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I too am very dissatisfied with the current state of internet job seeking (which is how all job seeking occurs nowadays). I'm currently on Indeed, Monster, LinkedIn (vomit), etc and all these companies also have their own websites on which I'm expected to register and re-type all of my information. On top of that, if I don't kiss their *specific* ass enough in my résumé, application, cover letter, etc, I'm not getting the job. I'm not a particularly outstanding employee but I'm quite capable and reliable and it's really upsetting to just not be able to find employment I don't hate. Before I took this job I was unemployed for six months due to the Plague and honestly it was the best six months of my life.
Never went Indeed or Monster. But it's not hard to imagine whatever they provide being more for their benefit.
I waded through more job postings last night. I mean, we've already touched upon the useless - yet magnificently time/energy consuming - unlit, shit-slippery maze tunneling we've already touched upon. But I was also tormented by the resignation-inducing mutual exclusivity of jobs requiring experience that only such jobs could give, meaning the only way in is one or more of the following:
- it's not what you know, it's who you know
- timing is everything
- location, location, location
Chrissakes, why do we even bother with all the irrelevant machinations when it's probably always a matter of one or more of those anyway?
(Oh, that's right.. because we get hungry.....)