Job Hunting is BROKEN

I’ve been trying to get my first job over the summer. I’ve applied at 2 movie theaters & I got ghost by all of them. I even applied twice to one of the movie theaters and went in person many times because I actually want to work there but still nothing. I didn’t even get offered An interview, they just never even responded to the application

Ryan, I love you and I love all your characters
But I don’t trust that Jeff

Something about the fact that he’s not you but you’re talking to him… how is that happening?

Jeff is the best part of the episode 4:03

1:27 oh job ghosting is TIGHT!!
Yeah yeah yeah it is super easy barely an inconvenience.

Employers; We are Hiring.

Jobseeker; Can I have a job please?

Employers; Im gonna need you to get all the way off my back about being hired.

Jobseekers; ...what.. 🫤

I thought ghosting post interview was the norm. Like, if you don't call/email me in two days, the answer is no. So like, it's odd finding out that I walked into a broken market already.

5:13 Wait.. they are putting AI in pillows now?? ok i take everything back, they are for sure going to exterminate us.. imagine your existence as soft padding under someones sweaty head as they toss and turn.. ya, we're doomed.

reality is sad

1:12 I think this is actually the plot of the 1942 Russian novel by Gogol

6:27 This is aging like wine

I don't know if it's already been mentioned but if you want the biggest reason companies are posting jobs that don't expect to hire from them then I'll tell you; this come from being a hiring director at Microsoft and Oracle. It's due to fair employment practices at the company so they don't get sued. Nearly every job opening (e.g. open head count) needs to get posted externally to demonstrate that the company (Microsoft and Oracle at the least) is not preferentially hiring specific internal candidates... by opening the posting up externally you have deniability and some jobs do get hired from external candidates - most, however, are not. The job posting is just there even though there's a qualified internal candidate that will internally interview and move into the position - but HR wants all open head count to be posted externally regardless. So, there you go - you don't need to wonder anymore. By the way, this has been happening since the early 2000s... so don't cry about it being a new thing... perhaps more companies are doing it now or more people are vocal about it - I don't know why it's suddenly getting this attention when before it didn't.

I was a victim of the Yugioh card. 3:47

Instant fan!

"Half the candidates were ghosted"?

Ok well I still have one up on AI because I can also snap!🫰Not too shabby at it either thank you very much. 😏

Soooo, what I'm hearing is mask your personally identifiable info such as your email, post a bunch of fake posts. And eventually we can flood Indeed with so many fake applicants who never show up to the AI interviews that it starts costing the companies money. The greatest cardinal sin.

Disclaimer, I don't recommend you do this

an article on The Guardian website -~- ''Ghost Jobs, Robot gatekeepers and AI Interviewers: Let me tell you about the Bleak new age of Job Hunting.''

4:50 my workplace does this

With the job market being so tough right now, you really have to focus on both quality and quantity. I started using Luckykoi to handle the volume side of things. Even though the free version has daily caps, it still saves me a ton of time on applications.

I'm sitting on my couch after I dressed up for a Teams interview that I'm thinking I got ghosted from ... Again

Canadian…

People have been ghosted by potential employers for decades. It's super-rude. When it happened to me for the first time, in 1996, I called them to ask what the hey– and they told me it's their policy.
That was back in the days of dial-up internet.

that quick montage edit from ?jamie? was hilarious, and i couldn't stop laughing.

3:49 I will be storing the detriment of certainty in my memory warehouse for later use. Thank you, Ryan.

I got an ad for an AI resume builder in the middle of this video

omfg, why is this video recommended to me right after i applied for 10 jobs right now and i wana chill and open YT and this is the FIRST VIDEO on my homepage lmao

Hey so let's not use medical terms as insults (re: psychotic), it's harmful to people who experience real lifelong diagnoses associated with those terms and contributes to diluting the actual definition of the word, since language is defined by the way it is used over time and becomes less identifiable as it's original translation over time.

The funniest thing to me was receiving an offer to interview at a place I applied to over a year ago. I am already almost a year into my new job! What most likely happened is that the person they hired didn't last in the role, and they left quickly, either through burnout, high turnover, or bad performance, and now they need to fill it quickly. It is still so funny to me to receive an interview while I am already a year into my new role.

As an employee in a company where we have had one open position for 6 years now and seen literally no new faces for more than one day I don't feel particularly replaceable because of the listing

Job ghosting? Wait... do people actually get call backs just to tell them they didn't get the job? I was today years old when I learned that. I thought that was the common practice. Wait... he's Canadian right? Maybe they do that in Canada. I can't ever remember being called just to be told I didnt get the job.

We should make ghost jobs illegal. If they don't answer within the week, you can report them and they have to pay you for wasting your time

I was ghosted by someone who had already hired me. We agreed on me working part time with the potential for it to turn into a full time position (he practically guaranteed it eventually would). He said they couldn't figure out payroll at that time for my position though so he asked if I could start out as an independent contractor and they would pay me quarterly. Because my employer was a friend of mine, I trusted him and agreed. The first quarter went pretty well but then I didn't get paid for the second quarter. After waiting a few days, I reached out to him. He then informed me they weren't going to have me work for them again until later in the year. When I kindly but firmly pushed back and showed him the letter of employment HE WROTE stating my work with his company for the year, he blocked me on social media, said some pretty hurtful stuff demeaning my position and it's importance in the company, and I no longer had a job. It's wild out here when you can't even trust your friends to employ you.

I don't think job ghosting is real. I know they are interviewing dozens of people for a position. I never expect a call back.

I have to say, the concept of services that use AI to assist with writing CVs and personal letters and whatnot would've been slightly more surprising if you hadn't advertised them yourself.

Or was that...AI Ryan? Dun-dun-duuuuuun!

Ryan, I fricken ****** you soooo much. You are a ****** and a ****.

Outsourcing jobs to dead people 👻👻👻 hell no. I’m not working after I’m dead. The whole appeal of death is not having to work anymore.

"Could you tell us what about our company interested you"
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I’ve been using Jobbyo for my job search and it actually helped me land an interview within two weeks. The auto apply feature is really usefulit finds and applies to great job opportunities quickly. Definitely worth trying if you’re struggling with applications.

i got a notification from indeed while watching this 😳

Having been in the job market for 8 months now . . . this is spot on.

And on top of all that are the actual scammers posting fake jobs and trying to collect your info.

"Jobbyo seems like a handy platform for job seekers, offering personalized job matches and resources to boost your search. The company reviews and interview prep tools are super useful too."

The Yugioh card part was comedic genius