the besylt way to get a job is to network the fuck out of yourself and get professional help with your resume or go to a staffing agency, or pick a new profession honestly, there's plenty of jobs that need more workers.

I certainly wouldn't complain if more people started businesses that needed marketing 😂

[exitseven]

I lost my job in 2020 because of Covid. I was planning on just retiring until Biden became president and the cost of everything doubled. I collected unemployment for 18 months but still could not find a job. I work in IT which is a very youth oriented field to get into. It was hard for a guy in isi 50s to get hired. Oddly enough I suddenly had two interviews about a week apart and got two job offers. So my advice is to keep a positive attitude, do not badmouth your old employer, sign up for any benefits you can get nd keep going on interviews. I do not know what you do for work but I imagine that you are good at it. You seem fairly intelligent and have a good personality. I do not know this for sure , you might be an asshole that has us all fooled. 😊😊😊😊

[sage2021]

I am really curious how people, such as yourself try to find a job. I mean, exactly what do you do?

Is it just on your computer getting hooked up with LinkedIn and waiting for a response?

Do you physically go into banks and submitting your resume in person? I call it pounding the payment.

Is your resume top notch when people look at it? Did you do your own resume or take it to a professional to make it stand out from the others?

My biggest problem when I was job hunting was that I didn't speak Spanish. Now the language barrier might be a very strong deterrent if you only speak English - especially when we just got 10 million plus people that don't speak English. And naturally they will be using banks eventually when they get jobs.

My battery on my phone is almost zero so I gotta go.

[Finchie40]

My resume is good , It’s pretty much what helped get my last job. I am getting some bites from jobs I applied to but nothing set in stone , I had a few phone interviews that seemed promising but the waiting game is crazy. Again I have never experienced anything like this before , I have always been a worker and never had this much trouble receiving a job offer. So who knows what in the hell is going on in this world today

[IslaTheWitch]

there is a recession in the job market... so you have to look in places where your skills are actually needed...

It's similar to software development... people send applications and companies don't even answer... not even thanks, fuck off...

[Static_In_The_Attic]

As for your office it saddens me to hear you lost your job & although your office may have closed I was wondering if your company did as well? If your company didn’t close maybe you should give them a call & see if there are any positions anywhere in the company. As for the 200 plus jobs you applied for you should reapply & call those companies back & at that time maybe they weren’t hiring but maybe they are now.

[ToriitheGoblin]

On yeah. Couldn't find anything and got zero responses for a year after applying every single day. Shit's crazy nowadays, it's stressful

[NathanDavis]

sell your home and come to Texas... there's work everywhere

[Finchie40]

I heard a lot of people have been moving to Texas , I never been there but heard good things. I have been applying to other areas as well , it’s just been a nightmare trying to land one of them. So Texas is a possibility for sure at this point

[NathanDavis]

what's your career again?

[Finchie40]

Branch manager for banking operations

[NathanDavis]

definitely a lot of that in here...

there's three bankers... just on my street, and they're all doing great

two of them even offered me a job... and I am no banker

[Anonymous]

I’ve been through this lots.
Check if there’s any retraining programs with your state - got laid off and need to be trained in a different field of work?


Or get a ticket to work as a traffic control person. I did that with Covid - our country gave everyone $2000 month for a year and I got a car and a decent job pays like 30$hr while others got all drunk and high. I got out of the hole and doing much better.

[Anonymous]

Yup. 74 applications so far. There is always ten other people applying for the same job before they cut off the intake.

[Anonymous]

this will continue. we are headed towards a recession/already in a recession.

[Anonymous]

I saw this coming in 2007/08
I'd started my own business before then but I've just stuck with that

[noohair]

Pay for a professional resume. It will be worth every penny.

[Kathy1111]

no i babysit for my neighbor